07-13-2013, 04:37 PM
More and more I am surprised at the ways in which BAMM and OE are altering my life, experiences, circumstances and actions. It seems to be affecting my interactions with the opposite sex in significant ways, for instance. It also seems to be correcting my focus and forcing me to go back and work on things that need work before other things... which I could not see before.
Case in point, last Friday, my laptop CPU fan died, and it refused to turn on. I called Lenovo tech support and requested an on-site warranty repair. "It'll be Monday." Okay. Monday comes and goes... no call, no repair. I call Tuesday. "It'll be tomorrow." That day comes, and no call from the tech by 2 pm, when the call should have come in by 1. I call. "The part's not in... it'll be tomorrow." Why didn't someone call me to inform me of this? And why did yesterday's tech tell me the fan was available?
Next day the tech calls me and tells me he'll be out between 1-3 PM. One of my forecasting models tells me the computer will be repaired between 4 and 5 PM. When does the tech show up? 4 pm. When does he leave? 4:57 PM.
Then I go to the office and discover that Andrew has to leave, and we don't have Internet there yet, so it's useless to stay. I pack up and go home, and... now my laptop has a dead LCD screen. No beeps, no errors, but nothing showing on the screen.
I call Lenovo. "It'll be fixed on Monday. If the part is here." Ugh.
In the meantime, Andrew's letting me use his MacBook Pro laptop, and I've been forced to work on non-build stuff, which as it turns out, was desperately needed.
I could never have designed BAMM to do these things if it were not for the Optimus Engine. It's getting me where I am going just as it was designed to, and looking back on when I started in January, I am simply amazed at my progress. It's a bit odd, though, after what's gone before, to somehow feel like the jet has just taxied out to the runway and is throttling up engines to maximum thrust for takeoff... again... I thought we'd done that already. But this office has certainly acted as a way for us to get a heck of a lot more accomplished. Now I find that my initial assessment of 5-10x more productivity was dead on. I've accomplished more in the last 2 days than I have in the last month. I am loving this... and it doesn't even feel like work.
Case in point, last Friday, my laptop CPU fan died, and it refused to turn on. I called Lenovo tech support and requested an on-site warranty repair. "It'll be Monday." Okay. Monday comes and goes... no call, no repair. I call Tuesday. "It'll be tomorrow." That day comes, and no call from the tech by 2 pm, when the call should have come in by 1. I call. "The part's not in... it'll be tomorrow." Why didn't someone call me to inform me of this? And why did yesterday's tech tell me the fan was available?
Next day the tech calls me and tells me he'll be out between 1-3 PM. One of my forecasting models tells me the computer will be repaired between 4 and 5 PM. When does the tech show up? 4 pm. When does he leave? 4:57 PM.
Then I go to the office and discover that Andrew has to leave, and we don't have Internet there yet, so it's useless to stay. I pack up and go home, and... now my laptop has a dead LCD screen. No beeps, no errors, but nothing showing on the screen.
I call Lenovo. "It'll be fixed on Monday. If the part is here." Ugh.
In the meantime, Andrew's letting me use his MacBook Pro laptop, and I've been forced to work on non-build stuff, which as it turns out, was desperately needed.
I could never have designed BAMM to do these things if it were not for the Optimus Engine. It's getting me where I am going just as it was designed to, and looking back on when I started in January, I am simply amazed at my progress. It's a bit odd, though, after what's gone before, to somehow feel like the jet has just taxied out to the runway and is throttling up engines to maximum thrust for takeoff... again... I thought we'd done that already. But this office has certainly acted as a way for us to get a heck of a lot more accomplished. Now I find that my initial assessment of 5-10x more productivity was dead on. I've accomplished more in the last 2 days than I have in the last month. I am loving this... and it doesn't even feel like work.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
