I’m not exactly sure how many of the Sisters and staff actually read my blog, but those who don’t will be in for a little bit of a shock tomorrow at the staff meeting when my resignation is announced by the CAO. (I’m tempted to say I was fired just for the reaction… nah, a little much.) Anyway, the fact that I’ll still be ‘on board’ in the capacity that I enjoy (helping Sisters with computer needs as a consultant) will keep me smiling from ear to ear. That’s how excited I am about this work status change.

But I’ll tone down my giddiness. Not exactly professional, you know.

Anyway, I’m just preparing against having that DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS look in the boardroom, a big pet peeve of mine career-wise. The cool-calm-collected look is a much better way to go.

Prayers are kindly accepted.

Update 12/13/07: Did a fellow staffer actually mention wingdings during our meeting? Anyway, onward to being a full-time consultant!

We interrupt this blog for an important announcement:

ITCM resigned from her position as the IT Director at the nonprofit organization within which she has been employed for almost 4 years. Official notice has been given.

But don’t worry. The employment change is for the better.

Now why is that? Because she isn’t going far from the Sisters. In fact, her status is changing over to IT Consultant who will be on call to answer to the Sisters’ personal computer needs.

For this news I cannot express how blessed and excited I feel at this very moment. Now, excuse me while I do my Happy Dance/Toyota Jump/Cabbage Patch combination in tribute to this new development. Get your Lean Cuisine and join me in celebration over lunch.

Cheers! *chink*

Sister M called me at the office today complaining of:

Everything that is not on the Internet is DISTORTED. And yes you do need to come over here and see this for yourself, because I can hardly believe what I’m seeing on the computer screen.

Ah what the heck. I’d barely had time to check my mail and the day was fairly open, so I high-tailed it over to Sister’s apartment to see what the fuss was all about. She flipped on the computer and lo and behold… WINGDINGS! That’s right, Sister M’s desktop icons appeared with text in WINGDINGS font. Everything completely unreadable WINGDINGS. So now it was my job as the IT’er to restore the desktop back to it’s original default settings, that is if I could guess my way around the Control Panel since everything was in complete martian language.

How does a person do this get into such a predicament? On purpose even? I’ve tried and it’s not easy. *sigh*

This I will not can’t help but miss.

As I sit here in my office at the Mother House tending to a computer issue with Sister J and the Dell Gold technician by way of conference call, fleeting thoughts about the weather keep popping into my head. This morning Weather Dude announced that we will be experiencing some seriously icky rain and ice after midnight, potentially weighing down trees and power lines across the area. This is not good news to my ears, because well… there goes the Internet Saturday morning. *iggs*

And the Catholic Son will attempt using the ice factor to his advantage by trying to get out of attending mass again. I know this. Because that’s what he does. Always. But I’m already ahead of him on that game. (Sorry dude.)

Meanwhile, Sister J seems to have some sort of bios/boot sector problem and keeps getting that dreaded ‘Non-system disc error’ when she attempts to boot up her computer, even though she swears there’s ABSOLUTELY NO FLOPPY IN THE A: DRIVE. Fearless warrior/Gold tech man, Mike, has been all over the issue for 2 hours now, and so far he’s had Sister J hop up & down on one foot and stand on her head while hitting the scroll lock/alt-f/F2/F12 key combination with her toes.

Only… what’s that you say?

Yes, Sister. Take the floppy out of the drive before starting it up next time. Problem solved, OS repair and all.

Fresh baked cookies are in order. I’m just sayin’.