Some people broke some shit at one of our biggest clients, so work is flying me out to North Carolina for a week to fix it. I have about an hour to kill here in the airport before my first flight. EDIT: I think I just about made my supervisor shit his pants when I called him at 6am and informed him my ticket had been voided. Either that or he called someone and made them shit THEIR pants, because I had a ticket number 10 minutes later.

But what the fuck else is in North Carolina? Greenville, specifically. I’m monitoring weather.com like a hawk to check to see if another hurricane is going to hit, as Greenville is quite close to the ocean.

So I will be a bit out of pocket for a while, especially since Sprint’s email to SMS gateway has been down and I’m not brave enough to try to explain that to a tier 1 representative. There’s wired jacks in the hotel room, though, so I can catch up at night.

I will now continue to amuse myself by watching the retarded guy next to me curse and throw things around. =]

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Posting from work on a) a holiday, b) what should be one of my normal days off, and c) after for some unknown reason (I blame jamba juice’s energy goo) not being able to sleep at ALL. But it’s only the second time I haven’t been able to sleep since I’ve moved, so I’m considerably better off than I was 6 months ago when I never slept properly.

The past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting, though. Through some stroke of luck that I’m still not sure I completely understand, I’ve had the opportunity to design, implement, and now present a new communications system to all the 200ish employees and managers in my department and our sister center in quebec . It’s based entirely on irc, running on a debian box under my desk. Management wanted a way for people to be able to communicate realtime, and thankfully my idea was chosen over some stupid expensive corporate solution.

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I think having to be at work at 5am is starting to get to me. I wore two mismatched shoes to work the other day.

Winnar! \0/