Jericho: We cheated!
Yesterday was a really bad day followed up by a really good day. I realize that might seem impossible, but indeed it's true.
I have a few major projects ramping up at work, the largest of which is a "forklift upgrade" of our voicemail system in our main office. That means we'll be replacing the hardware and software - a complete change out. This was set to occur this weekend. We ordered a new, big server for this upgrade. This is a big deal for me - screwing up was not an option.
After two or so weeks of ripping my hair out, nearly quitting my job three or so times (not kidding) we finally seemed to be getting somewhere yesterday. It was a busy day but things were looking good. We (finally!!!) got to unpacking the server.
Almost every computer made these days has a built in Network Interface Card (NIC). Without a NIC, you cannot connect to a network. I didn't even think to wonder if this $12,000 server had a built in NIC. So, when we opened up the box, we saw that the server didn't have a built in NIC, it had a NIC in one of the six PCI expansion card slots. I happened to need all six slots for the cards I would use to connect the phone system to the voicemail system. In short, I was screwed over a $10 NIC card. It's a big mess and my big install is off for the weekend. While I didn't "screw up" I certainly didn't come out of this looking very good. In the four years I have been here, I have only been this close to quitting this job once. If I knew I wouldn't lose everything by quitting, I would be gone. I'm really starting to loathe this job. That sucks, because it's a good job.
Yesterday was also my third wedding anniversary. Steph and I have been planning since August to celebrate our love for each other and our luck on our current weight loss by breaking our diet! We planned to order a pizza. As it turned out, we ordered two pizzas! We are big fans of Papa Murphy's. They have a low carb pizza called deLITE. It's just a very thin crust pizza, but it's really good. Now, their nutritional information is kinda vague, so I have no idea how many carbs we ate. But, we each ate a medium pizza and I'm sure it's more carbs than I'm supposed to have in a day! I had two 20 ounce A&W Root Beers and Steph had a couple of low carb sodas. Then we followed that up with chocolate cake and Ben and Jerry's!
The meal was fantastic! I haven't been that full since I went on Atkins - you forget how much dough expands in the stomach! So, yeah, we binged, but we binged smartly. The pizza was low carb because it was on an ultra thin crust, my soda was full sugar, but no caffeine, we split the pint of Ben and Jerry's over a piece of cake that was about a quarter of what I would have eaten before the diet. We probably each got a week's worth of carbs, but considering we have been on the diet for ten or so weeks (today is day 74!) it was worth it! We didn't even feel gross this morning, which shocked the heck out of me.
I can't say that the pizza made up for the hell I went through earlier in the day. But, it was a darned good pizza and I'm glad we did it. It was pretty sad how excited we both were about eating pizza. It's also pretty sad that the pizza was the highlight of my week if not my month.
I have a few major projects ramping up at work, the largest of which is a "forklift upgrade" of our voicemail system in our main office. That means we'll be replacing the hardware and software - a complete change out. This was set to occur this weekend. We ordered a new, big server for this upgrade. This is a big deal for me - screwing up was not an option.
After two or so weeks of ripping my hair out, nearly quitting my job three or so times (not kidding) we finally seemed to be getting somewhere yesterday. It was a busy day but things were looking good. We (finally!!!) got to unpacking the server.
Almost every computer made these days has a built in Network Interface Card (NIC). Without a NIC, you cannot connect to a network. I didn't even think to wonder if this $12,000 server had a built in NIC. So, when we opened up the box, we saw that the server didn't have a built in NIC, it had a NIC in one of the six PCI expansion card slots. I happened to need all six slots for the cards I would use to connect the phone system to the voicemail system. In short, I was screwed over a $10 NIC card. It's a big mess and my big install is off for the weekend. While I didn't "screw up" I certainly didn't come out of this looking very good. In the four years I have been here, I have only been this close to quitting this job once. If I knew I wouldn't lose everything by quitting, I would be gone. I'm really starting to loathe this job. That sucks, because it's a good job.
Yesterday was also my third wedding anniversary. Steph and I have been planning since August to celebrate our love for each other and our luck on our current weight loss by breaking our diet! We planned to order a pizza. As it turned out, we ordered two pizzas! We are big fans of Papa Murphy's. They have a low carb pizza called deLITE. It's just a very thin crust pizza, but it's really good. Now, their nutritional information is kinda vague, so I have no idea how many carbs we ate. But, we each ate a medium pizza and I'm sure it's more carbs than I'm supposed to have in a day! I had two 20 ounce A&W Root Beers and Steph had a couple of low carb sodas. Then we followed that up with chocolate cake and Ben and Jerry's!
The meal was fantastic! I haven't been that full since I went on Atkins - you forget how much dough expands in the stomach! So, yeah, we binged, but we binged smartly. The pizza was low carb because it was on an ultra thin crust, my soda was full sugar, but no caffeine, we split the pint of Ben and Jerry's over a piece of cake that was about a quarter of what I would have eaten before the diet. We probably each got a week's worth of carbs, but considering we have been on the diet for ten or so weeks (today is day 74!) it was worth it! We didn't even feel gross this morning, which shocked the heck out of me.
I can't say that the pizza made up for the hell I went through earlier in the day. But, it was a darned good pizza and I'm glad we did it. It was pretty sad how excited we both were about eating pizza. It's also pretty sad that the pizza was the highlight of my week if not my month.
posted by Jericho Brown at 10/07/2004 03:25:00 PM
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