Meglet Rambles On

When you’re doing a major software upgrade, there’s lots of work, and lots of waiting.
Some of the folks who will be testing the upgrade chat while they wait:

Iris made sure she came prepared:

Others catch up on sleep:

When you work through the night, you see the sunrise from the wrong side:

Once the upgrade is complete, it’s [...]

This weekend is a big software upgrade at work. It’s all hands on deck in the IT department, from Friday night until Saturday or Sunday, and back again early Monday to support any upgrade-related issues that occur.
We’ve stocked up on snacks, planned our deliveries for breakfast lunch and dinner, and brought in the IT [...]

Today is the monthly fundraiser day at work. The fundraiser usually consists of “pay $5 and you can wear jeans” and is donated to a different charity every month. Not terribly annoying, unlike the United Way fundraisers and forced donations that some companies do. Today’s fundraiser was a little different. In addition to a $5 [...]

I sure wish it was, considering how the week has gone so far. After the big move at work last weekend, we figured Monday, and maybe Tuesday, wouldn’t be fun as we worked out all the kinks from moving 50 servers. But Monday was worse, then Tuesday was bad. And then Wednesday tanked. And now [...]

Bribery is a useful tool. Today’s bribe was the ever-appreciated gift
of Mt. Dew, from a user whom I fixed a VERY strange computer problem for.

My boss took delivery of the bribe, and his only response was “You’re
getting deliveries now? Do we need to have an intervention?”