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SysAdmin—Caffeine of the Digital World

Have we ever taken an additional minute to think, “Why is my tool behaving weird?”, “Why is my password invalid?”, “Why doesn’t my mouse work?”, “Why is a key missing in my keyboard?”, or anything? The answer would be a big NO! And why is that? Because we’ve always had this universal solution—Call an Admin!

Admins have always been our last-minute fairy godmothers, who do God knows what, but end up cleaning our mess. What do they actually do? If Admins aren’t troubleshooting a computer crash, cleaning out a virus, or repairing coffee-damaged keyboards, they’re most probably upgrading our PC’s hardware, maintaining servers, or providing training.

Despite these high-pressure tasks and constantly dealing with us at our most stressed, SysAdmins go about their work with quiet composure and never-ending patience. Office life, especially in this pandemic, would be impossible if not for the dedication and expertise of our Admins, which is why it’s mandatory that we show them our gratitude.

Say “Thank You” this SysAdmin Day

Do our admins know exactly how much we appreciate them? Or could we do a little more?

Friday, July 31, 2020, is world System Administrator Appreciation Day. Let’s take the opportunity to thank our admins.

System administration is one of those jobs that most never notice until things don't work. 

Right from March 2020, we login to work every day at the comfort of our home, in our cozy couch, surrounded by warm sheets tucked around. What makes it possible? That supercomputer on your lap? Nope! Somewhere there’s a SysAdmin making sure that each service we rely on is running—which gives us that connected lifestyle we enjoy—and also ensuring our data are secure. With new security loopholes constantly popping up, the cat and mouse game between hackers and SysAdmins is still in full swing.

We take technology for granted, and sometimes forget that someone, somewhere, is busting their brains off to keep these systems working. Once I found a quote somewhere online that says,

“System Administrator, I solve problems you don’t know you have, in ways you can’t understand.”

That statement really sums it up.

Well, this day is our chance to thank one of the least thanked people. System administration carries a ton load of responsibilities. They’re expected to be experts in technology, from printers to desktops, smartphones, or anything with a CPU, and in some cases, anything even slightly more complicated than a toaster. They’ve even taken up the responsibility of delivering new laptops at our door step if the one we have starts troubling. Talk about being an all-rounder!

These “extra” duties don’t even take into consideration the complex systems they’re actually here to support—clusters, virtualization, remote connections, email, messaging, calendaring, web sites…

So, how can we thank them? It can be as simple as taking your admin buddy out for a coffee, which isn’t the case now, or just dropping them an email saying, “Thank you.”

You can even thank them with a tiny splash of pixie dust, a little something that might actually qualify to be the best gift you can give them on SysAdmin Appreciation Day—trying to understand the stresses of a SysAdmin and a little more patience rather than nagging them for instant solutions.

Feel free to say, “Thank you for keeping my IT systems running.” You don’t have to wait for something to go wrong before saying “Hi.” Just say it.

And here goes my thanks…

Thanks for making any issue seem solvable; thanks for all the updates; and thanks for making it a nice place to work!

You rock!

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Now that’s something worth sharing❤💓

Random Thoughts

It is Friday yay.

I get the weekend off so I am excited. I will be recording 2 podcast episodes tomorrow and seeing my parents for fathers day even if for one or two hours while I social distance from them. I told them I won’t go inside their home, we will BBQ outdoor and I will stay more than 6 feet from them. 

I keep my distance because I am seeing more positive cases from people I know at work. Its like when things started to reopen the cases have gone up as far as my coworkers. Maybe at work we are more cautious than we are when out and about.

My job gave us our new schedule for July where we all have less hours. We will see how long it lasts. I am hopeful not too long. 

I know I have talked about saving money and spending less than you earn if possible here before. I see the benefit of it now that my hours are being cut. Im not too stressed about it. Just feel for those who are :(

My coworker reached out to me as she knows I am a big financial literacy advocate and asked me to show her how to budget. My cousin just passed her boards and is now an RN. She just started her new job and she text me that she has now started to implement the things I told her she should do when she started her new job. I feel happy to know that people listen to my advice.

I was once bad with money. Where I am now was a journey. I had to retrain my brain. I had to learn to plan where my money was going. And my life changed 7 years ago when I decided to learn finances.

This is my form of adulting haha

I hope you guys all have a wonderful Friday 

:0)

[thefantasizingfreakconfesses]

How to tell if you are a tattletale

Hola peeps,

Here’s a novice 👶 entering the Tumblr world, with not a single clue about what the fudge is blogging. This is Suzy McSolaris, obviously a pen name, a regular brown girl with this strong push to write something, not because I am good at writing (actually it’s the opposite), but because I miss communicating (tbh chatting!) with people for longer duration.

I LOVEEEE communicating

Yes I do! But this virtual connection that we all have going on in this COVID mess is kinda meh… I guess it’s not just me, ‘coz I for one is a nonstop tittle-tattler, but I guess some of y’all out there are feeling it too. Back in the good old days of 2019, we had real conversations with people, not to the minute squares of faces on a computer screen.

The power of an in-person conversation is that it keeps you distracted; like you never (mostly perhaps) get to the end of what you had in mind—I could be talking to you about something, thinking about some other thing that pops in the conversation we were having, but either one of us end up seeing something which brings an end to the one that popped in, or could smell something (pleasant if we’re lucky) which vanishes the previous convo.

But this all alone time had me thinking, some serious thinking (believe me people I didn’t know either that I was capable of having some coherent undistracted brain time). Yeah I cannot talk to ma people as I used to, but let me not be a wussie about that and human up—I’m kinda conflicted with the whole feminism thingy going on that I don’t wanna sound lame so just coined this “Human Up”; pretty cool right! (a simple man-up would have sufficed, but you don’t wanna risk getting in the way of feminists buddy!)—and get something done.

That’s a lotta banter, I get that. But hey, bear with me I’m literally a baby here. Anyway, I got this thought going on for a while, viz, I have this intense urge to write, not another Da Vinci Code, but just something out of ma heart—just a spring cleaning for ma heart’s content. Many might say, “Suck it up a maintain a journal, bub.” I do that too but that’s like me talking to me, which I do often and end up getting more and more confident that ma brain was manufactured using a blueprint from “Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc.” All I need at this crazy moment is someone I can banter frequently and transfer my madness to.  That’s how I got in here! Tada!!!

So, whoever reads this, if you’re an old soul, patient enough to read till this sentence, I believe my friend you are my Fudge!

I know this isn’t the regular professional blog nor a funny one for that matter. It’s just a girl’s stupid random words searching for an outlet to flow, so that she doesn’t die of the pressure building up. To those of y’all who put up with this word vomit, I hope and wish your crush likes you back! So to sum it all up…

“Hey, I’m starting a blog; you better give a try reading it (or not)!”

About that title, if you are someone who starts something and ends up telling something totally different, or alien for that matter, for which I’ve given you a live example—this blog and its title—I bet my sweet life, you are a tattletale. Voila! And that’s “😁Identifying a Jabberer 101” (and a stupid happy birthday post to my blog)   🎉🎊 

Until another blog as crazy as a soup sandwich,

Suzy💓