What do you want for Christmas..

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

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

[James Beamish-White]

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

*grin*

James

[Alex Glennie]

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.

[Vincent Farrugia]

I'd like some Russian girl on Christmas.

(Any Russians out there?)

Vince

[Marcin Wicinski]

Audi TT under Christmas Tree...

[Duncan Edmonstone]

I'd like a cellphone that flashes up

GOOD NEWS!

or

BAD NEWS!

Then I can choose which calls I answer!

[Scott_14]

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

[John Bolene]

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.

[melvyn burnard]

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 :-]

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

nothing unfortunate about that Melvyn!

hic!

Later,
Bill

[Rainer von Bongartz]

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

[Roger Baptiste]

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

[BFA6]

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

[Santosh Nair_1]

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

[Volker Borowski]

... to be like Bill :-)

Volker

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Bill,

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

Gideon

[someone_4]

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 =

[Victor BERRIDGE]

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

[Timothy Czarnik]

Hey Bill,

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

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

-Tim

[paul courry]

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

[Bernie Vande Griend]

I agree with Tim,
a monkey sounds helpful. (I think we've had that discussion before).
If a monkey isn't possible, I'll just take a raise.

[Michael Tully]

Hey Bill,
Cheers.... Hicccup if it's not too early.... I've managed a two week vacation on the Gold Coast with surf, sun, fun and kids.... I'll take kids anyday to a mobile phone.... And if I don't get another opportunity merry xmas and safe new year to all of you.... And sometimes dreams come true... But I don't know about a quiet pager or that porsche under the xmas tree.
Cheers
-Michael

[harry d brown jr]

Being that's it's my birthday, yes, I'm a Christmas baby, and I'll be a big 41, I'd like to wake up with the feeling that the world is a bit safer against cowardly terrorists.

live free or die
harry

[Sachin Patel]

My wife is in India. I wish Santa talk to immigration about faster visa.

Sachin

[Darrell Allen]

How about that trip to Hawaii for all you royals? Maybe the rest of us could tag along.

Kinda hard to come up with anything after Sachin's. Hope Santa can deliver!

Darrell