Curmudgeoning…
March 27th, 2009
Today should have started out as a good day. I actually came in to work early because it’s the all-ever-so-popular JEANS DAY which prompted me to wear a very special t-shirt so I could do some…umm…”stress testing” on the network. I feel like Superman wearing a Kryptonic plaque on his chest as this thing is glowing. I also made it over to the ever-so-popular (phrase of the day, apparently, dear readers) dining hall for an early breakfast, even though I was a bit afraid of this, I just didn’t care. After all, I’m wearing my “super shirt”!
I’m sitting there minding my own business when the Curmudgeon joins me. “Waaay too early for this,” I’m thinking as I’m stuffing myself with sausage links and homefries slathered in ketchup. Of course, he starts berading me with questions about the Microsloth Server 2003 to 2008 upgrade and “have I been documenting” and “have you come up with a rollback plan” and “have you backed everything up” and “is the hardware adequate” etc. etc. Of course, I’m thinking “duh?” but the smartass in me decides to give him a blank look and inquisitively ask “Ummm…what do you mean? Rollback plan?” Curmudgeon looks at me with this look of horror that obviously portrays “oh shit, we’re screwed” all over his face. That being said, I pack up my dishes with a continued puzzled look on my face and said “I *think* we’ll be okay as I’ve unplugged the domain controller to let it cool off and give it a break before I wipe it clean and install 2008. I’m not going to worry about running adprep or dcpromo or whatever that thing is you do. No big deal. See you later!” before I walked off, whistling, mind you.
What’s that screaming I’m hearing?
You have a way with words. I love messing with people that have an obvious over-abundance of stress. Its how people like us humor ourselves.
Thank you, kind sir. Yup, I totally enjoy messing with the Curmudgeon. Granted, I enjoy messing with pretty much anyone but he rocks it the best. He’s usually an interesting shade of purple when we’re finished conversing. Now if I could only get the whole Jim Halpert-thing down…