Today was an absolute dumpster fire
Nov. 17th, 2022 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessI got to work and there was no flashdrive. Now I'm upset. I check the classroom. I checked my lab, the chem lab and the greenhouse (all the places I was yesterday). Nothing. I don't have time to worry about it. I had to get to the presentation for the high school kids.
That went well enough. Were they really engaged? No. I, on the other hand, was. I didn't know that the animal banding stuff was open to the public. My coworker WR told me there wasn't really a way I could do the flying squirrel study (the terrain is too rugged) but I could come do the kestrel or owl banding and the turtle/salamander studies you can practically drive to the water's edge. I do think I'd like to do that some day.
I go back to give the test to my students who missed it and I said I'd stay after this presentation. One showed up. The other didn't (nor did they email me) While I wait on her (I wanted to go to the coffee house and write while I waited for my friends to go with me to the fossil exhibit at the Bossard Library. That's when I realize not only has things not being saved right, EVERYTHING I saved to the One Drive (cloud) storage is gone and it says I don't even have one set up. Now when my personal lap top started dying, I actually put ALL my classes on the one drive so I know they're there. But nope. Gone.
Worse, there is STILL a back channel between the loaner lap top and my desk top. When I erased the grades from the laptop (in fear someone might take this and FERPA would be violated) it erased it from my desk top at work too. My GRADES. All of them. Over a decade's worth of them. GONE.
So I write to IT and they come over. They find some kind of conflict on the laptop that might be why it wasn't saving right. They have no idea really how things on the laptop could be erasing my desk top too. I need to talk to the big boss over there to see if we can undelete this stuff.
So now I'm about in tears because the grades are gone, my entire lecture series is gone, my novel is gone, even my writing time is gone. I barely have time to get to the library.
However that's what I needed. While there with my friend TH, it occurred to me that I had pants with pockets and a student interuppted my usual day. Did I leave my flashdrive in my pants?
Long story short, YES. Now I have my flash drive back so thank god, there's my notes, my novel everything. Tomorrow I will take it to work and upload my lectures to freaking One Drive again.
The library fossil display was great. TH and I had a great time. The waiting room had a bunch of Pterosaurs that I loved. Neither of us could get over the enormous sea turtle. the bones looked like they were etched as art work, fascinating. There was a big ol' pleiosaur. I want to go back and go through again. I know that we are nowhere Appalachia but damn, Bossard Library does stuff I haven't even seen in big city libraries. I'm proud of that place.
So from there TH and I go for coffee...and the damn place was closed. To be fair, they were closed for a good reason (to prepare their food pantry). I went back to the library to write for a half hour and then off to the endocrinologist.
Her first words to me how stressed are you? My blood sugar was fucked up, the highest it's been in years. Stressed. Like I need professional care (it wasn't offered). We talked a bit about getting a dexcom and the strange things she's learned with hers like red dye jumps her sugar.
At least my parents made it to the funeral home an hour away okay. I don't know if I said it but my cousin's husband died. She was off getting her knee replaced and he was working with some friends moving furniture (he's something of a collector/hoarder of antiques and stuff). They went inside and came out to find him on the ground. All we know is he had fractured his skull and a handful of vertebrae. They speculate he fell from the truck and died 10 days later. It's been one helluva year.
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ETA - Just sawfandomtrees is back for more holiday fandom gift giving. I'm going to do it again. I need to spruce up my wants, I'm trying to keep it to a more spare list
Still behind. sigh
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Snippet The movie flew by in a slick salty fingered good time if Grace discounted the times bits of the kernels jammed into her gums. Walking out of the theater, Howell and Dan were so loud, Grace distanced herself embarrassed.
“See,” Al said. “You two liked the romance.”
“You were right. It was more fantasy than romance,” Howell said.
“I can admit when I am wrong,” Dan added. “The Princess Bridge was fantastic.”
“Too bad we didn’t go at six because we could have snuck into Hellraiser too.” Howell glanced back at the theater longingly.
“Don’t you get enough of that at work?” Grace laughed.
“Fake scared is better than real scared,” he replied.
“Hard to argue that,” Al said. “Shall we go find some pizza before heading home?”
“As you wish,” Dan said, with a low bow.
“We’re going to have a lot of this now aren’t we?” Al clapped her hands together.
That went well enough. Were they really engaged? No. I, on the other hand, was. I didn't know that the animal banding stuff was open to the public. My coworker WR told me there wasn't really a way I could do the flying squirrel study (the terrain is too rugged) but I could come do the kestrel or owl banding and the turtle/salamander studies you can practically drive to the water's edge. I do think I'd like to do that some day.
I go back to give the test to my students who missed it and I said I'd stay after this presentation. One showed up. The other didn't (nor did they email me) While I wait on her (I wanted to go to the coffee house and write while I waited for my friends to go with me to the fossil exhibit at the Bossard Library. That's when I realize not only has things not being saved right, EVERYTHING I saved to the One Drive (cloud) storage is gone and it says I don't even have one set up. Now when my personal lap top started dying, I actually put ALL my classes on the one drive so I know they're there. But nope. Gone.
