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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Is This Thing On?

Well, to say that it’s been a long time since I posted something is akin to proclaiming water is wet. It’s not because I’ve not had anything worth posting. Quite the contrary actually; lots of stuff has been going on and I really needed to focus on getting things back on track. You’d think I would be used to things coming up by now and throwing a wrench into my machine. But in getting back into the therapeutic benefits of blogging, I will try to get into the habit of doing this on a regular basis. Now… Where to start?

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posted by tymbrwlf at 4:54 pm  

Monday, July 3, 2006

When It Rains, It Pours

So about two weeks ago, we have a conference call at my job. The owner starts talking about how things are really getting tight because of a contract we’ve won but have yet to receive any money from ( $350 million). She’s saying that until this money is actually released, we are going to have to do some “belt-tightening”; pay-cuts, furlough’s, temporary part-time/on-call work, etc. I’m thinking, this is gonna be tough but with my position as the only IT support guy in the largest production facility (4 servers and close to 40 workstations) in the company, I’m in no danger of anything too drastic.

Right?

Wrong.

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posted by tymbrwlf at 1:44 am  

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Murphy's Law As My Guardian Angel

I guess I’ve pissed off someone but last week, life took an OMGHUEGSHIT!!11!! on me. I’m almost afraid to ask what else can go wrong because I just know something will. I’m sorry for the length of this, but Murphy’s Law rode me like a cheap date this time.

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posted by tymbrwlf at 4:14 pm  

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