"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
My Boog Pages
Thursday, April 17
Long Time No See
Quote Of The Day (paraphrasing yesterday's Pickles):
Her: "You finally broke your writer's block, huh?" Me: "Yeah, the pages keep coming just as fast as I can throw them in the trash."
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Since 9/11, I've felt a lot of things. Sadness, certainly. Anger, rage even, of course. But I never felt paranoid until the company I work for put up the concrete barricades around the employee entrance.
Four solid concrete columns, each about two feet across, appeared there one morning, evidently designed to prevent a vehicle from going where no vehicle should ever go. I suppose this was supposed to make me feel more secure, but it had the opposite effect. If we're not free to drive our cars right into our place of business, then the terrorists have won.
I supposed I'd feel more reassured if not for the large "DO NOT LEAN" stickers pasted on top of each column. The employee entrance is also the hangout for all the corporate smokers, and I guess they made themselves comfortable during their breaks. But if those things will snap like a twig when Bob from Accounting plants his butt up against them, what will they do when Crazy Joe from the mail room drives his two-ton truck into them at 80 miles per hour? And they'd better put a security camera out there. Barricade thieves might uproot the columns and make off with them in the dead of night.
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Haven't written much in the past few weeks (not that anyone's noticed) but for once I have a good excuse. I have worked 23 of the past 24 days, many of those until 8 o'clock or later. Okay, half those days were not so much 'work' as 'training', but still, any day I have to get up at 6:30 is pretty much a work day. Then I Monday I was told that the print servers I spent many late nights installing over the last month or so were running very slowly, making it almost impossible for the users to get any work done. When I found that 'impossible' meant '3 minute delay' I said, "I'm guessing that 'waaa!' isn't an appropriate response." My boss liked that so much that he suggested we have them call tech support at 1-800-WAA-AAAA. In the end I got tasked with setting up and installing 5 new print servers in 4 days. I think our Network group is going to bail me out, though. There's no way they will have the drops ready on time.
