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What do you want for Christmas..

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:59:35 GMT

well it's not far away..

I want not to be on call to start off with, then a trip to Hawaii, mixed with a few cold beers, lots of TV and perhaps a playstation 2.

What's santa's email btw?

Later,
Bill

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

James Beamish-White — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:03:51 GMT

One the first day of christmas my true love gave to me.... a snowboard trip to the an-nn dees.

*grin*

James

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Alex Glennie — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:07:21 GMT

Hey Bill what about a never emptying Guiness bottle or something on that theme ?

I too would like a few days off at Xmas ....
Bob (my manager) I hope you are listening.

I'd also be happy with a lorry load of beer and relocation to a new HP Response Centre in the Caribbean.

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Vincent Farrugia — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:07:29 GMT

I'd like some Russian girl on Christmas.

(Any Russians out there?)

Vince

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Marcin Wicinski — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:10:29 GMT

Audi TT under Christmas Tree...

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:13:12 GMT

I'd like a cellphone that flashes up

GOOD NEWS!

or

BAD NEWS!

Then I can choose which calls I answer!

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Scott_14 — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:25:16 GMT

Santa's e mail can be found at
santaclaus.com.

Would like a week, of no pages, calls, or breakdowns, and for someone to start a beer delivery service, so i wont have to head out for it in the snow, that way my wife can have a break, heehee.

scott

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

John Bolene — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:26:36 GMT

What I want and what I get are light years apart.

I gave up wanting that raise after 911 happened, I am just happy to have a job. Even though I am on call 24X7X365, I do not get many calls as the only things that break is the hardware (very infrequently) or the users doing stuff that they should have known was stupid.

What I would like and it does not exist yet but maybe next year, is a combo cell phone/pda/gps with maps, not just Lat-lon/terminal which operates for at least a week without a recharge.

Otherwise, I have to buy my own toys as only I know exactly what I want and I only have myself to kick if I don't get what I want.

FYI, that Walston radio tracking system for rockets will be in my hands by Turkey day (early Xmas present).

The only other thing I could ask for is the have more people get into Experimental Amateur High Power Rocketry, so I can sell stuff to them.

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

melvyn burnard — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:31:11 GMT

Unfortunately, most things I want are either
illegal, immoral, or fattening. More often also too expensive.
However I will settle for Peace on Earth, and Goodwill to all mankind, while I spend two weeks in Spain with a few bottles of good Spanish wine :-]

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:38:38 GMT

nothing unfortunate about that Melvyn!

hic!

Later,
Bill

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Rainer von Bongartz — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:57:14 GMT

crashing servers; lots of network problems; databases not starting up and me far far away and everybody in my company remembering how valuable I am

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Roger Baptiste — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 15:27:02 GMT

Ting Ting ,, Hoo Hooo Hoo.
A real holiday maan, pager-free , cell-free holiday.

But, guess what? -i will be
the &%$#$^^ on-call for the
christmas weekend. (on-call in my place means guaranteed sleepless nights). The good part being i will be off for
one-month after that .

-raj

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

BFA6 — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 15:29:01 GMT

Not on call ... AT ALL
Lots of Booze
Very short visit to the outlaws !
and lots of nice pressies

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Santosh Nair_1 — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 15:31:59 GMT

How about a brand new job with a high pay and lots of interesting/challenging work. Yeah, it doesn't sound like much, but you'd be surprised how many people have this on their christmas list.

-Santosh

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Volker Borowski — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:05:55 GMT

... to be like Bill :-)

Volker

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

G. Vrijhoeven — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:11:00 GMT

Hi Bill,

I like to become a wizzard :-) ....some time on my hands to become one.

Gideon

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

someone_4 — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:22:35 GMT

I am with bill .. beer and playstaion 2. But I was thinking about this the other day this is crazy but here it goes. Wouldnt it be cool to have a role playting video called "Sys. Admin" Where you start off at an entry level job and work your way up by solving issues and learning more things.And one thing would be for example if you forget to do your backup and your system crashes and dont have a backup you get demoted. wouldnt that be cool?

Richard =

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Victor BERRIDGE — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:37:08 GMT

What about a 1week seminar where you cannot be disturbed on "wine tasting and choosing the suitable dishes to accompany your favorite bottle"?
2 weeks - My bosses would desagree...

All the best
Victor

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

Timothy Czarnik — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:57:46 GMT

Hey Bill,

Stability. Humility. Love. Peace. Generosity. Affection. Understanding. Thoughtfulness. Spirituality.

But, since I can't have those, I'd like a monkey.

-Tim

Re: What do you want for Christmas..

paul courry — Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:01:49 GMT

12 disc drives driving
11 happy users
10 stacks of printing
9 EDI's transacting
8 completed help desk calls
7 printers printing
6 ServiceGuards servicing
5 phone lines working
4 tape drives backing
3 systems running
2 competent operators
1 and a quiet beeper