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...well, sort of. The kind of sore that stings when you first weight them but is otherwise just warmth. I suppose they've an excuse. Today, I did a half hour on the treadmill (fitness room at work, and I was still on the daytime pager until 5:30 anyway - reading a book and exercising is a good use of it). Then, being Bright Me, I went off and did all the shopping I hadn't done while on-call. Which means I hit Craft Warehouse, Michael's, Cost Plus, and K-Mart. And yes, walked most of the store in each case. I also went to Fred Meyer's but only wandered a couple sections. Oh, and Fry's: straight back to the computers, price them, then straight out the door.
Computers. Yes. That was for work. I won't be getting one there, having seen prices and what's offered. I'll let our internal group do it, I suspect they can turn up something appropriate anyway. See, when we left off Friday, my desktop was dead; it was just a question of whether we could extract some data. Both hard drives and the fan had bought it (and I think the floppy drive, but we didn't waste a lot of time testing that). The motherboard and power were okay (we got them to work fine and coaxed the system hard drive up - booting from CD, but we could get to the system drive once we did - one try out of ten, but it got me my data off that drive).
When I got in this morning, the goal was to see if the secondary drive would yield data in another machine. The answer was no. So we agreed: get a big disk, and a new case (the current one tends to play slasher in regards anyone moving stuff around inside it, and we doubt the power supply since we think the damage was surge-caused). Shortly after we agreed that, my boss finished getting his office set up after the move and booted up his desktop, which is also the backup domain controller for our subdomain.
Guess what else is dead? *sigh* We also had a computer in the lab die after some of the surges last week (its UPS didn't provide battery power - the battery had bit the big one, apparently) and immediately replaced its UPS with one we requested (got three total - we'd been short one, plus had this one fail, so...). It came back up, mind. After several boots and coaxing. I doubt it will ever be the same unless we start replacing things but I must grant it runs, at least. So we were hoping my boss's machine would oblige.
It mostly did. Mine took the worst damage, that's clear. In his, the disks work if moved to another machine. The power supply works in place, though we had trouble confirming that. Nothing was getting any power...but when he moved things to paths that had not been in use, the power went through. The fan ran.
The motherboard is a seriously damaged little monster, in other words. So, fortunately, my desktop and my boss's both have some components in common...the mother board is not one of them but mine is compatible with his machine. So after saving off key data in case an OS reinstall is needed (decent odds, we're changing its environment pretty notably after all), we handed the machines over and bid them be frankentwined.
At least we'll get one working machine out of it. However, that leaves an old, slow CD-rom drive as the only component of my desktop that is not being pulled for use elsewhere, that works, whose functioning we are not too worried about (we used it to coax the boot that let us get the data off the system drive).
Right. New computer time. I think they can get what I need for $500 or so and have us happy for a while. Also, I have a call out for don't-trust-your-UPS and another out for I-want-all-new-UPS. All the machines affected were plugged into a UPS. The two non-lab machines never went down during the power surges and failures - the battery part worked. There are no warning lights on the UPSs involved, either. We consider every UPS of that age and in that batch (most of the office, and the few exceptions can't be visually determined, except the newest UPSs which are a different model) to be suspect. Gee, I wonder why?
I like my new office, honestly. It's growing on me. I'll be glad when they UV-protect the center window panel, which isn't, but I'll be sorry too. It's so vivid and alive to look out that window, compared to the adjacent greyish ones. Sunlight and green, and the glint off of cars (okay, that hurt my eyes at one point, but...).
I drive past Phoenix Inn or whatever it is all the time. So why is it only today that it occurred to me that I never want to stay at one of those? The Phoenix dies in flames and rises from the ashes, reborn. I'm sorry, but no stupid hotel is going to do that while I am staying there. ...okay, so it was a bad joke. It was much more entertaining with not much else to think on, on the Sunset Highway, averaging a pace under the route number. (Sunset is Highway 26, for anyone not from the area.)
I see a lot of Corollas that look just like mine. It is the generic color and model this year. And it's pretty, and it drives nice, and I'm glad I have it. But I must think of something so that I can recognize it in parking lots when I get my license plate, I think.... I love that car, though. It handles well (the Rabbit steered better, more tightly, but it was the Rabbit) and has good power (on the same level as the Ford, maybe a bit more oomph, but not much if so). It's smaller, but I can still fit in everything I need to.
