Just some rambling on a slow day.
I was flattered to notice I’m up on Better Bibles Blog‘s blogroll. See my Rants category for Bible and/or Theology-related posts. I’ve been rather desultorily trying lately to go through an Attic Greek textbook (Mastronarde), in order to widen my Greek reading, but so far have been to scatter-brained to stick with it much.
Work is slow today because the project I’ve been working on is stalled because I can’t get in contact with a systems administrator who’s a continent away and runs one of the servers I need. I’ve been calling him every half hour, with no success. A fitting episode in a project which has been, to say the least, bizarre and demoralizing. I got pulled in fully four days before the notional completion date, to integrate some third-party software which turned out to require a whole whack of infrastructure about which I had no information, and no idea how to get any.
My (there is no such thing as stupid) questions were met with not even lack of information, but actively contradictory information and what I can only describe as intentional lacunae (“I feel I was denied critical, need-to-know, information!”). And when reporting time came around, it felt like I was hung out flapping in the breeze. Not even a lack of support; it felt like active hostility.
Luckily this is not my regular project area or manager, so I hope to go back to normality sometime soon.