Ah that time of the week again. The time where I sit at work, bored, and with no work rolling in. I actually don’t mind it cause it gives me a little bit of time to sit back, relax, and get some other work done. As well as try to write some scripts/code to try to make my life a little bit easier. Of course that doesn’t always work exactly as I plan. Never does I guess. But that’s ok. I can deal with that…and if you can’t….well then tuff beans for you.

Tuff beans…thats an interesting combination of words that I came up with…of course it doesn’t really mean anything…so why the heck would I even try to use it? Ok…enough editorializing…..

One of the things that has been fun over the past few months has been learning my new job. I’m loving it more and more on a daily basis and glad that I was given the opportunity to come and work for this company. It doesn’t afford a lot of free time to do coding, etc…but once in a while I get some time, and when I do, I take full advantage of the whole thing. One of the things that I have been working on recently is a little batch script to help automate as many of the daily tasks that I do as I possibly can. The script has already become a big help with one of the most mundane tasks of trying to open citrix ica connections to servers to test out the server to see if I am able to replicate the problem. Ah the wonderful power of text file replacers. Which takes me to my next thing. At my last job(Cornerstone) I was the one known to have the little known/helpful utility to help out when it was needed……and that tradition has continued over to my new job. Which is the funny part….because some of these people have been at this forever it seems like…but you know what…we all have stuff to learn still!

I guess its good that I have, over the past few years, liked working with the command line more and more. One of my new job responsibilities will take me into the Unix environment on a probably fairly regular basis. It takes me into Oracle too much. If someone is reading this randomly on the website because Oracle comes up on the list, please, for the love of all that is good and holy, please, think twice about oracle. It will drive your users batty……..sorry…had to throw that personal opinion in there…its just such a clunky program at times to run.

Well with that said, I guess I can live my life in peace now….right?

I only wish.

Life is crazy, but you know what, I enjoy having a kinda crazy life. It makes life interesting, and it makes life fun. Ah. Yes.

Ok. Well I should probably do something somewhat productive for the last hour or so of work….so until the next update in the continuing saga of snow camp comes out…have fun…and chat with you later!

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