A post of many things
Sep. 19th, 2011 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayToday has been one of those "if it can go wrong, it will" kinds of days. It is day two of attempting to deploy Phase I of Project Doom to systest and nobody seems competent. They promote bits and forget other, key bits. Then I try to get another department to deploy the next stage and it falls over because bits in the previous stage are missing. Lather, rinse and repeat.
Last week was no better for everything going wrong or not being as straight-forward as it should be. It's been incredibly stressful. Particularly as Phase II and III have just blown up into a massive shouting match and significant parts of the data conversion and data model need to be re-worked because people (not my guys) made crazy decisions.
If I can just make it through another three weeks, I'll have a vacation...
My laptop is still fragile, but it's running. Thankfully the family desktop seems to be OK now so at least I have a back-up if the laptop fails. I'm pricing up and I can get a decent desktop system for less than $1,000. So if things do go badly wrong, I should have the money saved up by the end of the year without dipping into my main savings or the iPad fund. I hadn't planned on replacing the laptop until the summer, but the stress of "will it start today? What will crash?" is getting to me.
At least I managed to get a hard-drive in my Popcorn Hour, even though it doesn't seem to want to connect to the wireless network so I'm transferring everything via USB. Technology does not seem to love me right now.
There are no rugby matches today. Woe. So tonight will probably be Holby catch-up. And apparently all the American shows are premiering this week. I think that I'm going to stick with just the five that I've kept from last year and not worry about new stuff, unless someone tells me about something amazing. Between those, Netflix (which now has the whole of Stargate, Xena and various other cool TV shows thanks to a recent content update, yay!), UK telly and my DVD collection, I think that I'm sorted.
I just have to schedule in some time this week between rugby matches for Spooks. And get Mum out of the house for the Gray's Anatomy premier. Too much telly, not enough time!
In book news, I am continuing with Perdito Street Station. I'm enjoying it, but it's quite weird in places and my excellent imagination is rather too good at conjuring up disturbing images from the vivid descriptions. SO, er, it's not a pre-bed read and thus is going a bit slowly. I'm now reading Northanger Abbey and loving that to bits. It's my first time and, while it doesn't have the subtlety of Austen's later books (this is thought to be her first written novel, although it was published much later), it is very entertaining and a great read.
Mum and I watched the Strictly launch show over the weekend (a week late, I know). I can feel my brain atrophying. But it was darned fun. I'm trying to work out when I became a Strictly/Gray's/Holby sort of person. I'm sure that I used to disdain such viewing...
Last week was no better for everything going wrong or not being as straight-forward as it should be. It's been incredibly stressful. Particularly as Phase II and III have just blown up into a massive shouting match and significant parts of the data conversion and data model need to be re-worked because people (not my guys) made crazy decisions.
If I can just make it through another three weeks, I'll have a vacation...
My laptop is still fragile, but it's running. Thankfully the family desktop seems to be OK now so at least I have a back-up if the laptop fails. I'm pricing up and I can get a decent desktop system for less than $1,000. So if things do go badly wrong, I should have the money saved up by the end of the year without dipping into my main savings or the iPad fund. I hadn't planned on replacing the laptop until the summer, but the stress of "will it start today? What will crash?" is getting to me.
At least I managed to get a hard-drive in my Popcorn Hour, even though it doesn't seem to want to connect to the wireless network so I'm transferring everything via USB. Technology does not seem to love me right now.
There are no rugby matches today. Woe. So tonight will probably be Holby catch-up. And apparently all the American shows are premiering this week. I think that I'm going to stick with just the five that I've kept from last year and not worry about new stuff, unless someone tells me about something amazing. Between those, Netflix (which now has the whole of Stargate, Xena and various other cool TV shows thanks to a recent content update, yay!), UK telly and my DVD collection, I think that I'm sorted.
I just have to schedule in some time this week between rugby matches for Spooks. And get Mum out of the house for the Gray's Anatomy premier. Too much telly, not enough time!
In book news, I am continuing with Perdito Street Station. I'm enjoying it, but it's quite weird in places and my excellent imagination is rather too good at conjuring up disturbing images from the vivid descriptions. SO, er, it's not a pre-bed read and thus is going a bit slowly. I'm now reading Northanger Abbey and loving that to bits. It's my first time and, while it doesn't have the subtlety of Austen's later books (this is thought to be her first written novel, although it was published much later), it is very entertaining and a great read.
Mum and I watched the Strictly launch show over the weekend (a week late, I know). I can feel my brain atrophying. But it was darned fun. I'm trying to work out when I became a Strictly/Gray's/Holby sort of person. I'm sure that I used to disdain such viewing...
