Yay, weekend!

[kribu]

I'm feeling so wiped out right now that it's not even funny. Translated about 10,000 words today (not that I wanted to, but I didn't feel like taking work home for the weekend after the week I've had and I have a lot to do next week too), while spending the first half of the day in a rather soaked condition - was raining hard just when I was arriving at work in the morning, which meant crossing a river instead of a street, which meant not even getting to keep my feet dry... I'm so glad I had nice warm dry slippers waiting for me in the office.

I finally got the two books I bought on eBay a month ago. Apparently they were returned to the sender last week as undelivered, so he had to send them again. This time, the postal services did not manage to mess up, it seems. Yay!

And it appears that January's classic Who release is a box set of Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Sea Devils and Warriors of the Deep. YAY!

Warriors I'm not too keen on, as it was really one of the dullest, crappiest stories with Five (but at least it being in the set saves me all the agonising over having to get it separately just for the sake of completeness), but Silurians and The Sea Devils are two of my most favourite Three stories ever, so I'm really, really happy. (No, it has nothing to do with having the Doctor in a wonderfully tight T-shirt in Silurians, honestly!) And it's about time to get another Delgado!Master story on DVD, and a good one at that, considering that The Claws of Axos isn't exactly an undisputed classic.

Comments

[alienor77310.livejournal.com]

10 000 words? Holy cow! Here, we've had a distributed clusterfuck. Me and my colleague work from home and exchange files through a repository. So today, I proofread a shitload of files and saved them back to the repository for my colleague to process and deliver them. Then I noticed he was not online on our chatroom, called him: computer down, system disk fried. Ooookay.

So I get ready to deliver the files myself. Murphy's law being what it is, the processing script has been running for 5 minutes when the power goes down for over an hour here. My UPS gave in before I could process the files. I left a message on the AM's voicemail. The power is back now, and I've started processing again. There have been a couple short outages since, but nothing the UPS couldn't handle.

I'm still pissed off that Mr Triple Firewall Quadruple Backup Safety Conscious doesn't have a backup work computer.

[kribu.livejournal.com]

10 000 is a bit much even for me... not something I could do every day. It was easy text though, simple user assistance stuff which did not take much brain power. Still physically exhausting though!

And that is quite annoying, indeed! It's one thing I really don't like about working with computers - they're lovely, and make work much easier and all that, but when there are issues, then it's bad. And aggravating. And if it's a serious issue that cannot be solved immediately, there don't tend to be many ways around them.