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a minor rant

Friday, August 28th, 2009

So you know I just really wanted to keep my site about useful information reciepes, prodcut and resturaunt reviews and the like. For some reason I just need to get this one off my chest and to be honest it’s not a big deal more like a splinter under my skin.  Lately I have started increasing the number of people I am following on Twitter to include more of my hobbies and more of my work skills and that has brought on lost of new things to read.  Most would find the information helpful, validating and new; I however have not.  I really don’t mean to toot my own horn here but I am just so stinking tired of reading things being presented as OMG NEW!  OMG NEW TRENDS in photography.  I watched a video clip about the TOP 10 new trends in Photography.  That was what pushed me over the edge.  I watched the entire clip and loudly proclaimed HELLO AND WELCOME TO 4 YEARS AGO!  Then I started reliving things and rememberd something to the effect of how to take good wedding photos and it was really mostly lame. 

So I guess there is a market for all the usless knowledge I am carring around in my head.  SO if you have seen my site and have any questions regarding any of the things I dable in please send me a line.

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Never trust Amtrak, always trust your friends.

Monday, July 13th, 2009

I have heard from many people that taking the train to Chicago is a PIA.  Don’t do it the train is always late.  But then others tell me they did it all the time and it was a great experience. So here is what happened.

Upon arriving at the Lafayette Station some older gentleman who had a child in tow announced that the train was 2 hours late.  I ask several questions as I have t plane to catch in Chicago.  We were told that at 8 am they would be calling to tell us if they were sending a bus or not.  At 8 am no decision on the bus AND the train is now 2-4 hours late, hasn’t even left Ohio.  The child in tow thought it would be funny to hit the automatic door opener and hit my friend in the ass with the door.  When the older gentleman, who we assumed works for Amtrak was asked a question the little boy would sometimes shout out answers.  Like we asked “Can we get a refund on the ticket?”  Little boy “NO!”.  Awesome experience should of listened to everyone who told me the train was a bad idea.

 

Then while I am waiting to figure out what to do next I contact Amtrak to see how to get my money back and I am told to take my ticket back to the counter.  But we don’t have a ticket counter. They guy on the phone seriously said “well how did you get your ticket then?”.  Shouldn’t he know these things.  So this brings me to the rest of my dismay.  WHAT?!  I have to pay money to send you my ticket and wait for a refund. 

Email sent today to through their website.  Response is “sorry” and we are sending this to customer relations.  Oh BTW: “Due to higher than normal volume, please allow up to four weeks for a response.”  <-more awesome!

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What not to say

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

In today’s episode of what not to say I will cut and past actual email exchange between a few employees.  What you should know is that the announcement regarding said Holiday gathering went out some time ago and the second invite (which was a forward for the start of this mess).  Now boys and girls let this be a lesson of when exactly you should STFU! After the last email the list was locked so no one else could post to it.  The current excuse from the starter of shit storm “accidentallyhit reply all” (yes both times).  You should know we all work in a technical department.

 Origional Invitation:

Hello to all. . . . .

Please remember to sign up if you are attending the TLT Holiday

Pitch-In

Luncheon on December 17.  _Mark your calendars_.   Sign-up sheets for

indicating what you are bringing, as well as sign-up sheets for

volunteers to set up and clean up, are available at YONG Hall

5th floor reception.  Sign-up sheets are also available
Can’t wait to see you all there!

 

Today’s start of the shit storm:

I have a question.

 

Why are we calling our Christmas Party a Holiday Pitch-In?  It used to

be called a Christmas Dinner.  Which Holiday are we celebrating?

 

Random response one:

I think we are celebrating the season of Hope for all mankind no

matter what religion, beliefs, or way you want to look at it.  It is a

time to take stock of your best intentions toward your fellow man and

hope that we can somehow come together in a peaceful way to express

our good will towards each other with the idea of following through

with these thoughts and spirit of good will throughout the rest of the

year.  That is what I think this Holiday is celebrating.

Rebuttal from shit storm starter:

Thank you so much for your response.  I send emails all the time on the “AFA”

American Family network to companies like Walmart and write to their Presidents of their companies saying I won’t shop there if they don’t use the word Christmas and I was thinking why should I be so lienenient when it comes to my own Employer.

 

I’m sure that other religions like Hannukah still celebrate and call their celebration what it is….and Our Christmas is just that “Christmas”.

I am not offended by others holidays so why should they be offended at mine.

 

There has to be a time where we stand up for what we believe and Jesus died for me.  He said if we are ashamed of him he will be ashamed of us.  I only have to answer to God for what I do and when I get to heaven I want to hear him say “Good job, Good and faithful servant”.

