Bah, I really need to start updating more often.
I now pledge to update at least once a day, starting…..now, which just happens to be 12:05am, so I’m set.

Today (well, yesterday) I came in to work and found that Chris wasn’t there, so I logged on and proceeded to work on my xp loaded project (In a nutshell, my job is doing build-outs of computers for employees, there is a standard install I do and then i add on additional software, so I’ve been working on bundling the standard install into the XP disc) while i waited for him to arrive.
After a bit I got bored and decided to remote to my computer, discovered that it wasn’t online, so i ssh’d into my mini-server and attempted to send a WOL to it (but I had reset the cmos earlier, so it wasn’t enabled ), and then I got a phone call! And this doesn’t occur very often, since nobody knows my extension (not even the receptionist :/)
Turned out it was Chris, he was sick (He went camping over the weekend, and the guy he went with was sick, so he got infected) so he would be working from home. He asked me to setup an employees desk for him, and configure the employees laptop to be ready for him.
I ran off and did that, at this point i figured i should do some actual work, so i decided to work on the clone boxes (a fancy name for the 7 identical computers in S&R). I grabbed one, set it up (took several hours) and then proceeded to ghost another one.
I ended up getting all seven done by the end of the day, and this was supposed to take me about a week to do.
Without Chris there to give me random tasks to do, I guess I sped through everything. On a sidenote, Micheal (my boss), apparently goofed up an idrs server I setup a couple weeks ago, so i have to reinstall the os to it tomorrow, so i guess that’s something for me to do!

This marks week number 2 on the job (I started on a friday, so that week doesn’t count) and so far so good, I haven’t gotten to do any *nix boxes yet, which makes me sad, windows isn’t any fun (although the xp loaded project gives me endless hours of fun! </sarcasm>).

My brother was up here this last weekend, haven’t seen him in like a year and a half, so it was good to see him. But as usual, we pretty much sat around and surfed the web, but it was still cool (I let him drive my car, and give me some tips on shifting). He’s a fun brother, it seems like he’s matured a lot in college, and I’ve become less of an annoyance to him (at least I hope so). He’s also thinking of moving to the west side from St. Louis, so there’s a good chance I’ll be able to see him more often!

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