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linden_jayIt's my last week of work at the old job. Of course, because Murphy is a tricky bastard, it's not going to go down without a fight. Most of my last month or so has been all about cataloging new books into the library system, getting them entered and ready so that they can be taken out by students, even if it's not until next year. It's a big damned job, so I've been working on it pretty hard, trying to get it done before I'm gone and onto new things.
So on Wednesday last week, I'm puttering around on my work computer, tra la la, scanning books, and-- nothing. Computer freezes. I say bad words, restart the computer. It goes 'ah ha ha ha very funny, fine, restart me, but oh, looks like you've lost some data. Good luck with that, by the way'. I can't get the library system up and running again. More bad words. The librarian comes in, calls tech support to come in, they get the system up and running and say okay, we've had to restore it to the most recent backup, you'll lose all today's work (Hi, deleting over 200 books from the system, so AWESOME), but you're back up and running. Groovy. I start using the computer, print off a report...
... and all my results are from April 9. I look into the back up files... and they haven't been working. At all. The most recent complete back up is from--you guessed it--April 9. Two months of work? Gone. All the books I deleted and we got rid of? Back in the system, with nothing to tell us what we took out so we can do it again. All the books I entered, with dozens of keywords and subjects and information for running search engines? Gone. Every book that's been returned or signed out in the past two months? No record that it ever happened. I'm really not sure how I didn't break down and cry right then and there. Maybe because I couldn't stop hysterically laughing.
I've got us back up to limping again (thank GOD), and I've got the student books sorted out, but the teacher books is a whole 'nother story. They're absolutely going to have to do an inventory now, which they weren't planning on, and oh, by the way, not only will I not be there come September, but the librarian is retiring and moving to another country. So... good luck, New People! You're gonna need it!
The new job is doing better, although the learning curve is completely insane, and I still don't have a work station, which really sucks. I'm borrowing desk space from whoever happens not to be using it at the moment, and trying to do seven hours of work in the three afternoon hours I get there, when I'm done at the old job. It's going to be stressful, it's going to be insane, and I imagine in a month or so I'll be bitching and moaning and wishing I'd never taken it in the first place... but for the moment, I'm just gonna kick back and enjoy the afterglow. Mmm. Job. Mmm. Benefits. All those good things.
Real life that is not work is getting slightly more complicated, and slightly more interesting than it has been. Which brings me to the un-cut portion of tonight's post. I've decided to create a journal that will be a little more focused on things of a real life nature. I'll probably still post Jay-related stuff over here as well, or crosspost/link but it's likely to be centered over there.
Some of it may be flocked, most of it won't be, but I'm giving people the option of friending it if they want to read that, since some of the stuff I'm going to be nattering on about over there will have little to do with things fanfic or game related, and some people may not be interested in that. So--yes. If that's something you're interested in, it'll be over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jay_bean. Friend, don't friend, lurk, kick back and hang out, whatever you please, but you're welcome.
So on Wednesday last week, I'm puttering around on my work computer, tra la la, scanning books, and-- nothing. Computer freezes. I say bad words, restart the computer. It goes 'ah ha ha ha very funny, fine, restart me, but oh, looks like you've lost some data. Good luck with that, by the way'. I can't get the library system up and running again. More bad words. The librarian comes in, calls tech support to come in, they get the system up and running and say okay, we've had to restore it to the most recent backup, you'll lose all today's work (Hi, deleting over 200 books from the system, so AWESOME), but you're back up and running. Groovy. I start using the computer, print off a report...
... and all my results are from April 9. I look into the back up files... and they haven't been working. At all. The most recent complete back up is from--you guessed it--April 9. Two months of work? Gone. All the books I deleted and we got rid of? Back in the system, with nothing to tell us what we took out so we can do it again. All the books I entered, with dozens of keywords and subjects and information for running search engines? Gone. Every book that's been returned or signed out in the past two months? No record that it ever happened. I'm really not sure how I didn't break down and cry right then and there. Maybe because I couldn't stop hysterically laughing.
I've got us back up to limping again (thank GOD), and I've got the student books sorted out, but the teacher books is a whole 'nother story. They're absolutely going to have to do an inventory now, which they weren't planning on, and oh, by the way, not only will I not be there come September, but the librarian is retiring and moving to another country. So... good luck, New People! You're gonna need it!
The new job is doing better, although the learning curve is completely insane, and I still don't have a work station, which really sucks. I'm borrowing desk space from whoever happens not to be using it at the moment, and trying to do seven hours of work in the three afternoon hours I get there, when I'm done at the old job. It's going to be stressful, it's going to be insane, and I imagine in a month or so I'll be bitching and moaning and wishing I'd never taken it in the first place... but for the moment, I'm just gonna kick back and enjoy the afterglow. Mmm. Job. Mmm. Benefits. All those good things.
Real life that is not work is getting slightly more complicated, and slightly more interesting than it has been. Which brings me to the un-cut portion of tonight's post. I've decided to create a journal that will be a little more focused on things of a real life nature. I'll probably still post Jay-related stuff over here as well, or crosspost/link but it's likely to be centered over there.
Some of it may be flocked, most of it won't be, but I'm giving people the option of friending it if they want to read that, since some of the stuff I'm going to be nattering on about over there will have little to do with things fanfic or game related, and some people may not be interested in that. So--yes. If that's something you're interested in, it'll be over at
jay_bean. Friend, don't friend, lurk, kick back and hang out, whatever you please, but you're welcome.
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