Today is My Friday

So, I was worked my butt off for the last two days. Now it is my Friday since the 4th is a Holiday, and I get Thursday off. Pretty sweet, hey? Anyhow, yesterday I did not get to work on time, I was a bit on the late size, about an hour or so. I did not go to bed until 2 am. Not a good idea. So, I get to work and at 2:30 I had an appointment to have my day in court. More on that later. So, I need to fix a printer in the Health Department. So, I get a new printer cable, and hook it to the computer and it works. One of the employees in that area, were the printer is, asked if I could set up sharing on the printer so she could get to it as well. She said it was not a hurry. So, I planned on doing it when the owner of the computer where the printer is located is not in the middle of doing her work. I head back to my desk and I get an e-mail from someone else in the office. An e-mail written IN ALL CAPS. That said in part, "COULD YOU SCHEDULE TIME TO HOOK POLLY UP TO JACKIES NEW PRITNER"? First off, in the words of Strong Bad; Do you know how many rules you broke by writing in all caps? It is highly annoying to me when people do it. I work with a lady who does it quite often. We have an old mainframe system, and she uses all caps when typing into it. However, in my problem tracking database, she will not turn off the caps, and she types in all caps in there too. It is one of my big pet peeves. So, back to the story. Stay the heck out of it. I am dealing with the person with the request, why in the hell are you wasting bandwidth with that e-mail, and why are you typing in all caps. The days of the TeleType are long gone, unless you work in the Jail. So, after fuming over that for a little while, I get some stuff done on the new computers for the sheriff's office. I will be ready to install those tomorrow.

I am leaving my job at the City of Colfax as the IT Manager. I don't have the time and I feel my performance in suffering due to that. So, I am in the process of hiring a new guy to replace me. The interviews were set up for Friday the 11th of July. The applications from the people interested in the job are in, and the deadline has passed for turning in any more. As 2 pm rolls around I go to the city hall in Colfax to get a copy of all of them so I can review them. Then I head off to Pullman for court. I sat in the court room for about 1 1/2 hours waiting for my turn. As I sat there, there was an Asian lady testifying about an accident she had had. She had a black guy with her explaining what had happened. The judge believed their story and threw out the ticket. She was very thankful and she treated the court with respect. Then another black guy, who is a former WSU football player was there. He was dealing with multiple tickets. He came with a tee-shirt with the sleeves ripped off, and with a baseball hat on. Wearing it backwards. He was disrespectful in his appearance and his attitude towards the judge. The judge pretty much threw everything out, but I can't believe this guy. The world was out to get him, in his eyes. I think that he has been told that his whole life, therefore as a self-fulfilling prophecy, it happens. Actually, he perceives the world is holding him down, whenever anything bad happens to him. When the same situation happens to me, it is not the world holding me down. In the case of the law, it is a case where I have been caught for doing something wrong. And in reality that is the case with him. The world is not holding him down. He was caught for doing something wrong, on several occasions. The next case was of a guy who had been driving on a gravel road. He lost control of his vehicle, and started to go off the roadway. He did not hit the brakes. He did let off the gas. He then fish tailed from one side of the road to the other for 421 feet, and then he hit the brakes, 40 feet after hitting the brakes he ended up with his vehicle upside down in the river. So, in total he went 461 feet after he no longer was giving the vehicle gas. In your head, think of a speed someone might have gone to coast on a gravel road 461 feet. The driver claims he was doing 35 miles an hour. I don't think so. And neither did the judge. He was found guilty. Then it was finally my turn. I was charged with parking in a no parking zone, however, there are no signs visible, and the curb is not painted. So, I had no reason to believe I was parking illegally. It was not the money on this ticket. It was only a $20.00 ticket. For me it was the principle of the issue. I was ticketed in a zone that is not marked in anyway. The judge agreed and threw it out. What burns my chops the most if the parking officer had included photos of no parking signs there were marking other areas, but he included no photos of the actual area where I was cited. So he was making it look like it was marked when it was not marked at all. Luckily I had a photo to show the judge. After winning that case I came back to work and stayed until my Colfax Fire Training. We were dealing with Infectious Diseases. That was fun. Then we went and played with the new foam system we got for the rescue rig. That is a cool thing. It has a 50 gallon water tank that is run by air pressure, not a pump.

I got home finally at about 11:30 pm. I watched the Family Guy. That is one funny ass show. It is too bad they still down make them.