Daughter's Day

[nishatalitha]

Yesterday the matter management system at work went down around 1.00pm. Spectacularly down, as we weren't allowed to log off our computers in case they couldn't get us back on again. Everything everything in the system was completely inaccessable, including the billing system. Being as we bill on the last day of the month and as we are entirely electronic for such things now (even MSWord works in with it), there was an executive decision from the top to extend billing until midnight tonight.

This morning I unlocked my computer to find another email from IT to say that the system was still not on and please do not try and use it because that will screw things up even more. Around 11.00am, MSWord went down. Given that I had already run out of things to do that I could do without the matter management system, I started on some homework. An email was sent around saying that if the system didn't come up again today, billing would be extended until tomorrow.

Just as I was about to go to lunch, the system came back up. I abandoned all thought of going outside on this lovely spring day, grabbed my sandwich and carrot and started processing however many I had. Sixty or so, I think. Finished about 4.50pm, which is just as well, as another email came around saying that as the system was up and running again, cutoff would be midnight tonight.

I was remarkably unstressed about all this. There was absolutely nothing I could do, there were four or five people working on it overnight in the Auckland office. It would either come up or it wouldn't. As I understand it the coding block that connects everything together went down, and a reboot didn't fix it, so they essentially had to rebuild.

Tomorrow, I am going to buy some new headphones. On the train out to Upper Hutt on Saturday evening, I discovered that the vocals kept cutting out. Songs which I was quite familiar with and liked had suddenly become strange and annoying to listen to. I have been using the earbuds that came with my ipod instead. I don't understand how people use them. The inside of my ears physically ache after using them; not from the volume, because I don't have it that loud, but from the shape of the hard plastic.

Comments

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Hell, I felt stressed just reading about your day...no wonder you're tired!

I've never been able to use the standard kind of earbuds - they either fall out, or are incredibly uncomfortable. I love the ones I have now...a bit fiddly, but great sound and they're pretty good at blocking outside noise as well.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly tired because after all this I still had a two hour lecture on the Family Violence Act, applying for and what the effects are of a Protection Order and the part of the Family Proceedings Act that deals with paternity (sections 47 - 58 I think). It's interesting, but it does more or less confirm to me that I don't really want to work in family law where I'm going to be called up at random and asked to apply for a Protection Order.

I miss my old ones (which I am going to replace with an identical pair, unless I find something better). They hooked over my ears and the sound was reasonable, but what I really loved about them is the fact that the cord retracted. I have had so many issues with tangled cords since that function broke on my old pair.