Finally, Friday
Posted on 22 May, 2009
Finally! It’s Friday again. Last day of school for PSD. Last day to deal with students. First day of real work. First day of a long, three-day weekend. I get paid next week. This will be a great end to a good month.
Yesterday was dog and pony. Ro showed around a guy from Gulf LNG, part of the El Paso pipeline group. They’re building a new LNG facility in Pascagoula and the regional director visited to see what they could do for us. He was a really nice man.
Right after showing him around, I headed over to the ATC to talk with the representatives from Northrop Grumman about the BEST videos. We talked about what they wanted and decided to show them our facilities. It was a lot less high-brow and a lot more “wow”. The ladies were impressed and left with more ideas than they came with.
All this was during lunch, so I didn’t have lunch until later that day.
Today was moving tons and tons of equipment out of the server room and into the hall. While it may not have been much, the tons and tons comes from the lead-acid batteries inside each UPS. 4 modules in the APC branded ones and 2 modules inside the TrippLite. Heavy. That and the AS/400 that recently retired.
In other news – I’ve added another photo to More Than The Camera. It is called “WASD”. In my job, and many other jobs, and many jobs in the future, the keyboard will become the main mode of productivity (other than the mouse). This device is so versatile, however, that it is not limited to just work. The keyboard is equally as important in play as it is in work. This simple device, once a mechanical set of buttons on a typewriter (which I have two – both mechanical and electromechanical), is now a well polished set of keys that send electrical impulses to a device.
