Work...
This morning I slept in. It happens from time to time. Well needless to say, it probably would have been better if I had not slept it and gotten to work as early as possible. Well I did sleep in and now I am trying to get at least 4 hours of work in today, and it has become harder and harder.
First, the building I work in is a condemned building (literally) that is scheduled for demolization no latter than December 2006. It should have been gone years ago but was kept around to house various departments for BYU. Well, in an effort to consolidate where people are at (there are two wings no one is supposed to go into) they are doing work in the empty space across the hall to house some people who have been displaced due to changes in "usable" office space in some part of the building.
Okay so they are drilling through concrete and making a bunch of noise. No big deal, or so I thought. I put in my ear buds and was listening to music, this is where the second major snag of the day came it. My laptop stopped recognizing that it had a CD/DVD-rom in it and my CD was replaying the exact same track over and over again. I didnt feel like re-booting at the time, I had been making progress on a assignment I had been given, and re-booting would have taken time from the great progress I was making.
So I was using a single track on eternal repeat to drown out the noise of drill and construction work to get my actual work done.
Then a third snag hit: the server I am doing all my work on wasnt responding any more. Well it was but the server had no available memory to do what I needed it to do, therefore when trying to execute a build on a file it failed, and when trying to load the web-based app it timed-out.
So I am sitting here, contemplating walking out the door and going home for the evening, as nothing is working. I want to get 4 hours of working time in today but at the same time I am sick of the setbacks in the day. I wonder if tomorrow will be any better.
So after a few minutes, I rebooted my computer, which is a much easier said then done process, because in order to do it "right" and not mess with any of my files, I had to got through and close each file. And then I had to make sure each of my terminal windows to the server were disconnected correctly (I have been emailed about my numerous post failures at this).
So I get my computer rebooted. I get things reopened and now I cant connect to server. I feel it to be the final blow in the day. I am going home.
If it needs to be done I can be done tomorrow.