Some of you will know this and some of you won’t

08/11/2008

I know, donkey years since I’ve posted. There were some issues with the server on which my blog lives. To be exact:

“Dear customer,
Problem solved, there were a truckload of zombie processes, killed them off and you’re all set.
Thanks,
Scripting Specialist”

I had to wiki the phrase “zombie processes” and have learned the following:

“On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table, this entry being still needed to allow the process that started the zombie process to read its exit status. The term zombie process derives from the common definition of zombie—an undead person. In the term’s colorful metaphor, the child process has died but has not yet been reaped.”

I don’t know exactly what this all means but I am inferring from what I’ve read that it wasn’t my fault and there are brain-eating demons messing with my blog. I just like the jaunty tone with which the tech informed me of the issue. If this guy was in the bay area I would totally want to hang out with him. I just feel like he would speak short fragments and we would be really efficient in our conversation. Also, we would use the word “dude” a lot.

Atizz sent me a WTF email. I think she was concerned that she killed another blog, but have no fear, I have not died. Merely lived in a blog-free purgatory for 18 days (but who’s counting?). Of course there were things that I thought I should blog, but I hate blogging about things that happened days ago. Over it already.

At work my co-worker who is still the reigning title holder of “most likely to be fired on Friday” is still going strong. She’s started to interview in other departments. We would LOOOOOVE for her to go, bad news is the interviews are “courtesy” interviews. I don’t think that they are really about courtesy because no one is really going to hire this woman. Though she has no idea about this. In conversation she’s stated that she wants to get back into management. I don’t know if she is really this clueless, but the people in charge of management in my company are the ones who foisted her onto my department. They had no other place for her and now she’s washing out as the “coordinator”. I quoted coordinator because I am pretty sure most office coordinators know how to send appointments in outlook, send registered mail, type, save documents, and send attachments. This is not an extensive list of all the things she cannot do, just the things that have come up in the last week or so.

Also at work I am coming to my one-year review. I had to complete my self-evaluation and turn that in to my boss. I think it’s kind of a joke that they make you write the thing and then use your own words against you. As a rule I never include anything to work on or needs improvement; I just write all of the things I’ve done and all the projects I’ve completed. I make my boss have to do the hard part about the whole needs improvement thing. I also get a kick about writing about myself in third person. “Some Girl has been a joy to work with. She is always willing to take on additional work that falls beyond the purview of her job description.” That’s right bitches, I said that.

See ya on the flip side.