Their Baaaaack!!

Yes, the hackers have returned. Damn! There goes my peace and quiet. Back to making sure that EVERYTHING is triple secure. Sigh…. I really detest having to undo my work station every night. Lock the laptop in the safe, etc. Sigh….

Other than that, we are getting ready for the autumn crunch of computer repairs. Last year we got swamped. It seemed like every idiot with a computer fried it on the same night. There wasn’t even a thunderstorm to blame. Oh well. George had the inventory beefed up with power supplies and network cards. Stocked up on Clorox wipes too. Flu is one thing, but I swear some of these people don’t just eat AT their desks, they eat ON their computers. grrr…… One of them had sesame seeds in the keyboard. Oh… and we won’t even mention the name of the person who’s computer was full of cockroaches!!!! Ewwwww!!!! And to think that was in the office alone for a day….. ewwww!!!!

I’m half way thought my Professional communications class. I don’t understand why I need to take it. I do it every day… Oh well. Guess I have to learn how to be all “touchy feely”, and not offend anyone. I don’t offend anyone now, except for my classmates when they ask for a peer review on their paper! Gods these people can NOT write!

Grrrr……. I think I need Chocolate!

Life goes on….

And on and on….. We have been blessed with two weeks of absolute quiet…. No Hack Attacks…. I’m not sure how to act!

Oh wait… Yes I do. I’m back to dealing with our favorite idiot who can’t remember how to empty his temp files…. grrr….

I’m on the Dean’s list again. 4.0 average!!!!

It is cold too. Had our first snow storm. Brrr…..  Pete had a fender bender and crumpled his pretty SUV’s bumper. He hit ice. I told him we should have taken my old truck, but… oh well. Mr. Clark got into a fight with a pitbull and we had to rush him to the vet. No real damage besides a puncture wound. Oh, and my nerves.

Off to dinner in a bit…..

Holy Hoppin’ Horny Toads!!!

Wow! We’ve had a hacker that has been using a virtual machine to try and hack our system. Argh!!!! 52000 attacks in one day. Gads.  I’m just glad that George got a new firewall set up. He’s using Endian. Open source software. It is really working well.

Meanwhile, I’m almost done with class for this section. Wheeee!!!! However, next time, I have to be careful I don’t get Pete as an instructor. Do Not want the stigma of sleeping with the teacher!!!

Our weather is getting colder. Not totally ready for summer to be over. Oh well…..

La-La-la-La-Laaaa…. I’m on the Dean’s List!

GeekgURL has a 4.0 average! Yes, I made the Dean’s list. Pete was so proud of me, he to us out to dinner at this fantastic seafood place. Oh My Gods it was good!!! I pigged out on shrimp, scallions and lobster.

George and Kevin are acting like proud brothers…. all their fault that I’ve done so well in class.

Meanwhile back at the job,…. the hackers are still circling the wagons… um… the office. The FBI didn’t do squat. Or, if they did, they just hit one set of hackers. We had another attack last night. George is just plain tired of it. He shuts off everything he can and then treble firewalls the rest. He sets the alarms and then off he goes. In the morning, he clears the files, checks on the computers and fixes any damage the hackers may have done. He is really tired of this.

What we aren’t certain of is whether the network trunk line going down was due to the hackers messing up or just some farmer hitting a line with a backhoe. We may never know. All we had was nearly a day of downtime and a week of repairs after that.

Sure hope whoever it is that is paying the hackers runs out of money soon! Or, that they get caught.

Oh….. and as a final note,…. Mr. “I can’t remember how to clean my cookies” called again. 400th time! since I started working!!!

I am SO Pissed…

The Financial Aid office is at the top of my hit list this week. I think I have taken them copies of my taxes and other financial documents at least eight times. I faxed the first set and they wouldn’t take it because I didn’t add a cover sheet. So, next time I sent it in with Pete. No, that wasn’t good enough either. I had to sign a copy in front of them. Then, they lost my file. I was so pissed by this point that I think I had steam coming out of my ears.

But…. do you know what the last straw was? Their computer crashed. I’m standing there, watching it happen and know I can fix it. I tell them that I can fix it. Oh no! They have to call a professional. So, I leave.

I get back to the office after lunch and there is a phone message…. Can You Guess Who? Yep! College Admissions Office!

So, I put my nice little office id on my shirt, grabbed one of the clipboards and head out. When I get to the office, the gal looks at me and tells me that she still can’t process my financial aid because her computer is still down. I tell her I know, and that I’m here to fix it. She didn’t believe me. So, I show her the id. She looks at it like I forged it. I got pissed and called George, and let him talk to this idiot. I could tell he was mad, because he sounded so polite while he shouted that “Yes, she IS the TECH!”

I got to work, and discovered that the computer had a virus. The ditzy secretary had been cruising the Internet on her lunch hour. Lots of social sites and she picked up a bug. Such fun. Oh, and she hadn’t updated in about six months. This being a Windows machine meant that it took me nearly three hours to download the updates, reinstall the virus software and then bring the machine back up. I took off all of her twee little task bars and set it back to the college standards. That freed up almost a gig of hard drive space. Stupid People!!!

However, my financial aid paperwork is all done and the company is $350 richer. Ha!