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[PyroDesu]

Its like he intentionally picks a place to sleep that he knows will bother me.

Thus he gets attention, thus you are reminded to feed him! Cunning creature...

my cat is less subtle.
MEOW!
*strokes*
*cat wanders off to food bowl*
*cat returns*
MEOW!
*strokes*
*cat wanders off to food bowl again*
puss, if you want attention stand still!
MEOW!

My dog walks around with her food bowl in her mouth.

My cat paws beneath my doorframe like a deranged murderous spirit and scares the shit out of me when I'm not paying attention, or otherwise makes an absolute mess of my kitchen by spilling food and water EVERYWHERE, while being perfectly clean, dry, and somehow smelling of lavender.

HOW THE FFFFUUUUUUU-

That's why we have a tin cake pan under our cats' food and water bowls, they can't make quite so much of a mess.

My RAGE: My computer has started experiencing lockups quite frequently, and quite frankly, they're really pissing me off. I cannot for one night without at least 3 lockups, each one requiring me to hard-reset, wait for the thing to boot up, re-login, wait for it to load my profile, and wait for my browser to reload itself.

[jc6036]

Its like he intentionally picks a place to sleep that he knows will bother me.

Thus he gets attention, thus you are reminded to feed him! Cunning creature...

my cat is less subtle.
MEOW!
*strokes*
*cat wanders off to food bowl*
*cat returns*
MEOW!
*strokes*
*cat wanders off to food bowl again*
puss, if you want attention stand still!
MEOW!

My dog walks around with her food bowl in her mouth.

My cat paws beneath my doorframe like a deranged murderous spirit and scares the shit out of me when I'm not paying attention, or otherwise makes an absolute mess of my kitchen by spilling food and water EVERYWHERE, while being perfectly clean, dry, and somehow smelling of lavender.

HOW THE FFFFUUUUUUU-

My cat manages to find the food no matter what cabinet I put it in, then manage to open said cabinet somehow, then subsequently dive into the bag (if it's sort of just hanging there, open), or making horrible scratching sounds while getting it open.

Also my cat has ran into doors to jar them loose in order to get through them.

I'm not sure if my cat's badass, cute, some sort of savaant, or some combination of the three.

[Angel Of Death]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Its like he intentionally picks a place to sleep that he knows will bother me.

Thus he gets attention, thus you are reminded to feed him! Cunning creature...

my cat is less subtle.
MEOW!
*strokes*
*cat wanders off to food bowl*
*cat returns*
MEOW!
*strokes*
*cat wanders off to food bowl again*
puss, if you want attention stand still!
MEOW!

My dog walks around with her food bowl in her mouth.

My cat paws beneath my doorframe like a deranged murderous spirit and scares the shit out of me when I'm not paying attention, or otherwise makes an absolute mess of my kitchen by spilling food and water EVERYWHERE, while being perfectly clean, dry, and somehow smelling of lavender.

HOW THE FFFFUUUUUUU-

Also my cat has ran into doors to jar them loose in order to get through them.

Your cat does that too?

[jc6036]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Its like he intentionally picks a place to sleep that he knows will bother me.

Thus he gets attention, thus you are reminded to feed him! Cunning creature...

my cat is less subtle.
MEOW!
*strokes*
*cat wanders off to food bowl*
*cat returns*
MEOW!
*strokes*
*cat wanders off to food bowl again*
puss, if you want attention stand still!
MEOW!

My dog walks around with her food bowl in her mouth.

My cat paws beneath my doorframe like a deranged murderous spirit and scares the shit out of me when I'm not paying attention, or otherwise makes an absolute mess of my kitchen by spilling food and water EVERYWHERE, while being perfectly clean, dry, and somehow smelling of lavender.

HOW THE FFFFUUUUUUU-

Also my cat has ran into doors to jar them loose in order to get through them.

Your cat does that too?

Yeah.  Scares the crap out of me every time (because of the noise) and then I give my cat a funny look and she gives me one back that says "If you don't open that door, goddamnit I'll figure out how!".

[Aklyon]

Is it full of dust in the case, Pyro?

[PyroDesu]

Is it full of dust in the case, Pyro?

Doubtful. This is the same one I've operated on to insert, and later extract, a graphics chip. I cleaned it out while I had it open.

[NinjaBoot]

Rage: busted my ass for 10.5 and no break!  Boo!

[alway]

Insomnia every day this past week, and in all likelihood, for the coming week as well. Once or twice a week I can deal with, but this is just getting silly. >_<
Hopefully it goes away when the quarter ends and the terribly large workload mostly goes away.

[Vorthon]

Insomnia every day this past week, and in all likelihood, for the coming week as well. Once or twice a week I can deal with, but this is just getting silly. >_<
Hopefully it goes away when the quarter ends and the terribly large workload mostly goes away.

