Private Thoughts Made Public

Gawd, I’ve had a busy few days. The new IT Manager started at work on Wednesday and so far it’s going very well. He’s getting the gist of what we want to achieve and he’s remembering things from one day to the next, which always helps when a new colleague joins the department. We went out on Thursday and Friday to two of our branches to install the new order entry system, so he got a good idea of what we have to deal with (i.e. the system and the staff hehehe) The only little niggle I’ve got about him is that he doesn’t switch his monitor off overnight, and I think that’s just a waste of electricity. However at the end of the day it’s not my electricity, but it still irks me. If that’s the only problem I’m going to have with him, we’ll get on fine.
He’s already said he doesn’t want to step on my toes, the last thing he wants to do is come in like a bull in a china shop and pull apart everything I’ve (helped to) set up over the last few years. He’s also given me a big box full of Microsoft training materials for the courses he’s taken in the past, so I can learn the stuff as well and get some certificates under my belt. I’m not arguing with that one little bit, anything that will help me get my career back on track is more than welcome. All in all, it’s going well.
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I’ve not been out on my bike since last Monday, partly because it’s been too damn hot (or too wet), and partly because I’ve been exhausted when getting back from work the last few days. It’s cooled down a bit now and the sun is shining, so I’ll go out later today, get the muscles working again.
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Just had a call from my parents asking me to go round to theirs later on to help them put some of my grandmother’s stuff up onto eBay, so be warned I’m going to be advertising some auctions later heheh!
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My cousin’s laptop is goosed. Something she did, some cleanup program, knackered one of the dll’s or something, and she could no longer run any programs on it. It would boot up, we could see Windows Explorer, she could send files to the USB flash drive, but that was about it. I said “Bring it round to mine, I’ll network it into my machine, and we’ll transfer all your documents onto my PC down the network cable.” Seemed like a good idea at the time. So I plugged her laptop into my network, gave it an IP address, and then went to share the folder I wanted to copy. Wouldn’t share it. The option was greyed out, and the applications in the Control Panel weren’t working. Shit.
We tried reinstalling Windows, but it wouldn’t run rundll32.exe, so that was a no-go. Eventually we decided to go back to plan A which was to copy the data off it bit by bit using the flash drive, which was always going to work but we knew was going to be time-consuming. We’d managed to get that finished by 2am last night (or should that be 2am this morning?) but it sure was frustrating that nothing else I tried got us anywhere. It’s quite happily reinstalling Windows here after a reformat, so I’m a bit happier about it now. We’ll get the job done, even if we have to take a sledgehammer to it!
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I spent the afternoon with my son yesterday. His mum was not happy with him at all, he’d refused to get dressed yesterday morning and had a punching-biting-scratching-pinching hissy fit, and earned himself a one month TV ban. And computer ban. We spent the afternoon building lego models and eating junk food (don’t tell the ex!) after he’d gotten over the shock of realising this TV ban extended to my house and my parents house as well. For yesterday, at least. Whether we’ll carry on enforcing the ban over the next few weeks remains to be seen, but on the whole he was OK with it.
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So that’s me, how are you?