Mike Dragon

It's time for

LET ME SEE YOUR WAR FACE!

During my admin patrol last night, I accidentally found some non-solid ground when I parked somewhere to monitor an area.

Someone send a tow truck, please!

I will just leave these here and be on my way.

You may now look away.

When I'm upset and I see a kitten:

When someone blows you up on purpose in Rocket League but they fail to realize they just blew up someone who holds grudges and knows when to strike back. Multiple times:

I don't like social networks and I have no real use for them. Though if I were to use one for whatever reason, I'd use the account I made on Twitter a couple centuries ago.

Welcome to Sunday, everybody! Here, have a birb to start the day on a high note. Everybody loves birbs!

When someone I don't know adds me on Steam/Discord and/or asks me to add/accept them:

Popocon. First there was one (me). Then there were two then more showed up. The more the sirens sounded, the more popos came about. It was like a mating call. lol

@oolala11 @Noxii @Nataliia @Kayr0 @Smoky_TMP @KhaosHammer @Aestrial (have I forgotten someone?)

These are just four of the seven IGAs (myself included) that showed up in Calais, earlier.

Operation Admin Patrol is a go.

(I should really Photoshop something onto that picture.)

AT FINALLY FREAKING LAST!!! Cost me a key but whatever. Better than waste it on pure luck since I'd be spending a key to open the Nitro Crate anyway. Hahah.

Now I just need the Dragon Wings Topper and at least TRY to rank up in Season 5 competitive (I have never played comp on RL) so I can hopefully get one of those fancy Dragon banners and I'll be set. That gold one look sooo good!! I don't even know if I can still have a chance at this, though. :c

There's those bad teammates who block your shots, there's those who bump into you when you are about to score, there are those who can't defend even if their life depended on it, there are those who counter-score and then there's this one precious little bun, here...

Something great is coming to ETS2 very soon. I just wonder how well it will work on MP. Will probably be a rather incomplete experience given the fact that AI traffic unfortunately has to stay off.

Do you want a FREE game? Well, SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION® III: COMPLETE is currently free to keep on Humble Bundle! Go grab your copy! https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sid-meiers-civilization-iii-complete?linkID=&mcID=102:59e7b4f30fab4e41698a4932:ot:58272826f7bb513ff1ae3abe:1&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017_10_19_WitcherSale_store&utm_content=Banner

Dang, that's a long link! lol

Wanna see something really funny?

I'm dying, here! XD

I just remembered that I had a rather random dream when I was taking a nap, earlier.

I dreamed I was in my bed in my bedroom on my old house. The room was dark but the light from the corridor was coming through the door. On the back of my desk chair there was a lovely cockatoo and I asked it, "Hey there, you adorable fella! How are you?" And the birb responded, "I'm fine!". Then the dream shifted and the cockatoo was on the front of a building, quite high up and I was leading a team of three other IGAs (yes, TMP IGAs) to rescue the the bird and we were all driving Rocket League cars up the building and the cockatoo was about the same size as the cars and it was climbing around the walls. Oh, and I was my pony OC, Silver Trot (http://fav.me/dbfq2ph), for some reason. 

I haven't had a dream this random in ages. XD

Yus! Finally!

Gonna be on ATS's US server in a few minutes to do some deliveries. I gotta deliver some event cargoes from SCS's event and I'm also going to deliver some bans. :3

That moment when you joke in the staff's Discord about @Horizon playing Never Gonna Give You Up on TFM but then he actually does it. 

Anyway. I just did a little update on my banner. :3

On a more uplifting tone and in a completely unrelated subject, the Nitro crate in Rocket League is so difficult to obtain! It's been months since I got one and today I finally got another. This crate contains the Draco wheels set, which I REALLY want! So I opened it! And sadly, I got another Mantis. -__-

I already have one of these, now I have two. Is there anyone here who would like to trade a Draco wheel (not painted) for this Mantis? :c

The Draco is awesome!

Ok, so on Tuesday I posted this: https://forum.truckersmp.com/index.php?/profile/666-mike-dragon/&status=61971&type=status

I talked to my boss about the situation (apparently he wasn't meaning to talk about it but I made him) and to sum up the story, thank God I am not losing my job. I still don't know if there will be any cuts, however, but that right now is the least of my concerns.

One thing he brought up a while after we talked is that the way I treat our clients may not really been the actual reason why they cancelled with our company. Because I'd have to get into specifics and that would result in a VERY long text, I will cut short and go straight to the two main details: All the clients that cancelled under the excuse that my treatment and/or services were poor have one thing in common: The partner company that provides them with a store sales system for management of their sales and products. My boss also pointed out an issue our major client was having not long ago with the speed with one of their stores was accessing the system, which is hosted in their server in the main store, so it relies on an internet connection.

For a while they have been complaining that every two days, around the same time, the store would lose connection to the system and the server so they called us to investigate the problem. I monitored their connection for weeks and the connection itself was perfectly fine. What was happening is that their ISP was changing the external IP and the software in the server, responsible for managing and "translating" that IP to one that's always static was not renewing the connection quickly enough. I brought this up to my boss at the time and the pattern would repeat itself every two days around the same hour. The external IP would always change and the software was not renewing it quickly enough and we know that all ISPs do an auto-renew of each IP they provide every few days. The solution? Have the client contact their ISP to either ask for a change on the time in which the IP was being renewed or hire a static IP service. But what happened instead is that the owner (or manager, I don't know what the guy is) of the company that provides them with that sales software system said instead that they should simply upgrade their internet to a optical fiber connection. Well, they did. I went to both stores to set up the new modem in their network. The connection is great and fast! But guess what still would happen? Yeah, that's right. The connection to the server was still being lost for a few minutes and the IP was still changing in the same pattern. They complained about it to us, naturally, and my boss told the owner of the company (our client) that they have been warned and told what to do to fix that problem, that the solution was not upgrade to fiber and that that decision they made had been suggested by the guy of the sales software company and they (the client) took his suggestion on their own and without our knowledge.

So his theory is that the client brought that up to the guy of the sales software company who certainly was not happy about, well... essentially being told by the IT company that his solution for his client was wrong and ours was right so he must have contacted our clients in common and told them something awful that convinced them to cancel their contract with us. It would be too much of a coincidence that all the clients who use the same sales system would cancel within very few months apart and for the same reason, while the other clients who don't use the same sales system are still with us, have no complaints and in fact, two actually praised my service and treatment, recently. Something just doesn't add up!

I am absurdly upset and down with all of this but I feel better now that I have calmed down and am not losing my job. Also, thank you all who showed me your support and encouragement on the previous status post. I am really sorry this one turned out as long as it did. I tried to be as brief as I could, I promise! Hahah. Anyway, thank you for reading.

I just received the news from my boss that one of our clients cancelled their contract today and the owner destroyed my service. I don't understand why, though. I always thought I was doing a good job with them. I've got praise from a couple others and I don't recall doing anything differently with this one. Apparently other clients who left also had complaints about my service, though, but I've never been informed about that until now. My boss and I are going to talk about this situation later this afternoon. I fear I might lose my job today. It has been the best job I've had, so far.

I've had only one Scout for long now that it feels strange to have another one.

But not just any "another" Scout. This one: