Another Day is Over - (Korea) Day 44

A great example of how I put my 25B technical skills to use these days...
A perfect setup of coffee and water for an upcoming meeting in our conference room

Work call this morning…0630. Ugghh! There was a meeting at 0730 that we had to prepare for. Once that meeting was all setup, Special K ran the slide show and I hung out in the office and checked my email and such. I tried to run Rosetta Stone via SkillPort, but it wouldn't start up. I'm not sure if there was a windows update put out that is now interfering with it now or what, but it pretends to start and nothing happens. A bummer too because I could have gotten a lot done on it today.

After the meeting we cleaned up and I headed down to have our master sergeant train me on updating what we call the command events calendar. It's basically a spreadsheet that is full of all the upcoming meetings that we have to take care of. It's compiled by us going through each of the general's calendar and adding, changing, and deleting from it. Because so many meetings change we have to make a new list daily, and it's a very manual process. Since I'm just starting it, it takes me a while to go through each event on each of the general's calendars…day by day.

We took a long lunch since we came in early. I had the chance to video chat with my mom, nieces and my wife which was nice. That doesn't seem to happen too often. After I got back to work I had some questions for the sergeant about the list of open positions that he gave me. I picked a few and asked him what I do next. He said I have to go to the army signal HR website and contact them to let them know. Not exactly what I was hoping was going to happen. I was hoping that I could get this all taken care of here with people I can see. When there is an issue or something is not getting done it's a lot easier to take care of it when you can look someone in the eyes. I'm hoping the person I contacted will take care of me and not just blow me off. I have no idea what kind of or if they have any sort of customer service at all. I guess I'll wait and see.

Didn't do much the rest of the day at work. Some real 25B folks came in from battalion or brigade…I'm not sure, but they hooked up a VOIP phone in the conference room for a call that will be taking place tomorrow in a meeting. It's funny to think that there are actually 25Bs doing their job here. The only technical things I do is SkillPorts and turn equipment on when there is a meeting in our conference room. I thought I would try and be a little proactive and try and fix a technical problem we are having in our conference room. Our UPS (battery backup) is being overloaded and emitting a high pitched beep all the time. It's very annoying and can easily be fixed by replacing it with one that can handle the load. I looked up the owners manual for our model and copied the information as to why it is emitting the high pitched squeal. I then looked up the model that we need to purchase in order to replace it and fix the problem. I sent an email explaining all of this in detail to the specialist that is basically in charge of us all - SPC Roy (didn't want to overstep any boundaries). My guess is that I doubt anything will happen to resolve this issue, I have no idea how purchasing works in our office. I believe we will have to continue to listen to the stupid annoying squeal and maybe one day it will just die. Perhaps then we can replace it with something a little better.

We left at about 1515 for the day and headed to the gym for PT. I got a good workout playing some basketball (3 on 3 with my sergeant and SPC Roy). Now it's time for a little school.