Worse, there is STILL a back channel between the loaner lap top and my desk top. When I erased the grades from the laptop (in fear someone might take this and FERPA would be violated) it erased it from my desk top at work too. My GRADES. All of them. Over a decade's worth of them. GONE.
So I write to IT and they come over. They find some kind of conflict on the laptop that might be why it wasn't saving right. They have no idea really how things on the laptop could be erasing my desk top too. I need to talk to the big boss over there to see if we can undelete this stuff.
So now I'm about in tears because the grades are gone, my entire lecture series is gone, my novel is gone, even my writing time is gone. I barely have time to get to the library.
However that's what I needed. While there with my friend TH, it occurred to me that I had pants with pockets and a student interuppted my usual day. Did I leave my flashdrive in my pants?
Long story short, YES. Now I have my flash drive back so thank god, there's my notes, my novel everything. Tomorrow I will take it to work and upload my lectures to freaking One Drive again.
The library fossil display was great. TH and I had a great time. The waiting room had a bunch of Pterosaurs that I loved. Neither of us could get over the enormous sea turtle. the bones looked like they were etched as art work, fascinating. There was a big ol' pleiosaur. I want to go back and go through again. I know that we are nowhere Appalachia but damn, Bossard Library does stuff I haven't even seen in big city libraries. I'm proud of that place.
So from there TH and I go for coffee...and the damn place was closed. To be fair, they were closed for a good reason (to prepare their food pantry). I went back to the library to write for a half hour and then off to the endocrinologist.
Her first words to me how stressed are you? My blood sugar was fucked up, the highest it's been in years. Stressed. Like I need professional care (it wasn't offered). We talked a bit about getting a dexcom and the strange things she's learned with hers like red dye jumps her sugar.
At least my parents made it to the funeral home an hour away okay. I don't know if I said it but my cousin's husband died. She was off getting her knee replaced and he was working with some friends moving furniture (he's something of a collector/hoarder of antiques and stuff). They went inside and came out to find him on the ground. All we know is he had fractured his skull and a handful of vertebrae. They speculate he fell from the truck and died 10 days later. It's been one helluva year.
I wanted to keep that community share Thursday thing going. This week let me point you to a fairly new one
comment_bingo The idea is to get us to share the love by commenting on people's fannish creations.ETA - Just saw
fandomtrees is back for more holiday fandom gift giving. I'm going to do it again. I need to spruce up my wants, I'm trying to keep it to a more spare listStill behind. sigh
Snippet The movie flew by in a slick salty fingered good time if Grace discounted the times bits of the kernels jammed into her gums. Walking out of the theater, Howell and Dan were so loud, Grace distanced herself embarrassed.
“See,” Al said. “You two liked the romance.”
“You were right. It was more fantasy than romance,” Howell said.
“I can admit when I am wrong,” Dan added. “The Princess Bridge was fantastic.”
“Too bad we didn’t go at six because we could have snuck into Hellraiser too.” Howell glanced back at the theater longingly.
“Don’t you get enough of that at work?” Grace laughed.
“Fake scared is better than real scared,” he replied.
“Hard to argue that,” Al said. “Shall we go find some pizza before heading home?”
“As you wish,” Dan said, with a low bow.
“We’re going to have a lot of this now aren’t we?” Al clapped her hands together.
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Date: 2022-11-18 03:41 am (UTC)And damn, I would think your endocrinologist would be better on the ball.
Glad the fossils were fun, though.
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Date: 2022-11-18 04:33 am (UTC)you know I've been saying the my depression is really bad to a lot of professionals and it's ignored and I'm like why ask then?
the fossils were great
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Date: 2022-11-18 04:29 am (UTC)So glad you found your thumb drive! I've read about sync mishaps like what happened with your stuff -- if it somehow thinks that you've deleted all the files on your PC, it goes ahead and deletes them from the server.
IMO you're better off with a backup service rather than a sync service. Or a version control service like GitLab, but that requires a level of comfort with arcane software that most people don't have.
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Date: 2022-11-18 04:31 am (UTC)You're probably right but since these are both work computers I don't get to choose what software is in play. sigh
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Date: 2022-11-18 10:00 pm (UTC)I can see how that would be a problem. I've come from an industry where I've had to keep work and personal computers strictly separate, which gave me a lot more freedom.
You could maybe ask your work IT department (if there is one, and you're comfortable asking) about backup apps.
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Date: 2022-11-19 03:55 am (UTC)I have back ups, they're just failing
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Date: 2022-11-18 05:24 am (UTC)The library displays sound awesome.
I'm so sorry about your cousin's husband that's awful.
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Date: 2022-11-19 04:14 am (UTC)the library exhibit was great
thanks, yes it really is awful
Yay!!
Date: 2022-11-18 10:12 am (UTC)Re: Yay!!
Date: 2022-11-19 04:13 am (UTC)