Sitrep

[catsidhe]

Long delay since last update. Summary of status follows:

• Work situation is fluid, has been chaotic, but is settling. I am now a permanent employee, after five years of perpetually renewing contracts. This is good... I think.
  
• The work situation is not, however, all roses. We now have responsibilities all over the Faculty School, rather than just in one department, and the more we look, the more of a wilderness we see. And it is not pleasant to be summoned out to a job in a building you've never been to, for a person you've never seen before, on a network which you don't know how (or if) it works. It especially doesn't help when the Boss of Desktop Support is in the next office over, and so when a job comes in which has to be dealt with Right Now and no-one else is contactable, he calls me in. I suppose I should take it as a vote of confidence, that whatever the problem, I have a good chance of figuring out how to fix it.
  Yay me!
  
• Next few weeks will be busybusybusy.
  • Tonight is a Faculty School dinner thing at the MCG. I won't be going, because tonight is also the start of Hannukah. So I have to fight to get home before 6:30 tonight. Mim's mum does put on a good spread, though so I don'tthink I'm missing much.
    
  • Friday evening is Daywatch at the Astor. Hopefully will see usuakari and possibly tooticky there. And any other Melbournites who want to turn up, of course.
    
  • Saturday and Sunday is one of my birthday treats: an intensive weekend of Old Irish. I'm actually really excited about this. Yes, I know this marks me as a sad geek. (This is partially in return for looking after the girls while Mim had a girly weekend with her sister and mother a couple of weeks ago in Daylesford.)
    
  • The next Thursday are breakup parties for Abbi's Kindy, and Susi's Childcare. They are different events. They partially overlap. Mim and I will probably take one kid each, and split up. (I did that website, by the way.)
    
  • That Friday, Mim has my actual birthday present: we're going to see Spamalot.
    
  • The following Sunday is a quiet family barbecue to commiserate my turning 0x22.
    
  • The Monday features Abby's Kindy doing Carols.
    
  • The following Friday is the departmental end-of-year lunch.
    
  • Then comes Christmas, and associated hoo-hah, followed by a couple of weeks of leave in which to catch my breath.
    We won't be able to get over to Adelaide, though. Sorry, Mum & Kat.
    
  
  
• I've gotten a bee in my bonnet about something which most other people neither know nor care about: a character in Irish manuscripts and its transcription. The letter is ę, in its aspect of e caudata. The bit on that wiki entry about the use in Irish, that's me. I've decided to go through the available manuscript images of the Irish Annals, and make a note of the e caudatas and e longas which have been normalised away in the transcriptions of them. There's probably a paper or two in it if I can do it right. Certainly I haven't found any proper discussion of the Irish use of ę in any academic work I can source, even through the University's resources — all references, even in the Irish context, seem to be about how ę is a scribal variation of æ, and stands for ‘ae’, except for when it stands for ‘e’. Which is not correct for Irish, where it usually stands for ‘ea’, and there is much confusion, even amongst the learned, between ę and e longa, which actually as far as I can tell really is a mere scribal variation of e, used in ligature with characters which don't have ascenders.
  
  I'm going on and on, aren't I. It's a symptom of Aspergers, if this is worst I get, think yourselves lucky.
  
• I do have thoughts about our Glorious New Leadership, and other things, but I don't have room in this margin, nor time before I must flee home for Hannukah dinner. That's for another time. If I don't do it in the next couple of days, noodge me. If you care.

Update ends. Further updates forthcoming. Stand by...

Comments

[kitling.livejournal.com]

I think we need mobile phones...

The 3 of us are generally in about 3 different locations and no one is manning the ECR desk really. That said - I'm sure the running up and down the stairs between my desk and the facu^H^H^H school office is making me fit...

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

You could always suggest same to tw. He's not a monster, nor is he stupid, and is amenable to good ideas, especially if they
i. make it possible to do your job,
ii. make it easier to do you job,
iii. make you happier in your job,
iv. any combination of the above.


But that said, STATIC IPs?!!!!!!!eleven ... everywhere!
That particular abomination is very high up the list of Things To Be Fixed Post Haste.

[kitling.livejournal.com]

I think I did yesterday :)

But yeah - I'm also as yet uncertain if I actually want to have to carry around a mobile phone :)

We use static IP's in ECR - it makes things easier in a lab environment.

That said - It's running out of IP's and trying to find new numbers for new PC's on a network with no space left that is one of our biggest problems... Bring on centralised authentication and everyone having the same, not different proxy info...

special days

[(Anonymous)]

I have it in my records already that your birthday is sometime in December but am lacking some precision to that fact. Could you help me?

We need another cake day.

I have acquired information about the asp, the tw and the wafonso. The others continue to evade me (although won't be long before I find out the old Boss').

-- mpp