Lately it just seems there is not enough time in the day. I get side tracked, phone called, spammed, heck even at work I have different department heads asking for different things, and I have a pile of my own personal business to catch up and get active.
Just seems to be my norm now, I really just want 2 days of sleep, lol a guy can dream can’t he? Still waiting to hear back from the nice folks @ Newegg, going on 4 days with no word back on a laptop, and a co-worker getting anxious as he is out a pile of cash and has no laptop to show for it, so going to give a ring tomorrow if the status isn’t updapted tomorrow.
For now though, I am going to call it a night. I hope tomorrow will be a bit more level, I can hopefully get some things done on various projects (got DBF -> MySQL.. so that’s a good thing) but lots of work yet to be done, if all works as planned, I can skip toying with Visaul Fox Pro and write a bash script to nightly re-generate MySQL tables and have some simple PHP handle generation of scripts and get folks a web interface they can easily use to generate reports instead of calls to me for various things.
Anywhoo - Night all, keep me in your prayers, busy busy, tired tired, sleepy sleepy. 
Well I certainly hope not. The massive e-tailer is one I have used for years, great pricing, speedy shipping (specially when shipped from California) - it’s one of my favorite places to shop, heck even just picked up a 35mm lens for the E500, which should be delivered today, 4 days ahead of schedule.
But the problem at hand is a laptop - one that I purchased for a co-worker here at the office, he doesn’t have a credit card, so asked if he gave me the cash, if I’d grab the system, so I did. However it had issues, the screen would flicker the blacklight on and off, it had to be tilted 120 degrees back to even stay on, so we opened a RMA, packed it up, and sent it off just like they requested with RMA barcodes on board.
Now however over a week later, status is still at step 1. FedEx reports that “JWONG” signed for the package at the RMA site, and it was delivered 1 day after it shipped (July7 shipped out, Arrived the 8th) the site notes it can be 2-3 days, which is today, but even after a chat with live chat support, they were going to find it and at least check it in for me to give me some peace of mind. No such luck.
Never had these sorts of problems, but I guess it happens, just hoping this Egg with all it’s massive growth, expansion, etc. isn’t letting down their standards. It’s a one shot thing, and day three is today, so I am hoping it is updated soon, new laptop it shipped out and next week my co-worker is happy once again.
[UPDATE]:
Thank you for shopping at NewEgg.com.
RMA# XXXXXXX was successfully delivered to our warehouse on 7/11/2008. This is simply a confirmation of delivery email; an additional notification indicating all of the contents we have received will be sent to your email address once we open the RMA’d package.
Type of RMA: RMA Repair
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Please allow an additional 2-3 business days for your RMA to process.
Due to item availability, some repair RMAs may be delayed and/or changed to refund.
Thank you,
Newegg.com
So a step in the right direction… just hope they can review, and send off a new one, and that come Monday everyone will be happy.
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.
Well stayed home from work today, slept a lot - had a meeting in the afternoon, it was canceled for the second day in a row - which was probably for the best, but for now I am hoping that I stop feeling like crap before morning - the headache alone is horrible.
Things have been busy though, thats why my mom is now convinced that my sickness is from stress, heck she could be right - that and the heat are two things lately which have been in abudance, heck in most of btown it’s still +90F and slowly coming down - which means sleep will happen soon.
Anywhoo - just checking in, lots to do this week, meeting tomorrow at lunch possibly, but I may need to cancel and head downtown, not 100% sure yet, just need to turn in my Traffic School cert, but time will tell - in the mean time, I’ll say “Good Night!” to all, and more blog to come.
So the tacobell boycott has ended. After a year and a half, and being tired of junk from the other fast food places nearby I gave in and had my classic, 3 Taco Supremes and a Mountain Dew, thus far I am still alive, but time will tell if this was a momentary lapse in judgement or a time for a change 
Things are going fair, wouldn’t say perfect, but I plan to be doing some more cleaning this evening, have to do some more laundry here shortly - but the taco bell issue had to be blogged about, and now I will go, off to a magical world of laundry!
