Rainday

[altivo]

All day drip splatter drizzle rain drip splash. But they say by Friday we could be in the 80s. There goes spring.

Farrier coming tomorrow but Gary will hold horses for him as I have to be at work. Vet maybe coming too. Gotta catch baby platys to take to work in the morning. Tank is getting loaded and Jeff our fish tank expert will trade them for something else as he has in the past. I should probably get something that EATS guppies.

Pile of cataloging stuff to do at work so didn't get much database work in other than extracting a couple of bugs. The final dissimilarities between the two Alphas are ironed out, I think, so both will act in exactly the same way given the same conditions. The one I have at home is just a little slower.

Made a chicken pie from some of yesterday's restaurant leftovers. Turned out pretty good. Gary just got back from school and is sampling now. Bed soon.

Comments

[saythename.livejournal.com]

You need an assistant to do that Alpha stuff for you. @.@

[altivo.livejournal.com]

No, I need someone to do some other stuff. I like playing with the Alpha. XD

We've had one of those job evolution deals here. I've been in this job for six and a half years. One part time person retired and I took over a chunk of what she had been doing. We canceled our network tech support contract and I took over everything they had been doing (thought I might get a little more money after that but no luck.) Then the cataloging assistant got a grandchild so she cut back her number of available hours and I've had to pick up part of what she did. Fortunately, they did reduce the number of hours I had to be on the public desks or I'd never get all of it done.

[cozycabbage.livejournal.com]

"But they say by Friday we could be in the 80s."
Oh no! Time to go hit the video arcades! There goes spring.

"...our fish tank expert will trade them for something else as he has in the past."
Sounds like a good thing to do while you're in the 80s.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Your certainly earing your pay then. I guess
wondering if they'd hire someone else would
be moot in this economy too. Well, keep at
it. The nice thing about the Alpha is that it
will, eventually be fairly self sufficent, it
won't ask you to write its term papers or
wonder where the librarian is when talking to you.

^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I agree, given the level at which I'm paid, that I'm earning it and then some. I need to be more aggressive about collecting benefits like vacation and personal days, though. I've earned those too.

You're right about the Alpha. It already takes good care of itself. I was amused when I went in yesterday and turned on the operator console to see a trail of break-in attempts, all foiled by the system. VMS is notoriously hard to crack unless you have inside information about passwords or something. I'm sure the attacker had no idea it was VMS, though. Even if they got in, they probably couldn't figure out what to do with it. It's definitely NOT Windows or even Linux.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Take those vacation days! *grrs*

VMS IS notoriously hard to hack...

I used to try back in the day.

*looks all innocent*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Take those vacation days! *grrs*

I am, I am. Booked a week's worth just yesterday.