Took off from work last week, which is why there were not log entries. Got back yesterday to catch up on everything that was put off 'til I got back. A dead printer, a misdirected printer, a laptop that won't boot -- the usual. The Laptop frustrated me, told the boss it needed to be rebricked, but that the CD's were with his other crew in North Hollywood.
So they arrived this morning. Dug out the ex-boss's old laptop so the Tech could have a working PC to log on with -- except it has the old brick and is rejected by the server. He takes the easy route, call dispatch. I go to re-brick two laptops. Interruptions:
Get a call from next door, LAN is down on the 2nd floor. There is faint beeping from behind the locked door of the terminal room. Drop what I am doing and hustle next door. -- aside: normally when I walk into a room people cheer as I am there to fix their problems. Since the LAN is down I walk in to people playing TaiPai and solitaire and I get offers to be taken to breakfast before starting work. &*#$@* Engineers -- Open and enter the terminal room, hubs are dark and the un-interruptable power supply is beeping. Pull the AC cords from the UPS and plug into wall outlets. LAN restores. Go back out and announce in a room filling voice to Get Back To Work. "I still can't connect!" REBOOT you Idiot!
Bump into Bob on the way out -- the new Cayman is in, can I stop by to set it up? Sure, just have to finish bricking a laptop....
Back in my shop I am feeding the set of 5 CDs, Symantec Ghost, to the two laptops. Fourth disk errors out reading a file. You would think that it would say, 'hey, I can't read the disk, clean and retry!' No. It says wanna report on the A: drive? (no) fine, I quit.
Clean the lens of the CD drive. Start over 'cept I clean and polish each CD before inserting. Finish about an hour and a half later. Go over to see Bob and his new Cayman, which is another story.