9/30/2001

What a morning. To get the whole story in let me slip back to yesterday. Yesterday being a saturday I had a big day of nothing planned, which in truth is somewhat how I like my weekends. Around 12 or so Shane called me and ask me to go in and help Michael at the opelika call center out with sending out some updates for a program we were going to be testing today. I went in and around 6:00 or so we finished up. I offered to come in this morning to test some changes that were happening with the above mentioned program since Jeremiah goes to church and I don’t. The plan was for us to come in and test it and be done…total time 45 min max. Instead I showed up and tested the stuff only to find out it didn’t work, add to that the fact that my boss couldn’t get into the call with the people that wrote the software. SO I took the lead with my call center and one of the other ones and got the program working with it and another of the call centers. I also solved a problem we were having with Wake on Lan settings and setup a process to boot machines into ghost without using floppy disks even on brand new machines. Needless to say when I got my boss on the phone he was quite impressed. So I am now the admin of the domain that this program is used accross. WooHoo!!! Working my way to the top.
On another note. In my desire to make the officers of WKU-Linux feel a love for the group and accomplish some goals I forgot a great tool to get things done. Public Forum. I have decided on one key thing. While I am executive advisor I am also a member and that makes them answerable to me. If I request something they are pretty much required to either do it or give me a reason why they aren’t and since it will be on the main list that means not only is it documented, but it is also in more peoples face. Hopefully this will make them feel like they will need to finish some of the goals instead of just waving them off with comments about classes and lack of time.