The Perfect Day
My day yesterday started out like any other Monday, sucky. I battled through the morning traffic on my way to work, I took the Martin Luther King bridge, because its a lot faster to go through downtown St. Louis, then to take the highway. I got to work around the normal time, between 7:15 & 7:30. As usual, I started to plan out my day, looked through my remedy tickets, checked my email, you know the normal stuff. Around 10:00 I met up with one of my Co-workers, Eric, at one of the dorms on campus. In order to upgrade the image on five of the oldest machines we have, we needed to bring the machines back to our office. Generally, we image on site for these types of things, but computers in the dorms are firewalled, and its a huge pain to work through those issues with networking.Â
When we goot there, we had to cut off the old locks. The biggest problem I’ve had since I started working for SLU, is the lack of documentation. How do you not document what you set the locks in a computer lab to? So we cut the locks, but that was really just the beginning of our problems. Each machine had two screws which held the base down to the desk, they also had whats called a tough nut, that bolts the computer to the table. Tough nuts are very hard to get off, and in addition, they had glued the nuts in place on the bolts. The machines were almost impossible to remove. In fact, we actually thought about finding a truck, and just taking the whole table (that would have been a lot easier). I’m not going to go into details, but it took about 4 hours to get these five machines out of the lab. This was the highlight of my day.
