Well, another one jumps ship. Rumor has it that yet another department plans to hire the LAN manager directly, bypassing NCS. Will the last one out please turn off the lights... I'm still a crispy critter from last weekend's fun - second degree sunburn is no fun. I've got to find a sunscreen similar to the one I used on the Habitat for Humanity build. It turned my face a lovely shade of blue-silver, but hey - I didn't get sunburned. I've got to get this somewhat healed before this weekend, otherwise I may end up in serious trouble. I've got a golf tournament for Children's Hospital on Saturday, then tickets to Sunday's game again. I'll be well done by Monday ;)
There are certain things about Nashville which would drive a Baptist minister to drink - in public. One of these things is the entity known as NES. Whenever NES isn't out butchering trees, apparently they're arbitrarily turning off power to entire city blocks. Granted, we had a storm the other night. Granted, there were a lot of people without power, and there was a transformer damaged. But notifying Vanderbilt 15 minutes after you've already done it that there will be "intermittent" power outages, then leaving the power off for an hour and a half, just doesn't seem Kosher to me. Blakemore is very busy street, as is 21st. I know that the traffic lights on Blakemore between Natchez and 21st were out, no police presence, just reliance that folks driving in Nashville would know to treat the intersections as 4-way stops. Since I swear two-thirds of the population doesn't understand the concept of a 4-way stop, this was a bad idea. Meanwhile, back at the ranc...
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