Of all the employments, working in the the brood pit was at once the most horrific

[kingtycoon]

Today has called for wisdom.

I got wise, I got tricks, I got techniques.

Riding in to work on the bus I did what is personally my favorite thing to do at my job and that is to log onto someone's computer using my phone. The interface is clunky and difficult, there is considerable lag (although VZ has been rocking the 4G speeds excessively lately, I've been getting 11 Megs down) but there's nothing in my day-to-day that's as undeniably futuristic as remotely manipulating someone's computer across the country on my phone while commuting.



Virus definitions out of date and some kind of trojan needing examination - something easy-ish to do. But still, I'm bumping down the street on the dirty old #9 and there I go, haxxxoring shit up.

Then there's organizational elements that need defining and tagging, managing the cloud services. I'm wise.

Then the marketing girl quits and I'm the one who knows how to use photoshop, so I do that now too. I'm clever.

Then WinXP goes EoSL next month so the oldest and grunchiest machines used by the most antique of my coworkers must be replaced - all throughout the dusty old corridors and nooks. That falls to me to manage and succeed at. I'm skillful.



And you know, I misplace my buspass - and end up walking home, the long-long way, and this after I was excitable and proud about walking. Triumphal - so I... I would not say I was taken down - because it's good and neat to take the long walk home, even in the rain since, hey, it's rain and not snow, since the sick old sky is sufficient to support rain and thus life instead of ice and thereby death. I take the rain and like it. Walking in mud and through deserted constructioned streets, up the neighborhoods where the old-men fear to tread.


where once were valiant things now desolated.

I... I get caught up in the dingy overused, forgotten and broken nature of the city, my Place among the places. I get carried away wandering through it and happy to be. It occurs to me as I go that I'm very, very solitary, that I'm alone most of the time. It occurs to me that it suits me and that I'm probably the least sad of all the sad people, the least lonesome of the lonely people, but still - if loneliness and sadness were rainbows, I guess I'd be ultraviolet. I'd be past the perception of having those qualities, but I'd have them. Which is right. It's proper to have a properly circumspect view of these traits, lest they slide down the scale becoming Orange and Red, dangerous. Ahyhow- I lost my buspass - I'm foolish.

I climbed under desks replacing computers - I'm dusty.

I can use photoshop, but people who've seen my work, they all know and agree that I oughtn't. I'm tacky.

It's a life, lived up is all, a lot of doing without much feeling, that's the week that's been.

Comments

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

Lovin' this post...

1) I can totally relate to taking on new things because you're the only one who knows how.

2) It is weird how we grow into new technology. I have a love/hate with these things, in some ways they are so much easier than they used to be (VNC and all that? Now we just punch a button on a phone and we're in). Like when you used to have to manually edit XFree86 Config files to get your video card working with Linux in order to display XWindows.

3) I had a dream last night about getting a virus on two computer systems, and they were of Chinese origin (including Chinese code using Unicode, I guess, instead of the typical English programming languages most in use).

4) These are good pics. They have that urban decay thing down pat. I always feel connected to the desolation of old buildings as they rot away. Like the lone trees in a farmer's field. There's a certain solitude to it that is comforting. Hell it's like Cobain's "I miss the comfort in bein' sad" line.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

That one has part of my finger, but my finger is also urban and decayed.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous of your wisdom. True facts I think guys who came up in IT with XP are way smarter than me. Mainly cause XP is so much harder to use.

[forsakengirl.livejournal.com]

If I lived closer I don't think I could resist the urge to visit that house. It's magnificent.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Hey, aren't you from D-troit? I bet your crumbling houses in the messsst up part of town are nicer than mine.

[forsakengirl.livejournal.com]

I have taken some good pictures. But the areas aren't always safe. I usually make my brother go with me. And then we always have to drive. Never can we walk up to the house/building, like i 'd like. We once got chased by a man eating soup.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, all my coworkers freak out about me walking around. They think it's super dangerous here, and I guess there are a lot of killings, but I've been lucky in life about never facing trouble.

[forsakengirl.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are much worse places you could walk.
But you're a big guy, right? That and a bit of confidence can keep you pretty safe. With that being said, be careful. :)

Btw, your ties are fantastic!

[(Anonymous)]

i know. at first, i'm like, where is that house? i will buy it. then i regain sense.

marketing girl quit? what, like, she tired of getting paid for doing nothing?

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Well, it's in the buckeye neighborhood where you will have a bad experience. I think the taxes are pretty low on $100 houses though.

[archivist405.livejournal.com]

fantastic photo, the one with you in it

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, that's cause I'm in it.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Love the shot of the house - have you ever been inside it (or even taken a look through the window?)?

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Nah, that's a good way to get sot. Somebody lives there I think.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Ah,best not then.

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

Infrared is the best band, we've got plenty of wave to hivemind!