One Way To Do It...
Things were reasonably normal when I got home last night after doing a little favor/errand. I peeked in at Discord to see what the latest RP-stuffs was and saw 223 messages missed just in the general conversation channel. Okay, time to skim... talking about making new martial arts... bear traps as weapons...
Yeah, I could sense that little jealous flare of "I'm conforming to presented rules while others are expanding/bending them." Ugh. So, I told myself flat out, "Look, you're not going to let this get to you tonight. It's too easy. You'll get bothered. You'll feel left out. That'll make you depressed about it. Just don't tonight, okay?" And with that, I pushed back, listened to a Youtube video, and went to make dinner.
As dinner was ready, my phone buzzed with a message from my supervisor/co-tech. The accounting server had been restarted for Windows updates and was now in a recovery loop asking for a password that didn't match our norm. Ugh. The server had come to us pre-configured almost a decade ago, I thought we would have changed the local admin password for sure, and yet there we were.
And, of course, when you make a change, you have to restart and that takes several minutes, so the process was slow as we managed to clear the password and get into the recovery options, which... were totally unhelpful. No automated repair worked. We had command line access, but it's hard to fix things that way when you don't know exactly what the problem is. We finally disabled the auto-recovery function and found the system seemed to be failing on winload.efi - again, not all that helpful. We tried many commands to repair the windows boot process and such, but those didn't help.
Finally, we stumbled on a site that had commands to clear pending updates. That along with the System File Checker finally fixed things and the server started up like nothing had happened.
So, after three stressful hours at work, I returned home, looked at Discord again to see actual plot-stuff happened when I wasn't expecting that for another day at least, and "noped" right out. I was too tired to deal with an emotional tangle of trying to get caught up or deal with that at all.
And thus, I actually managed to keep my little vow and went to bed exhausted rather than upset or depressed.
Victory?
Yeah, I could sense that little jealous flare of "I'm conforming to presented rules while others are expanding/bending them." Ugh. So, I told myself flat out, "Look, you're not going to let this get to you tonight. It's too easy. You'll get bothered. You'll feel left out. That'll make you depressed about it. Just don't tonight, okay?" And with that, I pushed back, listened to a Youtube video, and went to make dinner.
As dinner was ready, my phone buzzed with a message from my supervisor/co-tech. The accounting server had been restarted for Windows updates and was now in a recovery loop asking for a password that didn't match our norm. Ugh. The server had come to us pre-configured almost a decade ago, I thought we would have changed the local admin password for sure, and yet there we were.
And, of course, when you make a change, you have to restart and that takes several minutes, so the process was slow as we managed to clear the password and get into the recovery options, which... were totally unhelpful. No automated repair worked. We had command line access, but it's hard to fix things that way when you don't know exactly what the problem is. We finally disabled the auto-recovery function and found the system seemed to be failing on winload.efi - again, not all that helpful. We tried many commands to repair the windows boot process and such, but those didn't help.
Finally, we stumbled on a site that had commands to clear pending updates. That along with the System File Checker finally fixed things and the server started up like nothing had happened.
So, after three stressful hours at work, I returned home, looked at Discord again to see actual plot-stuff happened when I wasn't expecting that for another day at least, and "noped" right out. I was too tired to deal with an emotional tangle of trying to get caught up or deal with that at all.
And thus, I actually managed to keep my little vow and went to bed exhausted rather than upset or depressed.
Victory?
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