Random Thoughts 15: Crystal Clear 2021 Edition
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I actually felt a little guilty when I went in to get my shot here in the LA area (there was a group of 4 of us from work). We actually asked the nurse that was administering them (was at a pharmacy) and they said they didn't really care who there were giving them to at this point as they had way more doses available than people coming in to get them.
I'm picturing the wicked witch riding her bicycle with Toto in the basket.
IT replaced one of the computers that runs one of the pieces of equipment (microplate reader) that I use for lab and research and it doesn't have the software I need to run it.
My phone call with them was not pleasant.
That monitor looks familiar. We had a piece of equipment in the lab I worked at that performed a specific and commonly requested analysis. It was very accurate, but the software was on an elderly computer that had a VERY early version of Windows for the OS. We babied that puppy along for years because the cost of upgrading the software (via the company) and upgrading the computer itself were prohibitive on our break-even budget. Additionally, it could not be hooked up to our rudimentary LIMS system. For a long time they simply printed a report and I would re-enter the data on my computer. They finally figured out how to send the data to a different computer as a comma deliminated file. The workaround was that I would take a thumb drive and download that info, then bring it back to my office and manipulate it into the Excel database files that I drew on for the reports to our clients. It was SUCH a clusterf...
IT replaced one of the computers that runs one of the pieces of equipment (microplate reader) that I use for lab and research and it doesn't have the software I need to run it.
My phone call with them was not pleasant.
I am surprised that no one has figured out some type of emulator that allows institutions to run old operating systems that can then work with newer operating systems connected to networks.
... or they've figured out that nobody can actually afford to pay for it if they did.
It's worse than that. We eventually had to take all of the equipment offline (no internet access) because most of the supporting computers ran operating systems that were no longer supported by Microsoft, and were therefore vulnerable to hacking, so all of the data was coming to me on thumb drives. We even had a colorimeter that had no computer component at all, so all of that data was hand-written. And trying to read the numbers that some of our students wrote down was an exercise in frustration!
We have a capillary electrophoresis and a BioRad gel imager that we got as donations from IDT that are hooked up to a desktop that's running XP.
That's not on the network.
My computer was hooked up to the network and was just fine, but it was unused due to the pandemic for long enough that it got replaced at some point.
I'm glad I was already retired. I would have been able to do about 75% of my job from home, but not all of it. Some of what I did, you simply HAD to be there at the facility. And the other half of that was, my BOSS would have worked exclusively from home and required ME to be at the lab 75% of the time. Yeah...it was that bad with my last boss.
Bar Rescue is on, they just showed the episode of the bar in Council Bluffs which in the end he refused to rescue and walked out.
I only know one guy who hates retirement and wishes he could have kept working.
And, no, it's not me.
I was gonna say you can come fill in for me and I'll take some of that retirementI only know one guy who hates retirement and wishes he could have kept working.
And, no, it's not me.
Too busy teaching my nieces dog the finer aspects of the sloth life. She's napping on the couch. I'm in pajamas and watching LPGA Ana tourney on TV while surfin' the interweb. Am thinking seriously about breaking sloth and going walkabout. Maybe harness some weighs on JTD so she doesn't blow away. Windy in the da northland with gusts to 40 mph.
I swear more of this type of situation has been pretty highly exposed over the past year.
Higher ups making decisions via Zoom meetings for people to go back in person without a real solid foundation of precautionary steps.
****** Illinois tollway got me again. If their online system actually worked I wouldn't have to pay a $3 late fee for each toll.
Just checked this out from the public library. Written in 1992 while he was still coaching. Haven't read it yet obviously.Must be a pretty big glitch in the Amazon books algorithm to have sent me this.
Sci-fi and adventure book guy has never even glanced at a romance novel in his life.
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I only know one guy who hates retirement and wishes he could have kept working.
And, no, it's not me.
105 days, 1 hour, and 57 minutes.
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