Sunday Morning System Blues
Periodically I get weekend computer duty as a part of my job. This weekend is one of those weekends. Last night there was a failure of a tape drive at another facility that at least one of our jobs uses. Havoc! Our job failed waiting for the tape drive to be repaired by IBM, which is resulting in my Sunday morning duties to be expanded from an average 30 minutes to 3 or more hours. I’m currently waiting on jobs that would normally run in the wee hours to complete before starting my usual Sunday morning group of jobs. It’s a chain reaction!
By the way, my cold is nearly gone. I’m still a little bit stuffed up but that’s about all. This was one of those rare colds that never dropped into my chest and I’m grateful for that.
Around here all is well. Danny has some lima beans soaking and some hamburger thawing so I think that he’s got something planned for them in the crockpot. Stew? Soup? I’ll find out later after he’s up and about and into the pot of coffee that I just brewed (yes, I remembered to put in the coffee grounds this time).
And still I wait for the wee hour jobs to complete. It just figures that they’re taking nearly twice their average duration to complete this morning. I want them to finish! Now! I’m still looking at over 30 minutes of processing time left after the current job completes. Grrrr!
I’ll check back in later and let you all know how it all turns out.