Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

Ugh.. meat bodies suck... bleeding from somewhere I should not be bleeding... now I get to drive an hour during rush hour to go see a doctor..

@Caudle @mawr

This is fucking adorable... I just... working the tail out to trying slim it down.

It's okay.. thick dragon tails are <3

@KinkyKobolds
This is my fault.... for stating that kobolds are not snack sized dragons... during a starfinder game.. and some how it spiral out of control... because someone is obsessed with McNuggets...

@kelseyhusky Goood luck.. I got out of being oncall off hours... only to be oncall during every shift I work.

Annnnnnnnd promotion and team move looming in the future puts me back in a weekly oncall rotation.

If you are doing something important in Operations.. chances are you are going to end up in an oncall rotation :(

Today...

Everything is on fire... has been on fire since before my shift started and I'm bouncing between 3 different incident zoom chats and 4 slack calls to mange everything..

@kelseyhusky Seriously

@mawr A delicious word..

Gods I have an awesome manager.

Had my biweekly 1on1 meeting with him and discussed the topic of me moving to Prod-Ops and on to the team internally that wants to recruit me and it was relieved more than anything because he felt bad about the fact that I've been on his team for 2 years (well 1 year, 11 months and 19 days literally 1 month after it became officially a team. I'm the most senior member other than him) and not had the opportunity to start working with some SysEng or NetEng to secure an advancement path because of geographic distance + schedule conflicts.

He was very supportive of making this transition happen and asking what sort of resources I'd need to complete my major project (getting us out of a data-center that is being demolished in September) so I could focus on training up for the move to a new team.

He was also very open hiring Aurora as my replacement, which would be great because it would get her out of a very toxic work environment and out from under a slowly collapsing company and I fully believe she could do the job.

Please give robotic dragon hands and like DNI for working with computers. Like... it's 2019.. where are my awesome cybernetics.

Gods I'm starting to finch at the sound of my phone beeping and vibrating.. it's been one of those days... on top of 2 hours of meetings that could be summed up in. "This project is so fucked and time is insanely unrealistic but the building is getting demolished.. sooo what can we do?!"

And I've gotten like none of the related to said project work done I wanted to do today because of pager fires... and ontop of that my body has decided to be unreasonably hornt... except I have work to do and my hands are in no shape to deal with hornt because pain.

Okay universe... you can stop being a huge jerk to me on dragon appreciation day. :(

@mawr :D
Plus totally going to try to get Aurora hired as my replacement. Because she could do about 90% of my job and the other 10% should probably generally be handled by our SysEng teams anyway I just do it because I can.

@mawr YES! Plus move to a Site Reliability Engineer position is big pay bump + exactly the sort of thing I want to move to.. and really valuable skill set in the long term! Also no more working weekends aside form the rare T3 escalation while oncall. Plus. yay for DevOps... and both of the guys on the team are pretty awesome and were a big help in making me feel comfortable when I first moved over to Ops here.
Just kinda like... We can totally make this happen.. and transition things nicely

So I just spent an hour working in the datacenter soaking wet...

and it was totally worth it..

because the reason I'm wet is that I spent 30 minutes before the trip talking with one of the Product-Ops team leaders (there were no conference rooms available so we went outside in the rain) about his desire to bring me into his team and if it was possible or not (it is) and how to approach making it happen.. and also if I knew anyone that we could hire to replace me since that would smooth things along...

It would be a move to a small team (3 people including me) that work with our engineering teams to bring services into an Ops ready state. Purely AWS environment, which is something I've really wanted to develop a skill set in. This comes on the heels of my manager asking me what I want to start moving toward internally and carving out time to start training/shadowing. On-top of that we wanted to work on a plan to start training my team to start taking some of the basic AWS service related tasks on.

Which seriously lifts my mood after the other lead on my team got promoted to supervisor because promoting me would cause too many scheduling issues.

GRRRRR people fucking stealing my network cap for something making me do stupid cabling because they ignored desc on ports on a switch and just saw nothing was connected to them (yet)

now I have shuffle shit around weirdly and I'm 1x10G link short with a new switch..

suddenly they are both bending over backwards to resolve the situation.

I feel shitty for literally all caps screaming on social media at them but holy fuck... it should not be this hard to resolve this issue and refund me. For fuck sake they processed a return on the GPU in the same box as the CPU but didn't acknowledge even receiving the cpu which they got got back on Nov 27th.