Well, the email I was waiting for last night never came. I just walked to work to make sure everything’s ready for tonight’s install, and I have no idea what’s going on or who to contact to see how things are going. All I know is I’m turning a service off before midnight and some time after that, but definitely before 7 am, I will be contacted by means unknown to me. Carrier squirrels might be involved; they’re pretty resourceful. After I have been contacted by rogue ninjas, I will verify the installation of an application that I don’t actually understand, one that appears to my untrained eyes to have actually been installed already, despite assurances that that was impossible. After I am convinced that I don’t know what’s going on, I’m going to call someone in another province and have them check it out for me over the phone, to verify that it works somewhere other than on my desk.
A simple, well-laid out plan this is not.
So, how’s everyone else spending their weekend?
Oh, I take back my macho “I don’t need cheat codes, they just save me time” routine from yesterday. I need cheat codes. I need weapons and vehicles that are not accessible to mortal man. I need these every 5 minutes, because I keep losing them. In fact, this might be part of my problem with tonight’s install – this is all normal behaviour from an outside vendor, but I just can’t cope without cheating. I’m going to spend the next few hours looking for the “reverse time and beat management over the head for deciding to outsource things that weren’t our ‘core competency’ to people who don’t know any more than we do” key sequence. I think it’s up down left R1 gnash teeth snarl.
Any typos in this or previous posts are attributed to the environment, because there’s apparently an epidemic of poor editing going around. I’ve read 2 newspapers and a magazine today, and they all have errors in them, even though they have actual budgets. My typos are deliberate, so as not to make them feel bad. Just in case I am in fact insane, when someone takes an active roll in an organization, does that refer to choosing the yeast doughnut over the cruller?