Recipe for one of those days
Monday, I think it was, I was futzing with my desktop computer, heard something go click, and the whole machine froze up. On rebooting, I got some sort of nasty data error, and couldn't boot into Windows. I tried a startup repair, and it seemed to work. I immediately did a full disk-image backup.
Tuesday, I didn't have time to do much, but the machine seemed to be working.
Wednesday (last night), I turned on the computer while starting my laundry, and the boot failure hit again; doing a startup repair didn't help, so I did a complete format-and-restore from the image backup I'd done Monday night. Since I'd been late getting home, the backup didn't finish until close to two AM, and I'd forced myself to stay awake to the end of it. I checked my mail, and went to sleep.
Alarm went off at 7:45 am so I could get ready for work. My body promptly shut itself down for two more hours, leading to a scramble to get ready - and a glance at the computer - which I'd put to sleep instead of fully shutting down - showed that the disk failure had hit AGAIN.
One of those days, I figured, racing to get ready, catching the metro to work even though I'm within walking distance in order to save a few minutes (when you're living alone, there are lots of time-versus-money tradeoffs you have to make), and rushing from Syntagma Square to the office.
Still quiet here; had time to grab a new hard disk for the machine while out on lunch break. Might have to duck out a bit early to do housekeeping duties while the new disk is being loaded with the backup image from the messed-up disk.
Hey, bright side: I think maybe I'm past the jet lag. Additional bright side: the weather's not quite as scorching any more here in Athens. (Maybe my plants will survive not having been watered for one morning.)
However, I did get a comment about my necktie - as in: "it's hot; why are you wearing a necktie?" The only answer I could come up with: it helps put me into the proper psychological mindset for the office, I suppose.
Anyone else have things like that which they do to get into the work-day mindset?
Tuesday, I didn't have time to do much, but the machine seemed to be working.
Wednesday (last night), I turned on the computer while starting my laundry, and the boot failure hit again; doing a startup repair didn't help, so I did a complete format-and-restore from the image backup I'd done Monday night. Since I'd been late getting home, the backup didn't finish until close to two AM, and I'd forced myself to stay awake to the end of it. I checked my mail, and went to sleep.
Alarm went off at 7:45 am so I could get ready for work. My body promptly shut itself down for two more hours, leading to a scramble to get ready - and a glance at the computer - which I'd put to sleep instead of fully shutting down - showed that the disk failure had hit AGAIN.
One of those days, I figured, racing to get ready, catching the metro to work even though I'm within walking distance in order to save a few minutes (when you're living alone, there are lots of time-versus-money tradeoffs you have to make), and rushing from Syntagma Square to the office.
Still quiet here; had time to grab a new hard disk for the machine while out on lunch break. Might have to duck out a bit early to do housekeeping duties while the new disk is being loaded with the backup image from the messed-up disk.
Hey, bright side: I think maybe I'm past the jet lag. Additional bright side: the weather's not quite as scorching any more here in Athens. (Maybe my plants will survive not having been watered for one morning.)
However, I did get a comment about my necktie - as in: "it's hot; why are you wearing a necktie?" The only answer I could come up with: it helps put me into the proper psychological mindset for the office, I suppose.
Anyone else have things like that which they do to get into the work-day mindset?