Apple foke tend to update their software all the time. PC guys, not so much, partly because it’s easy to get burned in the process.
What started as a humble driver update, has turned into 30 plus hours of server hell. Trying to get a server back online and it doesn’t want to play ball. I don’t want to bore you with the details, but I will reflect on its effect on me.
At first the problem wasn’t a big deal, until it grew and grew in size. Then I had a dinner date, I was half able to put the problem aside for 2 hours while I ate with my friends, but upon returning home I spent the next 3 hrs focused on the problem. During those hours I realised I had been a bit snappy at my friends.
A typical case of burning the candle at both ends, I went to sleep late and arose early to try and the server back online. Total time in bed < 6 hrs. To which I spent an her working on remotely before heading to the office. I’m not sure when the pounding headache started, I think it was around 8am, just like someone slowly increasing their grip on my head. I’m not sure whether it’s the underlying pressure knowing that numerous staff are unable to fully, effectively work, or poor posture sitting at a laptop, or something completely different causing this sensation in my head.
I spent another 4 hours banging away at the keyboard, trying to solve the problem this way and that way. Nothing seeming to work. I had to force myself to take a break for an hour by leaving the office and going down the street for lunch.
Another hour and bit later and my thoughts were interrupted as my phone went off, reminding me of my physio appointment for that afternoon “bugger”. I headed off to the appointment and as I sat in the waiting room, still trying to process the answer of the all consuming problem.
The physio asked me “it looks like you’ve got something on your mind?” I was physically showing signs of this issue. I returned from the physio where I have spent another 5 hours thinking and processing the problem.
Unfortunately there isn’t an easy answer (or at least I can’t find one).
So at this stage it looks like I’ll be going with plan M (A through to L have failed me), a complete rebuild. Just the way I wanted to spend my day off.
I’m physically worn out, I have a shocking head ache and all over a simple computer update that went wrong.
It amazing how work can weigh so heavily on us. Like really, all I do is type and click, how can that get this heavy? Sometimes things are too heavy, because we are trying to lift more than we can manage. The thought going through my head tonight is “I’m never going to make a career out of being a cheap system admin, it’s just not worth it.” It was a fun challenge for a season, but that season has passed.