Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Where's Waldo?

You want to know where Waldo is? Well Waldo is right here. Waldo is me.

...Now I'm in Big Sky country...

At the behest of Gigantic Concrete, I'm am sojourning in beautiful downtown Steinbach Manitoba. Home of, among other things, the Mennonite Heritage Village, Automobile Town, and a vast array of pawn shops, churches and car dealerships. Quick cash, religion and wheels seem to be the mainstay.

I must say it's a little unnerving to be here. Yesterday morning I was in the rolling hills of the Oakridge Moraine and the towers of Toronto. Now I'm in Big Sky country. It is flat. Flat; flatter; flattest. There are times you can actually catch the curve of the earth on the edge of the horizon. For someone from hill country, it's like being in a very large fish bowel.

So why am I here? Well it goes something like this. One of our plants had a circuit with telco #1. We ordered a new circuit from telco #2. By some “murphian” fiat of fate, we also cancelled circuit with Telco #1 thinking that the new circuit would be in place before the old one was disconnected. Wrong. So I'm here to figure out how to connect the site with no circuit. For my next trick, watch me pull a rabbit out of my rear...

2 Comments:

At September 13, 2005 1:06 AM, Blogger watson said...

Uh oh. Disasterville. So how's the new circuit going? Is it already online?

Well, at least you're in beautiful surroundings. :-)

 
At September 17, 2005 9:56 AM, Blogger ricknight said...

Disaster ville is right. It was a complete mess. All the Network gear was in a jumbled pile in the corner of the office. I had to dig through it, organize it, and put it into a real network cabinet. By Luck I discovered an old DSL modem attached to a line that was still active. So I fixed the site on that... :)

 

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