I'm getting real anxious for 1) Spring to finally stick (next week?) and b) my next SoCal work-cation (this time next month). Winter and DC suck.

As usual I "get" the honor of sending in an additional check for taxes for the State. Screw the electronic filing for that. Print out the form and sign it and mail an analog check on April 14th. It is all set up and ready to go to the mail box.

Good Hump day morning.

I think today must be drive with fog lights on day. The visibility is reported as 9 miles, so the fog is not real thick. Over 1/2 the vehicles seemed to have their fog light on today during my 8.5 mile commute. I don't understand why folks drive around with the fog lights on. I guess because they are idiots and idiots need to keep proving their idiocy.

It is supposed to get into the 80s today and then we get a front coming in this afternoon. Possibilities of thunderstorms. We have to have moisture to have a thunderstorm so maybe some rain with no lumps of ice falling. We have had an unusual drought of tornadoes. So far zero tornadoes in Oklahoma in all of March. The normal is 80 or so. We are way below average for the year across the country in tornadoes. No one is complaining except the storm chases and screw them.

good morning all. After an internet vacation (Ricks words not mine) I'm back.

Glen just saw the old message on AutoCAD. We can try and play with it, might end up being a Max thing with solid works.

On the 911 side the beast blew a caliper after pad replacement and sits for the time being.

We had freezing rain last night. No shorts weather again for a few days.

Rick, I might have to get one of those with a huge push bar for the idiots that think a 3-4 car length gap in traffic is an appropriate size to pull out in. Had I been driving the old Ramcharger I would have hit a couple of the idiots because 1) the brakes weren't that great and 2) I wouldn't really care.

Joe, did you also drop the hammer on a pointy projectile launching device at a gator just to get their attention? I guess you have a blunt projectile launching device that has an actual hammer.

I'm cook with gators as long as they aren't on my back porch.....they get to die if they're in my back porch.
Here's the pointy tool
http://www.messerforum.net/fotoalbum...9/IMG_0772.JPG

Out of curiosity, how well can you grip that with wet hands?

Welcome back!

We need a little more insanity. Did you go back to your last post and catch up with the thread? :p

Better than you'd think. The coating has a bit of really fine texture that makes it pretty easy to grip. Most guys shave down the top of the sheath and do a paracord wrap.

Of course, if you really want something with good wet weather grip
http://images.knifecenter.com/thumb/...ges/CRKPAC.jpg
I had that knife for about a year and a half before I really used it because I didn't want to mess it up. Got over that and now I beat the snot out of it.

as a matter of fact I did.

Where is my prize?

hey everyone

Silly customers!

I am dealing with a lady that called and wanted a quote on a "big" print of all of Oklahoma County. Cool, define big. 8x10 feet is easy. Give he a price. OMG! How about 3x5 ft. OK, better price. Now tell me if you wanted a custom photo quality print that is 8x10 freaking feet would you expect it to cost more than a poster in a rack at Wal-Mart?

I get the details and teller he I will email her with a quote and a proof. She calls back after every email. I guess she can't type. You call to answer a simple question? She is with a large company so I know they have a budget to work with.

Sheesh. Dang customers keeping me from my afternoon nap!

Why are there sooo many well meaning stupid people that thing they have to change things?

I am working on the back log of stuff that happened while I had the flu then the funeral. The AD guy thought he would start moving things around for the migration. He is changing mailbox and calendar names and the types of objects they are...ARG he is making more work instead of less, and causing more things to break for no reason except his ideas of how they should be. My backlog is getting bigger instead of smaller, good thing there are dates on things.

Found out just a minute ago he has been running tools and scripts on AD object and not been paying attention to what they are actually doing. I've found it is a LOT easier to make your own scripts and tools so you know what they are doing and there is not clean up required for the tool that is supposed to help clean up that is as much or more hassle than just doing the work manually.

I knew this was going to happen. The consultants sent me some scripts and tools, I looked at them and quickly found I had to either majorly edit them, or just start over to keep from messing things up. Somehow knew this was going to happen when they had a migration meeting I could not attend and the consultants started changing how the migration was supposed to happen.

Again...ARGH!

So I guess it is more than $6.95?

Thanks Joe, it is hard to see any texture in the picture. A friend of mine has a fine sandpaper like coating on his Glock that made it grippy, but not very comfortable but I guess if your life is on the line I would rather it stayed in my hand properly. His Sunday go to church (literally) was a nickel 1911 he carried openly.

WTH? Not you, him.

It's not like sandpaper, really more of a light gumminess. Just enough to get a good grip.

He has no real idea what he is doing, but keeps changing things anyway. He is the cisco guy and is meddling in AD and my Boss is letting him. Our AD does need some organization, but it needs to be done by someone that has a clue.

For example he is breaking things down into OU's that are the HR's definition of departments. Those have NOTHING to do with actual working departments to use for security or access to things. HR is the ONLY people that think in those department groupings. Ask people what department they are and 9 times out of 10 it has nothing to do with HR's departments. The whole reason for departmental OUs is to use them for access and security, but no-one is looking at the things we already have access and security on to see how they would be used.

All I can do is make suggestions (which are ignored), watch, then smile and say "Yep, that's why we didn't do that."

The move to Office365 is being used as an excuse to re-org AD, and it is being rushed so badly it's causing MORE migration problems.
I would just lump everything with an email into the Users OU, and migrate it. What the heck, done no problems. That's what office365 wants! It is designed to keep a single OU synced with on-site AD. Then after the mostly trouble free migration worry about all the AD stuff. Especially since we don't want to use Azure as our AD master anyway.

Oh noooooo, the bosses have been buzy this morning.

Because the Office365 user licenses are so high, even in this day and age of electronic communications they are implementing a justification form that has to be filled out, submitted, and approved for someone to get or to create a new email account with the company.

Our company has 100s of iphones and ipads using email for people to get sales, shipping, purchasing, production, order, manufacturing, alerts, etc.!!

We are going backwards!!!

Don't fill one out for yourself.

Ah, that makes sense.

Our now ex-CEO wanted to move everything to the "cloud" until I explained the time in migration, the licensing et al. We still self host.

We watched the JJ Abrams version of Star Trek last night. It was OK. My wife wasn't fond of the "shakey cam" and I don't care to see another lens flare, but what made me really laugh were the scenes in "Iowa". It looked a lot more like Imperial county than Iowa. Granted I haven't seen all of Iowa but I have seen a lot of it and I have never seen anything that resembles what was in the movie. Either the people in Hollywood have never seen Iowa or it was heavily terraformed in the future.