So today we have three trainers here to teach ~20 of my users to use the new software their department just purchased. The trainers are - Guy from marketing (automatically useless), Guy who trains (talks a lot and useless) and lastly their SME (subject matter expert). The SME is supposed to be their technical Guy, so I held some hope for him. Turns out, he’s useless too.
I ended up installing their training software on 20 computers (two of which were last minute from another region), and troubleshooting why their production environment wasn’t working. In the end, I had everything done except the two last minute machines, which I was waiting for a password from their admin so I could finish. I went back to my office. Within two minutes their SME came running, saying the computers in the back weren’t working and one other was down.
I told him I needed a password first for the machines. He began arguing that “The database isn’t on there.” I told him again, “I need the password first. ” He then told me “Fix it.” Okay…so I just got all the other laptops running because they were either too lazy or incompetent to do so. And he tells me to “Fix it.”
Yeah…big mistake.
Tada! I lived through the test runs. Long story short, the Invader is pulling like a bull and topped out at about 80mph. Just AWESOME!!! The old clutch setup only hit about 67-68. Definitely an improvement.
So, it’s getting back into vintage snow machine race season around here. My Dad and I are taking the sleds out tomorrow for a quick test and tune run. Dad’s got a 78 John Deere Liquifire, and he’s done A LOT of work to it over the last couple of months. Clutching, breaking, engine tweaking, etc. I’m taking out my 1979 Kawasaki Invader. I’ve pretty much just been working on the primary clutch, since the stock one blew up last fall.
Here’s to not dieing tomorrow! W00t!
I went reading over some of my old entries, and remembered a call I took at work a couple of weeks back. Figured I ought to share it:
I was sitting at my desk eyeballing the clock (about an hour to go) when my phone rang. I glanced at the number and didn’t recognize it, so went ahead and answered. Turns out it was an engineer I knew and he had a problem. He had good signal strength as be put it, but no “internet.”
Hearing his plight, I ran through my normal string of questions for this problem. He had an IP and Gateway address, and he had already rebooted the router. So far so good!
Me: All right, so far we’ve got a good connection to the router, so it’s looking like your internet connection itself is the problem. Is there still a cable running from your router to your internet box?
Engineer: Yup, it’s still there.
Me: Great, could you unplug it and replug it?
Engineer: Sure. (I hear him fiddling with wires, then comes back)
Me: You reseat the cable from the internet box to the router? You have internet yet?
Engineer: Nope, no internet
Me: Okay, well, can you reboot your internet box? Maybe unplug the power and replug it?
Engineer: Nope
Me: Um…you can’t unplug and replug the power? Wha internet do you have? DSL? Cable? Satellite?
Engineer: Sattellite
Me: Ahh, and I’m guessing it’s running off a generator then…any power issues lately? Anything happen with the dish?
Engineer: Well, we did have a Cat come in earlier today to plow, and he hit the cable.
Me: So…a Cat hit the cable to the dish, and now you don’t have internet…(hinting)
Engineer: Yup, but I’ve still got good signal strength.
I realized what he was confused about, so I explained a bit more:
Me: Yeah, but that’s just the strength to your *router*, that’s not a measure of the strength to the dish.
Engineer: Oh……
Me: So you’re going to need to get that cable fixed.
Engineer: Oh, okay! So we can just redo the ends on it!
Me: Where was it hit? The ends?
Engineer: The middle. Bucket bit right into it
After that I wrapped up the phone call pretty quick.
After tumblr got blocked at work, I kind of, sort of, completely forgot about this page. Oh well, a quick update. Work is still work, but more. It’s actually been pretty good the last 2-3 months. A lot of activity, people back in the office, and new projects. All around fun times (for work).
In other news, I took most of the new year off (hell yeah), and have been partying it up (okay, not really) as well as catching up on winter projects (not the ones planned though). I also moved into a new apartment. After 2 years in a studio, it’s nice to move into a one bedroom is a real kitchen and living room. So much room; breathy!
That’s it for now. I’ll get rolling on this again once I’m back at work. I have ways…
Ugh, today is WAY too slow. Seriously, it should be lunch time already, not 2 hours to noon. Half day…getting tempting.
They do skeet shooting with hard drives. Pretty much an awesome idea, because when you hit them they turn to sparkly dust. It’s like shooting vampires.
Citrix+IE6+Legacy_Apps_Dependant_on_IE6 == move on otherwise.
Been there, done that, got the “Saved the Budget!” t-shirt and everything.
Shit, Mozilla isn’t the big thing anymore, Apple is evil and M$ is making a standards compliant browser that I may actually use outside of work… i think i need my pills. Wasn’t it just the 90’s?
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