Divisions and Precisions

God apparently didn't like my

God apparently didn't like my comment about the website thing. I hit a pothole on the way home from work. Not only did I get a flat tire, but I got two, and my car stalled and won't restart for more than 30 seconds. *sigh*

Um, Never Mind...

This may be rambly. You've been warned. Today I finally understand what feeling "rundown" means. I'm not exactly tired, but I'm a little headachy and my throat is trying to hurt. Nothing major, just a bunch of little things that all contribute to a general sense of malaise.

Remember my computer gripes from earlier (the whole Windows 2000, IS locking me out of huge portions of my computer, etc)? Well, those problems are continuing, with a new twist. I have a 12GB hard drive on this computer. Imagine my surprise when I started getting out of memory errors. So I checked. 'My' section of the hard drive has 2GB. The rest of the hard drive, which is unavailable to me, is a vast, empty wasteland of 10GB. As of this writing, I have 3.16 MB free on my C: drive, and this after deleting everything remotely "personal" from the computer. I'm certain that was their intent in giving me so little space to work with. The longer this goes on, the more it pisses me off. I am not a child who needs to have everything I do monitored. Yes, I write at work. Yes, I'm on the internet at work. However, I take more phone calls and get more done than the other people around me. My productivity is not suffering. Having a shitload of HTML and Word docs on my computer is not going to harm it. If they were using that 10GB of space for some other purpose, I'd understand perfectly, but they're not.

In another ironic twist that makes me grin and grit my teeth at the same time, the very printing problem that started all of this (the printer started printing blank pages sporadically instead of documents) started occuring when other departments started using our printer. The theory was that all of the "unauthorized" programs on our machines (never mind that none of us had the same programs and that I'd been using mine for years with no problem) was causing the problem, so they switched us to Win2K and locked us out of installing anything. I admit, when I saw the problem happening to other people, I took great pleasure in innocently asking my supervisor, "I wonder what programs they were running?"

I guess the thing that bothers me the most about all of this is the underlying feeling I get of "well, they're just receptionists, what do they know about computers?" Combined with that is, "they're just receptionists, therefore they need watching/don't need x, y or z." Maybe that's not remotely what anyone is thinking, but that's how it feels, and it's pissing me off. I do know that they alternate between being thrilled and being irritated that I'm as computer savvy as I am. On the one hand, they can give me instructions and I can handle things on my own (the things I have permission to do, at least, grr), but on the other hand, I know bullshit when I hear it.

Later

Heh. This is me being sheepish. One of the IS guys was just here. I almost junked this entry, because I was wrong on a few things. For one, I can access the D drive, and will begin doing so. The memory problem is a more complicated story, but suffice to say it was a setup issue that's been corrected. So there's my little rant for the day, complete with apology. But damn it, I'm still locked out of a lot of things!

According to Sitemeter, GOD has

According to Sitemeter, GOD has visited my webpage. No, I'm serious. He/She was here about half an hour ago. Probably was checking out the discussion about Lipscomb in last night's entry.