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Good news, bad news
Jun. 9th, 2003 03:13 pmThe weekend went nicely - Saturday was a surprise birthday party for sister-in-law Monica, followed by a short stay at the Minn-StF Meeting.
For some reason, every time we visit that Monica, it POURS. Always makes for interesting driving - she lives about 15 miles north of 694 just off of Highway 65.
On Sunday, Irene went to the Ladies Sewing Circle & Terrorist Society Meeting. I dug up a bunch (six or seven?) of chicory plants from the yard - nasty hardy things. I put my OTC weed-killer on them, let them wilt, try and dig up as much of the root as I can get. I've been fighting with them since I moved in. I may or may not win before Irene renders the point moot - her long-term plan calls for 'no grass' in the backyard. I also got new hardware installed on my home Linux box - added 120GB of hard-drive, and a 52/24/52 CD-RW drive. The hardware install went smoothly, the BIOS recognized that both of the new drives were there. The hard-drive was still formatting when I went to bed last night - I'll have to check it when I get home this evening. Then I'm going to have to figure out what I have to do to get CD burning working on my Debian box - I assume I'm going to have to install some new software!
That was the good news - now for the bad news.
Then there's work - we're behind on cycling PC leases - have ~80 expired machines that we need to replace with new ones. It has been decided that we'll all be putting in overtime until we get caught up - on the order of five hours per week. This means that they're going to be adding significantly to my personal stress levels - I realized some time ago that visiting user's desks was the most stressful thing I was being required to do. I was very happy when we restructured the department and arranged things so that I didn't have to!
We are getting another person in my department - the req went out last Monday, it's almost certain to go to one of our former contractors - but it will probably take at least three weeks before he could start. I'm hoping for him by the beginning of July.
For some reason, every time we visit that Monica, it POURS. Always makes for interesting driving - she lives about 15 miles north of 694 just off of Highway 65.
On Sunday, Irene went to the Ladies Sewing Circle & Terrorist Society Meeting. I dug up a bunch (six or seven?) of chicory plants from the yard - nasty hardy things. I put my OTC weed-killer on them, let them wilt, try and dig up as much of the root as I can get. I've been fighting with them since I moved in. I may or may not win before Irene renders the point moot - her long-term plan calls for 'no grass' in the backyard. I also got new hardware installed on my home Linux box - added 120GB of hard-drive, and a 52/24/52 CD-RW drive. The hardware install went smoothly, the BIOS recognized that both of the new drives were there. The hard-drive was still formatting when I went to bed last night - I'll have to check it when I get home this evening. Then I'm going to have to figure out what I have to do to get CD burning working on my Debian box - I assume I'm going to have to install some new software!
That was the good news - now for the bad news.
Then there's work - we're behind on cycling PC leases - have ~80 expired machines that we need to replace with new ones. It has been decided that we'll all be putting in overtime until we get caught up - on the order of five hours per week. This means that they're going to be adding significantly to my personal stress levels - I realized some time ago that visiting user's desks was the most stressful thing I was being required to do. I was very happy when we restructured the department and arranged things so that I didn't have to!
We are getting another person in my department - the req went out last Monday, it's almost certain to go to one of our former contractors - but it will probably take at least three weeks before he could start. I'm hoping for him by the beginning of July.
