Twas the night before Christmas…
I present this piece of weirdness:
‘Twas the night before Christmas,
And I – mop in hand –
Had just started in
Cleaning porcelain tile-land
The kitchen, the hall, the mud room too
Also the foyer, there was much to do.
I swept then I mopped, and did it up quick –
So it would dry long before St. Nick
When out in the entrance I heard yell and a thud
I dropped all my stuff and thought “aw….CRUD”
And there on the floor lying perfectly still
Was that jolly old elf, a total fresh kill
The tracks told the story and told it quite well
First the chimney, then the tile, then a long slip and he fell.
I stood a long moment, trying to be shrewd.
Was this illegal? Was there a treaty? Was I really screwed?
And then the answer came in a flash – and I ran
to the basement, to find the Halloween stash
With my pirate costume on, I bowed and I begged
“Please FSM – please save the day”
Out on the lawn I heard a loud BOOM
I sprang to the stoop and looked out from the room
“On cavatappi, on spaghetti, al Dente, of course!”
“We have a true pirate to save from the courts!”
His noodly appendage struck out, and raised that old elf
Who stood, looked at FSM, and shook off his own self.
The two had a moment there alone in the snow -
Two imaginary characters respectfully saying Hello
And ever since that day all I get is some coal.
BMC Remedy ITSM 7.x Tenancy Overview
A while back I did a write up on Tenancy in the BMC Remedy ITSM suite. So I thought I’d post it.
Single-tenancy and Multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy is simply the new feature in BMC Remedy Service Desk that allows the system to be configured to allow for multiple “tenants”. A tenant is a self-sufficient Operating Company and/or business unit that has no need to interact with the other “tenants” on the system.
Configuring multiple “tenants” on one Remedy system is considered to be a “Multi-tenancy” implementation. Single tenancy is defining only on main Operating Company within Remedy Service Desk.
Users of the system are configured to see data from one or more of the defined Operating Companies. Typically the majority of the users only see data from the one Operating Company they work under. Some administrative users can see data from multiple or all Operating Companies.
The specific applications affected by single/multi-tenancy are:
- BMC Remedy Change Managment 7.x
- BMC Remedy Asset Management 7.x
- BMC Remedy Incident Management 7.x
- BMC Remedy Problem Managment 7.x
- BMC Remedy Service Level Managment 7.x
Fight Cancer with Electrolux
Over at Electrolux Reviews: Electrolux Garden of Hope you can find a link to plant a virtual flower.
Electrolux is donating $1 for each of those to fight Ovarian Cancer in Canada.
Sleep Apnea: 1 month post UPPP surgery
Well, it’s been a month now since I had sleep apnea surgery and a septoplasty. There’s a backstory too…
Anyway, today is May 23rd so I am just over a month – closer to 5 weeks actually. And there’s still some notable issues from the surgery.
First – my throat just feels different. Some foods are just not enjoyable anymore because of the way they go down. I choked on a triscuit for about half an hour tonight – a little crumb got stuck in my throat forever.
Toast is not my friend anymore either – although I can eat it. The crumbs though REALLY get to me. I never have more than one piece of toast – and I prefer it with peanut butter since that tends to hold everything together. In fact, anything that is in the “bread” group is a little hard for me to eat – I’m not really enjoying it. Since it’s summer we’ve been grilling quite often and when we make brats (and by “brats” I mean “healthy turkey brats”, not really awesome real bratwurst) I’m just as likely to eat it without the bun as with a bun.
I got back into drinking citrus juices without any problem – I know a lot of people have trouble with those but I just waited quite a while before I tried and I never had a problem. In fact, I hadn’t had any until this past week – about a month after surgery.
I haven’t had any real pain since about 3 weeks after surgery – but I was taking lots of drugs. I did feel like I had a sore throat for a long time after the “real” pain subsided. Also, if I ate anything rough my throat would hurt a lot the next day.
I think the biggest surprise diet-wise was hard candy. I keep hard candy in my truck for when I drive – when I get tired I suck on it (usually a Life-Saver) and it keeps me awake. Since I drive quite frequently I’ve gotten used to doing this. However – I can’t do it any more. When I suck on candy the back of my throat just feels WRONG. I have a very bad gag reflex and it sets everything off. However, that DOES keep me awake…
Of course everyone’s question is “Did the surgery work?” – up until my wife and I went on a trip this past week I’d been sleeping in a separate bedroom while I recovered. During this trip she told me I still snored a little when I was on my back. When I slept on my side she said I sounded very different -like a deep breathing. She thinks it is an improvement but it will take some getting used to.
From my perspective I am sleeping better than I ever have. I like it. There was a lot of pain up front – hopefully it will keep paying off.
My septoplasty surgery does have a very noticable improvement for me though – for the first time in years (now that everything is pretty well healed) I can breath through both sides of my nose. It’s fantastic. Until you’ve experienced NOT being to do it and then being able to do it I can’t explain it to you – it’s just fantastic.
Septoplasty and UPPP tomorrow
I having surgery Monday – specifically a septoplasty and Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (surgery to hopefully improve sleep apnea). This is going to make me not feel like talking/writing/moving etc for a while (or so they tell me).
I may actually recover quickly – there’s no way of knowing. In any case I’ll post as time permits.
For more fun I’ll take pre and post pictures of my nose and throat. That should freak a few people out 
Enjoy.