Hello. I’ve waited here for you,
everlong. Now I'd never lump Foo Fighters in with Bush as being a less-than-mediocre band with one moment of musical clarity but "The Colour & The Shape" is their best album and "Everlong" is the best song they've ever had. Like "Come Down" it's just one of those songs I can put on repeat and listen to over and over and over.
I think it's official; Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow is whooping my monkey ass. I love that phrase. SFC T uses it all the time, usually in the context of, "(Allmon, Johnson), ima whoop yo monkey ass". I know when he says that that one of those two brain surgeons did something stupid. I know when he says that it's time to laugh at how dumb my coworkers are.
I LOVE when people try to throw rank at me to get what they want. SGT Criner does this often. He's E-5, I'm E-4, though he tried this kind of crap when I was an E-3. Usually he wants something dumb so he'll dress it up as something important, like recently he wanted me to give him some CAT-5 cable so he can get internet in his room so he can "talk to all those other people at the other bases". He's in charge of the biggest pieces of crap in my unit, he himself is a pretty big piece of crap, and he thinks he's super-important. And when I tell him no or tell him to talk to SFC T, he gets all huffy and storms off and then he'll keep asking me about everytime he sees me. He'll even go so far as to lie to me in order to make me think someone important wants him to get these things, like he told me he talked to SFC T and he told SGT Criner to talk to me about it. No. SFC T doesn't want him to have any CAT-5 because he doesn't want any more people on his network. SGT Criner didn't talk to him. And now he's trying to get Wilson to give him some, even though Wilson's a radio guy and he'd basically have to steal it from me in order to give it to him. Wilson's not giving him anything. Wilson knows better. He'll be trying Allmon and the SIGO next, the trick is to remind SIGO that SGT Criner's full of crap and doesn't need anything from us. SIGO's a little loopy sometimes.
In general I love when people try to do some crap behind my back. Someone will come in looking for me to put a connector on a CAT-5 cable, my first question is "what's this for?" Usually my next question is "where'd you get this cable?" or "who ran that line?" Some of these guys don't understand; I don't care what rank you are. I have the crimpers. I have the connectors. I know how to put the two together. You don't. Basically no network work gets done without my divine (ha!) intervention. They don't understand that being in charge of the network makes me also in charge of the security of my network. People need reasons for getting network access. I don't need people adding more users to my already overloaded network behind my back.
This all makes me sound like I'm letting some resemblance of power to go my head. It's not. This is my job. Make a network, add users, police and maintain my network. I don't need backseat administrators. I don't need clever people with a little networking knowledge. They give me headaches and create work for me. This sounds like it goes against my "I don't need stupid users" rule either but it doesn't. If someone needs to move to another office and can take their own cable with them from one location to another and plug in, that's fine. That's great even. No loss or gain of users, everything's the same just one person's in a different location. It's when people try to hook up their buddies or themselves without the right to. That's not what I need.