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Work today was slow yet eventful -- which is to say, not a lot happened and most of the day was pretty empty, but the few things that did happen were rather significant.
1. When I came in, I discovered that I couldn't access either of our office's two shared drives from my computer. When Mom Boss came in, she advised me to restart my computer and see if that cleared things up (for obvious reasons, I didn't want to do that while I was alone in the office), and although it turned out that my computer had been waiting for a restart to install some updates, that didn't fix the problem. In fact, Mom Boss discovered that she couldn't access the shared drives either. So her husband (who is one of our joint Maintenance department heads) went off to investigate, but wound up having to physically take the drive in to our on-call computer place.
Fortunately they got it fixed by about 1:30pm, but that was still a good four-plus hours of being unable to access 90% of the files both Mom Boss and I needed to get through our planned tasks for the morning. *sigh*
2. In the afternoon, there was a big Thing with a tenant who's brought a very loud emotional support dog into their apartment without providing any advance notice, getting their roommates' consent, or following any other steps in our ESA approval procedure. So that derailed Mom Boss's afternoon.
3. While Mom Boss was consoling the tenant so they didn't tip into a full-on breakdown in our office, we got a robocall from NYSEG saying, in weirdly vague terms, that they had to shut off electricity in our neighborhood from 11pm to 6am this same day. Which is ABSURDLY short notice for something billed as planned rather than emergency response. So I notified our other Maintenance department head, who called NYSEG and verified that this was legit.
Then Mom Boss and I hashed out the phrasing for some informational notices, I printed about 100 copies, and then I had the great joy and pleasure of taping them up and slipping them under doors in every. single. one. of our buildings. In 85+ degree heat. UGH.
And then a NYSEG worker showed up about fifteen minutes after Mom Boss left for the day and casually dropped the information that actually the outage should (at least in theory...) only affect ONE of our buildings, plus two other nearby buildings that belong to other landlords. *headdesk*
Oh well, better to have notified for something that turns out to be nothing than to NOT notify for something that winds up being a big deal.
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In other news, I finally got my 2019 NFE tag noms done. They are mostly sensible and geared toward reproducing four of my 2018 prompts, but I am also planning a fifth prompt that... well, it has two parts, really. The more general part is pretty innocuous and offers wide scope for a writer to play around. The more specific part, if someone chooses to fill it, is straight-up evil but makes me crack up so hard just thinking about it that I really couldn't not. And there was no way I could make that prompt if I didn't ensure that a very specific handful of tags were available, so.
(Two of my other planned prompts also require some very specific tags, but they're much less cracktastic and I'm sure other people may also get some good use out of those options. I mean, in all honesty people can probably get some good use out of my cracktastic prompt tags, since they really only turn evil in combination... >:D )
1. When I came in, I discovered that I couldn't access either of our office's two shared drives from my computer. When Mom Boss came in, she advised me to restart my computer and see if that cleared things up (for obvious reasons, I didn't want to do that while I was alone in the office), and although it turned out that my computer had been waiting for a restart to install some updates, that didn't fix the problem. In fact, Mom Boss discovered that she couldn't access the shared drives either. So her husband (who is one of our joint Maintenance department heads) went off to investigate, but wound up having to physically take the drive in to our on-call computer place.
Fortunately they got it fixed by about 1:30pm, but that was still a good four-plus hours of being unable to access 90% of the files both Mom Boss and I needed to get through our planned tasks for the morning. *sigh*
2. In the afternoon, there was a big Thing with a tenant who's brought a very loud emotional support dog into their apartment without providing any advance notice, getting their roommates' consent, or following any other steps in our ESA approval procedure. So that derailed Mom Boss's afternoon.
3. While Mom Boss was consoling the tenant so they didn't tip into a full-on breakdown in our office, we got a robocall from NYSEG saying, in weirdly vague terms, that they had to shut off electricity in our neighborhood from 11pm to 6am this same day. Which is ABSURDLY short notice for something billed as planned rather than emergency response. So I notified our other Maintenance department head, who called NYSEG and verified that this was legit.
Then Mom Boss and I hashed out the phrasing for some informational notices, I printed about 100 copies, and then I had the great joy and pleasure of taping them up and slipping them under doors in every. single. one. of our buildings. In 85+ degree heat. UGH.
And then a NYSEG worker showed up about fifteen minutes after Mom Boss left for the day and casually dropped the information that actually the outage should (at least in theory...) only affect ONE of our buildings, plus two other nearby buildings that belong to other landlords. *headdesk*
Oh well, better to have notified for something that turns out to be nothing than to NOT notify for something that winds up being a big deal.
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In other news, I finally got my 2019 NFE tag noms done. They are mostly sensible and geared toward reproducing four of my 2018 prompts, but I am also planning a fifth prompt that... well, it has two parts, really. The more general part is pretty innocuous and offers wide scope for a writer to play around. The more specific part, if someone chooses to fill it, is straight-up evil but makes me crack up so hard just thinking about it that I really couldn't not. And there was no way I could make that prompt if I didn't ensure that a very specific handful of tags were available, so.
(Two of my other planned prompts also require some very specific tags, but they're much less cracktastic and I'm sure other people may also get some good use out of those options. I mean, in all honesty people can probably get some good use out of my cracktastic prompt tags, since they really only turn evil in combination... >:D )
