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I feel loved when...

The Five Love Languages

My Primary Love Language is Physical Touch

My Detailed Results:

Physical Touch:	9
Quality Time:	8
Words of Affirmation:	7
Acts of Service:	5
Receiving Gifts:	1

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This is pretty accurate. It bears a little commentary though. I love recieving gifts from people I love. Not because I'm receiving some material object that is the focus of my happiness, but because I know that that means they are thinking of me.

I have a set of Indian chimes hanging from the rear view mirror of my car. They were a gift from rileybear67. I really love them and am grateful that she gave them to me. What really touches me about them is that she remembered that I said something way back on the winter Solstice about wanting something that chimed to put in my car, and then all that time later, she found some for me. That was so sweet of her! And every time I hear them jingle as I drive, I'm reminded that the things I say are important to her. Thank you Rileybear!

I have a few very special things that my dear one, moiracoon, has given me. The one that most readily comes to mind is a children's book by Sandra Boynton called Snuggle Puppy. Whenever I'm feeling down, without fail, I can open up that book and read about this little puppy being told how much he is loved and cared about and taken care of, and I feel better. I think it made me cry when she first gave it to me. And, like the bells, it's not the physical gift itself that means something to me so much as the perfect thoughts behind it, and the amazing ability to know me well enough to give me a gift that fits me so well. Thank you my love; I am so very glad to be your puppy.

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I have six new hire systems to get done before the end of the week. That's not counting all the ones I've already done this week plus the system rebuild I did today for somebody whose Windows installation ate itself but good and who had to ship his computer in to us.

But I still managed to get away from my desk around twenty after four to sit with one of our network guys for a while. We talked a little bit about our network and the plans for it and what I can do to help. One thing he wants me to do is to go in to each router, switch, WAP, firewall, and so on, and configure them all in a standard set up for things like tacacs, a common logging server, a common time server, a common login banner, and other things like that. Sort of the network backend device equivalent of Mr. Miyagi telling his student to "Paint the fence; up down, not left right." But that's ok; I'm actually excited about getting my hands on this hardware in a production environment for the first time.

Before that, however, he's still working on getting the powers that be to approve a software package called Kiwi Cat Tools (did you notice that Posi? *grins*) that hugely automates large parts of this kind of configuration. He's used this for other clients (he's a contractor) and is hoping to do so here. So that may be on hold until they give him a yay or nay.

In the meantime, I'm going to get a print out tomorrow of the routing tables from a few of our site firewalls (since I don't get to have the password to access them myself quite yet) and I'm going to pore through them and figure out what subnet each of the gateway IPs is on, what the name of that box is, and where it's physically located so that we can figure out what subnets are at each office and create an actual network diagram! I know, crazy stuff! When you have 8 physical branch offices that have been created from four or five companies that have been bought out and merged into each other, things get a little messy. The routing table that he pulled up just to use as an example with me had a ton of individual hosts listed on them; that looks messy.

Anyway, I'm going to head off and brush my mate's hair, and probably go to bed. Hopefully the dryer will be done by then and we'll have sheets to put on it.