I thought the definition of "IT Pro" was: "anyone and everyone who manages to figure out how to make a spiceworks account". Or is that just SW's definition?

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking Pinky?"

"Um, I fink so, SAM.... but where are we going to find a proper hardware RAID controller at this time of night? NARF!!!"

@IRJ said in Avatars:

@ChrisL said in Avatars:

What if I actually look surprisingly like a round South Park character?

As long as you aren't a Canadian south park character, buddy. lol

Actual pic of @MattSpeller on his daily commute.

The first thing she tasted was the bitterness of sorrow for wasting 16 years of her life.

@donaldlandru said in MangoCon 2019:

Thanks @Dominica and @pchiodo for the extra shirt

So..... your MangoConda don't want none unless it's pre-shrunk hun?

Just got a raise!!! Happy holiday to me!

I graduated from physical therapy today!!!

It's official.... I'M GOING BACK TO WORK ON APRIL 1ST!!!!!

Cloud at Cost be like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsxJfcFVnpo

What ever happened to "work / life balance"? I don't have a home lab because I unplug when I leave the office. Wouldn't mind having a lab to dick around with between 9am-6pm, but I have no desire to have noisy ass servers blaring on in my home. So I guess I'd be fuct if I ever went to find a new job?

Rainy Saturday... Not helping the effort to dry out the new kitchen floor. The water line to the ice maker had been leaking long enough for water to appear between the boards. Luckily it's fancy new laminate that is waterproof. The manufacturer guarantees it for 72 hours completely underwater, and my contractor said it's fine as long as we get it dry. So every fan and space heater has been called to activate duty, and I got a dehumidifier to boot.

Mixing down a recently unearthed live show by my old reggae band. 4 whole sets, apparently no rhythm guitar, but we did have a trumpet player/percussionist and 2 wacky room mics.

So... Dell calls me the other day about one of our servers potentially having defective RAM. I go to the data center today to pick up the parts.... 1 big box with 24 smaller boxes inside... Each small box contained only 1 stick of RAM!!!! Leaving 3 empty slots per box!!! They only gave me 9 return labels, which makes no sense. I only need 6 boxes to return everything.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today I begin the recovery from my rotator cuff surgery I had this morning. Today is mostly my wife sterning telling me to sit down and stop doing stuff... I'm way more restless than normal. ug.

You can do stuff... Just not things that aggravate your rotator cuff, lol.

lol, the reality is that most movement involves moving the shoulder, even if it's just the tiniest amount.. which of course aggravates the rotator...

Don't tell me that... One of my shoulders has been extra hurty the last few months.

Getting ready to head up to the mountains to see some friends. Their annual post-turkey day gathering is known as "orphans and leftovers".

I'm about to go start swapping long network cables for short ones. Obviously I should do it since I was the one who provided the correct lengths and quantities to buy before we started the project.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Too many to quote using the phone,.. thanks.

so- now it is a bit bitter sweet as I may very well lose all of my accrued PTO,..94 hours.

Will have to see

Dunno about your state, but every state I have dealt with, accrued means it is earned and is 100% required to be paid out.

For those in Ohio, the employer must have a written policy stating under what conditions accrued PTO will not be paid.

And there’s the ‘rub’ of course.

While I live and work in Kentucky, the company that pays me is in Ohio…. And yes- it’s in the Employee handbook. So it’s very very likely that I’ll get screwed out of it.

Even though I am only partly to blame here.

• Because I get it done, it’s given to me
• because I close the most tickets, it’s given to me
• because it had to be done and there isn’t anyone else here to do it, it’s given to me
• because Jake hole didn’t finish it, I have to.
• because “I trust you to get it done”,…
• because he’s a lazy f*
  …
• because this is how’s it’s been.

*This is the way.

@Dashrender said in Data Erasure Software?:

We have a local facility that will shred drives for $5.

Same here. They are coming next week to remove some old, Dinosaur age storage boxes... which have MANY drives in each. Worth it every time.

LATEST NEWS:

We have started moving all the kitchen stuff back into the kitchen finally! I have even cooked 2 meals in the new digs, and WOW did that show me how rusty I am at cooking.

The final touches that still need to be done:

• Install 1 new pantry door to replace the damaged one (worker dropped it)
• Install handles on all the pantry doors
• Install light fixtures and fan
• Touch up some spots on the trim

Video walk-through coming soon!

Just got back from the datacenter, had to add on 2 more PDUs for the new pair of 30 amp circuits. And I'll be back in the morning to start balancing out the power load.