
I thought today would never end. This was an odd week for me. On Monday, my computer at work wouldn't come on when I pressed the control, alt,del like normal (one of the IT guys told me to shut it off and let it restart at the end of each day so it would already be booted up in the morning). I got a BSOD (blue screen of death). Usually, a blue screen means bad things are happening. It also said something about dumping my files. I thought that couldn't possibly be good.
I turned it off and called the marvelous folks at our Help Desk. And I do not use the word marvelous lightly. They are always polite and helpful and they are all so smart.
The nice man I got to talk to on Monday told me in essence, I should have probably allowed the dump to continue and then I might have been fine. But now, my hard drive had crashed and was probably not salvageable. He gave me a ticket number and I answered some questions during which I admitted this was not an EMERGENCY. No direct p…
I turned it off and called the marvelous folks at our Help Desk. And I do not use the word marvelous lightly. They are always polite and helpful and they are all so smart.
The nice man I got to talk to on Monday told me in essence, I should have probably allowed the dump to continue and then I might have been fine. But now, my hard drive had crashed and was probably not salvageable. He gave me a ticket number and I answered some questions during which I admitted this was not an EMERGENCY. No direct p…