I knew there was a reason New Yorkers are cranky!
New York Minute has now officially been eclipsed by New York Coffee. Make mine extra dark.
Focus is for weenies
And by that title I mean, I wish I was a better weenie. Why? Good question, allow me to answer. As all are no doubt aware, man has to work. This is not disputed. Oh, man doesn't want to work, but man has to and so it goes. Now, I still love my job. It's an awesome job. I work with lots of cool people and I get to do some pretty cool stuff, but that having been said, I still get a little worn out on occasion and I do sometimes have trouble focusing in on what I actually need to be getting done. This would be considered unfortunate. Having said that things have been cruising along rather well on some of my projects and responsibilities lately. Allow me to present some examples.
The Wiki:
That's right. My beloved little wiki project is finally lumbering towards done. I should qualify that with it's sort of been done for a long time, but the parts I'm most interested in haven't been ready for prime time and now they're almost there. We were able to demo a near complete knowledge base solution that is only waiting on a publishing system from the good folks who do all the development work for us. Its both satisfying and frustrating as I think we could have been there weeks ago. Sigh.
Field Admins
That's right I get hoed out to other departments by a quiet man name Steve who wanders in and says I'm going to be supporting such and such department for 10 hours a week for the next 3 months or what have you. Both of my field admins right now are fairly mellow and I think I've finally got a handle on what I'm doing most of the time and what I need to be working towards to do a better job of it.
Helpline Duty
The whole reason for the above wiki project is because being on helpline is to f'ing confusing and the existing materials are slow/diffuse and incomplete. The wiki provides a tool to solve those problems and I've got my eye on some people to help with the actual wielding of said tool.
I imagine this post was somewhat boring for folks to read, but hey you tell me what I was supposed to do while I waited for Win XP to reinstall on a wrecked up Dell laptop.
That's what I thought. Later all.