This harp at the MIM was sort of creepy-looking.

Anyway, Tuesday had relatively ordinary work things, along with a bizarre problem. Corporate wants some stuff done. They are unwilling or unable or incompetent to send me the files necessary to get that stuff done. So, I have to subscribe to an automated service that’ll theoretically send me a semi-coherent version of those files tomorrow morning, which I will then have to pummel into some semblance of working properly.

Also, about 13 days ago, some other folks found a problem. I heard about it, and submitted a request to some other folks that should’ve fixed that problem. Except nobody did anything about it, even though some managers approved it. This caused some. . . annoyances. I don’t know what the holdup was, and I don’t know if I’m ever going to find out.

Both of these problems remind me of an exchange between a couple of Grumpy Old Sysadmins about 8 years ago:

Dan B.: I find it disturbing that a communications company can’t handle customer communications in such a way that customers can get to the “right person” in less than 3 forwards/redials from the original call.

David P. M.: You misspelled “predictable”. HTH,

There was no trivia. Next week, in lieu of trivia, I’m having Rock Band 3 at my place with food to be determined. Haven’t heard from that many of the trivia group yet. This should be a reasonable change.