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my brain is back
May. 7th, 2008 09:55 pmMy brain is back.
("I didn't know it was gone, Serge.")
Humph.
I meant that my electronic brain is back. When my employer-provided laptop kicked the bucket a few weeks ago, the tech-support guy (hereafter referred to as the TSG) said that the problem was with the hard-drive (hereafter referred to as the HD). That was quite a relief for my manager, who wasn't looking forward to spending lots of dollars to provide me with the tools that'd make me capable of working from home at any ungodly hour of the day and night. The new HD was put in, was imaged to reflect the contents of the old HD, and the laptop was back to work. For two whole days. By yesterday morning, more than a week after he had gotten the laptop from me, the TSG spent a couple of hours on it, and confirmed that the new HD was indeed fine, but that the laptop itself was kaput. So, he took the HD out, put it into another laptop body that he's loaning me until my manager coughs up the funds for the brain's new body.
Alive! It's alive!
I must say that that being without my own home computer made certain activities not related to my corporate duties a bit problematic. Also, I was going to need to work from home for the next week, and I wasn't looking forward to dragging my desktop to my home office. The timing couldn't have been better. Actually, it could have been better, but things worked out all right. I took Sue to the airport this morning, and she's now in the Bay Area, visiting her family.
Yes, I'm a bachelor for the next few days.
Do you know what that means? Drunken revelry? It means that, besides doing my remunerated work, I'm babysitting Agatha, Cagney, Freya, Nahla and Jefferson. Lunch consisted of a few slices of bologna, and I didn't get around to supper (a superb can of Hormel's chile con carne) until after I was done with necessary errands, and with watering the garden, and replacing one hose reel, and with pulling out weeds, and feeding the birds, and... By then it was close to 8:30pm.
I'm feeling a bit fatigued. I'll probably read a bit then fall asleep on the couch. Tomorrow night should be more typical of a bachelor's life... I've got a few episodes of Doctor Who and of Galactica to watch on the internet, then I'll fall asleep on the couch.
Good night.
("I didn't know it was gone, Serge.")
Humph.
I meant that my electronic brain is back. When my employer-provided laptop kicked the bucket a few weeks ago, the tech-support guy (hereafter referred to as the TSG) said that the problem was with the hard-drive (hereafter referred to as the HD). That was quite a relief for my manager, who wasn't looking forward to spending lots of dollars to provide me with the tools that'd make me capable of working from home at any ungodly hour of the day and night. The new HD was put in, was imaged to reflect the contents of the old HD, and the laptop was back to work. For two whole days. By yesterday morning, more than a week after he had gotten the laptop from me, the TSG spent a couple of hours on it, and confirmed that the new HD was indeed fine, but that the laptop itself was kaput. So, he took the HD out, put it into another laptop body that he's loaning me until my manager coughs up the funds for the brain's new body.
Alive! It's alive!
I must say that that being without my own home computer made certain activities not related to my corporate duties a bit problematic. Also, I was going to need to work from home for the next week, and I wasn't looking forward to dragging my desktop to my home office. The timing couldn't have been better. Actually, it could have been better, but things worked out all right. I took Sue to the airport this morning, and she's now in the Bay Area, visiting her family.
Yes, I'm a bachelor for the next few days.
Do you know what that means? Drunken revelry? It means that, besides doing my remunerated work, I'm babysitting Agatha, Cagney, Freya, Nahla and Jefferson. Lunch consisted of a few slices of bologna, and I didn't get around to supper (a superb can of Hormel's chile con carne) until after I was done with necessary errands, and with watering the garden, and replacing one hose reel, and with pulling out weeds, and feeding the birds, and... By then it was close to 8:30pm.
I'm feeling a bit fatigued. I'll probably read a bit then fall asleep on the couch. Tomorrow night should be more typical of a bachelor's life... I've got a few episodes of Doctor Who and of Galactica to watch on the internet, then I'll fall asleep on the couch.
Good night.
