I've already seen this episode of Sex in the City. I feel cheated.

All day at work I was acting out some kind of weird anger issues. I didn't really notice until we were coming back from lunch with the There people and Brett made some comment about it. That Brett, he's always making comments about things. I'm not really sure what's gotten into me. Here are some examples from throughout the day:

Upon arriving at AboveNet, Matt asked if I had a driver's license for the visitor badge. In retrospect, I believe what he was trying to ask was whether I had brought it with me, given that I was neither required to drive nor to purchase anything (lunch was put on the corporate card). But what I said instead was, “No, I've been driving illegally for the last 2 years.” This is in reference to when my last California driver's license expired, shortly after moving to Reno.

On the drive back, Brett and Matt started talking about the name change again. For a few weeks, we've been discussing changing company names, to enhance our corporate image. Everyone agrees that this is a good idea, but it's either too involved of a process, or nobody is actually willing to pull the trigger, because we haven't made the change yet. Brett asked me what I thought of the name change, which has to be the 20th time it's come up in informal conversation. Needless to say, I was incapable of a straight answer. I believe I said something along the lines of “I think we should tell all of our current customers to go screw themselves, and that their support contracts are voided.” Surely you can understand my frustration. Or not.

When we got back, yet another person reported extreme slowness while using our shopping cart system, prompting everyone to try debugging it, before quickly losing interest. After running ktrace on several instances of Interchange and watching the output of "show processlist" on the MySQL server, I determined that the new firewall, which had been installed last weekend, was blocking outbound HTTP connections from the webserver. This was preventing the shipping calculator from contacting one of UPS' CGI scripts. After updating the firewall rules, Matt said something like, “Jeeze, who's idea was it to block all outbound TCP from the DMZ?” As I rolled my chair back to my desk, I replied, in the most sardonic tone possible, ”Well, maybe you should ask Mr. come-in-over-the-weekend-and-break-the-network,” referring to Devon, since he had helped with the network redesign. This was slightly uncalled-for.