First moment...
Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneI'm on my short vacation. It just dawned on me a half hour ago. I wasn't unaware of being on vacation but it's like taking a drug and not being on it until something specific dawns on you.
What dawned on me was that I wasn't pissed off.
Suddenly I was not worried that someone would screw up my efforts while I was away from my desk. One of my coworkers, a man that had broken my balls consistently because I had worked so hard to fix an order he botched that I called dibs on it months ago decided to steal one of my sales. His claim was that some obscure rule for an order on hold for 30 days had taken effect. Did he put a single not into the now-stolen order? Did he copy the computer specs as required? Did he add anything to the order without which the order would've failed? No on all counts. I wanted blood.
Childish, isn't it? All this for an oder I'd completely forgotten about. Then I saw the name and remembered how much ballbusting I went though to close that sale. Now it was going to slip from me simply because someone else wanted it.
Now it's ebbing from me. I will make money no matter what happens. My moral nature will guide me from pettiness. It will make me remember whom I can trust and blah blah.
I saw the weather report while I was getting lunch (5 pm). The map had this bluish parallelogram with hangers-on floating toward the northeast. Some place in Pennsylvania (state motto: "America Stalls Here") had received 14 inches of snow. Then the weatherputz mentioned "Syracuse and Binghamton reported two inches of snow per hour." Sometimes I miss Binghamton, but this isn't one of those times. Then again, the campus was pretty when each tree would have a snow afro.
The weatherhonky then said "if you live within twenty miles of the shore, you'll only be seeing rain." At this point, the sky looked ominous but I expect that in winter. He also mentioned thundersnow, a term I'd never heard before. Does Santa get struck dead? Oh wait... he's not grounded.
I felt glad that I had been warned against going home. Then I got out of the office around 8:45 and saw the sheets of rain coming down.
I'm back to fixing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brynndragon's revamped machine. There is so much to do, but I am not worried about finishing. In fact, my goal is to give her back a working, revived box by tomorrow dinnertime. Let's all hope I'm not being too optimistic.
She has SETI@Home running on here. If you haven't heard of it, it's a background application that flaunts itself as a screensaver. While you're not using your machine, it crunches raw output from the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico to discern any sentient traces in the signals. I've wanted to see how well it works -- it's kinda neat, actually. However, it seems strange to need all the spare computer cycles in the paved world to find out whether there is another culture capable of talking to us. I'd run one of these cycle-sharing systems. but I'm not sure the ET hunt suits me. Political prisoners don't need my raw number-crunching power.
I'm liking her AMD chip. If you've never used one before and have only had Intel chips. prepare to be impressed. This 950 MHz Athlon has better caching and throughput.
I'm happy! It's neat.
Oops! I just clicked on one of her bookmarks by accident. Dang trackball... oh hey. Yeah.
Maybe this computer will take a little longer.
-should I resist the urge to slack? I've earned it.
What dawned on me was that I wasn't pissed off.
Suddenly I was not worried that someone would screw up my efforts while I was away from my desk. One of my coworkers, a man that had broken my balls consistently because I had worked so hard to fix an order he botched that I called dibs on it months ago decided to steal one of my sales. His claim was that some obscure rule for an order on hold for 30 days had taken effect. Did he put a single not into the now-stolen order? Did he copy the computer specs as required? Did he add anything to the order without which the order would've failed? No on all counts. I wanted blood.
Childish, isn't it? All this for an oder I'd completely forgotten about. Then I saw the name and remembered how much ballbusting I went though to close that sale. Now it was going to slip from me simply because someone else wanted it.
Now it's ebbing from me. I will make money no matter what happens. My moral nature will guide me from pettiness. It will make me remember whom I can trust and blah blah.
I saw the weather report while I was getting lunch (5 pm). The map had this bluish parallelogram with hangers-on floating toward the northeast. Some place in Pennsylvania (state motto: "America Stalls Here") had received 14 inches of snow. Then the weatherputz mentioned "Syracuse and Binghamton reported two inches of snow per hour." Sometimes I miss Binghamton, but this isn't one of those times. Then again, the campus was pretty when each tree would have a snow afro.
The weatherhonky then said "if you live within twenty miles of the shore, you'll only be seeing rain." At this point, the sky looked ominous but I expect that in winter. He also mentioned thundersnow, a term I'd never heard before. Does Santa get struck dead? Oh wait... he's not grounded.
I felt glad that I had been warned against going home. Then I got out of the office around 8:45 and saw the sheets of rain coming down.
I'm back to fixing
brynndragon's revamped machine. There is so much to do, but I am not worried about finishing. In fact, my goal is to give her back a working, revived box by tomorrow dinnertime. Let's all hope I'm not being too optimistic.She has SETI@Home running on here. If you haven't heard of it, it's a background application that flaunts itself as a screensaver. While you're not using your machine, it crunches raw output from the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico to discern any sentient traces in the signals. I've wanted to see how well it works -- it's kinda neat, actually. However, it seems strange to need all the spare computer cycles in the paved world to find out whether there is another culture capable of talking to us. I'd run one of these cycle-sharing systems. but I'm not sure the ET hunt suits me. Political prisoners don't need my raw number-crunching power.
I'm liking her AMD chip. If you've never used one before and have only had Intel chips. prepare to be impressed. This 950 MHz Athlon has better caching and throughput.
I'm happy! It's neat.
Oops! I just clicked on one of her bookmarks by accident. Dang trackball... oh hey. Yeah.
Maybe this computer will take a little longer.
-should I resist the urge to slack? I've earned it.
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Date: 2004-02-03 10:15 pm (UTC)Oh, and I've started getting unemployment monies :P
Wanna get together sometime?
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Date: 2004-02-04 01:29 am (UTC)By the way, still have that machine whose contents you want resurrected?