Cabling nightmare

hello all, anyone a cabling wiz out there?
I know it been a few days since the last one here but work piled up while at SIIM.
I am sure some of you are waiting breathlessly for their CIIP certs to arrive in the mail - I personally run to the mail box every evening and...actually I haven't yet picked up the mail - the wife usually does that and I haven't really thought about the exam since I took it. I expect most everyone else is like that as well.

If you are like me you probably have about a million other things to worry about and CIIP ain't one of them. Kids, friends, home, will a server go down tonight are way higher on my list than CIIP. But since I am talking about it here now, I'll say I will be pleasantly surprised to pass.
as noted in my other posts and...(well I was going to say others but only clubpacs and I seem to show up on google) many of the test questions were terribly written. I am sure there are a few forums that have threads and please email me the links. in all the lack of chatter out there is underwelming...
...but there's always work!

A list of my active and soon to be active projects: (in no particular order)

Voice Recognition / Speech Recognition
Contract is in negs now. Lawyers are fighting over words and I am praying they get this thing done yesterday. I so need a new dictation system

QA
Getting quotes together to buy new monitor QA HW & SW
I spent a few days at an excellent SENCOR seminar and am unsatisfied with our current monitor QA.

Cath Lab
the above mentioned cabling has been a nightmare - first the second monitor boom never gets sent and ends up arriving 2 weeks late...which means the vendor must pull a crew from another site to come install...the new crew then doesn't want to pull cables to their competitors EP system - we fight, I win (sort of). I at least get them to pull near enough so I can get the EP guys to perform their end. Believe it or not the ADT's between 3 vendors were easier than this. THOROUGHLY unimpressed with all vendors at this point.

Vascular US
I am a bit upset with our vendor we've got a system that needs MS patches but the vendor won't let us patch and still support the app. oh yeah, did I mention that the vulnerabilities allow the machine to propagate worms across out network...so far antivirus is catching everything. No word yet on when or if we will be able to patch. Doesn't make me real excited about buying another system from them and I may not despite the fact that one of their products may well be a very nice fit for us.
FYI - All new systems going in will have a clause in the contract stating when and how the vendor will support updates.
Also see this which is a top ten list on when to change your PACS vendor but can easily be applied to other areas.

Reading Room
finally got everyone happy in there...maybe they're more comfortable now - at any rate the complaining has stopped and productivity is getting back up there. we'll see in a couple weeks when I receive the Turn-Around-Time for this month.

Inventory
This will be a new one, for a while now I've been wondering just what the hell I have out there, where the hell is it and how old it is. No records from previous caretakers could be found. Since I now have some help (RD started this week) I think this will be a good project to take on - familiarize him with the area and we'll get a better picture of what we got.

Training
Going to have the vendor bring in some apps people to refresh / retrain our superusersmastertrainers or what ever you call them. I have a few and with turnover and previous admin's priorities on other things I am wanting to make a fresh start.

DR
making progress with this one. We've seen about 6 vendors give us proposals. This is a joint effort with IT (as it should be) to find the solution which will fit every one's needs and I have a warm fuzzy feeling inside about this one.

PACS Health
I usually don't put vendor names in here but in this case I will. I am absolutely stoked about this one. If you don't know what PACS Health does google em'

OB U/S
this one is a pain in my...you get the picture - a department with no idea about where they need to be with their system and so far continue to think they will continue with their outdated and in efficient work flow...I am so glad I will not be supporting their app! (knock on wood for me)

Data Center
We have to re-rack our entire data center! I am a happy camper about this one! Allows me to move everything off our older MOD(s) and onto spinning disk to make some more room

That's about it - not bad for one guy (well two now) and this doesn't include the modality integration for new equip, opening a new urgent care with rad services and supporting a remote station 100 miles away and there's always...well, there's always something