Miles
Well, today was my second fill-up of my new car, which means it was my first mileage calculation. For my first tank of diesel I got 40.66 MPG. Not bad at all for the break in period!! I’ve made up a little Excel spreadsheet to track things like MPG, total fuel costs/mile and other geeky things like that. There’s also a pretty cool service I found online that will do it for you at Web-Cars.com. Did I mention how wonderful heated seats are?!?!?! Today I used my mirror defrosters too. hehehehe…cool!
Oooooooooh. I just found this too at SourceForge. I think I’ll set this up somewhere and test it out!
I was reading Tuel’s blog today and while my heart broke for her, I remembered (who knows why) a name from our past. We (Kris and I) were doing level 2 support, level 3 support…whatever. We were taking escalations and getting some direct calls from our hosting customers for the former GlassCity Internet. We had a pretty cool phone system that had callerID that popped up on your screen. It was pretty ahead-of-its-time really (but I digress). Anywho…Kris and I had some repeat offenders that we kind of dreaded. One was a very foriegn lady we only knew as JJ. (Zhay-Zhay) She was SO hard to understand and always called frazzled. Well, I think she usually showed up as unlisted or something, but one day her last name actually came across on caller ID, and I’ve never forgotten it. It was JJ Phabungmatrawara. That’s right, Phabungmatrawara. Anyhow…I think I took a screen shot of that, and tiled it as my work wallpaper for a while. I shot Kris an email today reminding her of our friend JJ…
What other wonderful people did we support?? I remember Quaint Antiques (LOL…nice website now), her name was Rachel. God…Rachel would call/page us before our WhatsUP server would!!
There was also the woman who ran the collectible/crap shop in Franklin Park. She sold things like blown glass miniature elephants and other crap. I can’t think of her name though. KLT, can you help me out?
Anyone else have any good tech support memories? One of my favorite was when I went to lunch one day, came back and Todd Krabach had taken over my desk/cube. Nice.
13 comments February 16 2004 9:05 pm | Pepperguy | Grant
I remember this one time when I was doing support where I attempted to walk this lady through plugging her phone line into the wall. This phone call took a few hours as well as quite a few sacrificial brain cells. This is why I don’t do support anymore, or even touch another person’s computer. If they can’t figure it out themself, they don’t deserve to be doing it in the first place. Take driving for instance, if you aren’t smart enough to know that all of the other cars are driving on the right side of the road when you aren’t, then immediatly stop the car and stand in the middle of the road until a semi truck runs into you.
But these are my thoughts, not yours. yet.
LOL…well said Weiker!
A person who thinks he knows how to talk to a computer. A person who really knows how to talk to a computer is known as a fruitcake.
The above is an actual definition taken from google using “define:programmer”
The name is…… Rochell (Rochells Fine Gifts I think)… I had the joys of telling her we are not here to train her on how to use FrontPage and whatever else she wanted to blame on us. She hated me 😉
1942, BatMan, Joking_ _ _ something, ThirdPlanet (The ISP in the pickup), WTOL Y2K Call for Help thing… the crazy dude that kept calling,
We could have wrote a nice book from those days! ISP Crank Yankers would of, could of, been awesome lol
Duuuuude, Samboni’s got ’em all! I remember once going into Rochelle’s with Henson just so we could see who she was…I wanted to break stuff and run!
I wonder if ROCKET ever got picked up by the stalkers whom she was so frequented by…
Oh, and back in the day when we did on-site setup– the geniuses that would bring just their monitors for us to “configure”….nice….
mmmmhmmm…you go ‘head and take that Rockwell HCF modem and shove it up yer butt.
Other than 1927, there is one that sticks out in my mind.
UPDATE Users SET Username = ‘toadhall’
Weiker, what can I say… (pinto-piece-of-sh**) 🙂
Samboni, Bill Hardison was the guy from WTOL. I had a LOT of run-ins with him.
Tuel, hi…been a while.
Grant, nice SQL update (thanks Ed for the reminder; and Steve Taylor’s – aka Chad Hrivnyak – reaction to that was the best). Also, I did not steal your desk when you were at lunch, you cleaned it all off for me like an obedient co-worker. 🙂 Then Brian told me that he just told you to move into a cube…and I started to feel bad because you got hosed. You want my office now? 😉 …didn’t think so.
mmm, yes, G’s induction to the perils of SQL….
What the hell happened to the tank full of pennies we had? Did somebody get that as severance?
And is “Myron” the dead pigeon still on the ledge?
*sigh*…memories…
And in fact, the pinto is still working almost in it’s original form. Was better back then, no adds. http://allthesites.com/search/search.asp?type=all&query=cisp+sucks
No Todd…actually I was at Thackeray’s and Bri called me on my cell telling me that you would have my cube and I needed to clean it out when I returned. I’m not bitter though….NO….
Your moDAM needs an INIT string!!
Remember JacquiM Sam??? She went into a partnership with one of our clients and was going to start her own web-cam porn site.
Yea G, The Jacqui-Porium site! YuCk YucK yUCK
Bill Hardison was the Net Admin for WTOL, right? The person I’m talking about was when Me, G, Todd M, and I think someone else went to WTOL to take calls for Y2K worries. This crazy guy kept calling in about some bomb or nuclear deal. Do you remember G?
Anybody know where JoeB is today? Mr. Ba-doy-g-er…Maybe FedEx? 🙂
I think I have the tank full of pennies in my parent’s garage. If it’s the one that had migrated to the hellhole with us. I used it for a footrest while at the hellhole, then took it when I left.
Myron has disintegrated. I think it was for the best. He had a good run. Well, a good stop into the window.
“The FBI and CIA are trying to hack into my computer, how can I stop them?
“Do you have a firewall?”
“Yes, two, but that’s not good enough.”
“Well, you could unplug your modem.”
“No, they hack me through the power cable then.”
“Then unplug the power too.”
I wonder if she ended up back in one of the mind control centers… I sure hope so.
I remember a night Hai was up on the 5th floor playing drums. Carlson had came in for something and took the front elevator back down to the first floor when he left. I’ll never forget Hai coming downstairs swearing something about coming down the back staircase where there were no lights. Then we went down to one and found the elevator door bashing away at a trash can Carlson had left there. lol
Hai! I forgot about my little pal Hai! Boy was he pissed off at me for that walk down those stairs, which just happened to be the desired effect 🙂
I remember when I had been at GCI for just about a year and the Wood County Police contacted us about a stolen computer that had been seen after the theft online with a GCI IP Address. BK asked me to look everything up in the database and I found out that the thief was someone I knew. Talk about an uncomfortable feeling 😉
1927… nothing else needs to be said.
I remember randomly changing the main page to Julie Henson’s personal domain to whatever picture, quote, or thought we may have had for the moment. Sometimes she got a new main page three or more times in a day. Yup, we changed it a lot, but the “ballsy squirrel” was always my personal favorite because it upset her so…
I too miss Myron, he was a good and faithful friend of ours for many, many months.
I have to say equally as bad as any customer was Bob Kitzler, salesman extraordinaire. The only guy who could read about a new technology that would be available within twelve months in the morning and sell that same technology as working and promise prompt delivery of said product to customers in the afternoon. What an ass…
When thinking back to the GCI days I have to be honest and say that sometimes memories are a beautiful thing and sometimes they are the major contributing factor to doctor-prescribed pharmaceuticals.