I’ve been busy.  Mostly with work.  I looked at my over time for September.  I worked something like 80 hours of OT last month.  Or to look at it another way, I worked an extra two weeks.  That would explain why I feel like I haven’t had any free time.

Why so much OT?  I’ve been swamped with calls and projects.  Take Friday for example.  I had to set up 25 computers with several CAD and CAM packages installed.  IT had taken some time to work out all the kinks and to get the licensing square.  But by Friday afternoon, I had everything working one workstation.  All I had to do was to image the other 24 Workstations.

Now, having said that, it is still a big chore — not hard but time consuming.  I had to pull the image of off the workstation that was correctly configured.  I then had to boot the other 24 workstation to a Ghost session.  On each workstation, I had to point it to my laptop to get the new image.  I hit send and wait…

The ‘GhostCast’ session was going to take about 15 minutes.  I stood there talking the tech I had roped in to helping me finish up the imaging process.  At 68% percent of the way through the ‘GhostCast’ session, we noticed a flicker.

I looked behind me 12 of the 24 computers were shut down.  The circuit that they were plugged in to had blown.  We found a maintenance guy to unlock the box housing the circuit breakers for us.  Sure enough one of them was blown.  All parties agreed that it was a fluke.    We went back to booted all the computers to the Ghost session.  And then we started the GhostCast session… again.

Guess what happened next.  That’s right, 68% of the way through the circuit blew.  What in the world happens at 68 percent that causes that to happen in a great mystery.  I set it up to ghost the computers that were not on the questionable circuit and once they were done, we ran the rest of them.  For what ever reason, that worked.  We ran through ‘Mini-Setup’ on each one.

The job got done.  But instead of finishing up around five like I planned, we were there until eight.  It seems like that has just been the way it has been working for me.

The good news is… this job pays for overtime.