There were the most amazing varieties of greens brought out by the sunlight. Dark, dark evergreen like shadows over the hills. A variety of deciduous, shading up from the evergreen into pale greens made almost silvery by the sunlight streaming between the leaves. The wash of yellow-green that's a field flowing over a hill. The off-shades, dusty greens, olive greens, a tapestry, a flowing landscape painting with only variations on a single color, as if everything cuts off when the green fades. Beautiful.
I think I was just in a noticing mood, today. I went to K-mart in Tualatin, just off the exit they are reconstructing, and I noticed the dirt - they've dug it up, that hillside, and I don't know what they plan to do with it. Or perhaps they've just dropped dirt down it. Either way, the hillside down from the exit to the parking lot behind Wendy's was a tumble of brown dirt, in clumps and crumbles, looking as if it had been raw dirt all along, and yet the sort of thing that should wash into an immovable mass at the first rain. (Actually, it probably already has - my backyard solidified quite handily, earlier this year, still looking fresh-dug.)
The flag flying at Wendy's looked very bedraggled, even dingy. Not torn or tattered in any way but it's clearly absorbed some dust in its life. It looked tired - even exhausted. I was surprised it was still out, and then I thought perhaps the construction - if it's stirring up a lot of dust, I don't think I'd be too quick to replace the flag when they're half-done either....
There were more pieces and details, but as I thought when I saw them, I've forgotten them without some way to write them down at the time. A pity, but as I got home slightly after 9 and it's now after 10, I think I'm going to give up trying to dredge them out of my memory in favor of going to bed. Last night I dreamt of several things, including driving to work and finding that I was driving on snow - it had snowed and stuck quite well - and ending up staying at a hotel because it was far too slippery to get to work but also too much to go home. (On what is - in real life - a ten-mile drive. And it was, distinctly, the I-5 corridor, though I admit that since my recollection starts after leaving home and I never made it to work, any other detail matching is strictly unknown.)
Maybe I'll have that dream again. It was cold in that dream. Rather a nice contrast to the present weather. I do like it in the morning, when it's warm and the air flows over your skin. After that - well, I've never wanted to learn what a hard-boiled egg feels like, you know? I still have no ambitions in that area. Cool is good. I love air conditioning.
Okay, not babbling any more for now. :) Bedtime.
Computers. Yes. That was for work. I won't be getting one there, having seen prices and what's offered. I'll let our internal group do it, I suspect they can turn up something appropriate anyway. See, when we left off Friday, my desktop was dead; it was just a question of whether we could extract some data. Both hard drives and the fan had bought it (and I think the floppy drive, but we didn't waste a lot of time testing that). The motherboard and power were okay (we got them to work fine and coaxed the system hard drive up - booting from CD, but we could get to the system drive once we did - one try out of ten, but it got me my data off that drive).
When I got in this morning, the goal was to see if the secondary drive would yield data in another machine. The answer was no. So we agreed: get a big disk, and a new case (the current one tends to play slasher in regards anyone moving stuff around inside it, and we doubt the power supply since we think the damage was surge-caused). Shortly after we agreed that, my boss finished getting his office set up after the move and booted up his desktop, which is also the backup domain controller for our subdomain.
Guess what else is dead? *sigh* We also had a computer in the lab die after some of the surges last week (its UPS didn't provide battery power - the battery had bit the big one, apparently) and immediately replaced its UPS with one we requested (got three total - we'd been short one, plus had this one fail, so...). It came back up, mind. After several boots and coaxing. I doubt it will ever be the same unless we start replacing things but I must grant it runs, at least. So we were hoping my boss's machine would oblige.
It mostly did. Mine took the worst damage, that's clear. In his, the disks work if moved to another machine. The power supply works in place, though we had trouble confirming that. Nothing was getting any power...but when he moved things to paths that had not been in use, the power went through. The fan ran.
The motherboard is a seriously damaged little monster, in other words. So, fortunately, my desktop and my boss's both have some components in common...the mother board is not one of them but mine is compatible with his machine. So after saving off key data in case an OS reinstall is needed (decent odds, we're changing its environment pretty notably after all), we handed the machines over and bid them be frankentwined.
