Tone Parsons

My phone started ringing around 1:00 AM last night.

Our operator who works the graveyard shift was feeling ill and needed someone to cover for her. I made the mistake of answering my phone.

So… I’m currently running on very little sleep, lots of caffeene, and a goodly amount of nicotine. I’m beat.

I’ve got massive bags under my eyes, my back is all flaired up and nasty, and I’m a combination of jittery from the coffee and horibly tired. Oh yeah…. the drive home will be geat (hopefully I don’t wipe my car out).

In other news: Where the hell is Eve?

Eve, my bestest online OMG HOT HOT stalker babe from Australia has dropped off the radar. I’d post a lovely picture of her on a milk carton, but I don’t have one of her.

She was last seen on July 8th.

If you find her, tell her to get her butt back on the forum! We miss her!

Today was the day from hell.

Seriously.. Beelzebub was all over today. It was his day.  He was feeling good, large, and in charge.

Shit at work blew up.  Then… people blew up.  As things climbed higher and higher up the corporate ladder, tempers flared higher, and finally, a blood offering was mandated.

I was in the epicenter of thus said shitstorm.

But thanks to the help of David and Bill (seriously… you guys are soooo on my Christmas card list!!), things were fixed, life was once again made good, and I learned something new…

If I tell someone high up on the food chain who’s being unpleasant on a conference call to “bite my ass”, I won’t get fired.

My company purchased a building in Liberty Lake, WA.

We’ve been preping for the move for a while now, planning how large of a data center my department needs, the power and HVAC requirements, etc.

Yesterday, we went to the new building to see how the build-out is coming.

Walking through the place made me say “WOW!” about a million times. It’s truely amazing and so much better than the building that we’re in now (not that there’s anything wrong with the current one, the new one is just way nicer).

The data center is huge… about 3x larger than what we have now, I got my staging room (no more building servers in my cubilce), and or CNOC is also larger.  I wish I had taken my camera along (but then again, I didn’t know I was going until it was time to leave).
Then we went to where our cubes will be located.

Everywhere in the building, there are skylights and windows to let the sun in. The ceilings are high and the feeling is light and airy. Everywere, except where my groups cubicles are. We get 7′ ceilings (I’m 6′ 4″), no skylights, no windows. I have a feeling that after working in this area for a while, I might finish every sentance with “my precious“.

We move in to the hole in the middle of September.

Verizon Wireless has a new phone coming to market.

As of August 7th, you will be able to get the LG Chocolate…. the sexiest phone on the planet.

It looks like an iPod, it works like an iPod (you can copy wma files from your PC via a usb cable), and Verizon, responding to criticism, has dropped the $15 a month fee for the ability to do so.

Of course, I just got a Motorola RAZR in June, but I didn’t use my “Every 2” credit for my sons phone, so I’m thinking of seeing if I still can, buying this phone for myself, and giving my RAZR to him.

Sexy!!