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[rmd]

as an example of how work has been kicking my ass, i woke up about 0400 and i was at the data center at 0500 this morning to do a code upgrade on a firewall because the firewall code has a bug in it. stupid nasty code.

so, okay, on friday the firewall vendor says "oh, hey, yeah, that problem you're seeing? it's a bug in rev A of the code. it's fixed in this other version of code, rev B." so i go and get up fuck-all early this morning to go install rev B.

except it doesn't work. because (as i found out when the vendor responded to my "wtf?" ticket update this morning) rev B has a DIFFERENT bug that makes things fail even harder than they did with rev A in a "it used to be dim and now it's frackin dark" way. i am not pleased. i am not pleased to the point where i think i'm going to turn into some kind of gashlycrumb tiny: "R is for Regis consumed by sheer rage."

i fuck around with that for a while, trying different things, and eventually end up rolling back and get things back to mostly functional and finish up about 10am.

i expect i'll be back at it tuesday morning at 0500 again, assuming the goddamned vendor can find a version of code that FAILS TO SUCK in these IMPORTANT AND CRITICAL WAYS. it's not really complicated, what i'm doing here. goddamned cisco pixes have been able to do this for nigh on a decade now. what the fuck, people? GET WITH THE FRACKING PROGRAM.


i realize this is in the class of 'petty first world problems'. i'm reasonably healthy and gainfully employed. i'm sitting around in my apartment with my beloved long term girlfriend eating tasty buffalo-based soup/slop on rice that i just finished cooking. things could be much worse.

in the mean time, i provide you with two interesting links i've come across, one serious the other frivolous.

• via deadbrowalking, the first asian women's blog carnival


• wilkinson's 'mow the lawn' commercial for their 'bikini trimmer'

Comments

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

It might be "petty first world problems" but it still sucks to be have to be anywhere at 5 o'clock in the morning.

Love you!

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to convince myself it's first world angst but phone calls from India at 3:45 and 6am on Sunday for stupidity are just plain sucky no matter what color your collar.