Retirement Week 2

I'm starting to try and settle into a routine. For example, my walking has really declined over the last few years. Part of the reason is I didn't do enough of it. I also didn't exercise as much as I should have and after working all day, I was too tired to do any exercise. To remedy that, I have started going over to Perimeter Mall Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and walking there. As a side benefit, I usually find a spot to sit down about halfway through my walk and watch the babes walk by. I usually try to go around lunch hour so I see all the wimmens from the nearby office complexes.

Today, I did my longest walk of all and was thoroughly beat at the end, not to mention the sweat I worked up.

Also, as a result of my getting weak, I have had a recurring back spasm in my lower back on the right hand side. Besides prescribing some drugs, my primary care physician wrote me a referrel to get some physical therapy at Shepherd Center. I went yesterday and worked with Claire, whom I've worked with before. She agreed with my assessment that the spasm is a result of weakness and stressing a lower back muscle. She showed me some stretching exercises and some other exercises to strengthen my hip muscles. I've decided to join the health club at Shepherd so I can work out on their machines and use the pool.

It's only a matter of time before I have to quit walking and use a wheelchair full time but I'm trying to push the inevitable back as far as I can.

This morning I got to do sumpin' I've wanted to do my entire life: wake up on a weekday, hear it raining, and roll over and go back to sleep. The upside of retirement.

Did I say retirement? This week I was called twice by my ex-teamlead to help him fix problems. Both of them were five minute fixes but both took over twenty minutes to talk him through them. One of the bugs I could have sworn I fixed before I left, but I was in a scramble the last few days to get as much done as possible that I guess I didn't get to it. I also got two e-mails on other problems. Yeah, I know, I'm just too nice, but my ex-teamlead did protect me from myself and he kept my ex-CDSM® (Clueless Dipshit Manager) from bothering me. Even so, he owes me bigtime and he knows it.

That's a downside of retirement. I don't get to write amusing posts about TCIDNN (The company I Dare Not Name). For example, I left in the middle of a massive processor migration. I happen to be the best person to do I/O configurations which is a major part of the project. I was not offered an incentive to stay (Just the opposite. I was offered a very good monetary incentive to leave. I was made an offer I couldn't refuse.) and I have not been offered a contract to help complete the job. I'm sure this is because my ex-CDSM® hates my guts (The feeling is mutual.) and the person who was my manager when I left wasn't completely aware of what I did. For that matter neither was my ex-CDSM®.

This project also requires massive network changes. We have not had a decent network person in over 12 months. After our old network guy retired, the new guy who was supposed to replace him knew nothing about TCPIP or SNA. By default I did most of the network stuff. When I left I told my ex-teamlead that he should get the old network guy back on a contract to rework the network after the migration was complete. Everything I did was temporary to support the migration. Management doesn't want to bring the old guy back on a contract because it would be "too expensive". This is another decision by my ex-CDSM®.

Even though I no longer work for TCIDNN, maybe I still can get a few posts out it. My ex-CDSM® is trying to get the Germans to run their stuff on his hardware. To do that would require a good network guy and a good configuration guy. He has neither. What a booger eatin' moh-ron!

Maybe he can outsource those jobs to India. BWAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by denny at November 12, 2004 04:21 PM