Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

I feel vaguely sort of bad for this... but damn after two months paypal denied my claim that newegg made off with my money with shipping product.

They refunded one of the items in the box that was returned to their warehouse but not the other.

When I got the denied on buyer protection because item was marked "delivered" I was pissed... because the person that reviewed the claim didn't even check the address.

I made a calculated move and screamed obscenities at both of them them on twitter.

Fucking fuck I hate this shit so much. Monthly department all hands...

Oh looky one of the new guys on my team is getting accolades for "stepping up" because he volunteered to take one swing shift pager hot seat a week off me (thank the fucking gods.. I've been the only person on my team doing 5 a week since we started this a year ago.. everyone else does 1 a week and 1 weekend a month.. I do it every shift.. and get a work an awful schedule that means I get one weekend off every 2 weeks) but does this get mentioned? not really no. Atleast it gives me 1 day a week to fucking get shit done since I've got 8 months to move our legacy site and 10 months to move our entire B site in CA to a new DC that we haven't even finished locating new datacenter for and only just started contract negotiations for.. which extra fucks the legacy site move because the majority of shit in it was getting rebuilt on new hardware at the current B site which we now have to out of by December 31st 2019.

I mean I'm glad for the help and like this guy but it kinda feels like getting shit on that he is getting a fucking bonus (lol 100$ gift card okay not that big a deal) for taking 1 of my hot seats a week (doesn't fix my fucky schedule though)

And another new to our team (transfer from another department) got promoted over me to supervisor for my team... because... we can't move me from working swing shift without losing 24/7 coverage which is one our requirements.

Oh.. but we all are getting position title changes with no raise because our team is being renamed from NOC/Datacenter Operations to Operations Engineering.. lol..

But hey my boss and department director keep stressing that they don't want me to feel like I'm alone and stuck where I'm in our 1on1 meetings.
Just don't have the budget or reqs to hire help for me or relief..

Bleh and comp review is not for another 4 months. I'm sure another 2.8% QoL raise (inflation index out here was 3.5% last year) will totally help. But you know since I'm the only person on my team in CA... I already make more anyone else on the team because I'm on the California pay scale (please note I live paycheck to paycheck because bay area rent is crazy)

I had plans to start setting aside company time (manager approved training) to develop and learn AWS and teraform better but with these two massive, emergency datacenter decom and relocate projects that totally isn't going to happen.

@IrisKalmia snerrrrrrk

@kelseyhusky Get tooting... I want to hear this... well read it! But I promise I'll read it in your voice.. in my head!

Lazy storm dragon day... grey, steady pitter-patter of slow, soaking rain bringing water to parched earth.

Good day to relax..

gh... asus's mobo design team clearly hates dragons... it took an hour and half for me to install a new NVMe ssd in my rig... because the second slot is between the first PCIE slot and the cpu...
and even with pulling my 1070... there was a stupid aux fan controller riser that made it super hard to get the nut in for the ssd screw

it's like they expect every one to have tiny dexterous kobold hands.... now my big stupid dragon hands hurt..

@mawr That is awesome and adorable!

Finally saw Vemon... and alll I have to say is.. DAMN...

Also LEWD!

Ugh... because I needed to be woken up by some sort of wierd ass blue alert at 6am on my day off..

Okay...I need to sleep.. been in void dragon headspace... and I started singing this to Aurora when I went to kiss her good night.
Kobold Kobold Kobold...
I sculpted you like clay..
Kobold kobold kobold..
With your reality I shall play..

She huffed at me a lot.

But also... fuck working weekends. Especially when I want to just curl up in my nest offline for a while.

Thank goodness for telepresence drones... I had a hard time dragging myself out of dry-doc-my nest this morning.

Fucking hell Jurassic World Evolution is almost as bad as Factorio for my time sense...

@mawr Mawr, you rock!

Ugh.. I really don't want to go to the datacenter today and beat on some legacy hardware but I probably should. Some stakeholders are really holding out hope I can revive some neglected, decade old hardware that will need to be replaced by Aug 2019 anyway.

I'm on to you brain... dreaming about getting a full night's sleep.. ha.. I see what you are trying to doo there..

I already want one badly..

okay... I can't recommend reading The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes enough.

Totally amazing fantasy Ocean's 8 (Nine if you count the Warhammer.. .and you should)

So I guess I'm invoking paypal buyer protection.