journaling: enabled

First day back after a 4-day weekend. Kinda nice to be back at work, though I felt kinda unproductive. I got to install some beta software to try out. I can’t name what products due to NDAs, but suffice it to say that I was happy to try them out.
It’s going to be interesting the next couple of months dealing with the fallout of the budget crisis. Among other things, our dialup modem pool is going away on July 1st. Ouch. That’s going to affect a lot of people. We’re probably going to get hate mail. Oh well, but it makes sense from the $$ standpoint. I can’t say as I’ll miss helping people out with that either. Some of the problems can be a real pain in the @$$. We’re also going to phase out Novell Netware. This is basically means re-working campus file and print services for faculty and staff, as well as finding a new email and calendaring (calendar = primary problem) system for a significant chunk of them as well. I can’t say as I’ll miss GroupWise either. I hate it. I don’t quite loathe it … but it’s definitely up there on my least favourite software list.
I took my 4Runner through the car wash today to clean off the road salt from my trip so it’s nice and shiny again. I really like driving a stick-shift again. Yay!
Well, I suppose I should try and find something productive to do … maybe like playing Carmageddon 2 … oh wait … that’s not productive… ;D