Bite The First:

So we’re given a budget for new computers, since the machines currently at JJ aren’t fit for bringing onto our network. That’s all well and good. I went to our wonderful CDW rep and asked for a quote on enough computers to equip the people coming over, and enough Netware licenses to get them on our server.

And then I asked her for a bigger quote, adding some machines and network switches to the mix. I looked at the final quote, called it Good, and fumbled my way through the paperwork to get everything ordered.

Two hours after I faxed over the purchase order, I looked at the quote again and noticed something lacking: The Netware licenses. Gah! Dumbassed me! A frantic bit of phone tag later, our wonderful CDW rep promised a fix, and disaster was narrowly averted. Didn’t help my frame of mind much, though.

Bite The Second:

The plan for migrating the “former Fisher folks” onto our email system called for Fisher to make the change to the email domains tomorrow, after confirming that everything was ready on our end.

For instance, it would be unwise to repoint the domains if the new email server doesn’t have the accounts set up, wouldn’t it? And since I’d only very recently received the list of accounts, I was spending the afternoon entering those to the server.

One of the ladies from the business office came to ask why emails to folks over at JJ were bouncing back. I looked at the bounce message and sure enough, Fisher had already made the change. Gah! Dumbassed Fisher! I scrambled back to my workstation and cranked out the rest of the addresses, and now all I can do is hope that there weren’t too many bounced messages.

Mind you, now we have a bit of a problem. Even if mail is coming here now, that means nobody over there can get to it. It looks like we’ll be making the WAN change earlier than we’d planned.

Which doesn’t help my frame of mind much…