So idiotic. The "co-pay" that HealthAlliance didn't cover turned into a "rental agreement" where I paid like $18 a month for what seemed like forever (maybe 6-7 months?) and then all of a sudden jumped to $1xx because HealthAlliance wasn't a thing anymore. It was totally aggravating. Anywho. :)

I have a gently-used (once) nebulizer that I paid $4,285,304 in payments to "rent" after Christie Clinic told me that insurance would take care of it. I can ship it to you if you like.

Happy 4/20. Also I haven't had a drink in 8 days.

SETENFORCE 0

Also, first dog poop of the day. Looked like normal Lucy poop. No bunny parts. (I did stop in the vet today, and they agree no need to panic unless there's something to panic about, but no you dumbass, dogs aren't just mini wolves. She didn't really call me a dumbass. 😉)

This is why Microsoft Windows sucks. They move shit around more than any other operating system I've ever used. Like they purposely want to make it so Google is wrong. "Go to Settings - Apps - Optional Features." Do you see Optional Features?? I don't. Grrrr.......

Waiting on IPAM to import 60-ish rows from a .csv file. The more of a hurry you are in, the slower it goes -- that sort of thing. Also waiting on Lucy to poop out that goddamn bunny she ate whole yesterday. Ugh.

Also, still sober. Day six. My bizarro brain has decided to stop blaming myself. I went to rehab. I was sober from 2020 to 2024, solid. My ex-wife caused this latest mess. Let's not give her the satisfaction of my demon coming back to roost. #Veronica

And the rich get richer...

DNS can wait, though. A few more smokes first.

Work-from-home Friday. I have to import a hundred or so rows into IPAM (our campus DNS tool). It'd be cool if IPAM saved the query from the last time I had to do this. Then I need to assign some IPv4 addresses to MAC addresses for the new campus a/v equipment.

And "eth0" was so much easier than eno1p2n1q5r. I hate it now.

I was going to say they have an extra key in one of those magnet boxes stuck to the other side.

Something about a Royale with Cheese. Or some such verse.

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I'm pretty sure I just watched my dog eat that baby bunny from yesterday. Like chewed and swallowed it whole. zOMG.... 😬

I'm pretty sure I heard an advertisement about ankylosaurus spongeoarthritis the other day. Dinolimubad or something will fix that right up. Or so the ad said. I won't get into the side effects. ("Increased chance of lower limb loss..." -- what?)

Republicans don't want an educated populace.

Thursday. If there's ever a day to drink and be sneaky, it's Thursday. But not this Thursday. Not today, Satan!

You know when I typed that I stopped for a second and raised an eyebrow...

Absolutely no way you are bringing that inside, young lady. I don't care how proud of yourself you are. #Lucyfur

Oh that's delightful. I am always happy to do math, but them networking peeps do it all off the top of their heads. Alas, I'm not DigD0ug.

And funny, I have a lot of editing to do in CDB thanks to the boss retiring, and hostmgr suggested we move to AD control of CDB, which I think I'm going to end up enabling, etc.

I think I want a /24, which is 256 addresses, right? I only need a couple dozen right now. I've never really dealt with this stuff before -- the old boss always took care of networking stuff. I'm beyond rusty.

Not awful at all! I wouldn't trade it for the world! 🧡💙

First major ball dropped (by me) since my boss retired. I sorta didn't realize I needed to order a new network segment from campus for our upcoming a/v project. Grrr... I don't like dropping the ball.

Okay, so I need to find the VLAN where all of this new a/v stuff is going to live. That should be easy enough. I doubt it already has entries in IPAM (DNS). I should be able to figure this out though.

The only way to afford college is to get a job at a University that offers free tuition for employees. My problem is that I got my MS in computer science that way, and now instead of working a high-paying government I.T. security contractor job like I was envisioning, I'm still, well, here. 😆🧡💙

Also, speaking of my job. I think today is my 24th anniversary at the Big U. I think it was April 15. Is that right? I didn't go to work my first day. Storm the night before. Huge little leaf Linden uprooted and dropped on my driveway. Good memories...

TMI yesterday. Probably inappropriate. But I'm not dealing with this shit for another 4 years. You do your job, and get out of my way and let me do my job.

And heaven forbid I explain that this person is taking my daily tasks and making them more complicated by trying to insert themselves into the equation. Let me do my job. Oh, you have nothing to do to show for yourself? That's. not. my. problem. I have enough problems. And enough work.