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We've had a lot of heavy rain and wind lately and Thursday night a huge branch of a tree on our property line came done. No serious damage was done but the rest of the tree should be removed. I chatted with our neighbor whose land the tree sits on and I told her I'd help out with removing the trees.
The storms took down a lot of branches leading to both power and internet outages. We lost internet for about a day and a half, which put a real crimp on my working at home. I had to pack up the laptop and go into work. Work wants to open up with everybody in the building come August which depresses me. I'm hoping for some flexibility because over the past 18 months I've shown I can get the job done at home.
Besides, at home the coffee is better, the bathrooms are closer, I don't have to drive anywhere and if I want to take a nap in the middle of the day and work late, no one is going to mind.
I had a good chat with the chief engineer who's only been with us for maybe a year and half. It seems the previous engineer... and the one before him... *didn't keep track of changes*, updated *no* documentation, and generally didn't keep up with a lot of day to day maintenace. There's a lot of broken, outdated, unused equipment littering our racks that he's still piecing together. With his help we we were able to get the old video archive up and running again - both it and the computer connecting it to the system needed reboots. Windows Server 2008, yah? Although I'm sure we already had backups of a lot of the media, I wasn't sure if he had *all* our local content and it's always good to have back ups of your back ups.
-m
The storms took down a lot of branches leading to both power and internet outages. We lost internet for about a day and a half, which put a real crimp on my working at home. I had to pack up the laptop and go into work. Work wants to open up with everybody in the building come August which depresses me. I'm hoping for some flexibility because over the past 18 months I've shown I can get the job done at home.
Besides, at home the coffee is better, the bathrooms are closer, I don't have to drive anywhere and if I want to take a nap in the middle of the day and work late, no one is going to mind.
I had a good chat with the chief engineer who's only been with us for maybe a year and half. It seems the previous engineer... and the one before him... *didn't keep track of changes*, updated *no* documentation, and generally didn't keep up with a lot of day to day maintenace. There's a lot of broken, outdated, unused equipment littering our racks that he's still piecing together. With his help we we were able to get the old video archive up and running again - both it and the computer connecting it to the system needed reboots. Windows Server 2008, yah? Although I'm sure we already had backups of a lot of the media, I wasn't sure if he had *all* our local content and it's always good to have back ups of your back ups.
-m
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