Yeah. So I make it through two whole days of me “post a day” month before forgetting to update this stupid thing. I guess that doesn’t portend great things for the rest of the month.
I actually have an excuse. Not a good one, but an excuse just the same: I was being productive yesterday.
Pretty much all day, even. As a result of that, I have a freshly-shampooed rug in the living room, lots and lots of clean laundry, a vacuumed bedroom floor, enough groceries to last a week or so, and my legs have carried me at least 5.5 miles further than they otherwise would have.
Granted, I still have a fallen flag pole in my front lawn and there’s still a tree attacking the side of my chimney, but there will be time to deal with those things, right?
Work today was certainly nothing to write about. I’m still without the services of my laptop – this in spite of the fact that I called the helpless desk this morning and reminded them that I opened a ticket to have it reimaged on Friday. They assured me that somebody would call me within 2 hours. That was about 8 hours ago. So I installed some development tools on the loaner workstation that I’m using, tweaked some code, and sat in on a team meeting wherein our upcoming schedule change was discussed while not being discussed. By that, I mean that the incredibly managerial management staff decided to let us figure out how to provide 24/7 coverage.
We did this last August. I’ve been waiting to pull the trigger since then. Now that they’ve decided that we simply MUST have this round-the-clock coverage, it has been decided to think about it some more. And in the meantime, the moronic “on call” schedule will continue. Don’t know if I’ve talked about our “on call” schedule – which, to me, has always meant, “When I am on call, you may call me if something goes wrong and I will try fix it.” In THIS group, “on call” means, “I’ll check my email for any signs of trouble 24 hours a day for a week.”
Needless to say, when I’m on call, the email doesn’t get checked. If there’s a problem, somebody can call me – and I’ll try to take care of it at that time. If the “on call” schedule is designed to provide 24/7 coverage, well…here’s an idea: IMPLEMENT A 24/7 SCHEDULE!
Needless to say, I’ve been in a bad mood all day. That may be due in part to the fact that Mom died on this day three years ago. Yes, life has continued on. That doesn’t mean that I don’t miss her and wish that I could talk to her about this cluster that is my job.
Eh bien. As Ahab said to Starbuck, “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Another day it will be.”
TWD