Well. I came back from lab yesterday afternoon to find my office door standing open.

"That's odd," I thought to myself - we had recently received an e-mail from Campus Police warning us to be more attentive to closing and locking our office doors (and our cars) as there had been a rash of thefts on campus lately. And anyway, I always lock my office door.

I went to step in and nearly tripped over several computer boxes, and the hulk of my old office computer sitting on the floor. There my office sits, open, empty of people, yet full of computer parts.

It turns out I was scheduled for an "upgrade." Supposedly I was sent an e-mail but if I received it it wound up getting swept up in the tide of spam I must delete every morning (and extra spam on Mondays).

I was (understandably) nervous - I have several papers I'm writing on that I haven't backed up the recentest versions of. And I have some data that aren't backed up. And I have e-mails that were important, but which I did not print, because we're being encouraged to save paper.

The smiling computer guy (when he came back) assured me all had been transferred over and everything was fine.

I don't trust smiling computer guys. So I came back after he was gone and messed around and found that, indeed, the document files had transferred over. BUT all of the e-mail I had on my campus address was lost. (Not my personal-address e-mail; that goes to a different place). Several important e-mails, which I had not printed out, in the interest of saving paper...

but most of my bookmarks transferred over.

And my photographic software is gone. And the data-analysis software I'm supposed to have (because of a site license). I can understand the photographic software (It's just PIXELA, which came with the camera), because it's not "official" software. But I'm ticked that the site-licensed statistical software which I am supposed to have is not to be found, and I guess I'll have to call them. (I should have done that before reloading Firefox; it's not entirely clear if it's "permissible" to have it or if we're supposed to be a Microsoft-only campus, but I'm going to assume they turn a blind eye to it since I'm not posting or downloading NSFW things.)

I can't find my PIXELA disk though. It might be at home but I'm going to post another picture of Fred, this time modified using PowerPoint, to see if it will work.

So here's Fred, again:



(Okay, so that's a little big. I might have to play with the file format or something. But at least it's an option if I can't find my disk. I'd rather work from work, because, well, I'm almost always here, and I have a faster connection here. And no one's tell me I can't, yet, although I suppose someday that's coming. Except if they allow students to play online video games in the computer labs, I'd think they should allow the profs to look at/write on knitting blogs, especially if they get all their other work done and this is just an "interstitial" thing or a warm up for the start of the day.)

Also:

I still have access to PC-Ord, yay. I don't know why that got transferred over and not JMP, but I'm not questioning it too much.

And: I hate this new keyboard. I'm kaming tyupes all over the [laec. (Uncorrected version.) It's going to take me quite a while to get used to it.