By the skin of my teeth
Feb. 14th, 2021 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI am a little sorry to be doing barely more than placeholder posts lately, but, well, I figure it's better than nothing. I want to honour my commitment to posting every day, and I just realized that I thoroughly dropped the ball on that today. In my defense, today was a DAY.
Peggy has decisively figured out how to Houdini her way out of her crate, and did so today as I was trying to leave for work. Not only that, but she broke down the baby gate that keeps her confined to the living room, so I had to make a last minute change in plans and leave her at daycare at PetSmart so that she wouldn't run the cats ragged all day and pee all over my upstairs carpet. Clearly her house training still needs work. *sigh*
Anyway, I dropped Lidan off at KK's, detoured to PetSmart, and FINALLY made it in to work to help out with the migration of the new secure network, and oh my God, what a clusterfuck that was. We lost connectivity to a bunch of systems, and the techs dropped a bunch of extra surprises on me at the last minute about the security requirements which would have been REALLY nice to know ahead of time. I am deeply unimpressed with how poorly everyone communicated with us during this entire process.
Oh, and in spite of their assurances two weeks ago that we wouldn't lose all of our contacts/address books/distribution lists, we lost all of our contacts/address books/distribution lists (this is my surprised face, I swear), and it took a lot of fucking around to find backup copies that are basically unusable but that we can manually copy over, at least. It sucks for the poor operators, who have had to manually rebuild these lists multiple times over the past few months every. singe. time. the techs provide us with an "improvement." It takes three people an entire weekend's worth of shifts (so roughly 144 hours of work) to rebuild these lists, without which they literally cannot do their job. So I'm super frustrated on their behalf.
By the time I got home it was 6:30 and I was so tired I couldn't see straight, so I napped before my Mage game (it was supposed to be Friday, but one of the players had computer issues so we switched to tonight), and I am very glad I did. I am still tired now, enough so that I think I won't have trouble getting to sleep the way I did yesterday after D&D, but the nap allowed me to mostly remain focused during the game. I'm having lots of fun with all my games these days--it's a large part of what's keeping me sane during the pandemic.
On that note, it is bed time. I have to be up a little earlier than usual tomorrow to bring Peggy to puppy boot camp for the week. I'm alternating weeks with her trainer to make sure her training doesn't get rusty and that she gets enough exercise because my own ability to provide said exercise has proved lacking this winter. Sleep is calling my name. :)
Peggy has decisively figured out how to Houdini her way out of her crate, and did so today as I was trying to leave for work. Not only that, but she broke down the baby gate that keeps her confined to the living room, so I had to make a last minute change in plans and leave her at daycare at PetSmart so that she wouldn't run the cats ragged all day and pee all over my upstairs carpet. Clearly her house training still needs work. *sigh*
Anyway, I dropped Lidan off at KK's, detoured to PetSmart, and FINALLY made it in to work to help out with the migration of the new secure network, and oh my God, what a clusterfuck that was. We lost connectivity to a bunch of systems, and the techs dropped a bunch of extra surprises on me at the last minute about the security requirements which would have been REALLY nice to know ahead of time. I am deeply unimpressed with how poorly everyone communicated with us during this entire process.
Oh, and in spite of their assurances two weeks ago that we wouldn't lose all of our contacts/address books/distribution lists, we lost all of our contacts/address books/distribution lists (this is my surprised face, I swear), and it took a lot of fucking around to find backup copies that are basically unusable but that we can manually copy over, at least. It sucks for the poor operators, who have had to manually rebuild these lists multiple times over the past few months every. singe. time. the techs provide us with an "improvement." It takes three people an entire weekend's worth of shifts (so roughly 144 hours of work) to rebuild these lists, without which they literally cannot do their job. So I'm super frustrated on their behalf.
By the time I got home it was 6:30 and I was so tired I couldn't see straight, so I napped before my Mage game (it was supposed to be Friday, but one of the players had computer issues so we switched to tonight), and I am very glad I did. I am still tired now, enough so that I think I won't have trouble getting to sleep the way I did yesterday after D&D, but the nap allowed me to mostly remain focused during the game. I'm having lots of fun with all my games these days--it's a large part of what's keeping me sane during the pandemic.
On that note, it is bed time. I have to be up a little earlier than usual tomorrow to bring Peggy to puppy boot camp for the week. I'm alternating weeks with her trainer to make sure her training doesn't get rusty and that she gets enough exercise because my own ability to provide said exercise has proved lacking this winter. Sleep is calling my name. :)
