TechnoLust's Journal: Work stuff, bonus?, and no heat is no fun...

Monday morning when the alarm went off and I reached out to hit the snooze button, I noticed it felt really cold. I looked over at my atomic clock thingy that shows the temperature and it said it was 23F outside and 53F inside. I got out of bed and went to my bathroom. There was a heater so the bathroom was warm and note from my roommate saying, "I think the heat is fucked up. :-) Unplug this heater when you leave so it doesn't catch on fire." I called him on the way to work and he said he hadn't changed the filter in a while, so we'd check that after work.

After we checked all the simple stuff, I noticed two status LEDs, one of which was blinking. I looked it up on the internet and it turned out that a safety sensor had gone bad and was telling the unit it was overheating. We called a guy and he came out, figured out which one was bad, and ordered a new one. I worked from home today so I could let him in to swap the part.

Yesterday at work the VP of IT copied me on an email to the CFO. The subject was Bonus Recommendations and my name and 2 others were listed (oddly I was the only one CC'd on the email.) with dollar amounts beside the names. So I'm hoping that's approved, I could use it. The thought did cross my mind that he CC'd me on the email to placate me because they aren't going to give me the promotion we had discussed, or it's not happening right away. But I don't know, so I'll wait and see what happens.

I haven't worked from home in a while, and I had forgotten how productive I am when I'm not distracted by office noise, people stopping by my desk, etc. I figured out 2 stubborn issues that I've been working on this week the first half of the day. I was concentrating so hard I didn't read /. all day until now. My only big distraction was when the heat guy came to install the part.

I turned on the TV so I could put it on BET and listen to music. (They're one of the few channels that still plays videos for a large part of the day.) It's funny to hear the music because they mute the curse words and any drug references. There was a Lil' Wayne song on there that I went silent for about 15 seconds. :-) Also, when 3 Strikes came on, there were several scenes where most of the words were muted.

So we have heat again, which is good since they are calling for ice storms tomorrow. If that happens I guess I'll be working from home again.

my heater went out Sunday night/Monday morning

[eglamkowski]

Woke up to 53 degrees. Very annoying.

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[TechnoLust]

Are you my roommate?!??!?! ;-)

Maybe there's a heater gremlin loose in ATL.

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[eglamkowski]

The worst part is that my heater is not even two years old yet. And it conked out last winter, too. Not a good sign...

BET censors music videos?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Given the way most rap and hip-hop lyrics have gone, I'd find that highly anoying if I cared to listen to such music in the first place. What good does it do if every other word in the stanza of the poem that makes up the rap lyrics is missing?

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[Doctor O]

The way I see it, it's what a society gets if it thinks saying the f-word (or seeing nipples, FWIW) is so bad that everybody needs to be protected from it. (Why your gov't thinks it is okay to let everyone and their aunt run around with guns while saying "fuck" isn't, is a question for another evening.)

What really annoys me is that German radio stations start to play those versions, too, as if anyone cared about it. I mean hey, Germans curse all the time. It doesen't hurt anybody. Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuc [youtube.com]

wtf

[OctaneZ]

MY heat went out saturday night/sunday morning.
Pressure valve that regulates the gas flow to the combustion chamber failed (thankfully closed).

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no ice here yet

[zogger]

I keep looking at the map with that little gnome weather applet thing and it is getting closer though. I gave the beefers and the cluckeraptors extra rations to help keep them warm, stocked extra wood inside for the stove, got the propane heater cranked up too just for grins and made sure the chainsaw was in good running shape though. Georgia ice storms are nasty, there are one zillion trees all over. Oh ya, plenty of gas for the generator in case I need that. Hate to be stuck inside and no way to the net!