My day (part III)

02:15pmI get a call from the Director of Classified Personnel to come down to her office. I don’t care how perfect you are, a call like that brings back memories of going to the principal’s office in second grade! I am thinking okay, what did I do now? I get there and Gloria, from another pod, is sitting there, too. I service both of their home iMacs; this was a technical consultation!

After about 15 minutes in Jill’s office, I go back up to Gloria’s office, and show her how to access her Earthlink email over the Internet. She also asks me about a scanner and hub she would like to buy.

When I return to my desk, there’s a copy of a memo from the Superintendent (bonus: guess what kind of firm I work for) talking about company Internet use policy. It refers to a Regulation number, so I spend the next 15 minutes with the secretary for the Super, discussing if I should post that Regulation on our web site. The answer is yes, and after finding the right version of the right document, I have returned to my desk after a hiatus of almost an hour.

Things are seldom boring around here.

Except drawing these people…

03:16pmInternet use is increasing here around the end of the day, and I am getting to much dropout on the Ambient channel. So I am switching to “The X”. I usually get less congestion with it.

03:25pmJust got an email that a technologist at another building will be leaving her position. I am happy for her moving up and on, but I will miss knowing her. I sent a reply asking her to pick a day for us to do lunch or something.

Someday, I will be sending out that kind of an e-mail. *sigh, slow smile*

03:48pmSanity break. I find our receptionist Linda laughing about getting new FedExShip software, but not having a CD-ROM on her machine to install it with. I borrow her CD and copy the software from my machine through the network to hers. I hope it installs.

04:45pmI spent most of the time until 4:30 helping Linda get the software installed. It turns out that the software will need a proxy to get through our firewall, so I will need to call I.T. tomorrow and get that going.

The last 15 minutes I spent helping out and talking with an old friend of the family. Randy was one of my older brother’s friends. He works in a different building, and just stopped by to check out some t-shirts we are selling. So we chatted for a few; I gave him my brothers’s email address, and so on.

Now I am shutting down my machine, drinking the rest of my tea and pop and water, and gathering things to leave. I also need to plan my evening… Drama at 7pm. Its cool and grey out right now. Better stay indoors. I need to get gas. Thus need to get cash. I will get dinner at the grocery store on my way to drama practice. So, bank, gas, home – relax, change, clean some – 6:30 store, church, then home to clean somemore. May go to my other office, and do some computer time. Need to play StarCraft and keep my account active (bonus: guess my StarCraft handle) May get a movie instead. Watch it while cleaning.

Continued….