Remember when there were no computers? Yeah, me neither.

[hellziggy]

We've got computer issues at work again today. Same as yesterday where the network connection is non-existant on some machines. Like mine. Ugh.
*edit* because I am in a cube where I can get away with more internets, I'll be updating my good/bad list. New additions are in italics.

*Son of edit* I am back at my own desk now. No more running amuck (did I spell that right?) on the internets. :(

The good:
-System problems mean more leeway in production times
-I am currently working in a cubicle by myself (my normal work station is in a kind of squiggly line formation with no side walls)
-I have my iPod. How did people ever work without 3500 songs at their fingertips?
-I have caffeine
-I have Ritalin
-Our house has electricity (unlike 100,000 other homes in the Twin Cities metro area)
-Today is the day I leave at 4:00 instead of 4:30 (because of school & it was easiest to just leave it as it is rather than changing back for the summer)
-This computer is just a spare one so I can adjust some of the settings to make it bearable. (The menu bar/task bar belongs at the top, dammit!)
-I have a Permanent Account.
-I am in a cube! This means no one can walk up behind me & see that I'm on the internets!
-I'm pretty much unsupervised! Yay!
-I have established email contact with lucky13charm! I really don't know how they expected me to work without that contact. She understands the work issues & teh Marsters lust. :)



The bad:
-I'm not in my usual workstation where everything is adjusted the way I want it.
-The computer they put me at is an old school CRT rather than the sexy flat panel I've gotten so used to.
-I have no work emails.
-The people I can hear talking are not the people I usually hear so it is harder for me to tune them out
-I'm at work (duh. that's a no-brainer)
-It's kind of chilly down here.
The unsupervisedness of me is leading to internets abuse...

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It stands for "TANDY RADIO SHACK"

[mle292.livejournal.com]

Remember when there were no computers? Yeah, me neither.

After Dad had picked up me and my brother from preschool, we went to pick up Mom. She worked downtown in one of the banks and there was a giant machine that sorted those IBM punchcards.

I also remember the TRS-80 that my dad got from Radio Shack when we were in elementary school. I think the "80" stood for 80K of hard memory.

[genevra.livejournal.com]

Why are you not at your regular desk? Because of the computer problems?