My day started off early at 2a when thunderstorms woke me up. There was no going back to sleep it was a serious storm. I did my usual, got up had a Diet Coke and grabbed a couple Oreos. Watched TV and waited for the sugar to help lull me back to sleep. That happened around 5a. Then the cats had to have their breakfast so I was back up at 6a and of course the storm was still raging. I fed them and hopped back in bed.
I finally got up around 9a and just got started with my day. Since the storm was going there was no way I was leaving to get in the rain just to get groceries. Instead I started by taking care of some weekend work tasks. While they were processing, I cleaned up my home PC and rebooted it. It came back up and I logged back in at work, the job I had running was done. I checked and of course as I predicted my co-worker hasn’t bothered to log back in and do his part like he was supposed to. I’ll hear some lame excuse tomorrow and then he will be working on it all day. It’s such a disappointment, I expected more from him. Boss man called and we chatted about it, I just chalked it up to something probably came up.
I went back to bed but there was no sleeping even though I was tired. I opted to get up and eat some lunch around 12:30p. Then got dressed and headed out. The sun was shining and I was happy about that. The grocery store was packed to the brim. There was however a larger selection of prepared food to choose from. I got some Italian dishes and a Burrito. Nothing terribly exciting but hey if push comes to shove, I can always hit up a drive through or call in something and pick it up.
I made the mistake of playing with the gutter outside and got attacked by Mosquitoes, I knew I should have stayed in the house but I wanted to try something out. It’s a temporary fix and I will need to find a better solution, but that involves a trip to the hardware store and that is put off for another day.
Then on to unpack the groceries and as soon as I was done, I got an alert that a machine on the network came in contact with a virus. This is actually the part when my boss reached out. He is a micro manager at times. I know what I have to do but he decided to micro manage and I did things ½ ass. Of course, he called back about a half hour later to “check on me” and wasn’t terribly happy with the course of action I chose. I didn’t want to bother the user because it’s hell to get someone to call you back, especially on a weekend. I knew that our AV product cleaned things up, it’s in the log – but that isn’t good enough for him. You have to run a complete scan. Gee if you are going to that extreme might as well replace the machine, I mean AV can only tell you what it sees (detects) but if you think there is something lurking the only sure way to certify that is to build a replacement machine. That’s a huge inconvenience to the user and I almost issued the command to have that done because the fucker wouldn’t call me back once I reached out. Of course, I send an all clear email because I took over the machine and got the scan done. Then the fucker has been pestering me all afternoon but since he’s an “unknown” caller he goes to voicemail but won’t leave a message.
Now it’s time to take care of a title change aka a promotion. I got that done and then opted to do something I never ever do when I am on-call. I turned off my home computer. It is up 99.99% of the time. It’s great for ease of use. However, if you don’t give the machine a break now and then you run the risk of blowing a fan or power supply, at least that has been my experience. Well when I started it back up hours later, I got an error message that the CPU fan wasn’t detected. See what I mean.
I got the machine to start backup, and took the case off. All of the fans were spinning. I turned it off and watched at start up. The fan on the CPU wanted to start spinning when power was applied but it froze. I got an error message, told the machine to boot anyway and then the CPU fan started up. This machine is 6 years old and that is well beyond the lifespan of an average home desktop computer. While I know that I will need a new machine eventually I am trying to put it off as long as possible. I did some shopping on-line and have an idea of what to expect if I opt to pull the trigger.
By now the day has gotten away from me. I had to start cleaning the house and physical activity caused my sugar to plummet like a rock. I kept pushing through until I just couldn’t take it any longer and then got to the kitchen and started consuming food like mad. Then time to rest. Watched a little TV and then got up. Time to put out medicine, I do this task once every 3 weeks and I hate it with a passion.
I wanted to write a completely different post that I have been suppressing and need to just get it out to feel better but here I sit bitchin. As if all of this isn’t bad enough my MS Office Suite decided to become corrupt so I had to reinstall it.
It’s been a busy and stressful day. I am glad it’s time to call it quits. Looking forward to some Chocolate Chip Oatmeal in the morning. It’s a new flavor and I had to try it. Hot cereal (what I can eat) all blends together after a while. Plus, I eat so fast that I really don’t enjoy it because I am rushing so much. I did this prior to COVID. I had a small amount of time to gobble and then it was shower time and after that it was get dressed and get out the door. You never know what traffic will be like and better to be ahead than behind. While I will likely not have to worry about traffic for the foreseeable future at some point the game will change and life hopefully will return to a state of normal.
Best news that I have to offer is that I have some time off coming the start of next month. I still have a morning task to preform at work but that usually only takes 30 minutes. Then the rest of the day is all mine and hopefully no one will bother me. Of course, just as I got approval, I learned that another co-worker is taking time as well for surgery and that kind of took me by surprise. He’s older and I just don’t have a good feeling about it.
Well I need to get away from this screen because I will be back here and trapped in the morning. I’m glad that that cats are so forgiving. Let’s hope I don’t catch too much hell when I go upstairs. Now it hits me I’ve still got to deal with laundry. Oh joy, the cherry on the cake of my day. I suppose it can always be worse no matter how bad it is. Best part is that tomorrow is a brand new day and we start fresh. Hopefully things won’t go off the rails.
Here’s hoping that you had a better day than me. Were in for lots of stormy weather this week and I think with that will come some sleep interruptions but hopefully not. Talk with you peeps again soon. Take care and be well.
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