Any of you monkeys want a banana?

I finally gave up on the photo album article I was working through and went straight for the big time. I downloaded 'Gallery' and installed it on the site. I still haven't changed the default look, but have been playing with creating albums and uploading images. It's an amazing piece of work, and includes lots of features, including the ability to order prints on-line. I can also create accounts for friends and family to create their own albums and upload pictures if they want to. Click on the 'PICTURES' button near the top of the page if you want to see Gallery in action.

I'm struggling with the need to make a decision. I have an opportunity to apply for a position managing a small retail company, with 3 locations. I've been doing their network and accounting support for a long time now and, having some experience in that industry as an office manager, am considered a 'strong' candidate for the job. More responsibility, more hours, more money, more personnel management, less (read little) technical stuff, etc. I really don't know what I should do. I'm beginning to get pretty frustrated at work, because of all the bullshit things that are happening. Not locally, but it still affects things locally.

For example, in the past (pre-DIT, Corrections only), when a change to the network, to major applications, to policies, whatever, was implemented, it was done with the involvement and cooperation of the local 'DPC'. Now, the changes are simply pushed out from DPO, Model Office, or whoever else has control of the networks, but the Field Service staff are no longer responsible for servers. We just have to pick up the pieces when things start breaking. Recently, many folks at a facility were unable to use the MSOffice suite for 2-3 days because changes to the app objects reacted poorly with the workstations, primarily due to the workstations having not been re-imaged with the updated images released sometime last year. Is that Model Office's fault? No. However, if the Field Service folks had been involved we could have done small scale testing, as was done in the past, to determine the impact of the change before opening the floodgates. That's the way the old system worked, and it was, in many ways, superior to the clusterf*ck we now have.

My wife's never been a big fan of my computer habit (she'd more likely call it an addiction). She seems to think that if I work on them at my job, I shouldn't need to mess with 'em at home. She recently said 'You need to stay off the computer when I'm gone' (she works out of town and will be gone 2-3 days at a time) so I can 'get things done'. I could also quit breathing, I suppose. I hope she doesn't push the point too much, friends and neighbors, because it ain't gonna happen. So it goes.....