That familiar sinking feeling

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I walked in the door this morning, to find that the corridors were throwing their biannual masquerade party. This time, they’d chosen to disguise themselves as saunas.

Mars was running around generally flapping his arms and complaining that the relevant IT staff members weren’t there. Turns out the aircon software had sucked the kumara. This is not good, when the software is so old it refuses to run on anything newer than Windows 98 (with an emulator of some sort!) and most of the Work hardware is too new for the various drivers and things that the aircon needs.

Fortunately, HardwareMan searched his Cave of Gruelike Proportions (armed with a large torch, of course) and located elderly hardware in a StillFunctionalState, and armed with said Boxen of the Elder Days, the aircon resumed belching out cool air.

And there we rediscovered one of the idiosyncracies of the work building. Basement gets real cold real fast. (Yay, IT department in basement, nice and coooooool in summer). Upper floors get … cooler, eventually. It’s amazing how many of the TopFloorBods discovered things that they wanted from us today. Including cups of coffee and conversation, simply to revel in our cold air!!

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I’ve started delving into the depths of the code for this project. It’s both more difficult and less complicated than I expected. Slightly larger in terms of actual amount of code to write – MUCH MUCH simpler in terms of tweaking to existing parts necessary. This is good. (Like, VERY good.)

Had a call from WebBoss as I was walking home today. How much have you done, how is it looking, undertone of “Australia are hassling me, PLEASE tell me SOON is the answer!!!!!!!!!eleventyone!!” As “Boss, I’m on my feet after a LONG day, can I please at least go home and stuff my face before you hassle me?” seemed like a bit catty a response, I duly explained all I’d done yesterday (practically, very little, theoretically, a lot of learning) and what I had planned for my evening.

I’ve done more than I expected, which is always nice.

Also, I acquired some fudge from the lovely fudge place in town in celebration of having signed the loan papers, and $4k in the bank on Thursday. Shopping for a car, anyone?

Actually, seeing as I’m attempting to develop, run as a server, run music, and a few other apps – CONCURRENTLY with WindowsXP – I’m going to get an extra 1.5gig of ram, a new video card, and second monitor, all with the mission of making my life as a developer easier. Also, that should put this box completely off the list of “things to upgrade” for the next year or so.

Quiet in the peanut gallery, please. Yes, once I’m a rich working woman I might buy a laptop, but that’s DIFFERENT. (Because I say so.)

After all, one can’t be a tech goddess without queenly parts, can one?

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