 

It may seem like a trivial thing to some, but I believe the diversity is going too far when we can’t even call a Holiday what it is.  “Christmas”

Did they ever think that they may be Offending Christians by taking Christmas Out of Christmas!

 

And as far as Celebrating the season of “HOPE” for all mankind, that is what “Jesus” came to give us when he was born and that is “Why” we celebrate the Christmas Season!

 

God Bless you all!

 

Merry Christmas

 

Random response two:

  Starter of Shit Storm,

No one is offended by your faith. That is why we are in favor of including your religion with everyone else’s in our Holiday celebration.
No one is suggesting that you need to rename your holiday, only that we have an inclusive party rather than an exclusive one.

If you were unaware, your faith is only one of many represented at Purdue that celebrate a holiday during the winter solstice. It is likely highly offensive to all that do not share your faith and many that do that you feel that only your beliefs should be represented by the University. I think that you would be well advised to take a look at Purdue’s policies on diversity, discrimination and harassment.

I am proud to work for an institution that values diversity and nurtures respect for all people regardless of what their personal beliefs, race, ethnicity or heritage may be. Could I request that, in the future, you refrain from creating a hostile work environment by sending offensive emails to the list?

Concerned Employee
You may also be interested in referring to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

 

 

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Are the planets aligned against me?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

So yesterday was a bad day, not just a bad day but a really really bad day.  It was one crappy event after another and my day at work ended with very opinionated people being overly excited and expressing their feelings.  So I finally get to go home late and head to KLTs for mail and etc.  Back home I try to clean up around the house but I feel really sad cause KLT isn’t here to make me feel better which just makes me feel all alone.  So as if my day couldn’t get any worse.  At 7:20 pm I sit down and grab lappy it’s time to settle in and get ready for good TV.   Well I don’t have an internet connection, crap! I grab the cat5 from under the couch basically I am too lazy to get up and power cycle the modem.  Yeah that didn’t really work so I get up and head to the “network closet”, pull the power, wait and plug her back in.  Odd only the power light and the DS light come on.  Back to test lappy.  No luck, no internet.  After screwing around with that I decide that I still have my phone for twitter and that I can just watch TV.  WHAA? Assuming there is something fouled up with my set up I start checking cables and rewiring things.  That still didn’t work STOP let’s check the bed room.  GREAT NO TV!  Now I have to go find a phone book because the internet is dead and I can’t look up the number online.  This will be fun!  I call Comcast and am greeted by the auto prompt x) for broadband y) for TV — uh hey wait guys it’s both.  Let’s start with internet.  Basically she said “well I can’t see your modem, we’ll need to send a tech out”.  Great.  Then she so kindly says “let’s get someone on the line about your TV”, there is a click and then a small wait. Here I am totally expecting her to come back and cheerfully say “Tamera I have so and such on the line”.  NO I got sent to the auto prompt.  For Pete’s sake I could of done that.  So now I am on the phone with Oshea and his conclusion is “Well I can’t see your line because you don’t have digital, we are going to need to send out a tech let me see when they can get there” PAUSE “looks like next Tuesday” me:OMG ARE YOU KIDDING?!  He says he will look into it and call me back later that night.

AH HA! Here we are at Thursday and there was no such phone call last night.  And I didn’t even schedule a technician.  Now I had a “feeling” about all of this and was just to scared last night to go outside last night with a flash light to investigate.  So at the recommendation of a friend I Twitter @comcastcares.  I get a response telling me to send an email.  I reply with my story.  I get reply asking for my account info so they can get someone out there.  I hit reply and start entering my details; name, addr, phone but I stop to open a browser so I can get my Comcast account number.  OH my phone is ringing.  OMG! It is a Comcast tech, they totally fixed it.  Guess what?  SOMEONE did this! The cable was maliciously ripped from the pole. 

