and with planning

having a plan is a great thing.

maybe i am bored, but lately i’ve had a different view of my job and it shows in the way I handle things.  unsafe, maybe under my old terms.  so how bad can it get?  when you’ve got a plan and a predictable outcome, not that bad.  worst it can get is a real time DR drill.

Onsite today, during an hour long client company meeting, I made some minor changes to a network.  basically, we disabled a nic and pulled ISA from an sbs box, replaced a firewall, removed the ISA clients (damn you lingering proxy settings!) and returned the network to an operative state with time to spare.  and if the matter hit the fan, we had the plan, man.  so here’s to planning, for the fact that I’m at home now rather than busting out an afterhours service call.