A Luddite kind of day...

I am so over Perin it isn't funny. It's only Tuesday, and I've already got the homicidal "I will kill someone to get away from this place" feeling going on.

Today's bout of 'eh' was caused by the work computers. I should have known something was up when by about 10am I still hadn't received any email from any of my regular "keep Rossi sane at work" crowd. Then I was distracted by VIMS crashing and reappearing a couple of times, and then losing its ability to screen print. So it was really around 11.30-12 when I finally got into the Internet and discovered something I'd sent to my Yahoo addy from my work email hadn't come through, even three hours later.

Hmm.

A few test emails and a plea to the XP mailing list unearthed the problem - Lotus Notes was refusing to send or receive anything external. And since I have that ban on over-use of the 'Net for non-work purposes, I was kind of screwed as far as actually communicating today.

No wonder I'm cranky.

It's back up now, with various emails trickling in, and, I'm assuming, trickling out. Apologies to anyone waiting on anything from me today, you've probably gotten it now, though. But hey, I managed to get a veritable shitload of work done. Go me.

I'm also going to throttle Belinda if she whinges about slow printers or computers again, and flee the next time Glenys appears at my elbow with something I've screwed up. Apparently yesterday was not a good concentration day for me. At all - I've had bout six things come back to me as errors, which is more than I get in a month, for goodness' sake.

So, can I leave Perin yet? My two years is up on the 10th...