A Day in a Year in a Life / Day 193

12/July/2015, Day 193.  Sunday.


What can you say about a day that starts at 3:00 am, with Grump waking up to drive in to work?  The company he works for has the sloppiest and laziest network engineers he's seen anywhere, (more about this later), so it was no surprise that the company PC he was given to remote connect in to work did not connect properly.

Sweetie got dressed and came with him.  She had never seen his new workspace before, and was shocked at how tiny his cubicle is.  (And how FILTHY the cafeteria downstairs is!)  As is prudent, we walked up the stairs rather than using the elevators, and they are prone to breaking down.  After all, what could be worse than to be trapped in an office building elevator at 3:30 am Sunday morning?

Anyway, what should have been a 10 - 15 minute task turned into a three hour one, due to some botched network authorizations, and the network engineers being impossible to get in touch with.  Grr!!  So we didn't get out of there until 6:30 am.  But we did verify that the silly company PC, (which we had brought with us), did in fact work once connected directly into the company LAN.  We left it logged in while we were there, hoping that it would download whatever updates it need to allow remote connections.

Once the morning work was done, Sweetie and Grump got a quick breakfast at Panera, then came home.  Grump was extremely tired and went to bed, while Sweetie and Lola stayed up and watched the kids.

In the early afternoon, once we were able to awaken Grump, we went to the Riverside Mall, where we all had an ice-cream treat, and Sweetie bought a "beach bag" to carry all the various kiddie accessories around.

Back home we were about to settle down to a dinner of chicken wings and rice noodles when Grump realized that the stuborn company PC STILL wouldn't allow remote connections to the company computer network.  Phooey!!  The silly network engineers have made remote access so ridiculously cumbersome that it takes an act of God to login from home.  So once again Grump had to drive in to work.

It should come as no surprise that there were issues once again, causing another 10 - 15 minute task to drag on for hours.  The only shock here was that the foul-ups had nothing to do with the network folks!  After a couple hours everything was worked out, and Grump was able to come home.

So now it is the end of a somewhat frustrating day.  However, not all was bad: although HOT, it was sunny and clear and basically a beautiful day, and Kuya and Dodong got to splash around in the kiddie pool while Grump was at work the second time, and the ice-cream treat we bought at the mall was yummy.

Goodnight all!