Bored, indeed

[mamadeb]

For reasons having to do with both weather and the fact that a significant portion of Queens has been without power (may that be remedied as soon as possible), my office has no net access at all. There was a thunderstorm on Friday that fried the modem, and because they're located in Queens and all the repairwork for the power systems damaged *their* main cable, it might take over a week to get service.

So I had nothing to do - not my real work and not the stuff I do for the long periods of time when I have no work. I played (and lost) a lot of spider solitaire. I did get something to do - a very boring and useless task but still better than endlessly losing at spider solitaire, so I was happy to get it. But that happend at 4:15. *Sigh*

I would have read or knit had either been acceptable. I would have written but I don't want to save fic onto my work computer and I had no way of sending it anywhere without email or net access.

Better to look up phone numbers.

Comments

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Unless it would make your IP guys at work go spare, you might consider investing in a thumb drive. They're small enough to fit in your pocket and the 256K ones are pretty cheap (Best Buy online has one for $17.99 if you don't mind it having a college logo (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7134932&type=product&id=1110263522913) on it).

The only reason I don't have one for file transfers between this computer and Baby is that I already had Compact Flash cards and a reader for my digital camera, so I could just use that.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

What IP guys? :)

No one would ever know, I'm sure. But we'll get back online soon enough.
We kind of have to - our database is offsite.

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Thumb drives are nice, though. If bringing in outside data devices weren't (quite justifiably, as getting onto our system gives you access to the SSA mainframe) a firing offense at my job, I'd probably have one to plug into my computer there.

And at $18, it's well within the 'impulse buy' range. To me, anyway.

[hillarysherwood.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that your power isn't out, both at work and at home. I just can't believe it's taking ConEd so long to restore power to Queens. It's like something out of post-Katrina New Orleans, without the anarchy.