Office SleepoverThe greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. Thursday, October 5, 2000 When I came into work this morning, I found that the site was down. That's a bad thing. But what was worse was some email from Chip saying that the site had been down since seven forty five Wednesday night! I could have sworn I'd looked at it, but I guess I hadn't. Plus the site update hadn't happened correctly. He wasn't pleased at all. Well, I got things restarted, then began redoing the steps from yesterday's build, in between getting the articles for the day edited, formatted, and posted. We all joined in, doing the bits and pieces that make up our process, and hoping not to make a mistake. In the meantime, the server kept barfing on us -- very frustrating! I made a decision -- I would spend the night at the office. It didn't make sense to have no one here, if the server was going to go down every x minutes! I would have had to call Kellie (she lives the closest). I might as well just stay here. I left a bit early to go home and get some things.
I stopped at Fred Meyer on Capitol Hill, and got some candy and a new vellux blanket for the office. Mysteriously, they don't carry women's underwear there anymore, just men's briefs and boxers. I know there are a lot of men living on Capitol Hill, but we women are here too! Luckily, I did have sufficient underwear at home. I spent some time at home, uploading the graphics and files for this month. I packed my bag and drove back to work again. The others had already left by the time I arrived at seven o'clock. I spent the evening doing the changeover for this October design, and I updated the archive section for all the month pages. I'd been neglecting that task, just adding a link to the previous month. I like to have links to every month, from every month, if you see what I mean. If there were ever any part of a webpage crying out for server side includes, it's that list. But apparently it's not set up on my current host, or if it is I don't know how to get it working. so I'm still manually updating each page. I also wrote up Sunday's entry, which was a tough one.
I liked having the entire building to myself, as far as I could tell -- the big open office was like a loft apartment. The Russian cleaner came in and vacuumed, after I told her it wouldn't do any good for her to come back later -- I was there for the duration. I'd brought my TV-sound radio, but I didn't get good reception in the first location, plus Thursday must-see TV hasn't started yet. I think the VP debates messed up the regularly scheduled programs. In my efforts to pull out the antenna (it was rather bent), I broke it off! How aggravating. But when I moved the radio to the other side of the room, I was able to pick up the station where I'd be hearing Letterman, later on. The server had to be restarted once, then completely rebooted about an hour later. It's not difficult, just a lot of steps that need to be followed. And it's frustrating that Windows 2000 is so slow to reboot. I put the voyeur page on my monitor. That's how I could tell if the site fell over again, because that page refreshes every 30 seconds. I got the cushions off the couch and set them up on the floor by my desk -- if I'd tried sleeping on the couch itself, I wouldn't have been able to see the screen. That would have defeated the purpose of the exercise. I was actually comfy, with the vellux blanket over me. I read for a while, then turned out the light. I think I cracked an eyelid every hour or so, looking to see if the charts were changing.
I often write notes for these entries before putting them into marked-up, somewhat coherent paragraphs. But just now I previewed the page before marking it up, and all the bits and pieces ran together into a Carli-esque stream. Made me smile!
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