I have to go pay rent at lunch today. Maybe I should just take a half day. A few days ago I emptied out my bedroom and office closets in order to do some spring (in the winter) cleaning. I am still not finished cleaning up everything, and I was kinda hoping Ashley might want to come over and hang out tonight. If she decides not to work, and if she decides to call me. *sigh*
I will spend most of the morning finishing up Queue and Channel creation in my IBM MQSeries instance.
MQSeries software is so silly. Why do I have to have a Qremote definition, a XmitQ definition (Qlocal), a Channel definition and a channel listener process all on one end to handle shipping queue data across the network? There is no other use for Qremote… why not make a queue of that type simply combine the other three pieces automatically? Makes more sense to me. In addition, how hard would it be to add readline support to the console command? MySQL has it. Hell… even Informix has a usable interface. This is just atrocious.
The other department I am doing MQSeries work with is retarded. On a development platform they require a change record and 24-48 hours lead time to make a change as simple as a hostname to connect to. It is development for a reason. So this means, I have to register an internal DNS name to facilitate DNS, and then alter that DNS record (which take 24-48 hours to be processed by another department and another 24-48 hours to propagate) when it is time to move the server into its permanent home in the bunker. My boss sometimes questions why I can get internal projects done so quickly when it takes so long to complete external projects. Well… that is part of the answer right there: if I want to change something, I change it… no change record, 24-48 hour waiting period or other such nonsense. In addition, when an application is in development I am at liberty to change anything I want at any time and not have to worry about customer down time, because there are no customers (other than testers who know it will be up and down) on a development box. No wonder it takes this company one year, one million dollars, and two-hundred conference calls to get anything done.
James Earl Jones or not, they still suck.
I am quitting smoking. Again. I have been limiting myself severely (though I smoked a few more than I should have over coffee last night) and don’t even bother bringing my cigarettes out of the truck when I go to work.
Smoking makes me sick to my stomach. That is not good.
Kim sent me an instant message last night:
20:23:49 kim: i’m drink
20:23:52 kim: drunk
20:23:54 SELF: are you
20:23:55 SELF: heh
20:23:59 SELF: at home?
20:24:03 kim: yeah
20:24:06 SELF: alone?
20:24:07 kim: alone yeah
20:24:12 SELF: heh
20:24:15 SELF: why are you drinking alone?
20:25:05 SELF: kim?
20:25:34 SELF: hello?
20:26:09 SELF: kim?
kim logged out @ 20:26:45.
I found out later that her boyfriend showed up, so she just turned off the computer. heh.