Downtime
I had a nice long weekend due to End of Month Network Freeze...I flew back to Denver from Grand Junction on Thursday and had no installs, and made my way up to my parents place after the freeway reopened on Friday. I just hung out and chatted with Dad alot(and mom and my brothers some) and slept even more. I think I've finally kicked most of this cold...took 4 days of sleeping and not working but I feel almost human again.
About the only productive thing I did was burn a pile of DVDs for work and rebuild Dad's laptop for him. Turns out that he has a bad controller for the internal optical drive and it will not read from it about 49 times out of 50. He doesn't need it much, and has a USB DVD burner for those times when he needs an optical drive...but his laptop is old enough that it won't boot from USB, so reinstalling the OS is almost impossible unless there's an OS on it already. I ended up launching the installer from his old OS, installing and letting it Nuke the Windows and Documents&Settings folder, and then deleted everything else by hand. Not as good as actually formatting it, but as good as that machine is going to get.
Only other thing i did was the usual weekend work stuff...billing time and payroll time entry, and then a "Why didn't you get this mandatory training done" email from my Boss prompted me to spend about 4 hours trying to get all the CBT's done so I could say they were done(He was understanding when I replied that I had been working 80+ hours a week and was sick to boot).
So, now that I'm all rested up, its off to work again in the morning. I have to admit, a 3 hour drive is a heck of alot nicer than a 12+ hour series of plane trips.
It was good to have the mini-vacation. I needed it.
About the only productive thing I did was burn a pile of DVDs for work and rebuild Dad's laptop for him. Turns out that he has a bad controller for the internal optical drive and it will not read from it about 49 times out of 50. He doesn't need it much, and has a USB DVD burner for those times when he needs an optical drive...but his laptop is old enough that it won't boot from USB, so reinstalling the OS is almost impossible unless there's an OS on it already. I ended up launching the installer from his old OS, installing and letting it Nuke the Windows and Documents&Settings folder, and then deleted everything else by hand. Not as good as actually formatting it, but as good as that machine is going to get.
Only other thing i did was the usual weekend work stuff...billing time and payroll time entry, and then a "Why didn't you get this mandatory training done" email from my Boss prompted me to spend about 4 hours trying to get all the CBT's done so I could say they were done(He was understanding when I replied that I had been working 80+ hours a week and was sick to boot).
So, now that I'm all rested up, its off to work again in the morning. I have to admit, a 3 hour drive is a heck of alot nicer than a 12+ hour series of plane trips.
It was good to have the mini-vacation. I needed it.