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Wednesday

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

And honestly I am just going to complain.  Sorry but it’s just going to be one of those days.  I don’t know how this happened but Wednesday has turned out to be worse than a typical than Monday.  For those not in the know I have been in training all week and still have today and tomorrow to suffer through.  Suffer was the correct word everything from the chairs that are KILLING my back and the poor job this instructor is doing.  There are just certain things that I have come to expect from someone teaching a class, I don’t know for instance you should know what the hell you are doing and secondly if you don’t know what you are talking about then you shouldn’t talk.  FoxFire is an apartment complex on the South side of Lafayette.  That is just the tip of the iceberg, yesterday KLT created a report that no one has been able to do in 11 other classes.  Yeah that doesn’t help his ego at all. ;)   Now here we are and my head hurts and honestly I just don’t want to be here.  This instructor acts like we should just forget our day job, which is totally unacceptable.  Bet she wouldn’t think that way if something she wanted to use was broken and the excuse was “well the admin is in training somewhere”.  <edit>Now we are reviewing what KLT did and paying him kudos, again not helping the ego people. </edit> I believe the comment yesterday was “oh to be so important”.  Now in other breaking news my boss is still an id10t and the team is on top of communications like usual.  So I guess in the end however much testing I get done is enough as long as I start with the “critical” stuff, you know work my magic later.  …..UPDATE:  the stuff is not ready for the “real” testing that needs done.

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…first a word

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

R.I.P

E. Luke Knowley

 

more pics

http://www.educause.edu/Community/MemDir/Profiles/ELukeKnowley/47738?time=1219956577

some stuff  It’s odd what you find with google

I am sitting here writing this with my bottom lip all a quiver and my eyes filled with tears.  I am so ANGRY and I hurt for my friend KA so deeply that I seriously want to drink myself into a dull numbness that will maybe allow me a few minutes to start the grieving process.    

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it’s saturday

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

I have been a little side tracked this week, there is just a lot going on.  I have been testing an application and having to do things out of order.  Also had to let someone know at the exact moment that I broke anything due to the timing and urgency.  This means that my test summary document will be incredibly screwed up.  :)   But I did find something really interesting.  Our security department implemented a new auth page to run on Apache Tomcat, that’s really nice of them.  It’s called CAS auth.  Well funny some moron decided to set the login to only >2 are valid.  Nice since about 64 people have 2 character logins.  ;)   W00T! for me.

Gwen has had a minor issue this week, anal glands.  She started acting down about Wednesday so on Thursday I took a stab at expressing them myself.  OMG for the love of all things good and holy.  I choked and gaged for about 10 minutes after that 30 second ordeal.  Poor thing, she’s still not better and no one can see her on Saturday.  :(   So we must wait and watch her lay around in pain.  Maybe she’s not in pain but you can sure tell it is uncomfortable. 

Last night there was an ARS mini-meet for the Indy crew.  Some geeks are in town for Gen Con.  We met at the Broad Ripple Brew Pub, it is nicely situated near theMonon Trail.  After that a trip to ??? for some geeky Karaoke.  It was lots of fun.  Unfortunately I slept all the way home, I mean it was good for me but not the KLT.  The best part of last night?!  On the drive down we used my phone as the internet connection to KLT’s lappy and shut down servers while on the interstate doing 70+ mph.  I was playing server admin!! 

Well I think I need about 4 days off and it to rain all of them so I can get some work done.  The house is in dire need of cleaning, I need to update some software, rebuild by phone, transfer photos and perform a back up.  I am sure that isn’t even 1/2 of it. 

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random things

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

So there is a flood light, actually a pair at the corner of my house in the back yard.  I have been here for 4 years now and have never been able to figure out how to turn it on.  Sure I found a random light switch that did nothing but I never figured out this light.  New bulbs and everything.  GUESS WHAT?! Tonight as I walked into the house the light came on and I was able to turn it off and on with the random switch.  Please pray that I don’t burn up in a house fire tonight.  :) Thanks.

I need to update my blogging software and learn to make templates.  Great stuff! Except that I did all the reading and research well over a year ago and have forgotten the basics.  I really don’t want to do it all again.  :(   What a lazy geek I am.

Scope Creep.  Do you know what that means?

Scope creep (also called focus creep, requirement creep, feature creep, and sometimes kitchen sink syndrome) in project management refers to uncontrolled changes in a project’s scope. This phenomenon can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. It is generally considered a negative occurrence that is to be avoided. 

So I asked for 1 week to test something and was given about 3 days. Magically last week I was given an extra 2 but they were plagued with downtimes of critical systems needed to do my testing.  For 2 days this week I was in training getting a full dose of why I don’t want to be a test script writer and that brings us to Wednesday, yes that is TODAY.  (and the light just went off) Between all my meetings I discovered that “requirements” had changed.  The system had been updated to remove some functionality and a new piece of functionality was being built.  Upon my questioning I was told it was in the requirements.  UH MY ASS!  And now things I was counting on (oops! light on, this would be great if it were a clapper!) are no longer there.  So does anyone really know what the crap is going on? Does anyone understand that I HATE REGRESSION TESTING? Oh wait they don’t cause they didn’t think I needed to test anything later, you know just testing that one piece would be fine.  Furthermore my boss has stated that we don’t have time to do it all and that we will need to decide what is good enough and call it done.  Doesn’t that make what I am doing a waste of time?  I mean you are not going to fix anything I tell you is broken cause it is really “good enough”.  Maybe we can go back to omitting testing, I mean the developer did unit testing and checked it out in DEV so that should be “good enough” right?  You did let the “architect” do all of the integration testing and determined it was good enough.  Really what is it you want me to do here? I know I will learn new skills for my next job.  ;)  

Today was a pretty bad dog day.  Gwen seems to be hurting again, which is bad!  She won’t give me a high five but when I extended her neck to look straight up she could.  Also she’s been inside since 8 ish and we have been outside, there has been no barking.

