Hey blogger’s, blog reader’s, lurker’s, search engines and spammers. How are you all keeping?

I’m in an absolutely fantastic mood. That’s because I’m in an absolutely fantastic place. Not geographically. I mean psychologically and in life. I parted ways with my previous employer DCSDocs on the 15th of April so just a day over a month ago and since then life has taken a huge turn for the better.

I’m absolutely loving what I’m doing. Getting back into system administration has been like putting on a comfortable pair of shoes after wearing a pair of stilettos that are two sizes too small with a rusty male sticking at an angle into one of your toes. Not that I have experience of wearing stilettos but I’d imagine that as they aren’t the most comfortable footwear for a woman they would be twice as bad for a man. My mother in law has been at me for ten years now about cross dressing but I absolutely refuse. That’s a story for another day.

I’m now working for St. Patricks College Drumcondra in Dublin as the senior system administrator. This is an enormously interesting time to work for St. Patrick’s college as we are nearing the end of a project called incorporation which is a fancy word to describe the merge of St. Patrick’s, Mater dei and DCU. I will be working on the IT infrastructure aspect of this project for the next few months before moving to DCU to continue as a senior system administrator there.

Let me say again that I’m loving this job. I’m there just under a month now but I really enjoy the community spirit among the staff and students in the college. There’s a lot to do in terms of the infrastructure but the previous system administrator had the same high standards as I have so overall I’m very happy with the set up.

I’m also really enjoying the people I’m working with in the IT department. It’s the same kind of friendly working environment that made my time in Fujitsu so enjoyable.

Let’s take a break from all the fully stuff.

I’ll post up a few technical posts in the next few weeks. I have some interesting scripts on the go at the moment so I’ll add them to the blog so people can use them when needed.