{"id":242,"date":"2004-08-15T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/08\/15\/579e3a53-96e8-4c4d-b81e-b160ea21003f\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:37","slug":"579e3a53-96e8-4c4d-b81e-b160ea21003f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/579e3a53-96e8-4c4d-b81e-b160ea21003f\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>Er, Um&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What with all this trundling up and down from The Hill and back to America&#8217;s Finest City, the Jeep Grand Livingroom needed a little love. This was the weekend to do it. The oil change was past due, but the price tag for the new shocks was a shock. Does this make sense? The right rear and the left front had failed. The fronts were relatively new, but the rears were original equipment (judging from the pentagon Chrysler logo stamped on them). They were leaking, they were squishy, they were sticky. That made the trip through the mountain twisties very exciting as you might expect.<\/p>\n<p>I was speaking with somebody last evening (<i><b>that<\/b> somebody? &#8211; ed<\/i> Right again! &#8211; bob) and I thought about something wholly unrelated (<i>and that&#8217;s a shock how? &#8211; ed<\/i>). I haven&#8217;t posted anything to the blog for a couple days! Not that there&#8217;s been a real clamor for any writing from me, but the emptiness experienced by both of our readers seems to have traversed the ether and landed upon my shoulders. Here&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been away:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We had a little oopsy-daisy network security breach at the Omnipresent Charitable Organization, so I was charged with backing up all of the servers before the white hat hackers dyed their chapeaux a much darker shade. On top of the the desktop support I provide (with a little more help nowadays!), I am the &#8220;backup administrator&#8221; as well. A plan was put in place before I was hired, but the new equipment didn&#8217;t arrive until much later (<i>like <b>after<\/b> you were hired? &#8211; ed<\/i> Gee, you&#8217;re two for two. &#8211; bob). I was to be in charge of strategy which was to proceed methodically over a month or so. That idea was thrown out the window after the breach. We crammed that month into about six hours so that we could install hardware, new software, and entirely backup huge stores of data&mdash;you know, just in case.<\/li>\n<li>We also received a donation of about fifty peecees from a certain company whose headquarters is moving to Orange County from the bucolic, rolling hills of rural Northern San Diego (but, you know, I shouldn&#8217;t name them, should I?). I&#8217;ve taken on the task of sorting through the pile and finding the machines that will; a) be useful, b) actually boot, and c) even have innards! So far, I&#8217;ve been able to get less than one quarter running, but I suspect that they got a full-price write off on all of them. Make your own judgment on that.<\/li>\n<li>People have asked me to take on new side projects or continue existing projects that didn&#8217;t pay the bills while I was &#8220;under-employed&#8221; which I have for the most part blown off. That&#8217;s not very friendly, and I apologize. To make amends, I&#8217;ll be offering ersatz Mac help next week to an existing client and doing some web work for an old friend as well. I hope this effort will help ameliorate any bad feelings (and maybe bring in a little extra cash).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who can say what will happen in the next couple months. There are big doings going on here, both at The 1912 House AND at the Omnipresent Charitable Organization. I&#8217;m just trying to stay ahead of all of the silliness.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I should embrace the silliness instead.<\/p>\n<p>Your best pal in the whole wide world&mdash;bar none,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Er, Um&#8230; What with all this trundling up and down from The Hill and back to America&#8217;s Finest City, the Jeep Grand Livingroom needed a little love. This was the weekend to do it. The oil change was past due, but the price tag for the new shocks was a shock. Does this make sense? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/579e3a53-96e8-4c4d-b81e-b160ea21003f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}