There is something special about the environment that is work. For lunch you can get Thai food that makes your brain throb from the spice. You park in this overflow lot of bark since there isn't much room elsewhere. At 8am, the national anthem plays and the entire base comes to a complete stop for 5-10 minutes. No cars move, no people walk, the base is perfectly still. Apparenlty it also does this about 4:30 or so as well, but I am usually still working at that time. I work with a pointy haired boss straight from Dilbert, and my coworkers may as well be Wally and Alice.
To highlight my example, we have been drafting documentation on how to reboot a Windows 2000 server. Now, for those who use Windows on a regular basis, you would agree that pressing "Start", selecting "Shutdown", etc would be a simple and painless process. This is not the case, as per the feedback we received...
Here's my take on this...I need to know physically where the servers are...building, room number, etc. Then I need to know how to login to these machines (what is the username/password). What makes the most sense here is to build on previous documents you have created which lists the servers, what apps they are running and then go from there. Don't assume that I know where the machines are and how to access them. Also, don't assume that I know what's on them...spell it all out.
I wonder if it is always like this. I am taking time off early today to go scout out a restaurant. Tessa and I have a planned 9:00 outing to Tillie Gorts, a vegetarian cafe. While I myself am not vegetarian, I have no qualms about picking foods that fall under that category. Most of them are actually really good. However, personally, I rely too much on things such as fish annd chicken as staple foods, mostly due to price.
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