Day four should have been posted yesterday, but it also should have been written yesterday. Unfortunately for me, not particularly for anyone else, I seemed to have been struck down by a cold and I felt lousy as I hauled myself our of bed at 4.30 a.m. and trudged my way to the train station, obviously after getting dressed. That would have been something to write about if I had been arrested.
The train was delayed and the first thing that struck me was the fact that when the announcement came on the tannoy at the station,it was an automated one, and the reason for delay was signalling problems. If they have an automated message for that then they must have been expecting a few of that kind of delay and maybe if they had fixed the signalling instead of making that kind of announcement automated they wouldn't have needed it. However when the train arrived and I had partaken of my journey to Doncaster, the conductor came over the train tannoy and appologised for the delay and said it was for a lack of signalling staff at Brough. So basically the signal box man had overslept. In that case I had sympathy for the dude as I myself could easily have not bothered in the morning.
The train journey to London was as nice as normal and a chance to sit back, listen to some tunes and close my eyes, as you can tell I was not in the mood for opening my laptop and beavering away until we arrived in the capital.
Normally I don't talk about work but today is different, I was due to hold a workshop for a bunch of serious techies today and of course sat through it with them while they talked about blades, SDSA's, SDX's VM's and they are the only ones I can remember. But as they talked away I heard them say Netscaler which I had heard before so I questioned what does the netscaler do, The reply was, "it is a load balancer". OK so why have we suddenly started calling the load balancer which does exactly what it says on the tin, a netscaler. And I realised that is what techies do. We use to have servers but now we have Blades. Server is obvious, it serves the VM or virtual machine from the cloud to the user but if we use Blade, no one has a pigging clue outside of the "included few" what they are saying. So I thought right I am going to get my own back here and asked, "How many NRTM (not really there machines or virtual machines as they called them) do we get on each dish (server or blade). They all stopped and looked at me like I had just been released.
I have also decided that being excluded is a kind of bullying.
Work went on and on mainly due to the fact that you get techies in a room and they cannot shut up, and then the fatal happened. One of the 3rd party techies had a demo test area available on some virtual storage and shared it with them. They could not get enough, it was like Christmas for 5 year olds. One turned to me and said, "Look I can get W7, W8.1 XP" and god knows what else he said, "just by changing the virtual environment with one click".
I thought I can get one coffee by just going to the machine and pressing one button. I didnt get a coffee as the machine was out of milk. I hate life sometimes.
I finally left work after 7.00 and checked into the hotel at nearly 8.00 and couldnt even be happy I had a nice room. I got changed and flopped on my bed and texted my wife for sympathy. At least that is one area that I knew would work as planned and it did.
Good old families.
I did venture out to the food area with my boss who I hasten to add has left work at six (the lightweight) and found some food before I headed back to my nice room and collapsed into bed along with two hundred sheets of toilet role for my nose which just keeps streaming.
That was my day yesterday, if there are mistakes in the above I apologise but I havn't the energy to re read it all before posting as I now have to get a shower and somehow get my running nose and aching head to work.
Good day all.
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