my own worst enemy

Somebody kill me please

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Okay, so I haven't posted much lately mainly because there hasn't been anything interesting to write about. Why is that, you ask? Partly due to the fact that all my roommates (and most of my friends) were out of town last weekend, but mostly due to the fact that I'm bored out of my mind at work.

Let me paint you a picture. It's only fair to warn you that it will be no Picasso or Monet, but more like finger paintings children bring home from their daycare and their parents fawn over with accolades of "You're so talented!" and "You could be the next Picasso or Monet!" because, well, they're parents. That's what parents do. I don't expect such response from you, the readers, as you are not my parents.

Okay, so I've been working on implementing a cool tool for work that requires working on a server (I would tell you more, but then I would have to kill you.) Being that I don't have a full clearance yet, there is only one computer I can use to access said server. The problem is, there are like three other people in the same situation, so getting time on this computer is like DART-ing for a class back when we had to use phones. "BEOOWWW beooowww. The computer you are trying to use .... is UNAVAILABLE! Eat shit and die."

Today is the first day this week I've been able to access the computer, and for only an hour at that. The problem: I have nothing else to do. I have even asked for things to do. This actually resulted in a new task yesterday, for which I need to use that same computer. So now I have twice the work and no way to do any of it. Awesome.

Why don't they just set up a new terminal to the server, you ask? Because that makes too much sense. Actually, there's a lot of bureaucratic red tape involved like making sure you don't use a computer bought for a different contract and making sure the computer is set up to handle classified stuff. Bottom line: getting menial tasks done at a defense contractor is sometimes like squeezing a camel through the eye of a needle.

In the meantime, I'm becoming a hell of a sudoku solver.

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