Just try watching a documentary on renaissance gardens. That helped me sleep.

[kaenneth]

this is why cats are scary.

and this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CcxJQq1x8

[nenjin]

Came into work today, booted up my PC.....and it proceeded to lock up and crash on me. I fuck with it for 45 minutes before I decide to reformat.

It's now almost 4pm, and I'm still trying to tinker with things to get them back to normal. You know what blows in a customer service job? Having to ask everyone how to do things like a clueless end user. On the one hand it's good I'm walking through this...on the other, I kind of wish someone had just swooped in and configured shit for me again. Because I've gotten exactly nothing done today, between waiting on updates to install and waiting on more knowledgable people to not be busy so they can help me. Goddamnit, I hate feeling useless.

[Greiger]

One of those days where it's constantly dreary and rainy.  Not raining too hard but raining constantly, enough to keep water on the ground.

An absolutely wonderful time to discover that you have a incredibly not waterproof crack traveling the entire width of the shoe in not just one shoe, but both of your shoes.   Blargleflargle I like warm feet!


@nenjin The operating system just crashed for no real reason?  That's odd.  I never did tech work for a real business environment, and things may be different there, but if somebody came by and said that happened to their system I would have run some diagnostics on the hard drive at least.   Sure Windows is known for failing left and right, but at least it makes sure it has a vague excuse to do so.  No point reinstalling if it's just going to do it again in a few days really...

[nenjin]

Well, it booted, started up services on launch, launched my chat client, AV, went through all the Windows desktop crap ect..... then Windows starts processing something. About 5 mins later, it just locked up.

It's a Lenovo Intel Duo-Core Laptop with Win 7 and not near enough memory.....but it ran just fine for two weeks with zero issues. So, after about 5 restarts (in which it was fine under Safe Mode with Networking) I figured I had two options. Waste a whole day troubleshooting my own laptop, with uncertain chances of success, or just reformat it, with a fairly good chance of success.

It took 6 hours and most everything was reinstalled......except the Software which our company makes, that started presenting errors to me that another Tech Support guy says is a bug they've been unable to figure out for a whole year. (A bug which make it impossible to update the software, or even to launch it from 1.0.) Which makes it awful hard to provide customer support, when the program itself is broken for you. >.> Meanwhile, the whole company is sitting in the company wide chat watching me sign on and off to chat all day, until they ask me to change my sleep settings or something because they're tired of getting spammed. At which point I have to remind them I've spent all day re-installing my workstation. Blech.

So. In terms of what could go wrong in a Tech Support person's day, mine pretty much hit all the high notes. As an added benefit, my newbiness just slowed things down even further, mis-typing one of a dozen randomly generated passwords they've given me, pointing software at the wrong databases (of which we have about 4 each linked to different parts of my job) and generally being unable to solve my own problems. Basically any oddity that software could have shown, it showed me today. Right down to InstantVNC, which crashed as soon as anyone tried to connect through it to me, even though it's about as simple as programs can be. Still don't know why that's happening. At least I figured out why EchoVNC, my primary troubleshooting tool, didn't work. It's because it required an administrator login/pass to connect to the company-wide VNC server, credentials that neither I nor the other tech support guy knew. *sigh*

I'm sure there are worse days ahead, but this one was pretty goddamn annoying. Particularly because I have nothing to blame it on except Gremlins. People telling me there's no way I could know how to solve any of these issues doesn't really make me feel any better. I feel like I was hired under the assumption I can work these issues out myself, and while no one honestly expects me to do that, I still feel like I should.

[Greiger]

If it helps anything I have issues like that sometimes, and I AM supposed to know the solution to every computer problem under the sun.  Even my boss says the key to being a good tech is to be able to talk like we know what is going on, try to have at least a first vague troubleshooting step in mind, and google the problem when nobody is looking.   

So if it helps anything, there is a good chance that even your techs probably didn't know the answer to all the problems you were having right off the bat.

[freeformschooler]

Did I just see "Group Projects Blow Edition"? I got an 86 on a group speech due to minor nitpicks about things that were in no way inferred or explained in lectures, the textbook OR the assignment. In fact, one of them I got -5 points for we were told explicitly would be "alright" (forgetting to orally cite a single source if we had the source cited in our outline). 3 points off for not tying a handout into the speech enough (even though we were never told to tie it into the speech and we were the only group that tied ours into the speech), 3 points for not "having enough sources" for a single tiny section even though I had all the required sources and then some for it. And so on.

Others got grades in the 80's or 70's because they did poorly. I think one group got a grade in the 60's even though they didn't do that bad. Why pick on us for minor things instead of actual things we were told not to do?