Oh great satan was writing that paper an adventure.
I completely forgot about it until today. It's due at midnight.
I was busy until 3PM. I sat down with my laptop at 3PM. Tried to connect to the wireless..... No auth server.
Tried to connect to the wired network... No auth server. Oh snap. The outline and all my documentation for this paper were stored on my network drive. EVENTUALLY I got the wired network's auth server to respond. Went to access my network drive. It worked just fine. Opened up the outline... Word hangs. And hangs. and hangs. and hangs. Ultimately, I end-task it and discover that the network storage went down while I was in the process of opening it. Sh!t. I can't get back on from the remote. I get up off my ass, pretty panicked by now since I've been at it 45 minutes and gotten nothing done. Head to the computer lab and drop onto one of the workstations in there to print off a copy. Try mounting my network share... "Please contact the help desk staff." Now, since I'm helpdesk, I know how I'm supposed to deal with this. I fire up the SFTP client and connect that way. Connects to the server just fine... And disconnects me when I try to get the directory listing. SH!T.
Connect to my OTHER share to make sure I didn't put it there instead. Not there. I notice Joe's in his office. I go in and ask him if anything's going on I should know about. He pulls up the server status page and EVERYTHING is down (none of it on-site and therefore beyond our control). So I go back to my laptop, put on the paper-writing music and try to do it without any guidance from the outline or the documentation or anything...... I get a cover page, a header, and a footer done. I can't come up with ANYTHING to go in the middle. NOTHING. I try for an hour. Nothing. Not even a word.
I'm now the most pissed off, frustrated person on the planet. So I get up and go downstairs. I grab a fscking Seagate HDD and a hammer and wail on it for a few minutes. "Dude, what did the hard drive do to you?" "Nothing. Do you have any network equipment I can smash instead." "Uh nope." I continue being a general ass and heave a PowerEdge halfway across the room. I feel better now. I sit down and play Counterstrike with the guys on the LAN. Rox. It's a first-to-50 match. I'm terrorists. We're behind 30-40... And manage to tie it up at 49-49. I'm TRULY rockin' it out, headshots left and right. I get knifed (wtf!) and it's 1v1, both with 2 health, for the win. Terrorist with the P90, CT with the para. Terrorists win. Massive celebration (well, as massive as 4 guys can get), tons of screaming from both teams, this is proclaimed the best match in basement CS history. Teams for all future events are locked in. So, maybe the network works now? Nope. Nothin'.
I'm now hungry as hell - so I decide to go to McDonalds (a whole 2.75mi away by road). It takes me 45 minutes to get there and back, and it's not because of McD's service. In fact, they had the bag sitting there before I was even done swiping my CC (I ran out of cash). Wolf down a Big Mac meal in 1 min, 45 seconds. Go in to work. Sit down. Try to connect to my share... SUCCESS! ZOMGPAPERWRITING. I'm only on shift for two hours - but it's the quiet two hours. I make full use of the multimonitor configuration, plus my laptop. Research here, outline here, paper over here, etc. However... While I'm grabbing a quote from an online article... The article DB decides to stop giving me search results. This continues for 15 minutes. Eventually it comes back. I finish my paper 20 minutes before I get off work and upload/save it to EVERY RESOURCE I HAVE... And then submit it. :thumbsup:
I completely forgot about it until today. It's due at midnight.
I was busy until 3PM. I sat down with my laptop at 3PM. Tried to connect to the wireless..... No auth server.
Tried to connect to the wired network... No auth server. Oh snap. The outline and all my documentation for this paper were stored on my network drive. EVENTUALLY I got the wired network's auth server to respond. Went to access my network drive. It worked just fine. Opened up the outline... Word hangs. And hangs. and hangs. and hangs. Ultimately, I end-task it and discover that the network storage went down while I was in the process of opening it. Sh!t. I can't get back on from the remote. I get up off my ass, pretty panicked by now since I've been at it 45 minutes and gotten nothing done. Head to the computer lab and drop onto one of the workstations in there to print off a copy. Try mounting my network share... "Please contact the help desk staff." Now, since I'm helpdesk, I know how I'm supposed to deal with this. I fire up the SFTP client and connect that way. Connects to the server just fine... And disconnects me when I try to get the directory listing. SH!T.
Connect to my OTHER share to make sure I didn't put it there instead. Not there. I notice Joe's in his office. I go in and ask him if anything's going on I should know about. He pulls up the server status page and EVERYTHING is down (none of it on-site and therefore beyond our control). So I go back to my laptop, put on the paper-writing music and try to do it without any guidance from the outline or the documentation or anything...... I get a cover page, a header, and a footer done. I can't come up with ANYTHING to go in the middle. NOTHING. I try for an hour. Nothing. Not even a word.
I'm now the most pissed off, frustrated person on the planet. So I get up and go downstairs. I grab a fscking Seagate HDD and a hammer and wail on it for a few minutes. "Dude, what did the hard drive do to you?" "Nothing. Do you have any network equipment I can smash instead." "Uh nope." I continue being a general ass and heave a PowerEdge halfway across the room. I feel better now. I sit down and play Counterstrike with the guys on the LAN. Rox. It's a first-to-50 match. I'm terrorists. We're behind 30-40... And manage to tie it up at 49-49. I'm TRULY rockin' it out, headshots left and right. I get knifed (wtf!) and it's 1v1, both with 2 health, for the win. Terrorist with the P90, CT with the para. Terrorists win. Massive celebration (well, as massive as 4 guys can get), tons of screaming from both teams, this is proclaimed the best match in basement CS history. Teams for all future events are locked in. So, maybe the network works now? Nope. Nothin'.
I'm now hungry as hell - so I decide to go to McDonalds (a whole 2.75mi away by road). It takes me 45 minutes to get there and back, and it's not because of McD's service. In fact, they had the bag sitting there before I was even done swiping my CC (I ran out of cash). Wolf down a Big Mac meal in 1 min, 45 seconds. Go in to work. Sit down. Try to connect to my share... SUCCESS! ZOMGPAPERWRITING. I'm only on shift for two hours - but it's the quiet two hours. I make full use of the multimonitor configuration, plus my laptop. Research here, outline here, paper over here, etc. However... While I'm grabbing a quote from an online article... The article DB decides to stop giving me search results. This continues for 15 minutes. Eventually it comes back. I finish my paper 20 minutes before I get off work and upload/save it to EVERY RESOURCE I HAVE... And then submit it. :thumbsup:
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