Wow, parking was really bad at Bethel on Monday. I think it was Campus Visit weekend again, since everyone seemed to be talking about perspective students. I'm still not sure why studying perspective is so popular, what department it actually falls under (Art? Philosophy? BITS?), or why the heck they're visiting Bethel if they're looking for a good program that deals with perspective. The day was also refered to as a "computer snow day" since the ERP system was down. I don't know about that, since I seemed to have plenty to do telling people it wasn't my system that was broken and fixing the stuff that it broke. That was the excitement for the day though. I did some testing for other stuff though, to basically send people nastygrams.

Tuesday I observed and commented on a large discussion, and sorta disproved a possible solution. Made IB changes and clarified things, and corrected other mistakes. Also found out when I get to go fight a half-dozen people in a meeting. I do have allies and likely allies, but unfortunately they won't really be at the meeting. Wednesday I discussed more backend architecture changes, fixed a sync script that the network caused to mess up AD, cleaned up old account junk I noticed in fixing what the script did, and other miscellaneous stuff. I've been seeing a bunch of problems that have easy fixes it's just people haven't been even making a halfway decent attempt at troubleshooting ("user can't log in to x" doesn't help much). They're relatively simple ones and I know the solution immediately after looking at their account, but they could have also been fixed on the first call with the user by 2 minutes of going through a troubleshooting guide. Oh well, such is life.