Meme? Yep

After four really long days and one huge water main break that may make me wake up early if water isn't ok at work - I'm finally going to get to this Meme that Image Goddess tagged me with a while ago.

The Four Things Meme

Four Jobs I Have Had In My Life:
A Michael's Arts and Crafts Sales Associate (twice - once during undergrad and again when the school loans hit the mailbox!)
Van Driver for a disabilities organization
Toys R Us Cashier (during the Pokemon craze!)
Jack-of-All-Tech-Trades (that's the current one)

Four Places I Have Lived:
Pittsburgh
My Aunt's House in Pittsburgh
My Godparents House just outside of Pittsburgh
Work

Four of my favorite foods:
Sausage
Salsa
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream
Doritos

Four Places I’d rather be right now:
Walt Disney World
New Orleans
Disney Cruise Line
Toronto

Four movies I can watch over and over:
While You Were Sleeping
Shawshenk Redemption
Any of the three Pirates movies
A Knight's Tale

Four TV shows I like to watch:
Las Vegas
Ugly Betty
Kyle XY
Clean House

Four websites I visit daily:
YouTube
Microsoft
Post Gazette
My work's webpage (it opens up automatically)

Four early musical influences:
Nelson
Madonna
New Kids on the Block
Annie, the musical

Four Computers I’ve Owned:
NEC desktop
Dell Desktop
laptop given to me from geeka
multiple and always changing selection from work now

So, I was guessing that I'm supposed to tag four people - how about two? Sorry, geeka. And, since I gave the whole outline of how I know geeka and Image Goddess - Steamed Puddings you are tagged.

When it rains - it pours

We've had water main breaks at work before. Usually it's not too bad.
Well, follow the link below for what I have had going on at work today.

It isn't bad enough that I have enough work to work the entire Holiday
Weekend -- but now, I can't get out of my building!

"More Raw Footage From Oakland Water Main Break - Video - WTAE
Pittsburgh" The link:
www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/14013767/index.html?taf=pit

The water has sort of stopped now, but now there are huge chunks of road
broken off and all of the roads here are blocked. We have no way out!

Signs that your "Backup Person" shouldn't be your backup

I have a person who is supposed to be my backup person to network issues. She is supposed to step up and help me when things are not easy and when I can’t just simply do enough things to get things done. It’s actually a joke. It’s a big joke. Really, she doesn’t qualify has help. She doesn’t qualify as backup either. Here are just some ways that you can spot if someone shouldn’t be your backup:

 

1. They need directions with pictures on how to empty out the internet cache.
2. They need directions on how to hit the button that says “CLOSE” on a pop up box.
3. They write emails bashing the technical help desk and send it to the technician that they absolutely bash to pieces in the email and forget to send it to you.
4. They call helpdesk to have them reboot a server because they are afraid (even after they were given one-on-one training by a big-wig Microsoft trainer who knows the network personally).
5. They always offer to help but suddenly are “going to be late” on that day.
6. They don’t respond to important emails
7. They forget how to install printers.
8. They forget how to turn a computer off.
9. They forget that we have updates running automatically at night.
10. They forget to tell you when they have changed toner out so you don’t run out of toner.
11. They bitch about you behind your back.
12. They mess up changing a user’s password.
13. They tell people to go to them first with any problems.
14. They can’t install regular printers, but they can manage to install the color printer for their friends.
15. They install game software without seeing what they were installing.
16. They gave someone the secondary administrator password to a regular user who said they knew what they were doing.

 

 

Ways to Update My Resume

So, my wonderful CEO decided since I have a Masters in Social Work, I need to apply to be a Field Instructor. It’s a non-paid thing and it has an application a mile long. The hardest part is that I have to include a resume. I haven’t updated my resume in ages. But then, there hasn’t been much to update.

 

I can update my job title as here was my progression: Development Associate, Community & Technology Facilitator, Community & Technology Coordinator, and now Technology Coordinator. Wow, how exciting is that!

 

But then, I have to write what I do. So I guess I have to find a way to promote myself as being the technology slave in good terms that sound professional. I guess installing toner for the idiots who don’t know how to install it will be: Performing maintainence and upgrades to hardware. Then, when I have to clean the toner out of printers because someone has managed to break the toner that will be: Creatively enhances usability of hardware.

