Tired thoughts
Mar. 15th, 2002 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterWhat a day. Had five hours of work, ostensibly on the SCOTS machines...but after I got on, I found that only three of the four terminals were actually working, a number which soon fell to two, and then one as the darned Windows-powered boxes crashed hard, like hardly crashing things, and refused to start back up again. The supervisors called the headquarters to describe the problem, and got a terse "we're investigating it" in response. Apparently it might be some sort of network problem, and we were not the only store so affected. At last, after I got off my break, they gave up, closed the SCOTS entirely, and put me on a regular register, the better to serve the customers who were starting to get frustrated at lack of open lines.
I've heard some rumors lately that a lot of the street lights in the north part of town aren't working properly, and haven't been for the last few days. I wonder if it could somehow be related? Eh, probably not.
Tomorrow, I have a five and a half hour day. Yay. Long enough to be an awful drain, but just barely short enough that I don't get to take a full half-hour lunch to recuperate. Just one little fifteen minute break in the middle. I hate those.
Lately, on the impetus of some discussions I've had with a friend, I've turned my attention back to reading the pulps. Doc Savage, The Shadow...it's amazing what you can find on-line. There's this one e-book site, Black Mask, that has an amazing quantity of e-books in its Pulp Fiction section. Apparently the companies that owned the properties didn't properly renew the copyrights, so the books are in the public domain. And they're already pre-formatted for reading in HTML, PDF, Rocketbook, or Palm (via iSilo or Mobipocket). Neat stuff. It's funny to look at the webpage and realize that I've got sufficient reading material for probably the next several years there. And all of it free!
Well, I'd better post this and get ready for bed. Tomorrow is another day, and it'll come whether I want it to or not.
I've heard some rumors lately that a lot of the street lights in the north part of town aren't working properly, and haven't been for the last few days. I wonder if it could somehow be related? Eh, probably not.
Tomorrow, I have a five and a half hour day. Yay. Long enough to be an awful drain, but just barely short enough that I don't get to take a full half-hour lunch to recuperate. Just one little fifteen minute break in the middle. I hate those.
Lately, on the impetus of some discussions I've had with a friend, I've turned my attention back to reading the pulps. Doc Savage, The Shadow...it's amazing what you can find on-line. There's this one e-book site, Black Mask, that has an amazing quantity of e-books in its Pulp Fiction section. Apparently the companies that owned the properties didn't properly renew the copyrights, so the books are in the public domain. And they're already pre-formatted for reading in HTML, PDF, Rocketbook, or Palm (via iSilo or Mobipocket). Neat stuff. It's funny to look at the webpage and realize that I've got sufficient reading material for probably the next several years there. And all of it free!
Well, I'd better post this and get ready for bed. Tomorrow is another day, and it'll come whether I want it to or not.
