It Certainly Does Suck!
“Turn it off, man! Turn it off! It’s sucking my will to live!”
This day, that is. I must have come down with some kind of cold virus, because the slight fever, sore throat and total body aches I’ve been dealing with since late last night are usually the indicator of such. So far, though, it’s not too bad. I just hope it doesn’t get worse, and blow the lid off our vacation this weekend. I’m reminded of an earlier occasion where I journeyed to Disney World on my birthday, and became so ill that I was introduced to the concept of a “nebulizer” at the local walk-in clinic. It’s like smoking a big plastic bong, except it delivers you O2 instead of other, more noxious gases.
So, today has been a real drag—literally. Drag myself out of bed. Drag myself to the car. Drag to the office kitchen just now to heat up lunch. All the while every joint aching like a 90-year-old man’s. Talk about crap-tastic. I thought it was awfully strange of me to be just sitting around on the couch last night, watching a holodeck episode of DS9, no less. Must have been a precursor to this morning’s condition. Niiiiiice.
Annnnny-way, it’s gonna be one of those days…cloudy outside, too cold inside, and uncomfortable every other-which-way. As I said, I hope it doesn’t get worse…these symptoms, I mean. I could deal with some aches and pains and a scratchy throat on vacation. I cannot deal with hacking cough, constant sneezing and a complete lack of taste bud function. So don’t deliver me that, y’hear?
I forgot my China Dolls CDs today. Was planning to take them to work. Plumb forgot, in my morning-induced haze of semi-consciousness (that seemed worse than usual). Traffic was its usual vapid self, maybe a little better than usual, but working the clutch pedal was a painful endeavor thanks to this virus. ACHING ALL OVER. Okay. I suppose I might very possibly have said that enough times by now.
My friend Reaper is about to order a birthday gift for me, which is awesome. He was attempting to get me the 1/18 scale KITT die-cast car complete with working scanner light and all—but said they were sold out at the place he tried to order it from. Hopefully he can get it from Amazon; I found it listed there and put it on my wish list, and they seem to have it in stock right now. While I was there, I also noticed that the second season boxed-set of Knight Rider DVDs has finally been commissioned for a U.S. release, and it’ll be out on April 12th. I can’t wait!
Technical problems plagued our office this morning. We have a machine in here somewhere that keeps broadcasting at random, which saturates the internal network and takes down our connectivity to just about everything. This is like the fifth or sixth time this has happened, and no one has yet been able to solve the problem permanently. It seems just a little bit stupid, frankly, that the entire IT department can’t figure this out. Next time it starts happening, since none of us can bloody do our jobs without network connectivity, they might as well start shutting down everyone’s PC one at a time until the damn broadcasting stops. I mean, if they know something is broadcasting, then I would also think they’d have the ability to use a port sniffer or something and find out where the broadcast packets are coming from. I’m not a network tech, but come on—isn’t there something like this? Any packet transmitted across a network must have a point of origin, yes? So when other machines intercept those packets, why can’t we trace the origin? It’s coming from our own goddamn subnet; it can’t be that hard.
Okay, I’ll stop blowing smoke about that. It’s just irritating that when I’m as loaded down with work as I am, having to stop three or four times for ten-, fifteen- or twenty-minute intervals because the network, email, and even the phone system keeps being taken offline is a real big waste of time and money. Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick. Find it and fix it already.
Office email still seems to be down. I hear some people can get it intermittently, but my copy of Outlook just locks up when I attempt to check for mail. I’ve also got a rather important message stuck in the spooler that won’t go out. Stupid.
God, is it almost 2:00 already? You’d think I would find it a relief that time is passing quickly, but in reality, I’m not so sure. Seems my lunch hour has almost completely disappeared already, somehow.
Well, with that, I think I’d better get going. Usually when the email system screws up, and then comes back online, it takes a reboot to get my system to realize as much. After that, it’s back to work!
Grrrr…okay, let this stupid virus go away by Saturday. Please.
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