Lupin

Ever had one of those days when the simple shit goes wrong.

Here I am in my nice new role at work as IT god. Now its one of those places that basicaly has never had anybody looking after it. After finding in the past week that, the tape drive backup wasnt working, the raid drives in the server, were unpluged, and basicaly that the network was a sham, I've slowly been fixing things. But the simple task of adding a printer just screwed me over.

Its a lovely duplex printing color laser jobbie, quite sexy in its own right, but it geve me a headache. Here I was all setup ready to go, and for some reason, it dosnt appear on the network. So I check the cable, check the setup, and cant find anything. So im thinking that there is some server side issue. Not having played with NT4 for sometime (its getting upgraded very soon)I fumble my way around but cant realy find anything stoping it. So after basicaly a day of screwing around, I decied to run a new cable from a nearby PC, and all of a sudden its on the network. Further investigation finds that the cable I was using has been prety eaten by rats, not all the way through but enough to make it not work. So now it looks like I'm gonig to end up with the task of re-doing some of the network cables.

I tell you what wireless is looking good.

Ever had one of those times when it all just seems that nothings going your way.

Well I've been having one of late.

1st the little laser that has served us for the past 7 years decided that it needed some money spent on it. And it looked like it was going to cost more than the car was worth. So the decision was made to replace the old girl. So it went off to the get find out what was wrong with it and we started looking for something to replace it. Now I must point out here that because the mechanic is a mate then there was no rush to get the car fixed, so we just made do with one car for a week. So after a lot of looking we finally found something that suited our needs. So we started the purchasing process. Only to find out that there isn’t that much wrong with the laser. So that comes as a bonus, get it roadworthy and sell it for more than we were going to get. (This is happening in the next week) So basically there we are with 3 cars, no big deal as one will be sold soon. So it’s working out how the hell we are going to pay for it, and then sorting out the finance. So it looked like we were going to have to make some changes for the next year or two until the new car is paid for. Then my boss calls me into the office to discuss my yearly review, and whamo a $135 a week pay rise, so there’s the new car paid for and then some. Then he tells me that finally I'm getting a van. So in the space of about 5 minutes I get a good 6g a year pay rise and a company car.

So as of tomorrow I have to wonder how the hell I'm going to fit 4 cars in my driveway, and the van is the size of 2 bloody cars, so it may as well be 5. But I guess it’s not all bad.

Ok now this is something that gets me. If you are gonig to work in a sales job at least have some sort of a idea what you are selling.

This is my story.

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Well things have been going along nicely. The GeelongWRX.com site is moving along nicely. Im getting between 10 and 15 cars every event so far, and its growing quite rapidly. But it seems I still can't stop spending money on the car.

Ive finaly got my contacts all sorted, after 3 atempts. Never will I be going back to glasses again. Even with the pain in the ass that it is sometimes to put them in and out, I'll stil never go back.

But at the moment it seems to be all mosnter lan. With me taking some much needed time off and heading off, only to get back the night before the event, I can see it being a busy week.

Well after 10 years of wearing glasses I'm making the switch to contacts.
Its a painful process of trial fitting and eye testing that you have to go through to get these things.

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