Sent to me by Barbara and Clay.
I woke up this morning and looked out the window and the ground was covered with a massive 1/8 inch snowfall. In a town where 4 inches of snow constitute a blizzard I figgered this would just about shut the city down not to mention there being a run on bread, milk, and eggs at the grocery store.
It had really been blowing the night before, so when I opened the garage door, I saw that the wind had blown my trash can onto the lawn and had blown the lid on the other side of the driveway.
"Oh fuck", I said. "This sucks! Now is that shit on the driveway water or ice?"
I bravely made my way onto the lawn and recovered the trash can and put it back on the driveway. Screw the lid. I decided to get that when I returned from work.
I closed the garage door and gingerly made my way down the driveway to the truck without falling on my ass. It was only five feet, but with crutches it was an adventure. I fall on dry surfaces.
Got in the truck (I aways drive my truck on Monday and Thursday. That is so there is nothing in the driveway to block the view of my trash can so the county guys can see it OK and pick it up. Since I'm a cripple and DeKalb County is nice to us cripples, I don't have to take the trash down to the curb.) and headed off to work. I actually got into work a little earlier than normal because the roads were deserted thanks to the massive 1/8 inch snowfall which made everyone stay home.
Sho' nuff, I got into work and my office was dark. That meant my team lead, who shares the office with me, hadn't made it in. Pussy! I logged on and there was a note from him saying that due to the bad weather, he was working from home.
The cripple made it in!
Got a cup of coffee and ogled the cute girl who works in the cafeteria. Ahhh! To be 30 years younger!
Went back to my office and goofed off for a while. Did some more work on the Early Ship Program of z/OS that I'm testing for IBM. I could tell you what I tested, but the IBM police would come after me. This is CONFIDENTIAL stuff. Anyway, the feature was neat and works as designed. I'll tell my IBM rep how pleased I am with it when I talk to him on Monday.
Went upstairs and pulled out a couple of 100 foot fiber optic cables from under the floor. I can charge that time to the other division that split off from us. Heh. Heh. Heh.
Went back to my office and goofed off some more. Since I was afraid of there maybe being some freezing rain and the Weather Channel website showed a wintery mix for Atlanta, I decided to go home.
Wouldn't ya just know that on the way home my cell phone went off? A user couldn't get to some DASD. This was my fault since I have been doing lots of recabling as part of the RSHNLP (Reverse Synergy Hardware Non-Leveraging Project), which split our data center into two parts so we no longer share any of our hardware. This, of course, will wind up costing TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name - Our motto "When in doubt, reorganize") more money, but what do I know? I'm just a grunt.
I plugged in my laptop and logged on and found out what his problem was. I hadn't updated the configuration properly. Through the magic of HCD (Hardware Configuration Definition) and Dynamic I/O I was able to change his configuration. Then, I had to make sure the ports in the fiber optic switch talked to each other. I logged on to my master system and using ESCON Manager, a nifty program that allows me to change switch configurations remotely, I allowed the ports to talk to each other and got the devices online. Then, since we use a program like AOL IM called FART (Fast Available Real Time) I FARTed at him that he was ready to rumble. He FARTed a thanks back to me.
After that I logged off thankful that I am a highly trained, highly motivated and highly paid I/T professional.
And since this problem was related to the recabling I did to support the RSHNLP, I can charge the time I spent fixing the problem to the other division. Heh. Heh. Heh
I'm just glad that we didn't get an inch of snow. I would have probably lost power. Then I wouldn't have been able to fix anything.
It would have been too dark.
Posted by denny at February 26, 2004 09:00 PM