Ok, that is all for the night.  Time for bed – too bad there was no hot tub time in there.

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Stop visiting she’s not your puppy anymore

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I know this seems really harsh but the reality of the matter is that you couldn’t take care of her and you gave her up.  She is my baby girl now. 

 Last night when we were returning to my house from KLT’s we had separate cars.  I pull in the drive and start to unload a few things when the neighbors pull in.  Well great KLT is close behind with a truck load of dogs, and he’s dressed and in a hurry to go ride his bicycle.  Before he gets there the neighbor ask if they can come see the dog tonight.  I tell her maybe that Suzie has been out in the pool and playing all day without a nap this makes her cranky in the evening.  She laughs and says they are worse than kids.  OH great here comes KLT.  Now they have decided they are just coming over for a minute.  The 2 year olds idea of petting Suzie is hitting her and the brat child wants to hold her leash, is trying to show the other neighbor kid about Suzie and is wanting her to jump up on him.  OH NOES! We don’t want that cause I should not have to explain why I got her spayed and it’s a bad habit to allow.  It’s like mass chaos and then KLT leaves. GREAT! and then he returns.  Basically he felt sorry for me and didn’t want me to be stuck there explaining the “fixing” thing alone.  WOW!  Finally they all leave and order is almost restored.  Suzie stands there and barks till I put her in her room and make her take a nap. 

So how do you say “NO” when they are already there?  Can I lie and say the vet thinks it would be better if you didn’t come over?

HELP>!?

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emotionally drained

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I am not sure I will get this finished before posting….

Today has been a very draining day, emotionally that is. KLT asked how and I responded with just pick somthing and I will tell you.  He only picked one.

 Well first there is a past collegue who is sick, very sick.  Cancer. Cancer has moved into both lungs and the brain.  Facing our own mortality is never good.

Then there is my good friend who either doesn’t trust or doesn’t consider me as good of a friend as I think of her.  She kept something so big bottled in facing it all alone.  WHAT THE CRAP! I am here, loyal and ready. 

Then there is my new puppy.  How do you pick up that little thing and then not have time for her.  How do you decide that you want to come over and visit her when you never wanted to play with her.  HOW?  How do you expect me to not fly off the handle? Thank your lucky stars that GOD was watching out for you today.

How do you have 2 beautiful children and just let them loose?  How do you not pay attention to them? How do you let stay out till dark, when dark is 10 pm and they are 7 and 4? How do you let them grow up only speaking spanish in an English enviroment? HOW DARE YOU!  HOW DARE YOU take something so precious and turn it loose in the neighborhood like an ‘outdoor’ cat! They are beautiful little sponges and they are adorable.  It breaks my heart something feirce.  YOU DO NOT DESERVE THEM!  It is terribly unfortunate that some people can’t have children and yet you don’t even seem to notice that you have been given such a wonderful gift. 

Then there is the ADHD.  That is bullshit and an excuse for behavior that has developed as a result of the enviroment and circumstances.  CHANGE THOSE!!

Then there was a special on TV about turret syndrome.  How do you have a child with special needs and then have more?  Why? What were you thinking?  A girl I knew once had an older brother that was mentally challenged.  She was never right.  Why? Someone help me make sense of this please.  I felt so bad for those kids, it just seems terrible and a lot of stress for their family.

How do you cheat me on a good stove? How do you sneak over and give me half of what I was asking? Got a sob story? So do I. Wanna hear it?

Why did you call to find out ‘what happened’ and then sound like you could of cared less?

Why did she leave? Everything has been crappy since then?  Why does she ask how it is going? I can’t lie and I can’t tell the truth what does that leave?  How do I tell her that it was all just bad since she left.  ARGGG!

Why doesn’t my dad check his email?

Why can’ some people accept “that is just the way it is”.  I know it’s not necessarily right but it is what was asked of us. 

ok going to bed

arggggggggggggggggggggggg!!!

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