7:40 a.m. – | arrive at work, early, as arranged on friday evening with gavin, so that we can finish some footprints that needed to go out today |
7:41 a.m. – | the network is down. as in the entire network. as in no email, but more importantly, no matlab access, and no remote access to the flight mechanics lab. this means no footprints. becca has called the help desk to report the outage, and supposedly they are working on it. |
9:00 a.m. – | second call to the help desk. they say they are still working on it. |
9:30 a.m. – | despite the fact that we still have no computer access, and thus no immediate means of generating footprints, rich comes in and informs me that our boss has promised a higher-up that we will deliver footprints for not one but three different cases by the end of the day. |
9:35 a.m. – | i stop laughing when i realize he wasn’t joking, and that he really does expect the footprints by the end of the day. despite the fact that we still have no computer access. |
10:00 a.m. – | third call to the help desk. they say they are working on it, but can’t look up our request at the moment because their computers are down. greaaaat. |
10:30 a.m. – | bug george for a hershey’s kiss. play with microsoft spider ball. |
11:00 a.m. – | computers are still down. go to lunch. |
11:45 a.m. – | back from lunch. the lso computers down the hall seem to work. i log on in triumph, only to realize that i still can’t access the flight mechanics lab since access is dependent on recognition of a specific ip address. my computer, with no network access, is recognized. the random lso computer i am currently on is not. i check my email, but can do nothing else. |
12:00 p.m. – | the computers are still freaking down. becca calls the help desk for the fourth time and is now told that the help desk has closed out the request for service and says that all the computers in our building are working again. becca assures them that no, in fact, our computers are not working, and that we have been in a work stoppage all morning because of it. the help desk promises to send someone over right away. |
12:02 p.m. – | in disgust, i gather all my papers. gavin and i walk over to building 16, get ron to give us the door code for access to the sun machines that are actually in the flight mechanics lab, so we can attempt to get some footprints done. since they have been promised to higher-ups by the end of the day, as previously mentioned. |
12:30 p.m. – | becca calls us in the fml. the office computers are finally running again. |
1:00 p.m. – | gavin and i walk back to the office. |
1:15 p.m. – | i am finally able to start running the footprints we are supposed to have by the end of the day. they take 3 hours and 15 minutes to run. at this point, i know it will be a late night. |
4:45 p.m. – | the runs are done, and i still have to post-process them. (sigh) i start up matlab. |
5:30 p.m. – | well, at least the work i put in on friday night was worthwhile. the crossrange script runs faster now, and debris piece 14 is done and handed to gavin, and now i’m just waiting on debris piece 6. |
6:30 p.m. – | the debris pieces are mostly done, with a few revisions to be done tomorrow. the stupid littlefield tile has to be completely redone because i used the wrong ballistic coefficients with the wrong initial condition. my brain can’t keep anything straight anymore, it seems. marc walks into the office, and he, rich, gavin, and i make jokes for 20 minutes. |
7:15 p.m. – | alllllllmost done with everything i need to do for the day, and trying to make a list of everything i still have to do tomorrow. |
7:25 p.m. – | the sun has set and it’s getting cool outside again. rich, gavin and i walk out to an empty parking lot–empty except for our three cars. i hate leaving work in the dark, but it’s becoming a regular habit. someday things will calm down. (and no, we never did figure out what the hell happened to our network.) |