At least we'll get one working machine out of it. However, that leaves an old, slow CD-rom drive as the only component of my desktop that is not being pulled for use elsewhere, that works, whose functioning we are not too worried about (we used it to coax the boot that let us get the data off the system drive).
Right. New computer time. I think they can get what I need for $500 or so and have us happy for a while. Also, I have a call out for don't-trust-your-UPS and another out for I-want-all-new-UPS. All the machines affected were plugged into a UPS. The two non-lab machines never went down during the power surges and failures - the battery part worked. There are no warning lights on the UPSs involved, either. We consider every UPS of that age and in that batch (most of the office, and the few exceptions can't be visually determined, except the newest UPSs which are a different model) to be suspect. Gee, I wonder why?
I like my new office, honestly. It's growing on me. I'll be glad when they UV-protect the center window panel, which isn't, but I'll be sorry too. It's so vivid and alive to look out that window, compared to the adjacent greyish ones. Sunlight and green, and the glint off of cars (okay, that hurt my eyes at one point, but...).
I drive past Phoenix Inn or whatever it is all the time. So why is it only today that it occurred to me that I never want to stay at one of those? The Phoenix dies in flames and rises from the ashes, reborn. I'm sorry, but no stupid hotel is going to do that while I am staying there. ...okay, so it was a bad joke. It was much more entertaining with not much else to think on, on the Sunset Highway, averaging a pace under the route number. (Sunset is Highway 26, for anyone not from the area.)
I see a lot of Corollas that look just like mine. It is the generic color and model this year. And it's pretty, and it drives nice, and I'm glad I have it. But I must think of something so that I can recognize it in parking lots when I get my license plate, I think.... I love that car, though. It handles well (the Rabbit steered better, more tightly, but it was the Rabbit) and has good power (on the same level as the Ford, maybe a bit more oomph, but not much if so). It's smaller, but I can still fit in everything I need to.
There were the most amazing varieties of greens brought out by the sunlight. Dark, dark evergreen like shadows over the hills. A variety of deciduous, shading up from the evergreen into pale greens made almost silvery by the sunlight streaming between the leaves. The wash of yellow-green that's a field flowing over a hill. The off-shades, dusty greens, olive greens, a tapestry, a flowing landscape painting with only variations on a single color, as if everything cuts off when the green fades. Beautiful.
I think I was just in a noticing mood, today. I went to K-mart in Tualatin, just off the exit they are reconstructing, and I noticed the dirt - they've dug it up, that hillside, and I don't know what they plan to do with it. Or perhaps they've just dropped dirt down it. Either way, the hillside down from the exit to the parking lot behind Wendy's was a tumble of brown dirt, in clumps and crumbles, looking as if it had been raw dirt all along, and yet the sort of thing that should wash into an immovable mass at the first rain. (Actually, it probably already has - my backyard solidified quite handily, earlier this year, still looking fresh-dug.)
The flag flying at Wendy's looked very bedraggled, even dingy. Not torn or tattered in any way but it's clearly absorbed some dust in its life. It looked tired - even exhausted. I was surprised it was still out, and then I thought perhaps the construction - if it's stirring up a lot of dust, I don't think I'd be too quick to replace the flag when they're half-done either....
There were more pieces and details, but as I thought when I saw them, I've forgotten them without some way to write them down at the time. A pity, but as I got home slightly after 9 and it's now after 10, I think I'm going to give up trying to dredge them out of my memory in favor of going to bed. Last night I dreamt of several things, including driving to work and finding that I was driving on snow - it had snowed and stuck quite well - and ending up staying at a hotel because it was far too slippery to get to work but also too much to go home. (On what is - in real life - a ten-mile drive. And it was, distinctly, the I-5 corridor, though I admit that since my recollection starts after leaving home and I never made it to work, any other detail matching is strictly unknown.)
Maybe I'll have that dream again. It was cold in that dream. Rather a nice contrast to the present weather. I do like it in the morning, when it's warm and the air flows over your skin. After that - well, I've never wanted to learn what a hard-boiled egg feels like, you know? I still have no ambitions in that area. Cool is good. I love air conditioning.
Okay, not babbling any more for now. :) Bedtime.
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