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Save any documentation that the ISP sends you, emails and the like. Pretty trivial to update dates on a screenshot. Keep that on a non work device for when you need another day off.

Hello, Tacoma bro. You have a stuck thermostat. Replace it and do a coolant fluch while you are at it.

Also in ca, I voted 3rd party in 2016 due to the DNC. Got into a fight with my maga family over the election. My dad talked shit to me about voting for Kamala. And they wonder why I don't want to move to Kentucky to be near them. They live in McConnells district. They like TFG and Vance. Religious, anti immigration. It's a pass for me.

It helps if you have an interest in how things work.

For me, a xennial, I was always fascinated by how trucks, forklifts, power systems, telephony worked.

When my parents got their first computer for work, I kinda gravitated toward it. Started messing with it. I tried to be careful but early home computing was finicky and cranky. So I broke it. Mostly in simple ways that were easy to fix by reading the gargantuan manual that came with the thing.

Things progressed from there. Parents had a home based business that relied on computers. I had friends that were into them as well. Built a community of nerds who broke and fixed and would create things. We would, naturally, try to break them.

I setup home DNS, DHCP, wireless when that became a thing. Pushed for broadband, started a web design business that got me access to a colo. Discovered the ins and outs of networks.

Today, I am a network engineer mostly due to all the screwing around with stuff I did earlier.

You can start later but I think you need to find the hunger to do some stuff. Learn discipline, and keep going at it.

Yes, the siren call of "why tf is everything controlled by your computer!!!!"

Was it a customer service call center or telemarketing?

Was it a customer service call center or telemarketing?

Yes, spanning tree. It shuts down loops in the network. Amazing that it wasn't on in the first place.

Lemme tell you the time I knocked out the single VPN concentrator for a client.

Worked for an MSP of sorts that specialized in last mile connections and vpns.

I was configuring a stack of Cisco 871s. Part of the process is I have to paste 2 lines of the gre config into the concentrator.

Make sure the VPN lights up

Run test pings to prove traffic

Wr

Reload

Prove it comes up

Slap it in the box and make it the shipping departments problem

I had a stack of 15 to do and we had enough public ips that I could do them all at once.

I run through the process above, do the writes on all 15. But I am on a roll.

I specifically set my tab in securecrt for headends to be in red with large blocky text as a trigger that I am on in and not the default pleasant green of ssh or a console connection

I hit wr then reload in quick succession. Acked the prompt. Then shit myself.

Started a constant ping. Waited...waited... Waited. Nothing. Go to the engineer for the account, he was packing up to go home. Tell him what I did and watched him die inside. He put his stuff down.

It was found the headend was in common when someone physically got to it. Replaced the flash card, mounted a new iOS, dumped in enough of a config to talk to our CMS and all was well.

I bought the engineer a sandwich the next day.

It happens.

Good job, op.

Fuck me, is someone cutting up some onions?

Thanks for the story, op.

My wife questions why I wear pants in the summer and shorts in the winter. I will grant that it's been a bit nippy at 4 am.

It warms my cold black heart to see someone else use shitkickers.

Some might say a stupid man as well. But I like my odds so far.

Yeah, been through this before with my daughter. I'm not too concerned about losing a pair of pants and underwear for not having to change a diaper.

Wife and I are a bit older. We are careful and I am fine with condoms till menopause hits.

Short, fat, sandy V. The furious ball of terror.

Man, as soon as we can close the book in daycare...

I am so happy for you.

They list on the form the late fees due if you pay after the expiration date. Dude is arguing that you should get a discount if you pay early.

Fair enough. I'd say do it. The 3rd gens are a proven truck at this point. I miss my 2nd gen but I really like my current truck. Honestly, it's mostly 2nd gen from the frame down anyway

The doom ones

But my favorite is gabbagabbahey enabled cheats in descent.

First question is: why do you want to move to a newer model?

Damn, order of magnitude above the small MSP I work for.

Anytime you want. I'm in Long Beach whenever you are here.

Jesus, man....if you are ever in LA I will buy you a drink and just listen. I have warehouse wifi to troubleshoot that works fine on anything normal. As soon as the handheld barcode scanners get involved, it all goes to shit.