Friday, December 17
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Ok,
So I changed jobs already. The exit interview at the old job was kinda funny. After being so pissed about the job for so long, I kind of got over it and just told them it was the travel that had me leaving. They were being cordial, and I couldn't see any reason to start a fight and burn a potential bridge upon leaving, I even got a recommend for Administaff of "Would hire again". Wohoo! Did have one funny moment, when my now ex boss asked if I was getting a pay raise, and I told him yes, and when he asked how much, I told him the truth, 12.5%.
The new job has been interesting. I'm pretty sure I'm now the oldest tech there by about 10 years. The company is much more organized. Has some cool software that was developed in house for scheduling and ticketing. Works great so far. I've been learning new things. Best part of the software? It automatically generates your TPS report every day. Now, if I just had a Red Swingline Stapler, life would be perfect.
Yesterday I went to a M$ "Hands On Security Training Lab", and would have to say that it is one of the best things I have ever been to for a M$ training, and it was Free! Freebie! Learned a lot of shit about Active Directory, Group Policy and how to make end users miserable. (Making your end users miserable is the first goal of any good System Administrator or Network Consultant.) Look like I have some new ways to fight spyware and keep the dummies from installing extra screen savers.
Still playing entirely too much Project Gotham 2 racing online. Think my rank online is about 31 right now. Started a clan thing that can be found here. So far I have one member, and one person who said they want to be a member, but has not signed up for the blog as of 5:00 AM today.
Oh yeah, what the hell am I doing up this early? Since changing jobs I've been much less stressed out, so I've been waking up at 4:30 AM and not able to go back to sleep. This morning I actually woke up at 3:30 AM and couldn't go back to sleep, so I got up about 4:15 and stared working on my video piracy project. I've been downloading Star Trek episodes for Voayger and Enterprise from the Usenet.
Nothing much else to report around here. We had a good birthday party for the boy, and have entirely too much stuff for him for Christmas. The house is starting to look like the Fisher Price aisle at Toys R Us.
-The Dren
So I changed jobs already. The exit interview at the old job was kinda funny. After being so pissed about the job for so long, I kind of got over it and just told them it was the travel that had me leaving. They were being cordial, and I couldn't see any reason to start a fight and burn a potential bridge upon leaving, I even got a recommend for Administaff of "Would hire again". Wohoo! Did have one funny moment, when my now ex boss asked if I was getting a pay raise, and I told him yes, and when he asked how much, I told him the truth, 12.5%.
The new job has been interesting. I'm pretty sure I'm now the oldest tech there by about 10 years. The company is much more organized. Has some cool software that was developed in house for scheduling and ticketing. Works great so far. I've been learning new things. Best part of the software? It automatically generates your TPS report every day. Now, if I just had a Red Swingline Stapler, life would be perfect.
Yesterday I went to a M$ "Hands On Security Training Lab", and would have to say that it is one of the best things I have ever been to for a M$ training, and it was Free! Freebie! Learned a lot of shit about Active Directory, Group Policy and how to make end users miserable. (Making your end users miserable is the first goal of any good System Administrator or Network Consultant.) Look like I have some new ways to fight spyware and keep the dummies from installing extra screen savers.
Still playing entirely too much Project Gotham 2 racing online. Think my rank online is about 31 right now. Started a clan thing that can be found here. So far I have one member, and one person who said they want to be a member, but has not signed up for the blog as of 5:00 AM today.
Oh yeah, what the hell am I doing up this early? Since changing jobs I've been much less stressed out, so I've been waking up at 4:30 AM and not able to go back to sleep. This morning I actually woke up at 3:30 AM and couldn't go back to sleep, so I got up about 4:15 and stared working on my video piracy project. I've been downloading Star Trek episodes for Voayger and Enterprise from the Usenet.
Nothing much else to report around here. We had a good birthday party for the boy, and have entirely too much stuff for him for Christmas. The house is starting to look like the Fisher Price aisle at Toys R Us.
-The Dren
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