Day notes.

[kyrielle]

jillw sent me a card! Thank you!!! *bounce*

Work was good. It had its "ack!" moments, but none were critical and some were (in their own way) funny. Not funny was this non-critical item: our IT department sent L's computer back - the one with the hard drive that went blooey. They were able to restore it and all his data is there (so far so good) but they emailed this nifty note: "It is on it's way. When you get it. Try not to run Disk defrag. It will put the system files back on the bad clusters."

Oh, thanks for sending it back in that shape. What's going to land on them instead? And this thing's less than a year old, what happened to "replace this defective hard drive, it's under warranty"? Did it never occur to them to say that?

Our boss is chasing that one. L, meanwhile, is happy to have his data back and is backing it up. :)

One of our M's is out at a family wedding. He read his work email and responded to a couple, in one he sent to me, he said he'd rather be at the office. Apparently, people were still changing the wedding plans and order the day of the wedding and the groom was not pleased by some of the changes....

Got some more work done in the back yard. Think I may do something with the dug up portion tomorrow morning, then go on digging tomorrow afternoon, but I'm not real sure yet. Depends on how I'm feeling tomorrow, and whether I think of more logistical advantages/disadvantages before then.

Gas prices are absurd (guess who had to buy gas this morning), my library books are returned, and since I paid my bills, more have immediately arrived.

Life as usual. It's pretty darned good, really.

Comments

IT Duh

[pheon.livejournal.com]

IT wrote: "It is on it's way. When you get it. Try not to run Disk defrag. It will put the system files back on the bad clusters."

If they didn't replace the drive, why didn't they at least flag the bad clusters as bad so that nothing, including defrag would use them?

Re: IT Duh

[kyrielle]

I haven't got a clue. Apparently, neither have they, although in their case it's in the more general sense. I mean, the system's less than a year old, so it should still be in warranty - and yeah, even if it's not or the step is skipped - why send back a system that can be damaged by a defrag?

Needless to say, we double-checked if there were scheduled defrags (there weren't).

[jillw.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!