The 'Before' picture:
The 'After' picture:
It almost didn't happen since it's even more of a bitch to get to that side of the table than I described. The Rockhouse is just as dangerous as it ever was but it's much better memorized.
Ed: so you're ok back there but no-one else is?
Toby the Dog does ok. He doesn't have any trouble with it.
The danger hasn't been an exaggeration since stepping on one of the stompboxes in the dark would easily take a chunk from the bottom of your foot and that happened multiple times. After a while, the feets learn even if the head does not.
In sorting out the desk kibble, I found one item which should have disappeared over ten years ago.
Subject: Discussion of TN3270/SSL Encryption on Phonebank IVR Transactions
Start: Thu 1/13/05 4:00 PM
Team:
This is a brief conversation to discuss the concept of using TN3270/SSL encryption to protect phonebank IVR transactions rather than continuing the current IBM crypto card approach. This conversation will be more focused on the transaction flow and act as a basis for asking Audit to support our approach. I apologize in advance but finding a free time that meets everyone's schedule is almost impossible.
As soon as you see anything corporate which claims 'this is a brief conversation,' particularly when it's scheduled at 4:00 PM, be sure to write the meeting dial-up number in large letters on the notification so you can participate via cellphone while you drive because you will be there until you die if you show up in-person.
Meetings at 4:00 PM are typically scheduled by bloodless hell demons who don't realize nothing a computer ever did was worth a 4:00 PM meeting to talk about it.
Ed: what's the big deal about 4:00 PM?
Nothing is ever scheduled for 5:00 PM so there's nothing to stop a 4:00 PM meeting until the air runs out of the room which often happens due to the volume of verbal buggery in such events.
Note: all I can figure on the paper lasting so long is the phone and a code were written in large ballpoint letters so I must have thought 'keep that, must be important.' In those ten years, I apparently never wondered just why they're important.
Note: all I can figure on the paper lasting so long is the phone and a code were written in large ballpoint letters so I must have thought 'keep that, must be important.' In those ten years, I apparently never wondered just why they're important.
Ed: thanks for that vision of the pointlessness of corporate bureaucratic hell!
You're welcome. Just be glad you don't have to do it. And you thought you didn't have a reason to be thankful.
Merry Christmas
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