Friday, April 18, 2008

The Big Day

Well, today's the big day. After I get off work early, I'm heading over to Eric's house and he, fish and I will be leaving for Raleigh, NC for Foresight 20/20. It will probably be about an 8 hour drive, but it'll be worth it to experience a Linux conference for the first time.

In other news, I shaved my beard off. It wasn't growing in quite as nicely as I would have liked. I may try to grow one again in the fall/winter (like waiting 6 months will make a difference...). Here's a new pic of myself (oh yeah, I also got a haircut last night, so the goatee kinda matches the hairstyle for the moment):

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In still other news, things have gotten interesting at work. Aside from the terrible situation with Vantage that's still there, our secretary came to me late yesterday afternoon (after 4:15 or so). She said that I have a new "top priority" for the next 2 weeks, passed down from the President of the company.

We have a long-standing contract with a customer and that customer did a walk-through of the plant about 2 days ago now. They visited our Quality Assurance department and... well, let's just say the QA department is in shambles. It looks like something out of the 70's that a tornado has bowled over. The customer in question saw this (apparently they hadn't seen it before...) and said something to the effect of "What kind of quality can we expect out of your products if your quality department looks like this?" Heh.

Because of this, the entire department has been slated for remodeling within the next 2 weeks (meaning, finished within 2 weeks...). A part of that remodeling is that I have to put Panduit (cable management on the walls) up in all the offices and run some new phone / data lines, since people are changing offices. Somehow they've used an entire 24-port switch for 4 people and a total of 5 computers... not sure how that works exactly.

Should be a fun 2 weeks...

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