- I had to work during yesterday’s “holiday.” I had three meetings that were ultimately unproductive. I still have something to churn out by Thursday. Workplans are not terribly fun, especially when you speak a different language than the accountants. My disenchantment with IT auditing continues to grow.
- After getting it to work on Friday afternoon, I continue to be impressed by Synergy. It can best be described as a method to share one keyboard and mouse amongst machines with independent displays over a network connection. It’s kind of like a KVM switch, without the V.
- My exciting Friday evening was spent at Lowe’s using a gift card I received. Last week’s snowfall reminded me to get a snow shovel, and there were some other things I had been meaning to get. I was able to solve one problem I was having. The water hoses that came with my washer had a slow leak, enough to make me shut the water off to the washer when it was not in use. I bought some new stainless-steel reinforced appliance hoses, and I installed them on Friday night. My leak problem went away. First thing I noticed about the new hoses is they had a rubber gasket on the inside of the connections, unlike the hoses that came with the washer.
- After the going-away party for some friends on Saturday night, I have come to the educated conclusion that shots of tequila are just plain bad. There is a small gap in my memory of the events of that night. I know I didn’t do anything bad, but I rarely get that ridiculously drunk. I didn’t get sick, but I spent a good chunk of Sunday morning recuperating.
- Enjoyed last night’s episode of 24, again. Even better, I like the reappearance of disgraced President Logan as the episode ended. I still think that Gregory Itzin should have won the Emmy for his performance last year.
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IT Auditing does take a certain mind set. I do it and make a decent living but I do prefer the days when I built and was responsible for things directly.
Paul: You and I need to chat offline at some point. My issue is that the technical material is not it, but the verbiage is just plain annoying.
I bet there were aprons involved in that gap, Mr. Mayor.
my first thought was funny about unproductive meetings when you mix IT and accounting but i completely understand the dis-connection between accountants and IT - I always got asked to explain to the accountants in their terminolgy what the IT guys were saying
NPR Junky: Their need to be bridges over these massive gaps.
Julie: It is so true. Accountants are in their own world, and admittedly we IT types are too. Getting to a happy medium is difficult, at best. I was actually having a good discussion about this yesterday, and it will probably be part of my post today.
I’ll try to make it to the next blogger happy hour.
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