this past week
Oct. 26th, 2013 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomSUNDAY...
I made it to Charlotte, North Carolina, for some training. Winding down, reading "Perilous Shield" while "Temple of Doom" is on SyFy. Good night.
MONDAY...
Breakfast at the hotel, with news about Dick Cheney's heart. Back in my room, with SyFy airing an informercial about a vacuum cleaner called the Shark Rotator, while BBC America is telling us about a reeanctment of Waterloo.
(later)
That training is turning out not to be what any of us expected. It's two persons telling us about the system upgrade's new tech instead of us playing with it. Oh well. I finally got to meet my minion.
TUESDAY...
Day 2 of my training...
Without consulting each other, some of us showed up wearing a red shirt.
Nobody died.
WEDNESDAY...
Day 3 of my training...
I taught a fellow trainee from India the meaning of 'herding cats'.
(later)
Our team had a late dinner at an Indian restaurant with one of our users who works here in Charlotte. His wife and 2-year-old daughter later joined us. The young lady entertained herself by watching the netflix streaming of "The Aristocats" off her dad's phone. She apparently doesn't like watching TV because it's not as flexible as his phone. Yes she does tryto change his laptop's picture by swiping her hand across the screen.
THURSDAY...
I finally realized that "HQ", when used in relation to a big corporation, stands for "Hind Quarters".
FRIDAY...
I just came back from having the hotel's breakfast. Fruit, bagel, simple stuff but healthy. Coffee too, which may not be healthy, but it's my only poison, and quite mild at that. I'll be checking out in one hour. No point in walking over to the office now since nobody will be around. It's more comfortable here anyway. Not sure what today's schedule is, but that's ok. My flight is at 8pm and I'll be landing at midnight. It should be 1am when my taxi gets home and I'll see if I can sneak into bed without waking Sue. That way, after having gone to sleep alone, she'll wake up with her handsome devil next to her.
(later)
Flying from Charlotte to Albuquerque by way of Phoenix can be described as rather roundabout. Next time, I am NOT booking anything thru my employer's travel site. Choices are too limited.
(later)
Home. Good night.
(later)
What's the likelihood that the one job of our system that fails once every six months and can't easily be resolved by our newbies winds up failing two hours after I go to sleep, following a long flight from the East Coast?
(later)
I'm not sure if the likelihood was extremely high, or extremely low but happened anyway. If the latter case, I find myself thinking of Mark Twain about lies, damned lies and statistics. That being said, the problem was resolved more quickly than my cotton-filled brain would have done on its own because one of our more experienced newbies somehow was also logged in and he figured it out before I did. I'd like to think that the work by my fellow coordinator and I to make the team into an actual TEAM may be working out.
I made it to Charlotte, North Carolina, for some training. Winding down, reading "Perilous Shield" while "Temple of Doom" is on SyFy. Good night.
MONDAY...
Breakfast at the hotel, with news about Dick Cheney's heart. Back in my room, with SyFy airing an informercial about a vacuum cleaner called the Shark Rotator, while BBC America is telling us about a reeanctment of Waterloo.
(later)
That training is turning out not to be what any of us expected. It's two persons telling us about the system upgrade's new tech instead of us playing with it. Oh well. I finally got to meet my minion.
TUESDAY...
Day 2 of my training...
Without consulting each other, some of us showed up wearing a red shirt.
Nobody died.
WEDNESDAY...
Day 3 of my training...
I taught a fellow trainee from India the meaning of 'herding cats'.
(later)
Our team had a late dinner at an Indian restaurant with one of our users who works here in Charlotte. His wife and 2-year-old daughter later joined us. The young lady entertained herself by watching the netflix streaming of "The Aristocats" off her dad's phone. She apparently doesn't like watching TV because it's not as flexible as his phone. Yes she does tryto change his laptop's picture by swiping her hand across the screen.
THURSDAY...
I finally realized that "HQ", when used in relation to a big corporation, stands for "Hind Quarters".
FRIDAY...
I just came back from having the hotel's breakfast. Fruit, bagel, simple stuff but healthy. Coffee too, which may not be healthy, but it's my only poison, and quite mild at that. I'll be checking out in one hour. No point in walking over to the office now since nobody will be around. It's more comfortable here anyway. Not sure what today's schedule is, but that's ok. My flight is at 8pm and I'll be landing at midnight. It should be 1am when my taxi gets home and I'll see if I can sneak into bed without waking Sue. That way, after having gone to sleep alone, she'll wake up with her handsome devil next to her.
(later)
Flying from Charlotte to Albuquerque by way of Phoenix can be described as rather roundabout. Next time, I am NOT booking anything thru my employer's travel site. Choices are too limited.
(later)
Home. Good night.
(later)
What's the likelihood that the one job of our system that fails once every six months and can't easily be resolved by our newbies winds up failing two hours after I go to sleep, following a long flight from the East Coast?
(later)
I'm not sure if the likelihood was extremely high, or extremely low but happened anyway. If the latter case, I find myself thinking of Mark Twain about lies, damned lies and statistics. That being said, the problem was resolved more quickly than my cotton-filled brain would have done on its own because one of our more experienced newbies somehow was also logged in and he figured it out before I did. I'd like to think that the work by my fellow coordinator and I to make the team into an actual TEAM may be working out.
