Listening

Since my body's obviously been trying to tell me something the last few days, I decided it was time to do a little listening today, so I skipped my usual morning ride. Of course I woke up at 5:45 a.m. anyway. I've done my weekday riding in the morning for so long now that I'm decidedly uncomfortable when I don't.

Yesterday it was raining when I was ready to head home from work, so I got a ride with The Wife and left the commuting bike at Tulane. As a result, I had to walk the mile or two to work this morning, which would have been quite nice except for the 40 pound messenger bag I was shouldering the whole way. In addition to the laptop and all the other usual stuff, I had a few 2006 calendars in there too. As it turns out, we have maybe forty cases of these rather nice calendars that are put out by the anxiety disorders association down in our basement right now. They were apparently printed with the wrong color ink and the whole job had to be re-done, so they gave them to the Psych department and they ended up in our basement.

So our final staff person started work again today and I decided that since we'll probably be stuck working out of this classroom through December, I'd see about getting some printer-sharing going. Ordinarily, that would be pretty simple, but since we're using the university's network, I knew it wouldn't be. I've been down this road before. Luckily, the TIS support folks are also shacked up in Gibson Hall, so I walked downstairs (yep, all they've got them and their computers down in the basement - slow learners, aren't we?) and one of the guys came back upstairs to set something up. Theoretically it should be a simple matter to share a printer that's connected to a computer with other computers on the same network, right? Well, naturally it wouldn't work and we'll be trying again on Monday.