del @didelphimorph@tech.lgbt

#introduction hey! i'm del, i'm trans + queer and i work in school IT as a tech/sysadmin. i also do some programming/data stuff and i'm trying to learn more! some of my other interests include neurodiversity and disability justice, opossums, crochet, native pollinators, and open-world video games. i have A Lot of Pronoun Feelings, but that said, ze/xe/it are all fine.

hoping to find some casual socializing and like-minded weirdos on here, and break out of my shell a little bit!

ughhh mostly I'm just really burnt out on remote support, tbh. stuff that would normally be kinda amusing is just frustrating these days. partly bc i'm in weird job limbo btwn frontline support and more focused sysadmin stuff, and have been for a while now.

i'm confident the full switch will happen eventually, but the entire IT dept is in weird reorganization limbo rnow, besides covid chaos, so its prob gonna be a while longer :/

and I think to a certain extent you can blame it on, "IT person's communication style usually meshes better w math and science teachers." but like, sometimes it really is not that, I shared like one barely technical bit of info with you, like, here is your password, and then I hear from you several days later saying it doesn't work (bc you were using the wrong password!)

I feel like it's a law of the school IT support universe that the more someone's job ostensibly has to do with close reading (English teachers etc), the worse they will be at basic email reading comprehension

who says romance is dead

which means that i, who have never done anything wrong in my life, ever, have to go into work today to let the network contractors into the building (possibly? probably? but w no specific timeframe), AND take The Small Dog to get shaved, AND somehow probably do a million Snowstorm Part II chores before the snowstorm hits tomorrow

this is what someone did at my work a long long time ago and now, many years and network expansions and mysterious unsolvable network issues later, the entire domain is getting rebuilt from scratch

never make a single label domain in windows

oooooo headache why?? where did it come from