Thursday, September 21, 2000

I ended up working almost all night last night, so I didn’t get a chance to update until just now. We had a major fiasco applying a craft (the equivalent to an O/S patch). Lack of experience, coupled with a lack of documentation resulted in a lack of cell sites on the air for a small amount of time in the wee hours of the Kansas City morning. I had a meeting scheduled for 10:00am this morning, so no chance to sleep in. I did manage to get to work in time for the meeting (it was a strategy type meeting regarding the future plans of our voice-mail platform), but the vendors that were to be presenting didn’t show up until 11:30. After a rather informative 3 hours we had lunch brought in and I figured that I would get to go home and get some sleep. I figured wrong. I arrived back at my desk to find a frantic message from our IS dept requesting my help with one of their servers. It turns out that in their procedure manuals it states that when all else fails notify the Systems Admin. It actually lists me by name. Kind of neat. Kind of a pain in the butt. So I spent the remainder of my afternoon extolling the virtues of vold when trying to read a cd-rom on a Sun machine.

Spent most of the evening trying to get a Mac Quadra 605 hooked up to a standard vga monitor. Still no luck. I have an adapter, but it wouldn’t do the job. I may stop at The MacStore and pick up an actual Mac to VGA cable.

And now I get another call from KC to solve somebody else’s emergency.. (I could get used to not getting calls like these anymore…) So, I’m off to work yet again.