fuck fridays

this may not be a popular sentiment for most people out there, but for some reason that i have yet to understand, once 330pm rolls around, my friday's goto shit. it's not a gradual "let's fuck with molius to see how long it takes to make him go nuts".

it's a sudden impact, blink and you miss, instantaneous, immediate smack you upside the head, immediate everything that can fuck up fucks up and beats me over the head with a bloody lower leg style fuck with me thing.

i don't mind the gradual thing because i'm usually clever enuff to figure it out and realize where i'm heading. but fridays for some gods forsaken reason the last few weeks have been nothing short of brutal.

i don't know why, nor can i figure out the how, but today i was ready to kill. i was updating the training laptops. no problem. i had to integrate a few of the loaners i had pulled from training. ok, fine.

well, one of them has been signed out for nearly a month. these are you use them for a day, maybe (MAYBE) two days. but a month? that fucking bitch. i even asked trainwreck about it, and she didn't know why she had it for so long. we'll see if i can an answer by monday. so i had to find 2 replacements. ok, did that. 1 needed some minor additional updating. fine. the other i had forgotten was acting a little flakey. move the mouse over a button and it would skirt away. ok, plug my mouse into it and that works, so i decide to reimage it. no problem, 15 mins later and it's all set. start the rebuild process and then that starts to fuck up.

meanwhile, i'm trying to replace a phone for a user, see why all of a sudden a portion of the users phones showed 'no service' (which prompted a page to the IS pager, not the phone pager). all that i did was unplug HP's phone and program a new one. so of course everyone shits in their pants, which in turn makes me wonder what the fuck is going on.

fortunately, and i think it was the only thing going for me this afternoon, it seemed to resolve itself, but it still didn't help things much.

so at that moment in time, i'm trying to deal with updating laptops, imaging a laptop, replacing a phone, seeing if i can figure out why the phones dumped, try and talk to LP about the problem that she and KM seem to have discovered (dropping calls, system dumping calls, etc) so all of this is happening at the same time. between 4pm and 550pm, i couldn't even tell you what else i did. i'm actually suprised i remembered this much. around 545 i tried to take a few moments to forget things and browse the web for a few mins, but it wasn't long before i realized that i still had a few things left and it was around this time i wanted to really start throwing things. when i finally got out of the office at 630, the 10th laptop needed for monday was not usable, so i had to leave VM for KS to let her know that she was going to have to use 9 for the morning as i was at wits end. (the laptop nearly took a lesson in physics, that object in motion stays in motion unless some force acts upon it thing)

so, at 630 i left (stormed) out of the office and as i got in the car, my phone popped off my belt and i had to stop myself from throwing the phone across the parking lot. TK has seen a few people do that when the come out of the nextel service office in our building. fortunately, the drive home wasn't bad, but i had to slow myself down a few times.

right now, i can feel the frustration inside me. earlier, i nearly threw a box of popcicles around when i couldn't find the flavor i wanted. fortunately i paused and have now labeled them all so i know what flavor i'm grabbing. i'm sure i'll be fine in a little while, but for the moment, it's hard to focus on calming down.

i guess the only good thing is that i don't have to try and think about work for a while. i did forget to mount the tapes for the backup tonight, but after a few mins, i was able to get it done. i think i screwed up yesterday's backup by forgetting to do that. at least i remembered tonight. i meant to do it, but the tape drive takes its time doing the inventory, so it's easy to forget.

i want another popcicle.