... the IT man in LibraryLand
The big news is that I am moved in to the new flat and surrounded by piles of stuff until I can sort it and put it all away (and I'm not going to sort by Dewey!). I had a Tiger under the bed for the first few days but now I have an exploring Tiger.
Making it all harder is a bad cold that I probably picked up last Thursday playing soccer in 6 degree temperatures and may have made worse by attending the soccer groups beer tasting night at a couple of Richmond venues.
In amongst that I finished reading the Abaddon Books sampler. Abaddon are a new company creating action based, teen focused stories with a big dash of gore thrown in. The sampler had a chapter from each of their first four books with most of it beinf fairly run of the mill zombie/post holocaust/fantasy style stories with tough loner protagonists.
... Timescapes and Future Sight
I finished reading Timescapes - Stories of Time Travel on the weekend. It was a bit of a crawl but as I've been so busy. It is actually quite disjointed to read a book of short stories at a pace of only five or six pages a day.
Sunday was the latest of our regular post-release tournaments for Magic. ArchEnemy won this one diversifying the winners further after the early years of Freeloading family domination.
This mornings attempt to catch the train to work was thwarted by Connex cancellations which caused me to turn around and fetch my automobile to ensure that I could make it to work before the 10 o'clock opening.
Once at work I was doing lot's of little jobs and tweaking of parameters for the new LMS.
Updates may become a little less regular for a little while as I will be moving this weekend and may not have ADSL at home straight away.
Sunday was the latest of our regular post-release tournaments for Magic. ArchEnemy won this one diversifying the winners further after the early years of Freeloading family domination.
This mornings attempt to catch the train to work was thwarted by Connex cancellations which caused me to turn around and fetch my automobile to ensure that I could make it to work before the 10 o'clock opening.
Once at work I was doing lot's of little jobs and tweaking of parameters for the new LMS.
Updates may become a little less regular for a little while as I will be moving this weekend and may not have ADSL at home straight away.
... The Long Weekend Beard
Another week and a bit has flown by and been consumed by floorboarding with Handy Dad (finished last Monday - finally) , work, and a little bit of play.
The Queens birthday long weekend, a broken shaver, and lots of tradie type renovation work, have combined to provide me with a beard.
Said beard has elicited much response from the librarians with the stand-outs amongst the "oh my gawds" being Big J's dismissive "well it looks scruffy" and Bomber Babe pointing out that I must be glad that Svetlana is in Croatia and not here to punish me for growing the beard!
Growing the beard is one of those things that happens every five years or so and the last few times it's been quite interesting to see how many more white patches there are.
In any case here it is and you be the judge: Scruffy or Rugged and Manly?? (hint: Rugged and Manly)
Last Tuesday I was back at the Corporate Castle holding the help desk together while SoccerBuddy and CC had training on a day off for The New IT Geek. The evening's gaming was a week four hodgepodge of various games with BestFriendSincePrep traitoring his way to victory in the wonderful cooperative game Shadows over Camelot.
Wednesday I was back again and trying hard not to answer any corporate calls even to the extent of attending one of my IT Team meetings with Mr Prada, Genealogy Jane and Vikki. In the evening I had dinner and drinks with CC and friends at the local.
Thursday was a morning at Bea, plugging in a broken computer to miraculously make it work, and then marveling at the efficiency of Mr Prada as the tasks I'd delegated to him came back completed before I'd even had a chance to progress much further in my myriad post upgrade jobs. Afternoon was a meeting about the public IT training. Some last minute calls re wireless hotspot setup for the library caused my soccer appearance to be at half time.
Friday was more wireless install prep and a marathon session with Sister Serials trying to sort out Ogonek magazine in the library catalogue - go borrow some now to make it worth our effort.
And today was the finishing touches to the floors (except for a couple more spots). I also went for and fixed Freeloading Mum's computer and scored a free dinner!
The Queens birthday long weekend, a broken shaver, and lots of tradie type renovation work, have combined to provide me with a beard.
Said beard has elicited much response from the librarians with the stand-outs amongst the "oh my gawds" being Big J's dismissive "well it looks scruffy" and Bomber Babe pointing out that I must be glad that Svetlana is in Croatia and not here to punish me for growing the beard!
Growing the beard is one of those things that happens every five years or so and the last few times it's been quite interesting to see how many more white patches there are.
In any case here it is and you be the judge: Scruffy or Rugged and Manly?? (hint: Rugged and Manly)
Last Tuesday I was back at the Corporate Castle holding the help desk together while SoccerBuddy and CC had training on a day off for The New IT Geek. The evening's gaming was a week four hodgepodge of various games with BestFriendSincePrep traitoring his way to victory in the wonderful cooperative game Shadows over Camelot.
Wednesday I was back again and trying hard not to answer any corporate calls even to the extent of attending one of my IT Team meetings with Mr Prada, Genealogy Jane and Vikki. In the evening I had dinner and drinks with CC and friends at the local.
Thursday was a morning at Bea, plugging in a broken computer to miraculously make it work, and then marveling at the efficiency of Mr Prada as the tasks I'd delegated to him came back completed before I'd even had a chance to progress much further in my myriad post upgrade jobs. Afternoon was a meeting about the public IT training. Some last minute calls re wireless hotspot setup for the library caused my soccer appearance to be at half time.
Friday was more wireless install prep and a marathon session with Sister Serials trying to sort out Ogonek magazine in the library catalogue - go borrow some now to make it worth our effort.
And today was the finishing touches to the floors (except for a couple more spots). I also went for and fixed Freeloading Mum's computer and scored a free dinner!
... the Week of Crashes
My regular blogging has been interrupted by computer crash after computer crash this week.
First the Brighton library connection went offline after, as we eventually found out, we we're upgraded to ADSL2 for free and a tech miswired things at the exchange. The three step support process took forever.
Once all of that is finally settled down Beaumaris library is taken offline by an unrelated Telstra equipment upgrade which may take all day to fix and the offline program for the new LMS only wants to work at Bea when we are online. Mr Prada was the lucky recipient of a local admin password just to get things happening down there.
Finally the new LMS decides to crash with too many processes running at once and none of them wanting to finish.
I don't think there's enough time left in the week for something else to crash but you never know!
First the Brighton library connection went offline after, as we eventually found out, we we're upgraded to ADSL2 for free and a tech miswired things at the exchange. The three step support process took forever.
- First the provider wants you to jump through hoops before they pass it on to the techs - "restart the modem; unplug the phone line; try a different modem; stand on one leg; etc".
- Then the techs take it so far before they have to contact Telstra who control a lot of the equipment.
- Finally Telstra fix the exchange problem but the modem settings must not be correct and the Provider's help desk won't help with anything beyond the Basic configuration. Sheesh!
Once all of that is finally settled down Beaumaris library is taken offline by an unrelated Telstra equipment upgrade which may take all day to fix and the offline program for the new LMS only wants to work at Bea when we are online. Mr Prada was the lucky recipient of a local admin password just to get things happening down there.
Finally the new LMS decides to crash with too many processes running at once and none of them wanting to finish.
I don't think there's enough time left in the week for something else to crash but you never know!
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