Low Priority

Yesterday was the office Christmas party for the section and everyone went except my supervisor who stayed to lobby for me to get my computer.  He wasn't able to pull any strings for me and I didn't get the computer.  Then today my supervisor and the section abandoned me completely and went to Montreal for a meeting for the day.  I was left to get into the building with a young fellow named Derek as my escort.  When I got to work I called him to get me at the front gate and when we were walking up to the office, he told me he had a friend in the IT group.  He said he would introduce me to his friend and see if his friend could get me my computer.  We went to his friend's office and Derek introduced me and told him about my situation.  The friend looked up my request on his computer and said yes it had all been approved and he should be able to get me my computer in a few hours.  After lunch, the friend called Derek and told him to bring me down to the office again.  The friend took me into the storage room where there were hundreds of computers.  He got me mine and we tested it out.  He even used his PKI card to make sure that would work too.  Then I went back to the office with my computer and the lady who had the PKI card set it up for me.  I had a code and she had a code and we had to combine the codes to get the PKI setup.  So I had my computer and my PKI card and still had a day to make sure everything worked properly.  I could test it at Julia's house and if it didn't work I could bring it back tomorrow before my flight that evening.  I found that the computer worked fine at Julia's house and so I was very happy and Barb was happy that I wouldn't have to stay until January even though she lost her bet.