travel 3.5 hours

Leave home at 5:30am to get to work in another city. Arrive to discover that your work computer is going to take 3 hours to to a major update.

(We've just hit the 3 hour mark, and it's only 60%.)

Bets on whether it's going to finish before COB today?

Otherwise, just struggling to stay awake. Don't have dinner plans (yet). Should make some pretty pronto though, because all I'll have the energy for is eat and then come back to the airbnb where I'm staying and go to bed. May not even have the mental capacity to write.

And the thing that I came to town for - to fix my remote login situation - can't be done until the computer has updated.

AAAARGH.

everything happened in the last 2 hours

The software update that was going to take forever? I hard-restarted the computer, and at first it leaped back to the 60% updated, and then it started moving again!

It was done by 3:30pm.

The remote login token I came to reset looked dire for a few minutes, but around 4pm I managed to log in and HUZZAH! There was much rejoicing.

Tomorrow, I will do thingy things, maybe return the old/broken token now that it's definitely no longer needed, and leave for home early. I'll only be recording 3 days of work this week; Monday was a public-holiday-that-wasn't, and I asked for Friday off. But I'll be working a couple of hours on Friday to get something into production and to make sure it's all running smoothly, so...

I went out and had dinner, got leftovers, and came back, wrote 500 words and I think now it is time to crash. Phew.