Job Security
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Work
So I’m playin hooky from work today. They have called five times already and it’s just after 11aM. My three-year anniversary raise is coming in two weeks and it better accurately reflect my value to the organization. I’m just sayin! 
Tech Support Blues
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Work
Man, I’m so frustrated I could rip off a grizzly bear’s head and shit on it’s neck right now.
We have an externally hosted website however I still control our DNS zone because I don’t trust them (1AND1.com) to do it. I got an email saying they were moving our site to a new data center this morning. It would be complete by 6AM EST but at no time would the website be down…of course it was…for 8-9 hours. I call to explain that if they’ve moved us to a new IP I need to know what that IP is so I update the zone file. Doofus pings “ourdomain.com” which brings up a different IP than what he’s expecting, but exactly what I’m expecting since ONLY “WWW.ourdomain.com” points to them. Doofus is completely incapable of getting his head around this revelation. He repeats (for 30 minutes, mind you) that I need to contact the person that manages the DNS, which I’ve now told him 754 times is IS ME!
He finally agrees to escalate the call after I demand his name. Who the f*ck names a kid Froilan anyway? Stupidvisor comes on and I say before we get too far into this let me explain something. I’m a Cisco Certified Network Associate. I’m a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. You don’t have to talk to me like I just got an AOL account last night…….CLICK! Mutha fucka hung up on me. I’m gonna have to choke a bitch now! I call back and exercise amazing restraint while preparing to abuse yet another tech doofus. I can call them doofuses because I was them at one point.
My first IT was telephone tech support…a job I talked my way into with absolutely zero experience whatsoever. I already know he’s reading canned workarounds from a database but since our setup is unique it won’t be covered in there. During the time I’m explaining things to Doofus 2 the site magically comes up. Pure coincidence my ass. I know those fuckers realized they forgot to flip the doomathingy switch but were NEVER gonna man up and admit it.
Slacker Century
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Cycling
Sunday I met up with about 30 people from Bikeforums.net for our Slacker Century bike ride. It was 53 miles from Huntington Beach to Oceanside and back so 106 miles total. Here is the actual route online if you want to see it. It was supposed to be a sloooow fun ride but this is Southern California where everybody rides at least 150 miles a week.
I didn’t really hydrate properly or eat enough after the halfway point so I was really dragging toward the end. I finally got a Vitamin Water from a grocery story and wow, that stuff was like crack. I had tons of energy after that. I couldn’t keep up with the fast people but it was still a fun time…good to see the gang again and nice to ride with someone other than myself for a change. The roads n the OC (Orange County for those that don’t watch tv) are much better for cycling so I may head back there once a month for training.
My pics are posted in the gallery. You have to weed thru some earlier pics from a separate trip to Cali Science Center. I didn’t take many during the actual ride because my tongue was dragging most of the way.
Cruel or hilarious…you make the call
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Phun
LOL. Hopefully the lil guy was okay. I wonder if it was the same one every time.
Your Just Desserts
Posted by Dubbayoo | Filed under Amore & Vita
So, the other day a friend of Belle was expressing his extreme disastisfaction with his marriage. Apparently he feels his spouse is not meeting him halfway in making the relationship work. He expressed his disatisfaction by repeatedly using the phrase “I deserve…”. That got me to thinking about my life.
What about all the things I felt I deserved? What about you people out there in Blog Land? What if you could go back in time and get everything you truly deserved? Would you really want to? Think about it very seriously. I mean everything! You don’t get to pick and choose what, when and where.
Sure, maybe you deserved to be first string in high school instead of the coaches son. Maybe you lost out on a job because the other less-qualified person knew somebody with influence. Maybe you think someone isn’t treating you the way you feel you deserve to be treated.
Well, my friend…that coin has two sides. What about the bad things you deserved that didn’t happen to you. That time in 5th grade when you broke a window playing baseball and the kid next door got blamed for it. The time you cheated on your SO and got caught but they believed the lies you told them because they loved you and wanted to believe the best about you. Or the time you drove home from the bar completely shit-faced. You caused an accident that resulted in an innocent person being killed while your drunk ass escaped without a scratch. My parents bought me a car before my sister got one, despite the fact that she was three years older, in college and on her way to medical school (full scholarship, no less). Granted she got a new car instead of used but I still feel guilty about that 20′something years later.
I’m willing to bet that if each and every one of us goes back and does the math on our lives we’ll discover that the things we got away with outweigh the things we missed out on by a large margin. They say the key to happiness isn’t getting what you want…it’s wanting what you get. I’ll take the things I’ve got over the things I didn’t get any day of the week. We should thank God every single day that we haven’t gotten what we deserved. I sure do.
