Ike
2/20/2006, 04:01 AM
or something. I've been on 'shift' tonight from midnight to 8am, basically babysitting our detector and making sure that it doesn't burn down or go nuts.
unfortunately, both tonight and the last time I was on shift, which was a couple of days ago, I've arrived only to find that there is something crazy going on that miraculously started at about the moment I entered the building, and of course requiring me to either fix all or part of the craziness, or to just turn off the parts that are going nuts and leave a nice email in the inbox for the expert of that particular system...anyway, the stuff thats happening is just plain wierd. stuff that never happens, in random places and for apparently no real reason whatsoever.
usually, all of this might be cause for major concern, because we haven't had any real major problems for quite some time...but since we are going to rip out the guts of our detector in a couple of weeks and then put it back together with a very small addition, most of this probably won't get fixed until then....
anyway, my current late night, desperately in need of sleep, anthropomorphic theory is that our detector has grown its own artificial intelligence and is quite upset at the prospect of having itself gutted and rebuilt over a 10 week period, and is letting us know of its protestations through random failures of random little pieces of itself. our machine is officially depressed.
not that any of you hilbillies care of course, but now that the minor crisis has been taken care of, Im bored, and am staring at 5 more hours of sitting here waiting for things to break in the face.
have a nice day.
unfortunately, both tonight and the last time I was on shift, which was a couple of days ago, I've arrived only to find that there is something crazy going on that miraculously started at about the moment I entered the building, and of course requiring me to either fix all or part of the craziness, or to just turn off the parts that are going nuts and leave a nice email in the inbox for the expert of that particular system...anyway, the stuff thats happening is just plain wierd. stuff that never happens, in random places and for apparently no real reason whatsoever.
usually, all of this might be cause for major concern, because we haven't had any real major problems for quite some time...but since we are going to rip out the guts of our detector in a couple of weeks and then put it back together with a very small addition, most of this probably won't get fixed until then....
anyway, my current late night, desperately in need of sleep, anthropomorphic theory is that our detector has grown its own artificial intelligence and is quite upset at the prospect of having itself gutted and rebuilt over a 10 week period, and is letting us know of its protestations through random failures of random little pieces of itself. our machine is officially depressed.
not that any of you hilbillies care of course, but now that the minor crisis has been taken care of, Im bored, and am staring at 5 more hours of sitting here waiting for things to break in the face.
have a nice day.