Tech Support

Today I managed to work on three separate computers spread across the country helping their owners fix them and get them in tip-top shape.  That ate up a bulk of my day after report writing and research.  I did manage to squeeze in some reading and running as well in between waking up and starting work which made for a relaxing day.

I was trying to figure out why I was so darn tired after my run on Friday because I had run on a track and I didn’t think the altitude was going to make that big a difference.  It was the first time I ran on this track which is made of really fine gravel so I thought maybe that had some impact on my time; but I’ve run on gravel before.  It wasn’t until today that I realized why.  That track, which I thought was a quarter-mile track, is actually half a mile long.  That means my simple little four-mile jaunt was actually eight-miles.  It was a good thing I didn’t wear a watch, but the time difference when I got back and took a shower makes a lot more sense now.  I would like to thank Google Earth for allowing me to figure out that conundrum.

We finally got our work emails set up this week which was a great accomplishment for us.  The building we are working in is really far away from everything else and starts at what appears to be the beginning of the forgotten land.  We can’t get anyone to pay attention to us or come out and look at the computers.  They have been off the network so long they got dropped off the domain and the only way to get them added back is to have someone come and physically touch them.  They don’t give us privileges on the systems either or we would just do it ourselves.  It would be nice for the system admins to realize and appreciate the fact that we know just about as much as them for a lot of issues and in some cases we know more than they do.  It would cut down on their workload, that’s for sure.