Well first to pull up some stuff up from earlier this week. First and biggest (as it will have effects later in the entry) is that I was wrong about Bloomington. Afni headquarters is not in Bloomington Indiana, it is instead in Bloomington Illinois.
This throws a pretty good sized wrench into my plans.
So after today I feel better about my job at afni. More people are starting to ask me information and that is a good feeling. I am also starting to pickup more about the network and how it is ran at afni. We have been working on isolating the specific registry keys that turn off the fading effect on the menus for W2k. Having finally gotten them isolated, I started to work on a script that Shane had started to make them turned off whenever anyone logs into the active directory. I brought it home and researched it a little and came back to the server room with some more ideas. I called Shane to talk about some of it and apparently this impressed Shane. He offered me a job at the Bloomington building as his assistant. This would put me above all the techs in afni, but now I have a new problem. I think I would like to work with Shane and I would like to get back into working with servers again. The pay raise that taking the job would give me would be nice as well, but moving to the middle of Illinois starts up a new set of expenses. So while I would like the job and like to accept the responsibility, I do not think that I can accept it. I hope Shane will see it from my point of view because after talking to him for just a bit I think that we could be pretty decent friends. There is a lot of extra crap that goes on at afni. Person X wants to be talked to before Person Y is consulted and such. I guess that is probably the same no matter where you work, but it would be nice to have everyone do their job and do it correctly without all the extra hassles.