I literally woke up my long-dormant account to comment on this one.
There is little to no basic financial literacy taught in our schools today. Adding anything as advanced as investing in stocks or bonds, let alone a hellishly volatile tool like cryptocurrencies, would be utterly pointless and only add mud to the water without some understanding of personal finance.
As a sysadmin in a Windows based network, I have got to agree. When you were hired, weren't you given a computer of some kind that was able to do everything your job required of you?
If this is your home machine, simply ask if they can setup some type of remote access, (Remote Desktop, VNC, Terminal Server, etc) to your desktop to be able to work from home.
Also, I have to ask one more question: What would you tell your boss if something went wrong with your non-standard and unauthorized mail client that caused data loss? As you said you have a state job, there is a very good chance that your email is public record. If there is not a solid mail archival system in place, you could be jeopardizing quite a bit more than you think.
Ok, I mentioned this once before, but the guest is still around. She spoke with my fiance this morning about her moving out... But, her desired move out date is October 1st. Of course when we talked to her last, it was set for September 1st.
I think we have been had here.
At this point, all I really want is for her to leave.
Yes, this is a truly pointless rant in my Slashdot Journal.
As I write this Frances is just a couple of hours from making landfall on Stuart, FL.
We have the whole house boarded up and tied down. Oddly enough, it seems we are the only ones in the neighborhood to have gone this far in preparations.
While walking around the outside of the house for a last minute check, the neighbors were coming out to walk their dog. They came over and asked how we were doing and made the comment "Are we expecting a storm?".
Geez, just when you thought it was safe to live in Florida... Here comes Frances. This is one deadset on Leesburg.
Gonna go through the Charley drill with the corporate data again. This time I think I will yank one of the mirrored drives from my server here at the house and take it in to the office for some added off-site data safety.
I must say, with a great deal of happiness, that Charley turned and missed Lake County. Sadly, it really pounded South Florida. At the moment, the death toll sits at twenty.
Kinda makes you wander why? Everyone in the hurricanes path had ample warning of the danger.
Was there lack of communication, or was it just complacency?
At any rate, the damage done is very extensive. Many people are refugees in their own state. Thousands are without power, as well.
No! Put down the rifle and helmet... Not that kinda Charley - geez...
I am talking about Hurricane Charley. All is locked down at work - we even have made duped copies of our backups on to 250GB IDEs and sent them hope with the IT director and me.
The company is looking to have operations back up and running on Saturday. Sales and Marketing will be the first in the doors at the major locations. The construction crews will be out in the communities assessing and repairing.
Once the guest got rolling in her job and got her car running again, she is MUCH better to be around. Whew.
Still kinda stinks not having regular access to my music/computer room, but at least I installed EQ on the laptop.
Sometimes you just want to have your home to yourself. The past few weeks have been that way around here.
Slowly going nutz. I beat the living crap out of my printer today... I just began wailing on it... After I knocked the control panel in I took it outside and threw it at the trash cans. It hit the wall and blew apart into about 15 pieces.
God, I hate houseguests.
Why are monkeys keeping me awake at night.
Insomnia sux. The mere act of trying to fall asleep just helps prevent it.
I am now going to TRY REALLY HARD to fall asleep. I will do my very best to try - REALLY HARD TO SLEEP.
Shit, I am tired now. Uh - G'nite.
The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. -- Harlan Ellison
