atmospheric
Jan. 12th, 2018 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2CUjYo6:
Drove in to work. It’s raining. The sky is gray. The road is gray. The rain is gray. It’s very weirdly monochromatic and dark.
Every computer in the store was shut down. I restarted the register, it spun up in confusion (start in safe mode?), told me it had installed updates. (No?) The photo kiosks struggled up sleepily and refused to start their kiosk-software interfaces. The printer came up, Win2K blue, and screamed that it couldn’t find the networked external hard drive where we keep all the order folders. The computer that hosts the networked external hard drive just blinked at me and wouldn’t start.
My computer told me it was “resuming” Windows, and then went black for five solid minutes and was unresponsive. I finally got it working and, uh, yeah, my tabs were still open in Chrome, but the shipping database was unresponsive. I had to go poke the shipping database computer, a box with no monitor, until lights blinked.
There have been high winds, which usually does this to our computers (our power glitches a lot), and sometimes I feel like the local network at work is just possessed.
The new Windows 10 box my coworker/deskmate uses flashed lights at me when I hit the button but I notice it is not on yet, 20 minutes later, so. I’m going to poke it with a stick, I think it might try to eat me.
There’s a storm coming but it doesn’t feel like a summer storm does.
(Your picture was not posted)
Drove in to work. It’s raining. The sky is gray. The road is gray. The rain is gray. It’s very weirdly monochromatic and dark.
Every computer in the store was shut down. I restarted the register, it spun up in confusion (start in safe mode?), told me it had installed updates. (No?) The photo kiosks struggled up sleepily and refused to start their kiosk-software interfaces. The printer came up, Win2K blue, and screamed that it couldn’t find the networked external hard drive where we keep all the order folders. The computer that hosts the networked external hard drive just blinked at me and wouldn’t start.
My computer told me it was “resuming” Windows, and then went black for five solid minutes and was unresponsive. I finally got it working and, uh, yeah, my tabs were still open in Chrome, but the shipping database was unresponsive. I had to go poke the shipping database computer, a box with no monitor, until lights blinked.
There have been high winds, which usually does this to our computers (our power glitches a lot), and sometimes I feel like the local network at work is just possessed.
The new Windows 10 box my coworker/deskmate uses flashed lights at me when I hit the button but I notice it is not on yet, 20 minutes later, so. I’m going to poke it with a stick, I think it might try to eat me.
There’s a storm coming but it doesn’t feel like a summer storm does.
(Your picture was not posted)
