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Peace and Quiet

I am sitting here enjoying a quiet Saturday morning, drinking some coffee and catching up on things in advance of a day of enjoying a cookout with some good friends followed up with some beers with some friends.  Nonetheless, here are some things percolating in my mind over the last few days. 

I am so [...]

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Catharsis

As another week ends and a new one begins, I find that my weekend was absorbed with work.  Again.  Some unexpected outages and a planned outage wound up taking up most of my time yesterday.  For some strange reason, the last two weeks have been full of too much work.  Today was delightfully uncomplicated by [...]

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Managing Workloads

This week and weekend have been quite busy for me.  I had to coordinate some conference bridges around the work going on this weekend, and I am awaiting a return to my final conference bridge for the weekend for a database upgrade, but with the exception of one change, the weekend appeared to have went [...]

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Holiday Hangover

For some reason, today just felt somewhat unproductive.  I had a couple of meetings to deal with through the day, and I have some extra work to prepare for the monthly maintenance that is going on this weekend.  Nothing like having some major maintenance going on just after a long holiday weekend.
Nonetheless, I just felt [...]

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Bits and Pieces of Work

Being a contractor, I forgot about the magic of expensing things.  I can do that now as an employee, and it is nice.  While I am not going to go “hog wild,” I really forgot how this basic thing is quite nice.
Getting access to places and applications is a fairly easy process, but I miss [...]

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