This is WildBlueMekaLizard's blog Est. April 16, 2004
WARNING: You're about to get "knee-deep" in it! I'm a moody shit but I aim to please so if I make you smile a little or even laugh, my work is done. Enjoy!
This blog is based on actual events. Some names and locations have been changed to protect the guilty from identification and to protect the author from litigation.
Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to announce that due to some self therapy I am doing fine just fine.
It sounds selfish, but I've been tuned into my own station for a while now, my REAL station, not that station that I thought I needed to play to be accepted. The station I played loud and proud before I felt threatened....and as it turns out..they LIKE my station. In fact I've been told that it's nice to hear me laugh again (at work).
I'm done analyzing everything but despite that, it's been a long week.
Work is it's own thing, one day it kicks my ass the next day I'm bored as fuck. My supervisors would like to find some kind of formula to know how many hours I'm a Network Administrator vs how many hours I'm client support, but it doesn't work that way... people's needs are what they are. If it's a system, one of our staff or a client, I can't measure that, sometimes our people are needy as hell, sometimes it's the clients, sometimes it's a system, sometimes it's all of them (and those days suck!!).
A while ago my supervisor suggested that Net Admins have alot of "downtime" which is true, so I agreed. Equate a Network Admin to a firefighter. If there's no fires, it's pretty slow, when there are three fires it's hectic as hell, it evens itself out. A Network Admin AND a firefighter is out there checking up on systems, looking for problems trying to PREVENT fires, and that is as much of the job as putting out the fires that happen. A Network Admin's job is to foresee problems and address them before they occur. As a firefighter, there's no planning for a child playing with matches and THAT is what most of our problems are. I failed to mention that while the fires are few, I'm still fighting. On top of that, there are a lot of things on the "wish list" and the "to do list" and a RESPONSIBLE Net Admin is never inactive. When I said some of my days are boring, the boring days are not spent surfing the web, but rather teaching people things they should already know or "fixing" problems that are caused by people not being able to follow instruction (children with matches). Boring.
I'm sure that's how I was offered the Customer Tech Support role, because some thought I wasn't busy enough to be payed for 40 hours of work, which was wrong. In hindsight I should have turned it down, but being the "go along girl" that I am, I accepted it. My bad.
Anyway, this wasn't supposed to be about work, but rather how my beloved treats me.
The work week came and went...Wednesday was the first (murder free) Trick of Treat out here at our new home. We set the outdoor fireplace in the driveway and had a nice fire and a little beers and wine while we gave the candy, a nice night. The following night was one of the work outings that I plan so it was about 10:00 before we were home. By the time Friday had come I'd had enough of work, I was tired, and not so much about the work but rather dealing with a particular personality. When I got home I told Mav that I was just worn out on shit, I was gonna submerge. I had some web design work to do so I hopped onto it and Mav told me he wanted to listen to music but he'd keep it light so I could relax.
Well, let's just say that Mav played every song RIGHT! They were alll about having fun and loving each other and our home is our castle and no one can get us here and after looking at him lovingly for playing that song and knowing I needed to hear the one before it I was all....
...because I was turned onto the fact that the man knows me so well. So I took a break from webdesign and MAN was I relaxed when I came back!
Saturday we were up at 8:00 (grrr) to go to a tiling class. It went well, learned some stuff. We left that store and went to another that is known for lower prices. I fell in love with a tile but they didnt have enough supply to fill our need. Shit. I was semi irritated because we could have gone home but I was supposed to do something nearby and based on the timing it looked like I would have to go home and then come out again an hour later. I HATE chasing around and wasting gas. We had lunch then went home and I started working on another web design thing....the lingering inconvenience high on my mind. About 4 hours after the call I was expecting was over due, I started to relax again. I took a break for the rest of the day...no work, no web design. What some call a weekend... it was nice. Nice except that my sister came over late and I was fucking tired from being up earlier than usual and so I was a boring, semi ornery shit the while time she was here. I wished I had the energy to be more inviting but I finally quit trying and said I was going to bed...I never do that.
* Snart, remember what I told you about being tired??? Shit, I gotta find time to see a doctor.
Today was the Daylight Savings time so I thought I'd be up at like 8:15 but rather I was up at 9:30 (10:30 the day before). I had a lot of work to do so I got right to it and tonight I am VERY satisified with what I've done. Basically no one is waiting for me for nothing and that's the way I like it. I'm caught up. Balls in their courts....
....AND I'm off tomorrow so I may even be able to help out on the remodeling project! Yeah!
To celebrate....
Here's something fun and revealing:
TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A WILDBLUEMEKALIZARD:
Some people find it hard to believe that I feel that I'm a shy person. These are usually the people who I feel really comfortable with and then I have to explain that I mean that I'm shy wth "them", not "us"!!
I used to have a big problem dancing in clubs, not DANCING, just dancing in front of them. But I eventuallty got over it and I'd freestyle all over the place....UNTIL the electric slide came on, I didn't know how to do it. Everyone knows the electric slide song...don't they? If you don't....this is the song....and WHAT ROCK ARE YOU UNDER???
Anyway...week after week I'd watch them dance the electric slide...I knew it in my head but I could never get out there and try it and I was pretty convinced I'd never learn it, I mean I couldn't practice...this was before the internet offered you the opportunity to listen to any song you wanted...
..but then I noticed that right after the electric slide the DJ played this one...and people kept doing the slide...
...and I had that song in my collection.... and then the DJ played another song....and they kept electric sliding...
...and I had that song in my collection.
So one night I went home and decided to TRY the electric slide in front of the mirror, alone in my bedroom to Hold On and the Atomic Dog. Don't know you know I rocked that motherfucker so hard that I couldn't stop? I was sweating, playing the same songs ten times over, getting funkier everytime! I was dancing so hard in that room that night that I bounced a 12 inch TV right off the top of a five foot chest of drawers and it died that night, but what was born was the NOT SHY electric slider!
They say once you learn how to ride a bike you'll never forget. My dancing in clubs days have come and gone. I'll still dance in a club if the mood strikes me, but here's a secret: When the electric slide comes on and you feel like you have to drag me out there....it's just a show. I always want to be out there and I don't think I'll ever get over that! Look for a headline in the future: "85 year old woman busts the electric slide" and that will be me.
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