Working today

[Jack The Riffer]

Yeah but it helps pass the time til I go home.

[Jack The Riffer]

Looks like no fireworks tonite....It's thundering and all the people from the amphitheater are leaving. Nasty storms are coming in.

[audiophile]

Yup, poor Cary, 10 min prior to start, massive red radar blip shows up
lotsa lightning, hate it for the folx who have been waiting out there for hours.

[Jack The Riffer]

Hell...You should see the parking lot at my building here. It's a massive traffic jam. I'm at the 8000 building right across from Koka Booth.

[audiophile]

LOL. I was sitting on my patio waiting for golf ball sized hail to start, and imagining the 75,000 ppl running. How cruel.
I see they have been postponed until tomorrow night now and will follow the NC Symphony. My best experience was when they were building the hospital up the way, it was nothing more than a skeleton frame and we scaled to the roof using ladders and had best seats (Could see the fairgrounds show as well). Good spot you have there for sure, Cary does put on a pretty big show, spending the big bux.

[Jack The Riffer]

Yeah....It's pretty well cleared out now but seeing everybody scrambling when the rain came in so fast was quite a sight.

I'll be here tomorrow too but we're supposed to get more bad weather.

[Jack The Riffer]

Oh and now we're watching The Bourne Supremacy.

[Newc]

I just loaded a roll of steel into my press and I'm watching it run. Up and down, up and down.

[Jack The Riffer]

Try not to get sea sick watching it, Newc.

[Jack The Riffer]

BTW Newc, your sig is missing something, it should read:

I want to depart this world the same way I arrived; NAKED, screaming and covered in someone else's blood

[UFORocks]

I was / am working today too.

Believe it or not we had a customer that wanted to go live this weekend, no matter what. So I've spent my entire day listening to status calls on the project, troubleshooting backup failures in the new backup environment, and dealing with general infrastructure BS. Plus, my boss asked (told) me yesterday to take on-call for the weekend.

Just when I thought my day was finally over I get a call from our operations center telling me that a domain controller went down, *sigh*, thankfully we have three of them and it can wait until tomorrow, on the flip-side of that I'm going to have to spend time tomorrow troubleshooting it over the phone with the newest member of our team rather than just letting it sit till Monday like I normally would (like I said its not a big deal cause there's two others in the domain).

Despite my displeasure there is one good thing I get out of this. Because I took on-call this weekend and Im working on this project, AND Im on-call the entire week of thanksgiving this year, my boss is gonna let me have two floating holidays whenever I want to use them. So Im going to have a nice LONG two week Christmas break this year, 4 days of which are on the companies dime completely.

Still, its not been my favorite 4th of July Holiday.

-Steve

[Jack The Riffer]

I'm working more overtime today just for the sake of having 3 people here. Doesn't look good for the fireworks show again since we are having a storm now and they are supposed to keep coming throughout the night.

We're watching a Night at the Museum now.

[wilkinsi]

When I'm not taking calls, I'm surfing the net AND watching TV... and even when I am on a call. I prefer weekdays off so I work Sat-Wed fixed.

[Jack The Riffer]

I surf the net and watch TV here but usually there's work to be done to keep us busy. I work for a DRP/Backup Infrastructure company which was bought out by a large computer firm. We alway have the TV on but these last couple of days have been dead due to the holiday.

[SEEGERMANY]

I've had three "call outs," so things have remained interesting.