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Actually, that's not strictly true. The IT guys have had a very unfun past couple of days, too. Those fast moving storms that raced through the Midwest on Wednesday night? Yeah. They generated a direct lightning strike on our building. Fried some switches, among other things. One thing I've learned? The level of backup in this place is scary to say the least. Not to mention the amount of bailing wire and chewing gum holding the systems together....
I got in at 7:30 Thursday morning, worked for about 2 hours, and then we were down for the rest of the day. No way to get to my files on the server, no way to get to the Internet. Just a lot of sitting around or amusing ourselves with whatever happened to be on our local machines. I had a copy of part 1 of "Through a Glass" printed out to send to my mom, (who is not at all wired, shall we say) and shared it with a couple of co-workers. They liked it. I taught myself a little about how to use BBEdit, the text editor on my Macbook-- very cool. I read a few pages (all I can do at one sitting) of the Perl bible: Programming Perl. "The Camel book," they call it. O'Reilly-- you have to love that company, if only for all the cool animals they put on the cover of their programming language books.
Today was better. We were only down for about half the morning. Of course, everything that should have gotten done yesterday was backlogged, on top of everything needed today. Got home to find wee hob in a very pissy mood. I'm hoping the Great Big Sea cd I just burned and am playing at an aggressively cheerful volume in here will cheer the lad up. No recess most of the week due to weather, and he had to work Hard all day and he is bored and he hates being a slave. God, what I wouldn't give to not be 11 again. He turns 12 tomorrow. I'm sure that will make a huge difference.
Okay, time for clothes folding now. Wee hob really wants to go to the library and can't until chores are done.....
Happy evening to all.
Hob
I got in at 7:30 Thursday morning, worked for about 2 hours, and then we were down for the rest of the day. No way to get to my files on the server, no way to get to the Internet. Just a lot of sitting around or amusing ourselves with whatever happened to be on our local machines. I had a copy of part 1 of "Through a Glass" printed out to send to my mom, (who is not at all wired, shall we say) and shared it with a couple of co-workers. They liked it. I taught myself a little about how to use BBEdit, the text editor on my Macbook-- very cool. I read a few pages (all I can do at one sitting) of the Perl bible: Programming Perl. "The Camel book," they call it. O'Reilly-- you have to love that company, if only for all the cool animals they put on the cover of their programming language books.
Today was better. We were only down for about half the morning. Of course, everything that should have gotten done yesterday was backlogged, on top of everything needed today. Got home to find wee hob in a very pissy mood. I'm hoping the Great Big Sea cd I just burned and am playing at an aggressively cheerful volume in here will cheer the lad up. No recess most of the week due to weather, and he had to work Hard all day and he is bored and he hates being a slave. God, what I wouldn't give to not be 11 again. He turns 12 tomorrow. I'm sure that will make a huge difference.
Okay, time for clothes folding now. Wee hob really wants to go to the library and can't until chores are done.....
Happy evening to all.
Hob
