In other news, there is no other news.

[digitaldiscipline]

So, I'm the sucker who's on call for the helpdesk this week.

What have I learned?

a) I have no idea how to use a camera phone.
b) This particular Motorola has a maximum memory capacity of about a hundred text page messages.
c) Five-minute intervals for server alerts to be rebroadcast can fill up said memory space in thirty hours.
d) Of 135 pages received thus far, I could do something meaningful for about five of them.
e) I'll be sleeping in the living room with the phone underneath me in order to let K get a decent night's sleep tonight.
f) You will discover that the VPN password you've been set up with works only after the IT guy who set it up gets on a weeklong cruise.
g) Flat Perrier tastes like finely-ground ass.
h) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Comments

[ivy]

Doh. I am familiar with the ugly necessity of sleeping in the living room when on call; I do it too. My sympathy. (I like Perrier even when flat, though.)

[draxzaster.livejournal.com]

I used to clip the phone, on vibrate, to my shirt while trying to sleep on support. My wife could sleep through me getting up and down to answer the phone, it was the ringing that was the real nuisance.