Ok your cruise control gets wacked and speeds you up to 120mph ... you have a card for a key so yanking that does nothing, what do you do? Call for help! wow! Wild!
I know woe is me is the norm these days but damn I have been putting the time in lately. First we had a major software release that was due today! and what happens our office is moving the week before. Last week between mon and fri I put in 70 hours, it was insanity the whole time. Nothing worked as planned. Furniture was late, the phones were late, the furniture turned out to be to small to house the double monitor set up the dispatch computers have, the power poles didn't reach the ground it was hell!
It's all a big blur now but here are some ofthe hilights as I remember them. Wednesday was the real start of the move, One of our 2 T1 lines went hot and and we moved our server. We are only going form the 9th floor to the 5th floor so it was not far but the web server is the core of the business and this had to go perfectly and it did! Texas.net! they are the shit! so far so good... while we are there I see they are installing furniture, it's about time. Oh but wait they never fixed the carpet?!?! Two weeks prior they installed the carpet and it looked like crap! It like it came form two different rolls or something totaly unacceptable... ok contact the building manager... "ummm they are writing a report." ... For what it looks like hell! You should ahve already fixed this crap! now we got furniture in place over it! Anyway ... Thursday the day before the move, contact MCI to make sure everything is Kosher, phones are the next biggest portion of the business sothis has to work or we go in the tank! Oh yea and the phone company is there installing the new system the day before we move! Anyway MCI!&@%#&% they are providing us with a T1 and a PRI for voice. Early morning I contact provisioning to work out the details of the data... "ummm we haven't got a norder for you?!?, well the circuit is there??!" It turns out they didn't put the order in for the T! Ok they did 2 months early but it got canceled and despite an email telling me the order was being reentered it was not. Ok we are moving down there in 15 hours what am I supposed to do? they escalate Telco and try to get it going. G and I come up with optional plans! Everyone will go on the other T for now and monday the telco will be sorted and we can get rolling. ummm where is our router? MCI, We don't supply that. Me, are you kidding? I am just now getting wind of this was it not in our contract? turns out is was implied but not in there. ok more on this later! ...
We are about to move the next morning at 6am MCI contacts me and tells me that Logix will not release our phone numbers?!?! Why no what is the deal... well MCI has screwed the pooch on this deal too. Turns out they did not put in the request to roll the lines properly, 3 times in a row!!! So when they finally got it right, it was to late. Ok so we movie in 15 hours to a space that has no data and no phones numbers this is gonna be fun! During this time I go down to check on the progress of the phone install, it turns out the power poles on the cubilcles were to short so the phone guys decided not to wire them and they were gone?!? Huh! also the electrican decided to wire them anyway so at the bottom of each pole is 3 feet of exposed wire! WTF!!! oh and because of that they won;t put power to the poles... so let's recap, no data line, no phonen numbers, no phone jacks to plug into and no power for the PCs anyway and we are moving in 12 hours now! HOLY SHIT!
We called the furniture people they brought better poles out right away. The phone people made a guy stay and wire some temp plugs up before he left for night. getting better, go forward with the plan to put everyone on the Texas.net T ... we decided to leave the existing phone system in our old space and forward the calls to one of our new numbers that MCI had ready because they were new and did not need to be cut over from another provider... it's now 10pm I need to be here at 5am I'm gone...damn... show up at 5am no power yet, send someone after lot's of extension cords, start getting private office PCs online on the alternate set up. 6am we forward the phones and amazingly enough we are operational, barely. 9am they hook up the power nice. we stay this way throguh the weekend, checking email remotely.
Monday, Alright G scrambles and gets a router and tech for monday. After spending all day on monday he finally gets it working and we move the email server. We only put one person on the new MCI T and his packet loss is gigantic everything is failing! Ok OK! get MCI on the phone, by now we've moved our mail server and there is no turning back we need this line fully operational!!! MCI screws it up so bad that here is on Thursday and no email no line no anything! We had to move the email box to the Texas.net T and prop it up as we did not realy have the hardware to do what we wanted through that line. On Wednesday MCI was supposed to be keeping us in contact every 30 mins... nope they quit calling and they quit returning our calls. Nice. as it stands now the T is still not operationaly and theya re blaming telco funny this is telco just showed up to install another T at MCIs request. We asked about the other circuit, his response was that it was another MCI debacle. what a mess! I've brely scratched the surface of all the crap that happend and while this was going on I had to be wrapping up a major major development project for delivery... insane!
I'll try and post some links later... I haven't even had time to surf this week... samu
There are changes in the new DVDs See! Some for the better some not! :( why couldn't he leave it alone! Top 5 changes...Please put the Greedo shoots first scene back the way it was!
