Return to work

After a planned three-day weekend and an un-planned illness caused me to also miss Friday, making for a long 4 day weekend, I returned to the office this morning to find that nothing’s broken. That’s a good thing. There was something broken on Friday, as someone decided that Friday, without me being around, would be a good day to unhook, move and re-hook all of their computer equipment. Naturally, it didn’t start after they got it hooked back up again. I was able to work with my boss over the phone to get it started, as they had not hooked up the scanner correctly, which I think was causing the hanging on boot up. (At least it booted once they unplugged the SCSI connection to the scanner, so I assume something in there wasn’t correct.) That was better than the alternative, as I was leaning towards a diagnosis of them somehow managing to unseat the RAM, which I don’t think I could have convinced anyone to look at over the phone. I might have had to actually get out of bed and come fix it for them.

Anyway, still lots of emails and small projects to get caught up on, but I should have that accomplished today, along with catching up on blog and tech news reading.

Similar Posts

  • New blog

    Despite Andy’s excellent suggestions on the last comment, I decided to go with a simple Blogger blog, like this one. I actually did try and quickly download and install BlogWorks XML to do the job, but ran into server errors that I suspect have to do with something necessary not being installed on my web…

  • Various updates

    Just a few things I put in my link blog that I want to have all in one post so I can look at them tonight, and you might be interested in. Skype Update Fixes Security issue Lookout version 1.2.3 released Top 10 Cool computing utilities -especially the Desktop Sidebar looks interesting Free CISSP Follow…

  • Ugh

    Nothing like coming in and finding a laptop that won’t boot and a bad video driver screwing with a monitor image waiting for you first thing. Fun, fun… Update: Got the laptop to boot, disabling the Palm HotSync software at startup seems to have done the trick. Bad Palm! The monitor is proving to be…

  • Election fatigue

    You may, or may not, have noticed that I haven’t really said anything about any interesting work projects lately. In fact, I’ve barely talked about my job at all. Fact of the matter is, I do work for a political/lobbying organization and this is election season! Granted, we’re involved in state-level politics and not the…

  • Changing things around

    Looks like I’m going to have some extra time on my hands over some of the next few weekends. I’ll be laid up after my little surgery tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, then my wife will be leaving me home alone for a couple of weekends in the near future, so naturally I’ll…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)