Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

I do not have enough WTFs for this today. Yesterday around 2pm a system went off line. The ops director asked me to check it out since I'd be at the Colo it was in. Is just gone. Cables still in rack.

Much wtfing later, search all of our cages in this datacenter... and jira and everything else.. Yes box is marked for decom but not until new hardware is deployed replace it (which I know it's not because that ticket is assigned to me....)

Saved from a certain work place annoyance by trust lawyers calling early... Planned and let my boss know I'd be leaving just before 3 and working from home.. they call at 2:40... I answer everything in the car on the way home... Uh... well then. Not sure why you guys thought this would take an hour... now I'm home.. and thinking about running to the grocery store with my new found hour of not supposed to be available.

And I have gnarly headache which... I'm pretty sure has something to do with weird lightning situation in the office... since I haven't felt this way since the last time I worked 6+ hours in the office.. it's like behind my eyes.

And it's not fucking like I'm not working on it... he demanded it be installed ASAP the day before I went on vacation for my birthday... and then last week we had two days off for oppress the natives day. I'm fucking pissed.

Worst part is my boss is just annoyed because he had no problem with what I was doing and literally responded with "I don't know why he can't just use Slack like everyone else."

Two weeks later box still won't talk to kvm and IPMI is not playing nice networking wise... mostly because he insisted on putting it in the old ass datacenter with a bunch of fucky networking shit and were I don't have core access so I have annoy one of the senior ops people to double check shit because lol when IT installed the core router they bought one not radius enabled for "security" now IT doesn't manage any of it and Ops inherited it..

And he proceded to show up at my desk around lunch time to bug me about an install of some hardware that is taking way to long (his box won't talk to the ancient kvm in the datacenter I would have told him not to deploy hardware in and would have rejected it if he had followed our fucking provisioning process instead of just ordering outside of standard process and bitching about how it HAD TO BE DONE ASAP!!!!! And I got it racked that day and fucking worked on until 1am)

So now I have to be in the office at least 3 days a week from 11am-4pm because some asshat engineering manager that has a habit of dropping my desk and interrupting whatever I'm doing to demand I work on whatever thing of his is in my queue complained to the Senior VP of Operations that I was never at my desk to talk to.

Motherfucker, you are like 60% I why I get more work done at home than the office.

Hngggh... I've been staring at replacement displays longingly but any 34" WQHD+ or 4K curved display is a lot of dollars... I guess about the same for what I paid my now 4 years old 27" Dell US2713

Storm dragonesses do not do Mondays or Mornings very well... I am decidedly the late afternoon and evening thunderstorm sort of storm dragon.

NO I DO NOT HAVE A STATUS UPDATE FOR YOUR SORT OF CRITICAL (TO YOU, NOT ME) PROJECT. IT IS MONDAY MORNING AFTER A HOLIDAY. MY SHIFT STARTED 15 MINUTES AGO AND I'VE BEEN IN MEETINGS FOR AN HOUR AND 15 MINUTES AND I HAVE ANOTHER MEETING IN 40 MINUTES!

YES I WILL BE WORKING ON IT LATER TODAY BUT IT IS LITERALLY EXACTLY WHERE I LEFT IT ON MIDNIGHT OF LAST WED WHERE I SPENT 4 HOURS AFTER WORK TRYING TO SORT IT OUT FOR YOU! FUCK OFF SO I CAN WORK!

Gave in... panang curry and chili-basilfried rice...

Internet help! Can't decide if I want delicious Poke Bowl or Thai curry things for dinner!

Finally have hot water again!

Augh... today I wish I had cancelled thanksgiving plans.. everything hurts, all the cookings are taking too long and mmrrf..

sigh... cold shower tonight... hot water heater pilot is out and won't light..

DDOS mitigation testing... "wooops we grossly under estimated how much traffic we'd need to generate so we'll have to schedule a new test."

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2018 holiday calender was sent out with a "AND THIS YEAR YOU GET 3 Floating HOLIDAYS INSTEAD OF 2."

Oh... we get less core days off in 2018 compared to 2017... and I still get a whooping 12 days of pto.. but I still thinking about when I'd want to take time off next year.. not "Who care I won't be here next year" which was a little weird.. probably because previous jobs I've always worked holidays..

tbh Fogo de Chao is basically a dragon's dream... kobolds constantly bringing lots and lots of tasty meats... until you tell them to stop... and they just wander by teasingly with it and it smells soo good so you ate waaaaaay more than you should. :X

Maybe taking a dragon to a place were minions bring lots and lots of tasty meats to the table and don't stop until you tell them to... and then don't listen very well... when you tell them to was not a good idea.
I was defeated by meat faucet and now I'm paying the price.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia?CMP=share_btn_tw