Five Minute Rant

17-09-2009

I am taking five minutes out of my crazy day to put a little rant up, otherwise I might just go a little bit more insane than I have ever been.

Right now it is 14:54 p.m. Meaning that this rant should be finished on or before 14:59 p.m.

Why is my day so busy? Mainly because I have discovered that the lab of computers that I look after has something in the region of 30+ machines that are either down and need a reinstall, down and need a repair, or not actually in the lab anymore but somebody forgot to update our records to that effect.

Basically it is the Spring Cleaning for computers.

I have been in the lab for the last hour and a bit wandering around with a list of machines that are "suspect" and trying to see if they actually still exist in there. On the upside I found that five of them no longer are physically in the lab, which means I don't have to worry about them.

This is the sort of work I would love to farm off on an intern, but due to a recruitment freeze in the company at the moment I am doing the job of both intern and my own tasks. So sadly if I want my lab nice and clean and with a shitload of working machines I have to go and do it myself.

Even the useless intern would have been handy to have around.

Got an email reply back from a graphic design type course that I requested some information on. It's a 14 week job, Saturday morning to afternoon, starting in February. At the end you get a Diploma that says you can use all the big name art applications.

Reasons for doing this course? Aside from the usual one of "I am constantly in need of a course to learn something new" it's because I am in something of a Catch-22. I know how to use all the applications already and can do a hell of a lot of tricks considering I am only a tinkering sort of person. But in order to apply for jobs that relate to graphic design I need to have done a course that teaches me how to use to applications to get the qualifications. Ah well, it won't be money wasted, might even pick up a few tricks from it.

Or...who knows...maybe actually learn something.

Look at that 14:59 on the dot.

Blue_jester


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