Updated a couple things on the site here:
My resume link now actually links to ... my resume! I have to say, Word does the most godawfull HTML that I have seen come out of a program since... I dunno ... Frontpage 95!

Updated the archives on the right to actually *look* like the rest of the site. There appears to be a problem with the javascript menus tho -- at least in IE. It works great in Netscape! heh.

Thanks to everyone for posting comments. You all are correct!! We'll just see where it goes from here I suppose.

--B--

Welp... I dunno what to do anymore.
I keep telling myself just "put up with it for a bit longer -- it'll get better" and then something goes on that makes me question myself.

So I came up with a great plan that will allow us to better utlize our hardware. Allowing us to have two active sql servers instead of just one with a hot standby. Only this would require reloading not one or two but three servers. Not a trivial task and not something that can be done during business hours.

Soooo I come up with a plan. Oh -- and we want to do it this month. Well, I offer, in my plan, to work over a weekend as long as I can get two days off the following week. Only seems fair right?

So I get a reply that reads:
"...
And Brent, as described before, we don't have a policy of providing comp time at LTI - salaried professional employees work to get the job done no matter how long it takes.

Let me know what you all decide so we can communicate the schedule today.

Thanks."

And then another one that reads:
"Time parameters....

Saturday:

Noon to Midnight PST

??? We must indicate the exact times the system will be offline. And we really should do this really off hours not at noon but I'll acquiesce on this one."

Now -- lets go down the ticker list:
first off, it is off hours for our customers if it happens over a weekend.

Second off: In my original email I outlined the fact that items beyond my control would require the system being down the *entire* weekend.

Third off: As a salaried employee it is quite obviously up to me to control the fact that if I let them, LTI management would drain me dry. It sure can't be held against me if they (management -- ALL of them) have let it happen to themselves.

Since nobody there seems to stick up for me, the guy who seems to be doing 10 peoples jobs, it is now up to me to do so. What does this mean? I think suddenly the rest of my weekends this month just filled up. I don't think I'll be able to do that SQL job after all.

So I honestly have no clue what to do for the long term. What to do ... what to do?? All I know is that it's getting harder and harder to stick it out. To grin and bear it. To turn the other cheek. Something's got to give and I'm sick to death of it being me. Honestly sick to fucking death of it.

Apologies to Missy if I've been moody. And with my finger killing every time I bend it climbing isn't looking like a good outlet for at least a couple of days. I guess I'll just keep plowing onwards and keep looking elsewhere. It really makes me wonder if I'm in the right business tho. While it pays well I've been through two jobs that both have started out decently and then just sucked major ass.

Thats it from my neck of the woods.
--B--

*sigh*
Thats how my day has gone.
*sigh*

It started out decent enuf. Took Michael back his bike that Richard had borrowed for when he was out here. Ran some other errands. Picked up a frmae for a poster...
Got back with time to put the poster in the frame and go climbing before sushi time for dinner.

Thats when disaster struck.

I was putting the glass back into the frame when I heard a sharp crack and the glass shattered in my hands. I didn't feel a thing but looked my hands over and sure enuf, blood was oozing up from my left hand's middle finger. Got it i under some water and it was still bleading pretty bad.

Missy had me wrap it up while she called a friend who is doing her internship to be a doctor. Missy's friend, Cary(?) gave the news -- it's off to the emergency room we go.

So we washed it off again, applied another damp paper towel and headed off to Sutter Hospital. Now I knew better then to expect fast service -- and I undertsnad that emergency rooms are for that -- and the dr's have to take the more severe patients first. But my god! We were there an hour before we got a room. Another hour before the doctor came around to give me stiches. Now I doubt any of this was anybody's fault in particular but still -- my god!!

Four stiches later I'm look at one week of no climibng with my left hand. Two weeks of light climbing, and then probably another two weeks to get back up to where I was climbing at.

Oh well -- life goes on. This way I'll be able to climb easier climbs and concentrate on my feet! It'll just be a bit more challenging -- thats all. Two points of contact on the wall instead of the more comfortable three.

I'm going to be heading down to SB at some point this month. Not quite sure when. Probably try and hammer out the details early this week. Gotta get myself a suit and stuff.

Oh well -- guess thats about it for now.
--Me--
*sigh*