Surreality TV

I haven't posted in eons, but I still read every day and keep up with folks. Some of you have seen this in other places, but for those of you hanging out here, have a link to my pics of the shuttle Discovery being flown around DC today:

https://plus.google.com/102480996212455755216/posts/c3qN1gxCkMS

You know, for all that I sometimes have days that suck, it occurs to me that I really do LIKE what I do. Yeah, systems administration definitely has days where you just want to nuke the world and cleanse the stupidity, but for the most part I get to do cool stuff. I get paid to play with computers and networks. Over the course of my career I've worked in academia, industry, telecom, and govt. I've worked with everything from a the lowly dumb term to systems that had dedicated buildings. I've built standalone systems, corporate networks, and everything in between. And you know what? It's mostly been a hell of a lot of fun.

I'll be in L.A. for a few days in the middle of May for work, and likely most of June will be spent Somewhere Else. It's going to suck in a lot of ways (14 - 20 hour days, 6 days a week), but the stuff I'll be playing with is cool. If I don't spend the Seventh Day dead, I'll even be in a nice place and I'll put up pics when I get back.

You know, for all that I sometimes have days that suck, it occurs to me that I really do LIKE what I do. Yeah, systems administration definitely has days where you just want to nuke the world and cleanse the stupidity, but for the most part I get to do cool stuff. I get paid to play with computers and networks. Over the course of my career I've worked in academia, industry, telecom, and govt. I've worked with everything from a the lowly dumb term to systems that had dedicated buildings. I've built standalone systems, corporate networks, and everything in between. And you know what? It's mostly been a hell of a lot of fun.

I'll be in L.A. for a few days in the middle of May for work, and likely most of June will be spent Somewhere Else. It's going to suck in a lot of ways (14 - 20 hour days, 6 days a week), but the stuff I'll be playing with is cool. If I don't spend the Seventh Day dead, I'll even be in a nice place and I'll put up pics when I get back.

So, you probably already know this, but just in case, I've been off in Disney World for the last week, and have only been sort of checking LJ on my phone for the last week. If the world ended while I was away, please leave a message informing of it here.

I'm so glad I'm getting on a plane to Florida in about 43 hours. I drove home with the top down yesterday and it was awesome. In fact, I've driven home with the top down every day so far this week save for one. Today? It's supposed to be snowing by this afternoon. No accumulation, mind you, but none the less, the white stuff will be falling from the sky. No top down today.

A coworker and I were talking about software switches vs. hard switches. Another coworker walking by asks what a hard switch is. Said questioner knew the difference, but was being a smart ass, so I returned in kind. My response? Switching from coffee to tea.

I'm so glad I'm getting on a plane to Florida in about 43 hours. I drove home with the top down yesterday and it was awesome. In fact, I've driven home with the top down every day so far this week save for one. Today? It's supposed to be snowing by this afternoon. No accumulation, mind you, but none the less, the white stuff will be falling from the sky. No top down today.

A coworker and I were talking about software switches vs. hard switches. Another coworker walking by asks what a hard switch is. Said questioner knew the difference, but was being a smart ass, so I returned in kind. My response? Switching from coffee to tea.

prince_eric is completely, utterly, and totally awesome.

Thanks for an awesome walking tour around the Common and for a great dinner.

Today we drove down to Plymouth, only I missed the Plimouth Plantation exit (since I was looking for Plymouth Rock and/or the Mayflower) and we went to Cape Cod. It was very windy and rainy. I don't know why people go there.

Plymouth is like Jamestown. Without the National Park bit (those of you who have been to Jamestown Island and Jamestown Settlement will understand). Except we have more ships at Jamestown. It was windy and rainy there too.

Then we drove back to Boston. It's windy and rainy here too. This seems to be a theme.

We went to Harvard and wandered around the Harvard Natural History Museum and the Harvard Peabody Museum for a while. It was windy and rainy there as well, of course, as that's our theme for the day. The Yale Peabody Museum has always had nice weather when we've gone there. Obviously Yale is superior to Harvard.

The T is...odd. Different train types, different tracks, and different levels. It's like Dr. Frankenstein built a mass transit rail system. And of course, he included wind and rain.

Today we drove down to Plymouth, only I missed the Plimouth Plantation exit (since I was looking for Plymouth Rock and/or the Mayflower) and we went to Cape Cod. It was very windy and rainy. I don't know why people go there.

Plymouth is like Jamestown. Without the National Park bit (those of you who have been to Jamestown Island and Jamestown Settlement will understand). Except we have more ships at Jamestown. It was windy and rainy there too.

Then we drove back to Boston. It's windy and rainy here too. This seems to be a theme.

We went to Harvard and wandered around the Harvard Natural History Museum and the Harvard Peabody Museum for a while. It was windy and rainy there as well, of course, as that's our theme for the day. The Yale Peabody Museum has always had nice weather when we've gone there. Obviously Yale is superior to Harvard.

The T is...odd. Different train types, different tracks, and different levels. It's like Dr. Frankenstein built a mass transit rail system. And of course, he included wind and rain.

You are FIRED.

I was making great time yesterday until two miles from the GW into NY. Then everything stopped and the rain started. The last four hours of the drive to Boston SUCKED.

We're here, spent the day at the Museum of Science, in which I was blinded, and are now back at the Radisson on Stuart St. just off Boston Common. It's still raining.