Working, Slowly and at a distance.

Work has been sporadic lately, some days extremely busy, other days I flat out read books, no joke...

Anyways, when not at work I've been spending a lot of time on my online games (PC, sorry Hoji!) and have been taking things very slowly with a certain friend of mine, she and I are at that "Hey...what's up?" point in our life. You know what I mean...where you're sitting around, looking around doing what you feel is just about nothing besides working, eating, sleeping, etc.

I guess I'm stuck in a pretty awful routine because I've become something of a recluse, only talking with a few select people, even at work I haven't been talking or emailing much, keeping to myself (or at least my department of 3 people including myself) unless it explicitly involves work.

Maybe I just fail at life :P
I'm not unhappy though I may be depressed.
Maybe I'm just bored and possibly a bit lonely but I'm not sure.

A Week Off

As you may know, I run this Blog while at work and pretty much only at work to pass the time when I'm not busy running around fighting the fires of corporate IT. (No, we don't do prevention, we'd have to hire more people for that.) Anyways, this...is supposed to be my week off, but apparently someone's child is let's put it nicely and say...creating a new form of astroturf on mommy's shoes so here I am heh. Honestly, I don't mind coming in at all, especially not when someone's child is sick I mean sheesh, got to deal with that first of course. What I do mind however, is that someone can't manage to type their password in correctly and I reset it to our "default" and then they can't seem to change their password from the default....to what they want.

All in all, I gave him a big ol'"Pandaeye08" as his password for now seeing as he just can't seem to understand...well...anything, especially why I have to scrounge up a working computer (which we had only one, a laptop which was to be used for guests ONLY) whenever his department has 3 laptops just sitting around not being used.

Engineers of the world, you guys must really SUCK.

And to quote Clerks, which I must do of course, "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"

Seen it all before...

Now I'm sure you've probably all seen this before, but...I wanted to have them on my blog anyways so deal with it! Some of my favorite youtube videos!

FOUR WHEELS OF FURY! (toyota commercial)

Maybe Mr. T Hacked the game! (WoW commercial)

Carameldanssen...seriously don't ask me why I just think it's cute.

Evil Car...don't watch unless you have a strong stomach, I throw this one in for it's disturbomatic rating, no I don't enjoy it, I just scream "OH MY GOD!"

Switcharoo!: Times two!?

Another little IT tidbit of information for everyone.

If IT has to come by and set up a program specifically for you at your computer... you better not be switching seats with a coworker the next day, the office is no place for musical chairs.

My first "unpost" I figured this one was a bit too angry considering all the crap that happened yesterday so I decided to undo most of it.

By the way....

Yeah I had to add that one in hehe, I love WoW...*le sigh*

The Joys of IT

I love my job, don't get me wrong, but when so many problems end up simply being the result of a user who refuses to read what the monitor has to say, things get downright idiotic.

Though most questions seem to be valid when look at them from one perspective, very few actually are. With all the "user-friendly" aspects designed into programs now, why are people having more trouble than ever?

Not to sound like an elitist, but the problem is simple and so is the answer... Now that computers and other tech gadgets are so mainstream, so "easy" to use, the IQ of the average user has been allowed to plummet beyond reason. This reminds me of the Geico commercial "So easy a caveman can do it." which has practically become a reality. Instead of IT being for the intelligent few who explore and research, and play; it's now simply for those with enough money to afford it.

Et tu, IT?

IT for the Masses = Good
IT for those who can't use it and lazily rely on others to just do it for them = Bad

It's been a bad day so far if you couldn't tell heh. I think this was sparked by a "How do I get PIC on my desktop?" Which after 15 minutes of frustration means me running across the plant ordered around by lazy supervisors that can't right click, and then left click on "Create Shortcut"...

Precious Moments

WARNING!
This post is going to be very disorganized.

You know those special moments in your life, the little stuff, the stuff your spouse or friends would most recognize you for?

Well, I wish mine were more ....appropriate? At least interesting?

I feel like an 8 year old sometimes because quite frankly at the moment, I'm having one of those 'special moments' and my special moment is the fact that I just can't seem to get the song "I'm not wearing underwear today!" out of my head.

:3 I FAIL!

