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Yes, I'm still alive
A friend recently admonished me for not keeping my blog up to date. In my defence, I've been using Facebook to dish out one-liners instead of producing the sort of prose I'd normally write here. So if you were a Facebook friend, you'd be seeing all my witty one-liners instead of coming here to see the same old months-old posts.
Anyway. Much has been happening and TBH I don't want to spend too much time writing about it here, so here's a few bullet points.
- The puppies are growing up fast. They're getting on great, which we're very pleased about. They're a lot of hard work, too. I'd forgotten how much effort is required to live with puppies.
- Yesteray, Ziva had a lump removed from her head. It's been there since day one, and growing. We all expected to find it full of grass seeds or some other foreign body. In fact, it turned out to be the remnants of a tube that contained her spinal cord in utero. It was attached to her skull and had to be detached from the bone. The vet ended up removing about two square inches of tissue, skin and hair that had grown into the tube. She seems content and I can’t help feeling that she seems much happier and more alert. I could be imagining this last part, of course, but anyway, she’s OK. We have to keep her confined for 10 days. We've got a cage (which they kindly refer to as a "crate", but it's a cage) and she seems happy enough in it. Kelly, of course, is very curious about Ziva's stitches, so it's a good thing we have a cage for her. So far, no need to be a bucket-head.
- Work has been insanely busy. I've been working on a Windows 7/hardware refresh project since about September last year, and it all culminated in a huge deployment activity over a period of three weeks in March/April. About 600 computers, total, distributed over about 40 sites. Needless to say, this has involved a lot of time and effort, not to mention stress. It's all but done, now, with just a bit of cleanup in progress.
- I requested a position title change, so now instead of being Infrastructure Support Coordinator, I am a Project Services Engineer. This has not stopped people from ringing me and pestering me for support.
Hopefully they'll get the message soon.
Anyway... that's the last few months in bullet form. Not much to see here, move along people, move along...