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Someone forgot to feed the hamsters, I guess.

My heads hurts. I am having to deal with a very demanding (and simultaneously ignorant) person in another department at work; I re-wrote a process that used to require IT intervention to run into one they could use without us, and the news was greeted with "you should have asked us, here's a list of half a dozen vital changes to that process that we need now".. that they haven't needed in the six years its been running in its current form.

In other words, her tone is "Queen Bossypants."

.. this is a woman who once pitched a fit to my supervisor because I bolded a word in an email to her to clarify an explanation that she wasn't getting after three tries.

I've asked my supervisor to address the issue of her tone, but I'm not optimistic. My supervisor is a nice guy - we both had a laugh about the bold text thing - but he's absolutely avoidant of conflict. I guess I'll just have to prioritize her 'requests' appropriately.

At least they're getting pasta for the food. I like pasta.

Not physically tired, just.. tired of dealing with people. Not a good thing to be, considering it's Monday morning.

One of my number-one pet peeves is having to repeat myself. I give someone information. They then make a statement or ask a question that indicates that they haven't received that information. So I have to repeat myself. I would worry that it's due to a lack of clarity in my communication, but experience (and the simplicity of the conveyed information) has indicated otherwise - people just don't pay any goddamn attention when they should be paying attention.

Seriously, I'm working on a tech support ticket, and there are two versions of the software in question, and the guy asks "Are you using X, Y, or both?" and I say "We use X. We do not use Y. We're not set up to use Y." And his next sentence about troubleshooting the problem is "In Y, do blah blah.." with no mention of what to do in X.

Grraaaah.

My new workstation will be here soon. This one's five or six years old and runs Vista. I will be pleased.

6:40 A.M. - I awaken, look at the clock, and briefly ponder the idea of getting up early. I dismiss it and return to sleep.
7:10 A.M. - I get up, and get ready for work.
7:45 A.M. - I leave the house.
8:00 A.M. - I arrive at work.
8:01 A.M. - My brain checks out in anticipation of the two -week vacation that starts at 4 P.M.

I do not foresee productivity for today.

After a big server change this past weekend, things have gone relatively smoothly - in that there were no major problems. But there have been too many minor issues here and there, and I think my eye is twitching every time my computer chimes to let me know I've got a new email, because I'm wondering what fresh (albeit tiny) hell awaits me.

Kind of a packed day at work, so I won't ramble on much. Caught the apple cider episode of My Little Pony last night, and enjoyed that fairly well. Favorite bit is a toss-up between the Flim-Flam brothers (and accompanying musical number) and Applejack's "I didn't learn nuthin'" letter to Celestia.

The downside of my job happens pretty infrequently, but it happened this morning. I was awakened early by a phone call indicating that one of the key servers was down. As I'm closest, I got ready, scraped the ice off my truck (in ten degree weather) and hauled myself in - only to discover that the server had already been rebooted by the C.I.O., who'd come in early today.

Oh well, at least I can leave an hour early as a trade-off.

I finally got in some quality time with Soul Calibur 5 after dedicating Sunday as 'video game day'. I'm clearly out of practice, but it's fun so far.

I feel like I've made this post before. I'm actually having a pleasantly slow couple of days at work, which pleases me immensely. Users are testing a couple of things that I have rolled out, to approve them for 'production', so I'm kind of waiting on that, which is nice. I did just find out yesterday that Soul Calibur 5 was released, which means there's another damn thing I need to buy and another damn game that I won't get to finish to my satisfaction, but I'm basically powerless to resist doing so anyway. How the devil do these games keep sneaking up on me?

Workin' from home. Man, I hate winter.