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Got to work on time with no new crises. Work promptly generated several. The day was up and down - problems and solutions, downtimes and things I could handle, people wanting an explanation of a problem before I'd even looked at the logs to get it explained!
Midway thru the afternoon, the project manager for my main problem site (pre-live) IM'ed me about how I felt about early mornings. Since we'd been discussing the live schedule, which starts at 5 am, I had dreadful visions of it going back to 3 am (which has happened at sites before, when they wanted the absolute down/dead time for this). "Um, I do okay, but....define early."
"6 am." Wait. The live starts at 5 already. "Huh?"
"Tomorrow." She goes on to say that a VP asked for it.
Um. Okay. Things have been going wrong. But I do not have things in order to fly at 6 am tomorrow. I ask.
No, they just want me in the office at 6 am. Okay. After being afraid they wanted me on a plane then...is that a good or a bad moment? I have no clue, but the alarm clock is now set for Too Fucking Early. (Site is on the east coast so it's 9 am their time. See the point, just not fond of its effect on my day.)
Thinking I will be leaving work early tomorrow, tho. Also thinking I may not want to go to the 8 pm LJ meetup. I had RSVP'd yes, have switched that to a decline, as I shall probably be too out of it to drive by the time it starts, never mind ends. Dammit. Two in a row I've missed, and at decent venues; maybe next month.
On the way home, I stopped at Bimart and got enough dental gum for another month (no one else sells the kind I want that I can find, right now, dammit). Then I stopped at Fry's and got a better battery recharger than the only one I can find that I already have. This one's overly spiff but was sale-priced due to an opened box and still receives the full warranty - it can handle 4AA/4AAA/2 9-volt (take your pick) NiMH or NiCd (take your pick and set the switch).... I can now recharge batteries for a great many things I don't own.
Also shelled out $15 for a card reader for my digital camera's cards. Can now upload directly from 64-meg cards to the laptop.
They may have made a lot of money with that sale, because it's now practical for me to get more 64-meg cards and not have it make me dependent on the laptop.... (Pity the camera itself tops out at 64; the reader doesn't, of course.)
Midway thru the afternoon, the project manager for my main problem site (pre-live) IM'ed me about how I felt about early mornings. Since we'd been discussing the live schedule, which starts at 5 am, I had dreadful visions of it going back to 3 am (which has happened at sites before, when they wanted the absolute down/dead time for this). "Um, I do okay, but....define early."
"6 am." Wait. The live starts at 5 already. "Huh?"
"Tomorrow." She goes on to say that a VP asked for it.
Um. Okay. Things have been going wrong. But I do not have things in order to fly at 6 am tomorrow. I ask.
No, they just want me in the office at 6 am. Okay. After being afraid they wanted me on a plane then...is that a good or a bad moment? I have no clue, but the alarm clock is now set for Too Fucking Early. (Site is on the east coast so it's 9 am their time. See the point, just not fond of its effect on my day.)
Thinking I will be leaving work early tomorrow, tho. Also thinking I may not want to go to the 8 pm LJ meetup. I had RSVP'd yes, have switched that to a decline, as I shall probably be too out of it to drive by the time it starts, never mind ends. Dammit. Two in a row I've missed, and at decent venues; maybe next month.
On the way home, I stopped at Bimart and got enough dental gum for another month (no one else sells the kind I want that I can find, right now, dammit). Then I stopped at Fry's and got a better battery recharger than the only one I can find that I already have. This one's overly spiff but was sale-priced due to an opened box and still receives the full warranty - it can handle 4AA/4AAA/2 9-volt (take your pick) NiMH or NiCd (take your pick and set the switch).... I can now recharge batteries for a great many things I don't own.
Also shelled out $15 for a card reader for my digital camera's cards. Can now upload directly from 64-meg cards to the laptop.
They may have made a lot of money with that sale, because it's now practical for me to get more 64-meg cards and not have it make me dependent on the laptop.... (Pity the camera itself tops out at 64; the reader doesn't, of course.)
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