Mostly Alive - TGIF!

So a long week, a day sick in there, which I think I need a LOT more sleep, and a lot less stress. I am trying the juggling act of work and business, and it’s not horrible, but I feel sometimes like I am letting one side or the other down, but then again the sucky part @ work right now is there is literally nothing to do, until they give me money.

The big problem right now is over the last few months I have worked on quotes, new hardware game plans, and a company locally has pitched in to help, a guy I knew from long back works there, and he and I have worked out a fair plan, but the catch is - they are used to spending $79 on consumer grade products - so when someone say oh I don’t know…. Me, lays down a quote for $3000+ it raises and eye brow or two, but I have a battle, one person is for it, 2 against it, 1 unsure, and me playing the waiting game.

On top of everything else I think I am going to have a talk with my direct boss back east. I am tired of the games I am playing lately, of home repair man to the new house fixing Xbox360’s etc. for kids, and when I say kids I mean 18+ it’s just one of those things I didn’t really sign up for in my mind, I thought maybe the ocasional tune up on the bosses “WORK” station @ home, but not the Geeksquad routine to setup stuff that is honestly not business related - so I may be opening a can of worms, but at the same time I just am tired - tired of being pulled 30 ways, being hired for one thing, and disrespected when my judgement on hardware is questioned by someone who has been using Netscape 7.2 for years now. Yeah.

I dunno, venting aside, I do like the job, most of the time it’s mellow, granted my office is a heat trap, and I may die in there tomorrow (was 115F today!) but fun people, good crew, just wish I could truly do my job, have a budget, and get things setup and working smoother, more efficient, and all this consumer grade stuff meant for 5-10 users out of the network map.

In other news - comments are back, trying out Disqus, looks like it could be fun, give it a look, who knows! May be worth while and handle spam much better, but time will tell.

Anywhoo - that’s my rant, it’s friday now, so I am hoping a relaxing day is ahead, and looking forward to some fun things I’ll blog about later that are happening this weekend. So I will say good night folks, thanks for the prayers for my health, still not 100% - but if I can eliminate some of this stress, and get the weather cooled down, I may be right as rain Night.