Looks like my workplace has turned into a game of last man standing.

The network engineer directly above me got fired a few months back, and I wound up taking his place.  Now our lead network engineer is leaving for a new job, and I am apparently going to take his place while we hire in a replacement for me.

It’s a promotion, of sorts, and I suppose I ought to be happy…  But I can’t help feeling that I didn’t earn it and probably don’t deserve it.

I’ve tried to use Vista on my work tablet for a month or so now… And I’ve been tripping over it every step of the way. It’s been especially troublesome working with Ciscos. Enough trouble that I’ve finally given up and reloaded my tablet with XP again.

We’ve been having trouble with our kitchen faucet ever since we moved in here…  And when I recently got a bonus at work we spent a chunk of that on a new faucet.

The directions indicated that the installation shouldn’t take more than about an hour and a half…but they didn’t count on my lack of skill or the presence of a garbage disposal in our sink.  It wound up taking me almost three hours to get the new faucet installed.

But, we now have a much nicer kitchen faucet that doesn’t leak at all.

Showed up at the shop around 8:00 AM, spent a little time resetting the Ciscos to factory defaults before heading out. The medical offices are about an hour away, so I had a very nice drive… Beautiful morning, warm weather, not many people on the road at that hour.

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I hate working weekends.

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