I talk about work often on this blog, and give a few tidbits here and there, well today I'm going to give you a complete rundown of my day. Don't get too excited, as this won't be all that exciting!
I went to bed last night as the computer was in the process of installing 69 updates in a single batch. These updates require 4 steps to install completely, first to download, second to install, third to continue the install during shutdown, and forth to finish the installation during restart of the system -- this take a long time so going to bed was the best bet.
My two days off - and I going to start fixing my bosses computer - Most of the repair is comprised of waiting for the software to install - but I do have to keep an eye on it so it won’t take for ever. Fortunately there is a hidden partition on his computer which allows me to reinstall the system and user files - It just takes a couple of hours to run, so while I wait, I’ll answer some email that has been waiting for a while.
Well my boss brought in his wife's computer in this morning on which his nephew has been using to surf porn on the internet with out virus protection -- Now that’s like playing in traffic with a blindfold on, or better yet, Jumping off a skyscraper without a parachute.
We got another couple of inches of snow last night, and I had to dig my way out of the pile of snow left by the snow plow - but got to work in time to make a few bucks today. The customer traffic was better today, but nothing to brag about. I still spent a majority of the day waiting for customers, but did enjoy the customers I had.
Everything was covered with four inches of fluffy, white, beautiful snow when I got up this morning -- beautiful, but a major pain, as it would continued most of the day. So after my usual morning routine, I headed into work and arrived at my scheduled time, and just as I expected -- No Customers, just employees doing things to keep busy - trying to make the time go by.
I'm not much of a writer, but there are time when I just have to blow off a bit of steam, and find the best way to do it is by writing it down and then editing, re-editing and then more editing. It can take me an hour or more just to write a single paragraph to my satisfaction -- the reason for this can be found quite often by reading my other posts, where I don't always take the extra time needed to make my entries, make sense!
I was talking with a friend yesterday about my motor home, and during the conversation she told me about an email she received, stating that; In November, Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home. On his first trip home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the Winnie left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising him in the handbook that he could not actually do this. He was awarded $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago. It was also said that Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home. The e-mail that announced the award concludes: “Are we, as a society, getting more stupid?”
My frustration abounds -- my computer system still isn't working properly -- Once again I contacted Dell with the problem -- and after talking this time and explaining that I've reinstalled the Vista about 50 times - they agreed to send me a new hard drive with the system installed, as well as new restore discs.
Unfortunately during my last two day off, I got very little time to work on the motor home, as I spent most of the time trying to get my computer to run correctly.
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about how Zooplies is pronounced, and what it means!
