Worst spring break ever
- I've got strep throat.
- I'm under pressure to finish this project for this company I work for, except suddenly everything stops working and before I can finish my code I have to figure out why the computer stopped working.
- The professor I work under is been sending me emails telling me to apply for scholarships. I wish I had figured out that I was supposed to earlier, because now a number of deadlines have passed and I feel like I disappointed him.
- I need to take my computer in to get fixed. They are supposed to call me when the part gets in...
- I took my car in to get fixed but now I have to take it in again, to replace the back tires.
- I've got homework to do.
- I need to make a new version of my resume for an interview with an honors society.
So really I'm not doing anything fun this spring break, except playing Bioshock 2. And now that I'm sick I can't go to work today, and the boss sent me an email this morning asking if I'm making progress, and I feel terrible because a) I'm sick and b) Nothing works and I can't figure out why that is...Yesterday I was also sick but I went to work anyway, and I had a fever and it was not fun at all and a bad idea and I shouldn't have gone because I didn't manage to fix the problems anyway.
Right and I'm also exhausted because last night I spent 8 hours attempting to sleep, but I kept waking up every fifteen minutes because of the fever and because of the throat ache.
At the very least I guess I can take this as a good opportunity to continue reading. I'm re-reading Stranger in A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
UPDATE:
So I'm going to make this as not-techno-babbly as possible, so all y'alls can understand my pain.
My ultimate goal is to write a piece of code that runs on a computer, grabs data from a GPS device, and then moves to a certain coordinate that I provide.
The computer I was using (that used to work fine) stopped being able to connect properly to the GPS device. Worse, it isn't consistent--one of every (twenty? fifty?) times it works perfectly.
Fine, so it is a different make, and I have other computers I can use. When I last checked, they were fine. I opened them up and found that:
Two had broken desktops. By which I mean, for you Windows users, imagine you could not find the 'START' bar anywhere. Or Mac users: Imagine the bar at the top of your screen disappeared. Then the window manager stops working--I can't move a window, or select a window in the background.
Then all of them wouldn't update right. They would all refer me to a command that I could run to fix this, and the command would fail and suggest I run the very same command. THANKS FOR NOTHING retarded looping advice.
Okay so fine--one computer still worked, I could test my GPS device on this one! But NOOOOO I cannot 'SSH' into it by which I mean, I cannot access its files from my own computer (the Macbook Pro with the big screen and the not tiny-sized-netbook-keyboard). I can still test, but that makes everything SUPER inconvenient. So I'm doing that tomorrow. But seriously? This problem is unique to this computer and this computer only.
It sometimes feels like they are ganging up on me, each took a few problems and they figure, this way Shira will never be through troubleshooting, and she'll have the most difficult spring break ever.