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I'm sitting here waiting for the bus. This bus, the 24 (for those of you familiar with Miami transit) seems to not be running on schedule.
I got this nifty keyring from ExxonMobil about two weeks ago, but never put it to use. This morning, I simplified my life by simplifying my keyring. We'll see how this changes things.
It's only going to be about 66 degrees here, and I'm afraid it's the last of the cold weather unless
One of my teammates decided yesterday that he was going to meet with our AVP. Unfortunately, he left and wasn't back in time for my other staff to leave at 5:30pm. So, I got called out of class to deal with the situation. I missed 3/4 of the seminar. Hopefully, I can get a recording from a classmate. We'll see…
It looks like I'll be going to the HEUG meeting in Lag Vegas in two weeks. This will be my first conference through FIU. It should be pretty cool. At the very least it will allow me some strong networking potential. HEUG is a user group set up to bring together PeopleSoft users from all over the country. This year's is at the MGM Grand. It should be fantabulous.
Our admissions office finally got my app for grad school correct. Now all I have to do is make sure my recommendations are in, and then it's just sit and wait.
Let's see, what else can I write about while I'm waiting to get to school in this communal stretch limo…
Gas prices. WTF, mate. Regular is $2.20 now where I live. What pisses me off about this is how quickly prices rise and how slowly they fall. If this was purely economics at work, wouldn't they fluctuate in the same fashion up or down? It's NVTS, nuts!
Okay, time for me to submit this and get ready to hoof it the rest of the way.
So, they did an upgrade to the Storage Area Network where I work, over the weekend… and they weren't able to complete the job in time for start of business today. So, e-mail is down in most areas of the company, and my group is taking a severe hit in terms of the number of calls they're receiving.
So to stem the flow of calls, someone decided that they should send out a mass voice mail to all phones (5,000+ subscribers) informing them of the e-mail outage. Only this system wide message slows down the voice mail system, and causes an increase in calls in my area anyhow. Not to mention that the system wide voice mail didn't function as it should, and now most subscribers got a blank message after being told they were receiving a 20-second emergency message.
It's Monday… definitely.
About six weeks ago, my wife and I bought tickets to this hideously expensive “Day Out With Thomas” thing that was held at the Goldcoast Railroad Museum. Okay, okay… they were only $16 a piece… and it was worth it to experience Donovan's look of intrigue as he made the connection as we were walking in that we were at a train museum, that Thomas was a train, and that he might, just might… get a chance to ride a real train.
This museum is an awesome place… all sorts of old, heritage train equipment, much of it in workable, boardable, usable condition. If you are in Miami, I highly suggest it.
My friends, I know… it has been a long, long time since I have graced these pages with words… Regretfully, I have been too busy offending hordes (okay maybe two or three) of people, and also applying to graduate school, and trying to run an effective department, and it has taken its toll on me. I had to grab slack from somewhere, and my posting on LJ was where I found the excess time to do my other activities. So, here goes for the megapost:
Gaylord Focker
Yes, he's a character from Meet the Parents. He also was a character in a skit that my team put together to host in front of a meeting of about 250 people. The skit was about a typical day in the life of our Support Center. Mr. Focker's character in this skit (played by me) was basically an idiot customer who could not articulate any basic information to the representative. Aside from the name, he also asked the representative, Mr. Anderson, for his number at the end of the call. The skit was a hoot and went over pretty well with most of the people in attendance. Then as I was cleaning up the equipment from the skit, a member of the university community approached me and complained that I had incensed the gay contingent that works in our department. Not completely dumbfounded, I didn't quite know how to respond to her, especially since she personalized the complaint at the end, and made it a personal complaint to me from her. I doubt I'll hear more on it… Perhaps I'll be more cognizant of the fact that I may piss people off in the future - but I doubt I'll refrain from pushing the boundaries.
Grad School
I've made formal application to Florida International University, to attend grad school in the Department of International Relations. Hopefully I'll be accepted, and be able to come out with a Ph. D. 
The process to apply was hell. Two apps, a system that wouldn't cooperate, papers up the wazoo, and an entrance exam (the GRE). Oh, and the coup de grace? Employees in the Grad Admissions department who couldn't figure out what happened to my electronic application, and kept telling me only to check the system every 24 hours, only to have my app show up 3 weeks later. It was the system's fault though, right?
Ah well…
Life is fun.
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