Mind the Gap

If it so happens that some one actually reads this blog, and out of those imaginary readers perhaps there is one or even half of one that noticed that it has been a long time sense I had made a post. My first claims were that, when creating this blog, I wouldn't make many posts, but later I found that it was some what enjoyable. After that time it seemed that I was posting just about every day or night as it is to me.

To understand completely my circumstances that surround my posting schedule you must understand how my time is spent. First is family, all my time other than when I am at work is spent with and/or around my beautiful wife Shawna and adorable son Nickolas. So that leaves the time that I am at work. I work the night shift for a company that does IT support for many medium to large business. As one could probably guess there isn't much to fix while everyone's sleeping. Mainly I watch a screen that is lit up with little Blue, Yellow, and Red boxes that indicate the status of servers and network equipment. in this way I can determine if a problem happens during the night and hopefully fix it before anyone knows it even happened. This way everyone can sleep soundly knowing that I am watching over their computers. This and what ever random task they feel I can complete during the night is what comprises my schedule while working.

With this schedule you would think that I would have plenty of time to make posts while also maintaining the integrity of the networks that I monitor, and you would be correct mostly. When I first started this blog I and a most helpful coworker who would assist with completing all the tasks that needed to be done during the night while also helping to maintain the sanity of us both by providing another person to talk to. At some point some one with the authority to make changes came to the determination that the position I held was completely achievable by one person. While this is true and I have no problems completing everything I need to do with time to spare there is a connivance for both me and the company to having more than one person on a shift. You know like if I'm sick or in capable of coming to work there is some one else here to cover or you know when I would like to take the day off.

So at any rate rather than paying two people to do the job of one they moved the person who was working with me to the day shift. I don't envy him for moving to days rather than me in fact I prefer it this way for a few reasons mainly I get paid more for working at night and the fact that they thought that the day shift can be handled by four people instead of the ten that were doing it before.

It seems I have a tendency to go off on tangents... My main point is that I have less spare time while working so this means less posts.

YouTube and this Guy

So tonight just want to throw out two things one I like and one I hate. First is YouTube, it's probably classed under Social Media but hey I love this thing. There's nothing better than watching the most random videos the web has to offer. This is probably the second biggest change to the internet aside from maybe MMO games. Being able to stream video over the internet would be nigh impossible on those old 28.8 or even 56k modems. best you could have done was waited several hours while your video downloaded before watching. Also 1080/720p is now available on some videos on YouTube. Just gonna throw a random YouTube video here: (actually he's one of my coworkers).

As for what I hate is this guy:

Not the guy but rather what he is doing. I'm sure it's not his fault, but some one is sure to blame. Those strange people in marketing thinks it's a good idea to put some guy out on the street and pay him minimum wage (I suppose that he gets paid more but that's just silly) just to hold a sign that a less than $5 stick could do (just as well I might add). Does the sign get more noticed due to the fact that it's getting held by a person rather than a stick, pole, or even a wall? No not really, at least nothing good just me going off on a rant about it. But hey that's just my opinion. Maybe I would start a poll but I don't think I have many readers and I can't be bothered with one. at least for now.