My Weekend

I had to go into work on Saturday to cut one of our systems over to the new processor and to test out our main VM system. We were all given tasks to perform before we brought the VM system up. For those of you who have been reading me for a while, here's a test question.

Who had not done his assigned tasks?

1. Me
2. My team lead.
3. The new network guy.
4. the VM guy.
5. A user who offered to help us out on testing.

If you guessed the new network guy, you guessed correctly. He had not done any of his assigned tasks. None. Nada. Zilch. So there at the end of our test window, my team lead and I were busy updating TCPIP profiles to see if they would work. The new network guy didn't even start coding the profiles until after we had brought the new system up. Everyone he touched, he fucked up. This was stuff that should have been done on Friday. We did not get enough stuff done as we wanted to because of this. Arrgggghhhh!

I got home about a half hour before my sister and her husband arrived. They brought me down their old cedar chest. Mine was a cheap one I inherited from my mother and the top had broken. So now we had to take mine to the DeKalb County dump. I had a 30 year old television that had given up the ghost so we took that also.

If you live in DeKalb County you can dump for free. Since we were taking their car, I had to have proof of residency so I took a property tax bill with me.

We got to the dump and I presented my bill to the dude. After scanning it for about ten minutes, he gave us the OK to enter. As my sister and her husband were unloading the cedar chest the scavengers descended. Yep. There were dump divers there. They asked if the television worked. It didn't. But that didn't stop them. I knew that the old cedar chest and the television would have a new home by that evening.

Then it was off to Lennox Mall so my sister could get some wine glasses at Williams Sonoma. Then home. Then the grocery store.

When we got home, there was a message on my answering machine from my team lead saying IP didn't work on one of our systems. I figgered it was an easy bug and I'd fix it Monday morning. More on this later.

That night my friends Michael and Cindy had us over so my sister could see the new waterfall they had built by their pool. We had a nice dinner and managed to consume five bottles of wine. I had taken over some fresh tomatoes from my garden.

This is the earliest I have ever gotten tomatoes and I am getting a bumper crop. There were enough for my sister and her husband to have BLT's for lunch on Sunday and still take some back to Columbia with them. They also took a cucumber. I'm starting to get cucumbers and I'll have a bumper crop of them also.

Besides my condom picture and Monday pun, I also wrote a rant about John Lewis' reaction to Zell Miller speaking at the Dimocrat convention. I forgot to publish it. It's up now.

Speaking of that, let's see who's speaking at the Dimocrat convention. There's Howard Dean and Al Gore. That oughta be a lot of fun listening to them rant and rave. There's Al Sharpton. It wouldn't be a proper Dimocrat convention if there weren't at least one RWPP (Race Warlord Poverty Pimp) speaking. There's Ted Kennedy. Wonder if he'll be sober? And for the Dimocrats who long for the halcyon (for the Dimocrats) days of the 90's when they controlled both houses of congress and the White House, there will be Bill Clinton whose speech will probably remind us of the everready bunny since I'm sure he will keep going and going and going like he did at the 1988 Dimocrat convention.

Anyway, I went into work this morning and the day started out with a bang. I slipped and fell on the walkway going from the parking lot to the building. This is going to be a really great day. When I fall I draw people like stink on shit. To their credit, they all want to help me get up and I appreciate it, but usually the best thing to do is give the crip room to get up by himself.

I got to my office and fired up my PC. I noticed IP worked on the system that my team lead had left the message about. He wasn't in our office. When he returned, I asked him about it. He said he had found a circumvention and used the next IP address with the next adaptor address.

He had worked on it on Sunday and woke up at 4:30 AM worrying about it and had come into work. So we fired up the OSASF application and fumbled our way through it. It is not an intuitively obvious application. I looked at the definitions and everything appeared OK. I asked him how he had coded the TCPIP profile and he said he had copied it from another system and had changed the IP address and the adaptor address. I noticed the IP address was on port 0 of the adaptor and the one he had copied was on port 1. I asked him if he had changed the port to 0 in the profile. Whooops! I showed him where that was defined. The nice thing is, when we move to the new system, we don't need OSASF and TCPIP will be easier to code, except for the new network guy. He'll still be asking me how to do it and still fucking it up.

I told him that this was sumpin' the new network guy should have fixed. After having a good laugh at my joke, I told him how unfortunate he was to have an incompetent booger eatin' moh-ron (the new network guy) and a burned out lazy dude (me) working on the team. At least I know sumpin'.

I am way ahead of schedule on my new system install. I updated my IBM rep on my progress on our weekly call. The rest of the day was uneventful.

Had BLT's for supper.

Let's see if I remember to publish this.

Posted by denny at June 28, 2004 09:00 PM