2025-06-06

mousme: An RCMP officer in ceremonial uniform swinging around a horizontal bar. (Maintain the Right)
2025-06-06 08:06 pm

Definitely an early night

I spent today in a haze of frustration about work. First my work tablet/computer refused to recognize that it was, in fact, connected to the internet. It did this for the better part of half an hour. I informed my supervisor, who only had "Contact IT, please," as if I was too stupid to come up with that on my own. I thought it was a well-known best practice to first do all the troubleshooting you can on your own before contacting IT, but apparently not in her world. Anyway, just the threat of dialing the number for the Help Desk made my computer decide to behave itself, and it spontaneously decided that Oh, did, I mean THAT internet? Why didn't I SAY SO? *rolls eyes*

Then I spent the rest of the day chasing my tail trying to get the wildfire SitRep written, then I had information for a different SitRep come in, but when I tried to run it by my supervisor she didn't even know what it was, so I had to explain it to her. Then she gave me the green light to send the information, and then five minutes after I'd hit "send" on my email she messaged me to tell me that I shouldn't send it because the information was for "internal distribution only." *screams into a pillow*

I ended up working 30 minutes late, which is NOT my idea of fun on a Friday, I won't lie. 

By that point I was so tired I couldn't see straight, so I fed the dogs and opted for an early night. The early night was then curtailed by KK, who kept messaging me on Signal with blow-by-blow updates of her night with H at the hotel. It turns out their first room had no working A/C (the irony is rich, since the lack of A/C is why she decided to let me take care of the house on my own this weekend), and when the hotel gave them another room it also had no A/C. When the bar across the street started blaring music they opted for a different hotel. 

At least I got some stuff done, but there was no progress at all on the packing.