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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
A day in the life of Shoo.
My day began promptly at 6:36am, usually the time that I hit the good ol' snooze button on my cell phone alarm. I noticed right away that I had a missed call at 1:30 am. It didn't surprise me as I am a server administrator for a project that involves people working offshore at a relative 10 hour time zone difference.
Mrs. Shoo is rather enthused about me getting calls that late at night. I tell her she has nothing to worry about, they're not cute at all.
So I begrudgingly get out of bed and go downstairs to fire up the computer to see what is going on. After sending out an email, I get a call from the team that was trying to contact me at 1 in the morning.
We converse as much as a dude with sleep in his eyes and those that have learned English as a second language can at 6 in the morning. We come to a resolution and the morning begins.
I get into work and a flurry of emails start going back between a number of individuals. 'Server is not working', 'we can't test', 'I need this' - what do we do kind of stuff. I am handling like five fires at once, but really I dig this kind of stuff and get everything worked out.
Then I forget that I am having lunch with my grandparents, so I call them trying to reschedule as I had errands to run at lunch, then my mom calls wanting to meet up at Subway, then a colleague calls to offer me free lunch.
This is almost worst than waking up to a missed call. There's nothing more in the world that I hate than passing up a free lunch.
I had to scramble home early from work as Mrs. Shoo needed me to pick up a trailer to tow with a bunch of football players for her schools homecoming parade. I forget how hyper and loud high school kids are, but it was a good change of scenery.
I tow the trailer full of football players around at 3mph for 20 minutes. If there isn't any other better time to zone out, that would be it.
I drop the guys off and head back home.
Right now, Mrs. Shoo and I are catching up on the day's Humzoo (TGFIC -thank god for internet cache) relaxing with the two dogs. At first what seemed like a post about a long crappy day, turned into a post about a not half bad day.
I guess that's a day in the life of Shoo.
A day in the life of Shoo.
My day began promptly at 6:36am, usually the time that I hit the good ol' snooze button on my cell phone alarm. I noticed right away that I had a missed call at 1:30 am. It didn't surprise me as I am a server administrator for a project that involves people working offshore at a relative 10 hour time zone difference.
Mrs. Shoo is rather enthused about me getting calls that late at night. I tell her she has nothing to worry about, they're not cute at all.
So I begrudgingly get out of bed and go downstairs to fire up the computer to see what is going on. After sending out an email, I get a call from the team that was trying to contact me at 1 in the morning.
We converse as much as a dude with sleep in his eyes and those that have learned English as a second language can at 6 in the morning. We come to a resolution and the morning begins.
I get into work and a flurry of emails start going back between a number of individuals. 'Server is not working', 'we can't test', 'I need this' - what do we do kind of stuff. I am handling like five fires at once, but really I dig this kind of stuff and get everything worked out.
Then I forget that I am having lunch with my grandparents, so I call them trying to reschedule as I had errands to run at lunch, then my mom calls wanting to meet up at Subway, then a colleague calls to offer me free lunch.
This is almost worst than waking up to a missed call. There's nothing more in the world that I hate than passing up a free lunch.
I had to scramble home early from work as Mrs. Shoo needed me to pick up a trailer to tow with a bunch of football players for her schools homecoming parade. I forget how hyper and loud high school kids are, but it was a good change of scenery.
I tow the trailer full of football players around at 3mph for 20 minutes. If there isn't any other better time to zone out, that would be it.
I drop the guys off and head back home.
Right now, Mrs. Shoo and I are catching up on the day's Humzoo (TGFIC -thank god for internet cache) relaxing with the two dogs. At first what seemed like a post about a long crappy day, turned into a post about a not half bad day.
I guess that's a day in the life of Shoo.
5 Comments
Angi Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Denny Deaton Thursday, October 2, 2008
Betsy Thursday, October 2, 2008
dannie Thursday, October 2, 2008
Leslie Thursday, October 2, 2008
1) Better you than me, man...I just chase around a toddler and a preschooler all day long, but if given the chance, they'd set five fires or more in the house. That's why we lock up the matches.
Angi Wednesday, October 1, 20082) You passed up free lunch? Oh man, it must have really been a bad day dude. I have been there before, in fact I didn't hear my alarm go off this morning (or maybe I did and turned it off without realizing it). It was somewhat of a scramble to get up, shower, get dressed, get Dylan up, get her dressed, feed her, rush her to day care, and get back home, let the dogs out, feed them, make coffee... my daily drill. Now I am settled cozily in my office. Ah the sweet smell of production!
Denny Deaton Thursday, October 2, 20083) I am back, Shoo. Thanks for coming to get me.
Betsy Thursday, October 2, 20084) Not a bad day, at lest you don't work on wall street.
dannie Thursday, October 2, 20085) Dannie has a good point. Thank goodness you have a good job and a home that isn't in foreclosure. I thought I was having a bad day today until I came home and watched the news. My day was GREAT compared to many people in CT. Foxwoods Casino laid off 700+ people today.
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