It’s my first night of my two week stint as the graveyard operator, and boy am I bored.

It’s been a while since I’ve done this shift. Since I’m unable to drive due to the damn medications I’m taking (I haven’t driven since September, 2003), they pulled me off the graveyard rotation. With the advent of me getting a laptop and a VPN connection combined with the hosts file from hell… I’m now able to get in from home and monitor every system at work.

So… I’m sitting here doing operator duties in the middle of the night.

We had hoped that they could hire someone else to do this, as we’re pretty much all Sr. Engineers and therefore kinda expensive for duties like this, but with the budget the way it is, it doesn’t look like we’ll ever be able to hire an operator.

Hopefully, having all this free time will encourage my creative side… as I have plenty of time during the night to think my own special brand of weird and bizarre thoughts. Last time I worked graveyard, I came up with this little diddy (which reminds me… I need to create that as a poster for sale at the wwbd house of style (aka: my crappy online store which I make 0% profit from).

I don’t really have much other news at the moment. My wife has recovered from her surgery enough to drive again and I’m still waiting to find out when my pre-surgery appointment is. I’ll keep you up to date (like you really care).

And finally… apparently there’s been a problem with the website loading as of late. It’s taken up to 60 seconds for the sidebar to come up. A big thanks to Eve for pointing it out. I’ve found the issue and corrected it (I hope)! Let me know if there’s any other problems.