(Don't mind me, over in the corner cackling)
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
So, who wants to know the results of the women's figure skating?
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AM SO VERY PROUD OF TOM SCOLA!!!!!!
Artistic reasons or not, I'd like to see Chapelle stalk the freakin' painter.
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Lysana!
Congrats to the Wolframs!
Yeah, I was just spoiled for figure skating by stupid Yahoo "breaking news".
Of course, I just had to go spoil myself.
In onlyspecialtome news, I had a nap today! I am very pleased with myself. And Isaac stood on his own for about 3 seconds. He's very pleased with himself.
And dang, I want to set up a flickr account or something to show off his waving picture. But I'm not sure I can do it while he's crawling around my toes.
So, the good news is, I still have a job.
The bad news is, it's a crappy job.
They've decided to move the help desks for the various locations to one of our location. Currently the three of us rotate who handles the help desk from week to week. Starting in mid-March, 1 of us will be a full-time technician and the other 2 will become permanent help desk staffers. I will be one of the latter. The CIO's goal is for 95% of all trouble tickets to be handled by the help desk, without having to dispatch a technician to the user's desk. Meaning, I'll be chained down to a desk from 8 to 5 every day. It will also be a desk shared by 2 other people and out in the open, so expect me to become very dark gray once this goes into effect.
I took a job 8 years ago as a PC technician, which meant physically going out and fixing stuff. I enjoy "getting my hands dirty". Answering the phones has been bad enough when it's only 1 week out of 3 and I've got the ability to transfer them to a cellphone when I need to run and fix a problem physically.
I am very unhappy about this turn of events.
But, as I said, I still have a job, my health, my family and my finances are stable. Things could be much worse.