However, this is already getting boring to me. The easiest way to describe what I do is as slave.

Which leads me to the other gripe of the morning – and it has to do with the damn stress management class I have to go to. In class yesterday, she told us that we choice be pessimists and optimists and that we can control everything. However, I would say, when you entire job is to handle everyone’s problems and their pessimistic issues. I don’t get to hear “Oh this is working so well”. No, I only here “this doesn’t work” and “this never works” and “you never can get this to work right” and “you broke it again” and “you didn’t do this for me”. Yeah, I can really turn those kinds of things around. I wanted to tell this woman it’s a two way street – that if you get shit in, you are going to give shit out. That’s reality. That’s life. There is no way to make shit into floral potpourri!

I Should Be Working - Instead, I'll Blog

Since I haven't blogged a lot of late, I'm going to try to get back on track. It took Image Goddess to get me back on track, although I was reading hers and Geeka's blog almost every day. It was also knowing that someone else was reading my blog. It was a big shock to go to Steamed Puddings to find out that I was even mentioned. So, before you continue on, you might want to read how I was mentioned on Steamed Puddings first... because I'm going to answer how I am actually attached to Image Goddess and Geeka - so if there are more of you out there reading, you know the story.

Of course, we protect our identities. This isn't because we are scared (ok, well, we are sort of scared and if it gets known, our honesty might just drop off and then we would be boring). If I didn't protect my identity, I couldn't possibly talk about my boss the Pocket Gay or complain about my co-working Texxxxx-aas (think of it of how William Shatner says it in Ms. Congeniality).

Ok, back to how the trio of us know each other. Truth is, I've known Geeka since middle school. Yep - we were in chorus together in middle school and we are still friends now. All through middle school, high school, college, and multiple years of post-college education. But I must admit now, I am no longer an academic-minded person. I got my masters in social work (yeah, it makes no sense now...) and I got out into the workforce, working a technology-based job for a nonprofit that likes to give us a salary in peanuts. Through all of those years, Geeka has been there for trips to New Orleans, watching my dog, and all other crazy sorts of things. It has only been the last few years that she moved so close to me that we shout things to each other practically every other day.

It was from Geeka that I met Image Goddess. It was sort of a friend-of-a-friend thing until we had someone else in common - the same odd-Canadian PT guy when we were both hurt and partially cripple. One day, I was there, doing leg lifts for a bad right knee and I looked across the room and this girl looked like someone that I knew. I think we both had that thought, but it was Image Goddess who asked the odd-Canadian PT guy if it was me and then we got to spend a lot of time together in PT. (Between the two of us, I think we have a whole good body and a whole bad body). Image Goddess was there when I practically tried to shove the odd-Canadian PT guy's head in my crutches when he wouldn't let me off of them - and this was for when my LEFT knee went bad while fixing the right knee.

So, maybe I have answered some questions of how three of us know each other. Even though I may be sarcastic here, I'm even more sarcastic in real life - something that I am trying to fix - but that is a blog for another day.

So it ain't so ---

Your Score: Angelic

You scored 70 on cruelty!

Is that a halo above your head? Your cruelness is basically non-existant

Link: The Cruelty Test written by legend1979 on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Something has to be wrong on this test. This can't be right? I'm known as the techie bitch or or the bitch techie -- there is no way that I am angelic. Hell, I strive to be known as a witch and I made a personalized ring tone at work for my phone if the Wicked Witch saying I'll get you my pretty... and your little dog too!

Take the test... and find out how wrong it is!

Reaching a Goal

I've been so quiet of late and there are lots of things going on. There are things that I'm not sure that I'm ever going to post about and then there are other things. But then there is my goal that I finally reached. I've been doign Weight Watchers on and off for three years. We really started it three years ago at work and then they would quit at work. I didn't gain all the weight back, but I didn't really lose any more until it started back up at work. This past fall - enough was enough... I joined up outside of work - which was good because the work group this year was just awful, but that is another story. I thought I would be excited when I lost a total of 50 pounds. It was great and exciting, but it didn't seem as big as this goal. You know those scales at doctor's offices... you have that big weight at the bottom. It has been on a number that I hated so much - and it has been there forever. I know now the next time I go, it has to move down to a smaller number. Now that seems more exciting than a fifty pound total.