Kicked back, upgrading car washes and lube centers from
the comfort of my office at 9:40 PM, listening to selective bits from Punk’O Rama CDs from yesteryear. I’m working ON
#7 as I write this, and I find that I’m still enjoying the NOFX/Rancid
crossover after all these years. There
were a lot of good songs on those albums.
I learned of a lot of good bands and good music. Those, and the Warped Tour CDs. Both harken to different times in my life,
and certain CDs almost bring me back to times years ago. Has it been a decade?
Had an upgrade Monday night. An upgrade Tuesday night. Hopefully, I won’t have any more this
week. It would be nice to spend some
time at home for a bit and get a more consistent sleep/work/home schedule. The Monday night upgrade was hell. Verifone Viper boards are picky pieces of
proprietary junk. When you follow the
right procedures, they work like a champ and fire off without problems. Note that the right procedures aren’t written
in any manual or taught. Verifone would
rather spend 45 minutes talking about putting the stupid thing in a Sapphire
and two minutes on actually configuring it.
Granted, there isn’t much for the installation. But the tricky bits that cause you to get the
system up and running the first time aren’t ever documented. Except in some persons’ head.
I’ll tell you. Don’t
plug the network in the first time until the network is completely configured. And if you have to reload Viper… unplug the
network. Or get a V920, as they seem to
operate better and don’t like an ungainly kludge of a device. You can definitely tell engineering genius when
a cable exits a box and goes back into the box.
At least Verifone was smart enough to make those cables
replaceable. Except the one they decided
should be proprietary.
All told, it could be worse… it could be better,
too. This upgrade shouldn’t take me all night. Hopefully, another hour and it will be
done. That would only make this one only
two and a half hours. Though Monday was
9 hours and a 6 hour upgrade, and today was another 6 hours and a 3ish hour
upgrade. That’s only a bit over half a
week of work crammed into two days. I
think the company will hate me if they ever make me hourly.
And hey, what do you know. Microsoft Outlook 2010 has the ability to
create reoccurring daily tasks. They can
repeat forever or for a definite amount of time. In the last week or two, I’ve read about 100
pages of material. That’s more than I’ve
covered in several months before that. I like these things. It’s that doohickey that is causing me to
write this. How many days will it take
to burn through 100 days of “read 30 minutes” or write a blog? I don’t know.
But it’s pretty easy to eat an elephant at one sitting, 30 minutes every
single day.
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