Posts by TommyBoy

Evry Monday Morning

Scene: Monday 8:10 AM, Help Desk at a Community College

[Helpdesk Phone rings]

Tommy the Tech (Me): [Checks number] @#$%! [picks up phone] IT Helpdesk

IT Director (Barbara) [panicked voice] : Is this Tommy? (I'm the only tech who's there before 9 AM, and have been for the last 2 years)

Tommy: Yeah (Thinking in the back of my head: NO IT"S FRIGGIN BATMAN!!!)

IT Director [panicked voice]: Alice (Dean of English) says Carol (Professor) called and six computers in room 123 aren't working!!!

Tommy: Okay, I'll go look.

IT Director [panicked voice] : The students have to do a lab and is this a problem and... quack... quack... quack...

Tommy [interrupting]: ...I understand. Ill go look.

Tommy walks, literally, ACROSS THE HALL. (The tech office is in room 124, same building.)

Carol [panicked]: THE COMPUTERS AREN'T WORKING AND WE HAVE TO DO ONLINE LABS. DO WE NEED TO MOVE TO ANOTHER ROOM AND I CALLED ALICE... quack... quack... quack...

Ignoring this Tommy pushes the power button on the monitors of the six 'non-working' computers.

Through Arcane Technological Magic they are now working.

Carol: LOL. Oh, I guess I should have checked that

Tommy: Yeah, I'm right across the hall in 124. Just knock. You don't need to call Alice or Barbara.

Carol: Ok, Thanks.

[Enter Alice and Barbara]

A&B [In Stereo]: OMG is everything OK? What's wrong with the computers? Do we need to move the students to another room? Quack... quack... quack...

Carol: The monitors weren't working but Tommy fixed them.

A, B & C: Discuss some Faculty BS for the next 30 minutes or so while the students warm their thumbs rather than working on the OH SO IMPORTANT online labs.

Tommy exits the scene and goes out to the parking lot to smoke at least 2 cigarettes.

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Scene: Next Monday 8:10 AM, Help Desk at a Community College

[Helpdesk Phone rings]

Tommy the Tech : [Checks number] @#$%! [picks up phone] IT Helpdesk

IT Director (Barbara) [panicked voice] : Is this Tommy?....

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Coda:

Tommy no longer works in IT. He got a job as a Union Electrician for more money and less BS

Oh, for crying out loud. I spent countless quarters playing Pac-Man and you never saw me running around in the dark listening to repetitive electronic music and gobbling pills... Uhhh... Never mind.

Why bother with diesel?

Most diesel powered military equipment will run just fine on JP-8. I know that we fueled the trucks and generators with it. It's pretty common practice in Aviation Battalions. They already require enormous amounts of fuel for the helicopters, why make things more difficult by carrying two different types?