#service request

[trooperst-3v3]

It's getting cold again at the Academy, so it's time to bring the porgs inside for the winter again.

However, it seems that this past spring the porgs. . . uh. . . made a lot of baby porgs.

I don't have enough room in my quarters to shelter them all, but it feels cruel to leave some of them outside to freeze.

So. . . if anyone has room in their quarters (and their hearts) to care for some porgs this winter, please give me a call or put in a service request with the subject line "Bird Sitter" and I'll send you a bird, a few supplies, and a small instruction manual for care and feeding.

The sooner, the better.

[thedailypothole]

[trooperst-3v3]

Hux called me into his office today.

I thought I was about to get in trouble for being "out of uniform" when I responded to his service request last night.

Nope. He was mad at me for scolding his cat.

You know what? That's understandable. I mean, I've made people apologize for being mean to droids before. You do what you can to protect those you love.

And it's nice to see proof that Hux actually has that kind of unconditional love for a living creature, especially considering how people have treated him for most of his life. Maybe he's finally healing.

[trooperst-3v3]

Service Request 987436462

Time Submitted: 0300

Location: Officers' Quarters Level: URGENT

Request: The sink in my en suite appears to be clogged. Please solve this issue immediately. Millicent likes to drink from the dripping faucet at night, but the basin won't drain and I don't want my bedroom to flood while I sleep. - Supreme Leader Armitage J. Hux, BSc, SSc

Service Technician Notes: * Cause of clog found to be small cat toy wedged in pipe. * Toy has been removed and cat has been scolded. Sink now drains freely. * Hux did not care for the fuzzy socks. Time Logged (Including Travel): 25 Minutes

[trooperst-3v3]

Finally managed to go to bed at a reasonable hour, but then I had to get up in the middle of the night to pee.

Now I'm super annoyed.

Partly because I can't get back to sleep. Mostly because I'm only just now finding out that bathroom breaks (and various other tasks) take way less time when you're wearing pajamas and not a million pieces of armor.

I usually stay in uniform right up until I crawl into bed in case I get a last-minute service request, but NO MORE. From now own, I am choosing COMFORT. The jammies will be ON the moment I get home from my last official job of the day.

I'm gonna save SO MUCH TIME and energy when I'm not clinking around in full gear.

And if anyone needs me late in the evening? Well. . . I hope they think my fuzzy socks are cute.

[trooperst-3v3]

Y'all.

Y'ALL.

IT apologized and assured me they have solved my issue by creating a completely secure way for me to log in to my datapad with only one simple step: a retinal scan.

A Retinal. Scan.

I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE OFF MY HELMET WHEN I'M ON DUTY

I hate everything.

I guess if you have a service request, you can just. . . just. . . bang on the pipes or something. I think I remember Morse code.

[trooperst-3v3]

Hi, all,

If you haven't received a response to any of your service requests today, you can blame IT for that.

I accidentally hit a button on my datapad that logged me out of the whole thing. I tried logging back in, but after I entered my password, it started asking for way more stuff.

Turns out, IT ran some sort of update to "increase security" which requires, like, six factor authentication to get into my profiles or some such nonsense.

I've been trying to get back in to MY OWN DATAPAD for a few hours now. It wants to do things like "send a verification code" to my account in the First Order Security App, but I've never heard of that app and I can't even search for and download it because the app store is IN MY LOCKED DATAPAD AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

I've decided it's time to take matters into my own hands. If you need me, I'll be in the IT offices holding powerful magnets up to anything that looks important until the folks down there decide to fix things so I can sign back in with a username and password like before.

Sometimes, having this old-ass computer in my quarters as a backup is truly a blessing. I might not be able to get much work done with it, but I can at least use it to blog my complaints to the general public, which is still helpful.