The page stares back at me, blank and empty. A week has passed and I have missed the deadline I set for myself. Now another week has passed, and still the page is blank. A new year has begun, and the page remains blank, but then again, the year is also blank.
January.
Janus is the roman god of beginnings and endings. January, a month of new beginnings. It also happens to be the month of my birth. So, as I contemplate a new year, I also contemplate getting one year older. I have reached the age where another birthday is not something I look forward to.
It was a tough year, and I don’t think the new one is going to be much easier, but we continue to slog on. The last few years I haven’t slogged quite as hard as I could have, and that brings me to my one resolution for the year.
Move more.
I have been more than a little sedentary over the last few years, and that is one thing I intend to change this year. I don’t believe in resolutions, so I won’t lay out some grandiose plan of exercise and healthy eating. I know myself too well. But, I have spent way too many nights parked in my chair in front of my computer, and that is part of what I mean to change. No plans to exercise several times a week. No plans on how much weight I want to lose. Simple.
Move more.
I suppose that I could also say, do more, but, I want to keep it truly simple. No goals that will fail before February and make me feel bad. No goals that I will look back on at the end of the year and feel a sense of failure over, just a simple proposal for how to end up in a little different place a year from now.
Move more.
Hopefully some of it will be moving the fingers, and this blog will get back on track. Hopefully, moving will include getting some work done and a few projects will move forward to completion. I hope for lots of things, but I won’t put them as goals, because I have always found that those goals fail. The goals that succeed are the ones that I hold in my heart. The goal that I have in my heart is to stop the slow…or not so slow…slide from middle age into premature old age. I am stiff and sore and out of shape and unhappy and bored and….I don’t know what else, but I feel the answer is simple.
Move more.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Friday, March 19, 2010
What I did at work today...
a photo essay.
So, we are deploying new computers at work...lots of new computers.
Yes, that is them all in their pretty boxes. Please, no comments about them being from HP, that wasn't my decision. I am just the lowly peon who deploys them...well, one of the peons.
As you might imagine, we aren't going to let those poor unsuspecting users open up the Christmas boxes and gaze at all the goodness inside, no, we are going to keep that fun for ourselves. I got to unbox a few earlier in the week, but someone else is handling most of that. So, then they look like this.
Obviously, there is more in the boxes than this. There's foam.........but that's not my department, so this is the next stage in what I did today. Now, the real work begins.
This is the Assembly line...well, not exactly, but this is the staging area. Four at a time...you'll see why later. Next, they need to become part of the Inventory, and that means tagging. Yes, I've blurred out all the juicy bits. This is the form that brings them onto the Inventory, and the little white tags are the White Tags of the document title. Neat how that works, huh?
In case you cannot guess, there isn't an ounce of originality or creativity in the entire building, but oh well.
Next, the tags go on to the systems and numbers get written down.
After the number writing, other numbers get added to a spreadsheet, so that someone somewhere will know that each HP tracking number also has another tracking number.
Now all the number and tag stuff is done and I can get back to the computers. I can barely contain my excitement. The covers are removed, and then the hard drives are removed.
Now, we have a special software build where I work, we call it Bro 2.1. Don't ask me why, I didn't get a say in the naming. If I did, the build would be called Camaro, but oh well. So, to get the software we want onto the drives, we use a Kanguru. Yes, that is spelled correctly, check the picture. Now, this copies one drive onto four drives. See, I told you I would explain it.
Two source drives because we have two images. There will be a third later, but that is a story for another day.
Now, the duplication takes 2-4 minutes, then I put the drives back in the systems and the sides back on...sorry, no pictures. You can scroll back up if you really want to, but it's not that exciting.
Then, I carry them over to the pallets where they await their deployment next week.
The stack on the left is ones that I did....well, most of them....yesterday, and the stack on the right is the ones that I did today. There are 39 in that stack, and I did 36 of them.
So, now you have a glimpse into the utterly fascinating world of the IT professional.
Sorry, no autographs.
So, we are deploying new computers at work...lots of new computers.
Yes, that is them all in their pretty boxes. Please, no comments about them being from HP, that wasn't my decision. I am just the lowly peon who deploys them...well, one of the peons.
As you might imagine, we aren't going to let those poor unsuspecting users open up the Christmas boxes and gaze at all the goodness inside, no, we are going to keep that fun for ourselves. I got to unbox a few earlier in the week, but someone else is handling most of that. So, then they look like this.
Obviously, there is more in the boxes than this. There's foam.........but that's not my department, so this is the next stage in what I did today. Now, the real work begins.
This is the Assembly line...well, not exactly, but this is the staging area. Four at a time...you'll see why later. Next, they need to become part of the Inventory, and that means tagging. Yes, I've blurred out all the juicy bits. This is the form that brings them onto the Inventory, and the little white tags are the White Tags of the document title. Neat how that works, huh?
In case you cannot guess, there isn't an ounce of originality or creativity in the entire building, but oh well.
Next, the tags go on to the systems and numbers get written down.
After the number writing, other numbers get added to a spreadsheet, so that someone somewhere will know that each HP tracking number also has another tracking number.
Now all the number and tag stuff is done and I can get back to the computers. I can barely contain my excitement. The covers are removed, and then the hard drives are removed.
Now, we have a special software build where I work, we call it Bro 2.1. Don't ask me why, I didn't get a say in the naming. If I did, the build would be called Camaro, but oh well. So, to get the software we want onto the drives, we use a Kanguru. Yes, that is spelled correctly, check the picture. Now, this copies one drive onto four drives. See, I told you I would explain it.
Two source drives because we have two images. There will be a third later, but that is a story for another day.
Now, the duplication takes 2-4 minutes, then I put the drives back in the systems and the sides back on...sorry, no pictures. You can scroll back up if you really want to, but it's not that exciting.
Then, I carry them over to the pallets where they await their deployment next week.
The stack on the left is ones that I did....well, most of them....yesterday, and the stack on the right is the ones that I did today. There are 39 in that stack, and I did 36 of them.
So, now you have a glimpse into the utterly fascinating world of the IT professional.
Sorry, no autographs.
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