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ravencallscrowsGot to fight with making a checkin to the automation system. Wasn't a difficult thing, just the standard under-documented process, because, after all, once you know what you're doing, you don't need to write it down. Grrr. Only took twenty minutes of trial and error.
Spent much of the day trying to straighten out Payroll, who are convinced i'm still on medical leave. Don't i wish i could still stay home and not have to go there!
At about three, my twit of a boss decides he needs a patch checked immediately so it can be handed off to the app teams (as if they're going to start on it tomorrow, right before the four-day weekend). The patch is in Thai. So, our Thai tester gets to test on one Thai operating system (which we have ready-imaged, so it's quick to restore), but since he's also checking all the strings to be sure the language is correct, he's got his hands full. The boss gives himself one operating system, also which we have imaged. Our contractor gets two operating systems, one imaged, one which needs installation. I get the remaining two- NT4 and Win95 OSR2, both of which need to be installed from scratch. Note that this is three o'clock, two hours before the scheduled end of my work day, and i have to hunt down SCSI, video and network card drivers for these beasts in addition to installing geriatric operating systems on them, adding Office and the appropriate language pack, and then patching, and getting file lists before and after applying the patch to verify that the right files are getting updated.
So i end up staying late- about an hour or so. Finish stuff up, upload the file lists, check the bus schedule and sprint from my office to the Overlake Transit Centre. Get there just in time to catch the bus before it pulls out onto 140th Street. The bus fights through 520 traffic, and gets in, finally to Seattle.
Looking at my watch, i figure it's there within two minutes either way of the bus home. So i sprint the block from 5th and Westlake to 4th and Stewart, and get there just in time to see my bus pull away from the curb. Check the timetable, and it's forty minutes until the next one is due. I absolutely hate just standing and waiting, and there's no way i'm waiting forty minutes for the damn bus to get back to this stop.
So I start walking along the bus route. Figure i'll get a bit along the way home and catch the bus the rest of the way. Silly mortal. End up walking all the way home. Check the timetable on the last stop and see that the bus isn't due there for nine more minutes. Ha! I beat the bus to my house.
Not only that, but i got gather a whole pocketful of things for a worthy cause- The Mediavore Sanctuary for Orphaned and Displaced Road Turtles- including a rare breeding pair of Elliott Yellows (the turtles, of the less common yellow colour, were sitting on the side of the road- on Elliott Avenue- one half up on the other).
Got home, took a shower- including Peridot, who we found last night really likes playing in water. Tired now.
Spent much of the day trying to straighten out Payroll, who are convinced i'm still on medical leave. Don't i wish i could still stay home and not have to go there!
At about three, my twit of a boss decides he needs a patch checked immediately so it can be handed off to the app teams (as if they're going to start on it tomorrow, right before the four-day weekend). The patch is in Thai. So, our Thai tester gets to test on one Thai operating system (which we have ready-imaged, so it's quick to restore), but since he's also checking all the strings to be sure the language is correct, he's got his hands full. The boss gives himself one operating system, also which we have imaged. Our contractor gets two operating systems, one imaged, one which needs installation. I get the remaining two- NT4 and Win95 OSR2, both of which need to be installed from scratch. Note that this is three o'clock, two hours before the scheduled end of my work day, and i have to hunt down SCSI, video and network card drivers for these beasts in addition to installing geriatric operating systems on them, adding Office and the appropriate language pack, and then patching, and getting file lists before and after applying the patch to verify that the right files are getting updated.
So i end up staying late- about an hour or so. Finish stuff up, upload the file lists, check the bus schedule and sprint from my office to the Overlake Transit Centre. Get there just in time to catch the bus before it pulls out onto 140th Street. The bus fights through 520 traffic, and gets in, finally to Seattle.
Looking at my watch, i figure it's there within two minutes either way of the bus home. So i sprint the block from 5th and Westlake to 4th and Stewart, and get there just in time to see my bus pull away from the curb. Check the timetable, and it's forty minutes until the next one is due. I absolutely hate just standing and waiting, and there's no way i'm waiting forty minutes for the damn bus to get back to this stop.
So I start walking along the bus route. Figure i'll get a bit along the way home and catch the bus the rest of the way. Silly mortal. End up walking all the way home. Check the timetable on the last stop and see that the bus isn't due there for nine more minutes. Ha! I beat the bus to my house.
Not only that, but i got gather a whole pocketful of things for a worthy cause- The Mediavore Sanctuary for Orphaned and Displaced Road Turtles- including a rare breeding pair of Elliott Yellows (the turtles, of the less common yellow colour, were sitting on the side of the road- on Elliott Avenue- one half up on the other).
Got home, took a shower- including Peridot, who we found last night really likes playing in water. Tired now.
