Nov. 9th, 2006

bjarvis: (Default)
I'm trying to be very focussed and productive today. Tomorrow is a work holiday; to keep up with my schedule of deliverables, I need to make every minute of the day count so I can have a weekend of peace of mind.

I've submitted work tickets to retire ten elderly NIS servers. Don't know what those are? Don't worry about it: they're being decommissioned anyway.

I've rescanned the servers in my business group for a particular patch for IBM MQ and may now say in complete honesty that all servers have the latest & greatest patch. Yay me.

Two months ago, I was given the task of resolving all known Veritas-related issues within my business group. Most were merely informational status messages but there was minor tweaking required on a handful. As of last night, all are now fixed and I have a clean report. Yay2.

The night crew replaced a failed disk on one server last night. I rounded up the approvals for the after-the-fact work tickets, linked the appropriate items and closed off the tickets. The auditors will be pleased.

The boss asked for a business justification to attend the LISA conference next month. My intuition is that management is looking for some excuse to decline --our middle management is convinced geek conferences are actually golfing vacations in exotic locations because, well, their own management junkets are all like that-- but I wrote up a good justification, linking it back to our stated goals for the coming year. I'm not too optimistic but we'll see.

Back to work...
bjarvis: (Default)
I'm trying to be very focussed and productive today. Tomorrow is a work holiday; to keep up with my schedule of deliverables, I need to make every minute of the day count so I can have a weekend of peace of mind.

I've submitted work tickets to retire ten elderly NIS servers. Don't know what those are? Don't worry about it: they're being decommissioned anyway.

I've rescanned the servers in my business group for a particular patch for IBM MQ and may now say in complete honesty that all servers have the latest & greatest patch. Yay me.

Two months ago, I was given the task of resolving all known Veritas-related issues within my business group. Most were merely informational status messages but there was minor tweaking required on a handful. As of last night, all are now fixed and I have a clean report. Yay2.

The night crew replaced a failed disk on one server last night. I rounded up the approvals for the after-the-fact work tickets, linked the appropriate items and closed off the tickets. The auditors will be pleased.

The boss asked for a business justification to attend the LISA conference next month. My intuition is that management is looking for some excuse to decline --our middle management is convinced geek conferences are actually golfing vacations in exotic locations because, well, their own management junkets are all like that-- but I wrote up a good justification, linking it back to our stated goals for the coming year. I'm not too optimistic but we'll see.

Back to work...

ACDC!

Nov. 9th, 2006 10:17 am
bjarvis: (DC Lambda Squares)
I've made hotel reservations at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza in downtown Washington DC for the ACDC advanced & challenge square dance fly-in next February 16-18. Whee!

ACDC!

Nov. 9th, 2006 10:17 am
bjarvis: (DC Lambda Squares)
I've made hotel reservations at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza in downtown Washington DC for the ACDC advanced & challenge square dance fly-in next February 16-18. Whee!
bjarvis: (money)
It's a good surprise this time! :-)

I've just been approved for a $350 one-time performance bonus, to appear in my next paycheck.

At the moment, I have no idea who nominated me or why, but I'll take it.
bjarvis: (money)
It's a good surprise this time! :-)

I've just been approved for a $350 one-time performance bonus, to appear in my next paycheck.

At the moment, I have no idea who nominated me or why, but I'll take it.

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