You know what we did this weekend... we cashed in the coupons we've saved from Dave and Buster's... when Angie I dated we saved for something big... we saved about 10,000 coupons up ... well Dade and I get our hair cut once a month and it's right down from D&B so I started saving coupons and over the last 2 years we've saved up 25,000 more! Saturday we cashed in for an X-Box! See the moblog! v.cool... I've been in Halo heaven since then... now to send that sucker off for a quick mod, a little evox and bamo schweetness!!!!
BTW Star Wars comes out tomorrow on DVD!!!!!!!
From my friend L HowManyWoulditTake.com some of these people are high! I see girls on there that are 10 beer girls that ought to be a sober!
Ok I do not usually do this but it's free and maybe it will work... who knows.
Click this link and sign up for one of the free services. It's all free anyway... if 5 of you do it for me I get a free iPod and if you get 5 people you get a free iPod... simple enough?!
Sometimes life throws you fastballs... Lately 105mph at my head... I know woe is me... whatever I'm not in the mood for it... BTW this past weekend was pretty good, work on the house continues by me! and we went out and got sloshed Saturday night. The company rented a stretch Ford Excursion... it was pretty cool... drank a bunch of Hpnotiq and champagne all night... went to El Patio first then M Bar on Main ... it was 'eh... so we walked over to Treasures ! good night! ended before it started it seemed... anyway back to work on the house... ack.
links to crazy shit come now...
First up is a Name That Game ... I got 16 of 18 I am uber::geek! warning some of the sounds are from the Atari 2600 and not the arcade versions! cheaters! I missed number one because of this!
In the spirit of ratemyXXX.com comes ratemyricers.com funny stuff ... so many boy racer fast and furious wannabes!
Ok we've all Googled bu there are other search engines out there... one that was popular for awhile was Ask Jeeves it is cool because you can ask in the form of a question... like "why is the sky blue?" ... well I found a better version... have fun! Aks Jeeves ... go on aks him anything!
NSFW :: Ladies if you don't want videos of you showing up on the internet, don't make them to begin with! You could end up with an ex-girlfriend video out there... no not mine jackwads! brownsuck want more... Now that's fucked up.com you have to register to see the pics but oh my! like this! holy crap! WTF is that! OMG!
Why is it you can't get good help?! I swear it's ridiculous. I decided it's been to long and that I needed to start on my remodel project again... well after half a dozen estimates I finally find a guy I like. Seems trustworthy, nice, good prices and so on, plus he'd done a small job for me before and he did great! First things first... he tells me up front he's on a big job and was a week or two from finishing. No problem I can wait for a bit let me know... well 2nd week goes by and we get in contact and he tells me ok I'll start on Saturday, ok no problem I'll have the materials delivered on Friday night. I call in the order several days early... needless to say that is another post but the material get's there Saturday morning and my guy shows up with help loads the material in the house, but tells me he needs another day or so. Well by now I realize another day means 2 or 3 so we say Wednesday... "book it for sure I'll be there 9am Wednesday morning!" 9am Wednesday... I get my mom to go and open the house for him... ummm 9am he's not there 9:10am I get a call on my cell phone "I'm running a little late..." I say "how late" he says "20-30 minutes" ok... I say "my mom's there already she'll be waiting, no big deal." ... called my mom to let her know and went back to work... the day rolls on and about 11:30 I decided to check on the progress... "hey mom how's it going over there?", "no sign yet", me... "WTF! he's not there?!", "nope have heard a word...", "I'll call you right back let me find out what happened". I start calling his cell phone to no avail, no return calls and no answers... that was the last I've heard from the guy. I guess he's got no good excuse so he decided to just drop the job. Why is it so hard to find good help!!! damn it! Well this lit a fire under my ass... I got pissed off, busted out my drill and got after the plumbing job last Friday by the end of the weekend Angie and I had finshed the plumbing and and hung 2 layers of rock... now I have to learn how to float and tape and then I take that money I was going to pay that guy and by something else with it! Funny thing is I feel a sense of ownership in my project now, like I'm building it too and not just paying for an install.
Found some interesting vids for you today... Human beatbox ... damn that was wild!
Then there was a guy, a Chevette, a plastic tray from McDonalds and hand brake... Plastic Durability Test
Ok remember when you were young and dumb and full of hormones... well I feel for all you out there with young teen girls right now... She realllllllly likes him! oh man technology and the art of the love/lust letter! WoW! BTW this is 13M so watch out slow modem users!
Rally car crash bonanza! these guys know how to drive a car but when something goes wrong... it is usually spectacular!
Turboforce3d.com looks like a pretty cool little site... I love looking at that 3d stuff... I wish I had the time and gumption to try to do some of it...
Ok when you are this good at foosball, you need to get a life...
Pepsi and Matrix minus the special effect... cool video... not the best of this type I've seen.
Ok I've blogged about Real Dolls before and isn't this timely with this weeks episode of Nip Tuck, but WTF! Are people really that turned on by cartoon characters! Hentai Realdoll ... freaky!
