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Goose Egg Day
I had a dreadful walk to the subway this morning -- things didn't very successfully unfreeze yesterday, so not only were the sidewalks rather icey (when they weren't impassable because the house-owners hadn't bothered to shovel at all) but the side streets were damn icy as well. Seriously not good walking, and slow. On reflection, I should have gone over to Highland and proceeded there, since if nothing else there would have been more pedestrian traffic which would have helped clear the sidewalks.
I have no idea why Somerville, which has draconic parking enforcement, doesn't ticket landlords for failure to clear sidewalks in a timely fashion -- if nothing else, as a revenue activity. They would, you know, clean up as the saying has it.
My sidewalk (which to be fair, is rather short, but is on the shady side of the street) is quite passable.
The moon was in foo today. I tried to help a user whose Notes installation on her laptop has gone awry in a major way -- it started with her Notes Workspace being messed up, then she couldn't get into mail, and now she can't even start Notes. Retracing the steps of what's been done with her over the phone, I couldn't find fault with anything anybody had tried. We tried for quite a few times to then get Sametime to work on her laptop, but no joy there either -- if I could have used that to assume remote control of the laptop, I might have been able to spot something or other. I'm a visual thinker sometimes, and getting the user to describe an entire screenful of little files just doesn't work.
I couldn't even get the web-accessible iNotes email to work for her. I could get it to work on my end, but on her end it just gave us a big goose-egg.
She's sending the laptop in via Fedex this afternoon. I won't be in tomorrow, but I can get my hands on it first thing in the morning Thursday. Maybe just a simple reinstall of Notes will fix it, or I'll spot the one file that she needs to have available.
The irony is that this isn't really my job, but I tend to be the one that the desktop services people turn to when there's a really tricky remote Notes problem, I'm generally really good at spotting what's the real trouble. But I'm supposed to be working on our actual business applications, not just "general Notes" troubles. It's reallly hard to say no, since Desktop does a whole lot of supportive things for my people. Le sigh.
On the bright side... the reason I won't be going in to work tomorrow is that I'm taking the day off to go see Return of the King... during daylight hours, when I'll be well-rested and able to appreciate all the better. And then be able to talk about it with my theatre-going companions for a lengthy while after.
The book I read during my England trip? You guessed it. And it was a 197X paperback copy -- I believe it may well have been the original one that I begged money from my Mom to purchase -- which gradually shed cover and first couple of pages during the trip. (Ah well, it was lighter that way, and I can damn well afford a replacement copy now.) Anyway, I'm freshly-enough reminded of the original story and prose that I'll be better able to enjoy the movie but also appreciate it as an adaptation as we view it.
I have no idea why Somerville, which has draconic parking enforcement, doesn't ticket landlords for failure to clear sidewalks in a timely fashion -- if nothing else, as a revenue activity. They would, you know, clean up as the saying has it.
My sidewalk (which to be fair, is rather short, but is on the shady side of the street) is quite passable.
The moon was in foo today. I tried to help a user whose Notes installation on her laptop has gone awry in a major way -- it started with her Notes Workspace being messed up, then she couldn't get into mail, and now she can't even start Notes. Retracing the steps of what's been done with her over the phone, I couldn't find fault with anything anybody had tried. We tried for quite a few times to then get Sametime to work on her laptop, but no joy there either -- if I could have used that to assume remote control of the laptop, I might have been able to spot something or other. I'm a visual thinker sometimes, and getting the user to describe an entire screenful of little files just doesn't work.
I couldn't even get the web-accessible iNotes email to work for her. I could get it to work on my end, but on her end it just gave us a big goose-egg.
She's sending the laptop in via Fedex this afternoon. I won't be in tomorrow, but I can get my hands on it first thing in the morning Thursday. Maybe just a simple reinstall of Notes will fix it, or I'll spot the one file that she needs to have available.
The irony is that this isn't really my job, but I tend to be the one that the desktop services people turn to when there's a really tricky remote Notes problem, I'm generally really good at spotting what's the real trouble. But I'm supposed to be working on our actual business applications, not just "general Notes" troubles. It's reallly hard to say no, since Desktop does a whole lot of supportive things for my people. Le sigh.
On the bright side... the reason I won't be going in to work tomorrow is that I'm taking the day off to go see Return of the King... during daylight hours, when I'll be well-rested and able to appreciate all the better. And then be able to talk about it with my theatre-going companions for a lengthy while after.
The book I read during my England trip? You guessed it. And it was a 197X paperback copy -- I believe it may well have been the original one that I begged money from my Mom to purchase -- which gradually shed cover and first couple of pages during the trip. (Ah well, it was lighter that way, and I can damn well afford a replacement copy now.) Anyway, I'm freshly-enough reminded of the original story and prose that I'll be better able to enjoy the movie but also appreciate it as an adaptation as we view it.
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I have spikes I put on my shoes. I carry them around in the winter in case I get caught in a surprise snowstorm and am just wearing my walking shoes.
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And:
the reason I won't be going in to work tomorrow is that I'm taking the day off to go see Return of the King...
Me too! Oh, I think it's a very fine reason to be begging off work - glad to hear the opinion is shared. :)