From the broadway play: "Avenue Q"

Brian:I'm not wearing underwear today,
No im not wearing underwear today
Not that you probably care
Much about my underwear
Still none the less i gotta say
That im not wearing underwear today

Christmas Eve: Getta Job!

Brian: Thank you..hunnie?

Avenue Q has also brought great hits like the well-known "The Internet is for Porn" and "What Do You Do With a B.A. in English?"

What do you do with a B.A. in English,
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge,
Have earned me this useless degree.

I can't pay the bills yet,
'Cause I have no skills yet,
The world is a big scary place.

But somehow I can't shake,
The feeling I might make,
A difference,
To the human race.

Our Corporate Support Desk...

Well, I just got an interesting email.

Dear Greenville LAN Queue,
The Request# XXXXXXX has been opened and assigned to you. The Contact is XXXXX XXXXXX and they have been notified that we have received their request for location Greenville. The contact can be contacted via email at XXXXXX@XXXXXXX or by phone at XXX-XXX-XXXX. The end user has included the following details: Customer says network printer GVLlWA103 is down.
For more information you may view the request using the Incident Monitor Web Client
To acknowledge and take ownership of this request click the following link: Aknowledged
Thank you, XXXXX Support Services

Alright, beyond my X'ing out of anything that could remotely be deemed sensitive, email address, phone numbers, request numbers etc., you might look at this and go "Well...why is that of any significance?".

Here's why...and this has been happening for quite a while now and we here as local IT are PO'd

"Dear Greenville LAN Queue,"
I DO NOT WORK IN GREENVILLE! I have absolutely no access there beyond the basic user, my access is limited to my plant, and for some reason they have seen fit to assign someone from their Greencastle plant, to a Greenville issue.

Now, mistakes happen, and no I wouldn't be so upset if this were the first time. Just for example though, here's another mistake they've made...

Co-worker sends in an account creation request (must be done by corporate IT) the issue, is then assigned to another co-worker here at the local plant. Thank you Corporate IT, thank you for the help... (This has happened numerous times.)

Update: Since writing this post, the issue has been reassigned to my coworker, she told them she knew no such person and of no such printer and that this was not a Greencastle issue. Afterwords...they reassigned the issue back to me!?

Hooray for Physical Inventory!

Well...here it is, saturday, started at 6:30am, I'm done, my area is fine, but for some reason we're still unloading trucks and ALMOST had production DURING inventory, excuse me but how idiotic is that? The people who use the inventory interface (QAD) have been stopped twice now because of trucks coming in, so even though my area might be done, I'm forced to stay here sitting around on my hands doing nothing along with everyone else but the keyers (100 people standing around, 15 keyers entering tickets into inventory).

Fun huh? The best is yet to come, sometimes these inventories last until around 10-11pm, and noone is allowed to leave until it's done.

Should've brought my favorite movie... Idiocracy

Which everyone should watch! For a clip, go to Youtube and check it out, they have tons of snippets and they're all hilarious, from the opening scenes to "Upgrade, spelled thusly U-P-G-R-A-Y-D-D, with two D's for a double dose of his pimpin'."
WATCH HERE!

Criticizing GTAIV, you're doing it wrong...

Alrighty! To kick off this blog let's start with a little rant on the Media shall we?

This morning, while watching WISHTV8, my local news station, they aired a nice little story on Grand Theft Auto IV, the next installment in the run(drive) and gun gaming series that just hit shelves this tuesday. The greatest thing about how my local news introduced the subject was that they were practically praising the game simply for how many copies it would sell. Quickly though, they turned to their normal facades of "Video game violence, baaaaad" as we've all surely seen before.

What makes this so funny and ironic though, is the fact that while trying to discredit the game, they quickly cut away, cutting off their own reporters to show "Breaking News". We ALL know it doesn't stop there, this "Breaking News" involved showing a picture of a car with bullet holes in it, and then doing a short story on a car that was pushed into a lake/pond/body of water. After that they decided it'd be a good idea to go back to the car with the bullet holes...reporting on some nice wholesome road rage and how someone just happened to get shot in the leg and shoulder I believe it was.

I don't know about G4TV's Epic Fail of the day, but this one surely takes the cake for my list of dumbest media move for today.

Tune in next week to see "Damnit Leroy!" or "How I got Shot: The Self-Inflicted Story" here on Insta-Scream (tm)

The road rage story is here: http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8247769