Oh, my beautiful, sweet, lovelies!
I'm so happy I am going to pop!
Brace yourselves. I'm going to take you for one wild ride. And it's going to last precisely 13 minutes and 31 seconds.
Just to bring you up-to-speed, (using tactics that I'm not proud of so don't ask me how I did it) I managed to get myself on the Sun Ray at Home pilot. Yesterday, the Fed Ex man delivered my Sun Ray.
This morning, my buddy Dan called. Asked me how it was going with the Sun Ray. I hadn't opened the box yet. Other stuff going on. He told me it took him 5 mins to set up his and that he was on a con call at the time.
So Dan's a lot smarter than me. But I figured, what the heck. Let me just blow off all this stuff that's sitting my desk and in my inbox...
and start unpacking the Sun Ray.
And I'm all about metrics. If I can't measure it, I don't do it. That's my motto. Let's time how long it takes me.
So I quick get the stopwatch. (Got it for free with the purchase of a bottle of household cleaner.)
(Parenting tip of the week: Use the stopwatch to get the kids to brush their teeth for two mins... not that it works... it's a constant battle... i give up half the time... if they slosh a little toothpaste for a few seconds, I consider it done. But don't tell Dr. Sophia any of this stuff, ok? We act like pious-teeth-brushers-and-flossers when we go see Dr. Sophia. She's actually none the wiser. She thinks we do a good job (or at least that's what she tells me). I'm a working mom, people. I gotta choose my battles. I figure they're baby teeth, anyway... they're going to fall out... what's the big deal .. we digress....)
the Sun Ray! the timer! Ready, Set, Go!
I start unpacking.... I get it all out of boxes and and dumped onto my desk...
Pause: let's do a quick time check:
it's been 7 mins; 54 seconds since i started. OK. Finish getting the stuff out of the packaging; start plugging things together; get rid of the bags, twist-ties and boxes. Plug in the power cord for the Sun Ray. (I was stunned to learn today that Sun Rays don't have on/off buttons... if it's plugged in, it's on.) So my quick-start guide says it will take two minutes for the Sun Ray to start up and display a log-in screen. It does that. I try to take a picture of it to prove it to you. Camera's dead again. Need more batteries. So I go ahead and log in and then quick run downstairs and get some more batteries out of the garage. (i consider myself an embedded photo journalist when it comes to the blog.) I get back to my desk (winded; gotta start exercising again...)....
it's authenticating me... quick time check: 10 minutes; 44 seconds... before I know it, I'm in! I can't believe it!!! I'm in. It was totally easy. Completely Painless. Plug and Play!! LOVE IT!!! I am so excited!!!!
So what should I do first... open up a browser... http://blogs.sun.com/mary!
and here we are... total time from messy desk to Sun Ray up and running: 13 minutes, 31 seconds.
totally unbelievable!!!!
can i just tell you people that Sun Microsystems rocks in two critical ways:
1. We've got a stellar product portfolio. As employees, we are the primary beneficiaries of it.
2. We've got an extraordinary organization that delivers it to us.
and that's the word of the day.
oh happy, happy day that it is.
:-)
mary