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The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach

Fourth-time's The Charm?
Moving My Wife's Office, One More Time.

Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009, at 8:43 AM

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  • When I initiated this blog, I was going to shoot for one entry a week since I had not written anything “creative” in about 20 years.

    But then I started writing, and topics started coming to me. Some are just about mundane things like moving my wife’s office – Did I mention it was the fourth time? – and others are rants about what is wrong in the world.

    The problem is there is a lot of good fodder for blogs or columns out there, but much of it is time sensitive. A blog about Somalia Pirates (this coming Monday) or the final entry about Adolf Hitler Campbell (next Wednesday) would not be as relevant 6 weeks or 6 months from now.

    I’ve contemplated setting up a second blog to give entries a little more “shelf” time. Not that any of the blogs I’ve written are gone. They are all still available at SEMissourian.com.

    Sorry about the long-winded response, but I guess the short answer to your question is, no. I have almost 10 blogs finished right now waiting to be published.

    Thanks for reading.

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Fri, Jan 16, 2009, at 4:33 PM
  • Just think how frustrating it is for the IT department. Or maybe the University is different from where I work, but everytime an office is moved, I have to plug in there pc, monitor,keyboard, mouse and printer because they won't. Then a couple of months down the road, they move again. Sorry but no sympathy from me on having to move your wife only three times. Ok, some sympathy, but just some. lol

    -- Posted by Pups on Fri, Jan 16, 2009, at 5:26 PM
  • Perhaps you haven’t read my bio. I am the Director of the IT Department here at the Southeast Missourian. Moving equipment is no big deal to me. I moved her desk, hutch, filing cabinet and a couple other pieces of furniture she had somehow squeezed into her office as well as her computers (she actually has two).

    That being said, you are correct that most people don’t want to hook up their computer equipment after a move of any kind. Might be laziness or fear that they don’t want to break anything.

    Look at it this way. It keeps both of gainfully employed. I just blog for fun. I don’t get paid.

    Thanks for reading.

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Fri, Jan 16, 2009, at 5:54 PM
  • Brad,

    I just want to let you know how much I enjoy reading your blog. I usually chuckle at your sense of humor and it is also comforting to know that someone else thinks about things as crazy as I do (the flashlight manual for instance).

    Keep on writing your blogs because they are truely enjoyable, to me anyway, to read.

    -- Posted by Stones62 on Sat, Jan 17, 2009, at 12:15 PM
  • You actually went out and BOUGHT office furnishing? And you call yourself an IT guy?

    Back at Ohio University, my roommates decided we needed a small table for our dorm room. They walked up to the ticket taker sitting at a small green table at the university's Friday night movies, pulled out a piece of paper and said, "Yep, that's the one. We've come for the table."

    I used that table in two more states until the legs fell off. And I smiled every time I saw it.

    When I was in the photo department of an unnamed newspaper, I could never get approval to buy one of those new-fangled electric IBM typewriters.

    I ended up walking around the building looking for typewriters with covers. When I found one, I'd pull the cover off, type a quick note, "Am I being used?" and wait a couple of weeks. If I went back and the note was still there, it was mine. I kept waiting for someone in management to ask why I had quit begging for a typewriter, but nobody ever did.

    One final requisition story: we built a new office building and all of the old furniture was supposed to be inventoried for reuse or sale to employees. I knew where to find a couple of workstations that I had bought in photo that would work really well in the telecom switchroom. (I had moved from photo to IT as telecom manger by this time.)

    I told my boss, the IT manager, that I was going to go over with a cart and acquire them.

    "You'll get caught," he warned.

    "Come along. I'll show you how it works."

    We loaded the cart down with everything I had in mind and a couple of other items and headed to the lobby.

    "Oh, no," my boss lamented. "The security guard is standing right at the door."

    "Watch this," I said. "Hey, Joey (the security guard), can you hold the door open for me?"

    If only I had been as smart as Bernie Madoff and swiped things for my own use, I'd have been able to retire years earlier.

    By the way, here's something Bernie missed:

    http://www.palmbeachbiketours.com/2009/01/17/the-one-palm-beach-penny-madoff-did...

    -- Posted by Ken1 on Sat, Jan 17, 2009, at 10:07 PM
  • There's a saying that 99% of everything is cah-cah. Actually it is another word, but I don't want our forum filter to bust me.

    So anyhow, I figure that if I can generate enough sheer quantity, possibly 2 or 3 blogs a year might be worth reading.

    Now, as far as buying furniture, you first have to remember this was for my WIFE'S office not mine. She actually has standards. How I slipped by those standards and managed to marry her, I do not know.

    When she moved into Closet #1, she only had 1 computer in addition to a regular size desk, filing cabinet and chair. To accommodate the tight space, I built her a corner computer hutch. However, when she moved to Closet #2 she added a second computer which my home-built set-up could not handle. Buying her an $79.88 Wal-Mart unit was the best use of my time, and was a little nicer looking.

    Thanks for reading.

    -- Posted by Brad_Hollerbach on Sun, Jan 18, 2009, at 12:13 PM