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I'm working in between posts. Catching up with mail and that sort of thing. Tomorrow is an off day at the court, so I'm going into the office. Trial resumes Monday and will likely take up the whole week thereafter.

The problem at the office is a PITA (pain in the @$$) board member that has had it in for me since I took over some years ago. He's a top level @hole among world class @holes. He hates me and I hate him, but except for that we get along just fine.

This is the guy that, in mid-november convinced the CEO that we should begin our Active-Directory upgrade and "take advantage" of the Christmas break "downtime" to get it done. No problem, right.... ????

Nevermind than an AD upgrade is a six to eight month project for a small and *simple* network.

Nevermind that there is no particular business reason to do any of this other than for *this* @hole to be able to tell his clients that we are running AD, which none of them know from Adam anyway... and don't really care about.

Nevermind that the ONLY reason we HAVE to do this RIGHT NOW is because this ONE particular @hole has exceeded the 2 GIGABYTE limit on an outlook mailbox and wants to be able to continue to use email as an acceptable way to distribute multi-hundred-Mb movies to everybody he knows.

Nevermind all that. This is worth abandoning all other IT projects for the next six months and bending our will to one insufferable @hole. It's all about him. Of course.

God knows, the only way this company will ever succeed is when this insufferable @hole is gone. Since he is one of the major shareholders, and therefore is on the BOD, nobody has anywhere near the balls to tell him where to stuff it, even though he really, really needs it.

Once I finally get fired... my exit interview is going to be a friggin' blast...