Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a moron.
I didn’t come in at midnight. Instead I almost literally crashed at about 11:00, so I decided to come in at 4:30 and skip doing the full system backup I’d planned for midnight.
At least I got a few hours’ sleep.
The first instruction on the sheet as I go to do the JDS release upgrade says, “Do an MFSAV.” Sure, no problem, I can find that in the menus. I thought I did, and I ran a procedure that insisted it was doing the MFSAV. The first time through, though, it halted on a bunch of files because they were in use by another process. I found this out after my attempt to run the JDS upgrade script failed.
So I ran ENDUPM to free up those files, then ran my MFSAV script again. And the JDS upgrade script still insisted I hadn’t done so. At this point I put in a call to JDS tech support.
Who politely, and without laughing too loudly, told me that I was running the wrong MFSAV script.
By now it was almost 7:30, and the MFSAV takes half an hour. In other words, I blew three hours getting to the starting point of a process that was slated to take a total of three and a half hours… so I’d be done by the time the Traffic department wanted to start getting their work done.
So. No JDS upgrade today. JDS upgrade tonight, midnight-ish. And I’m a freakin’ moron.
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9 responses to “Correction, my stupidity never ends.”
repeat after me, YOU ARE NOT A MORON. you are human and a tired OVERWERKED IT employee.
*hugs* you still rokka.
I say you should just lock yourself in that little server room connected to your office and relax. Sounds like a plan to me, yep yep.
Nope. Damned noisy in there. Besides, the OTHER door to the server room doesn’t lock, so no way to ensure privacy. And, it’s really damned noisy in there…
I didn’t know the other door doesn’t lock either. Oh indeed.
So, the MF stands for mother-f….? Hmmmm… How oddly appropro, don’t you think? hehehehe. I love some of the little acronyms that they come up with, that we can rename to get new and exciting descriptions of exactly how BADLY something is running, or can run…
Hugz!
The Navy used to operate a huge network of teletypes called F.R.E.D. It was supposed to teach sailors how to type on a teletype.
We called it F—ing Ridiculous Educational Device. It might be best if official acronyms just avoided the letter “f” from now on.
You know where I stand on this issue of being overworked. You need, at the very least, an intern.
id mention that atleast youve got job security but i know you probably dont really care about that right about now. 😛
You never told me the other door to the server room doesn’t lock. Oh.