Chemo brain really gets me today
Got to school bright and early ready for a full day at my desk (even though the skinflints pay me less than half pay). Opened up the laptop and stared blankly at the logon screen - I had no bloody idea what my password was. After a few abortive attempts at old passwords, random pokes at the keyboard and so on, Windows finally locked me out - "see your system administrator". OK - I needed the exercise so up the hill I trudged to pound on the only locked door on the campus. They couldn't get it open so they were clearly having as good a day as I was.
So I went to the head coach's office and phoned them. "Leave it to us - we'll change your password to blahblah and you log on with that and then change it to something you have never used before. OK - back to my room and logged in with blahblah and changed it to something I may remember. Needless to say, while all this was going on I remembered my old password but Windows wouldn't let me use that again.
This was the top of the slippery slope - last year I was asked what was needed on my students' supply list and I replied "a computer with Windows installed" because that's what Autodesk Inventor and Python 3.5 run on, not on a Mac. (You can install Windows on a Mac and it seems to work OK if slowly). This somehow got on the supplies list as "a computer capable of running Windows is preferable". All my students' Macs are capable of running Windows but none of them has it installed. So I asked for some low-powered Windows machines - got back 2 clunkers from the science lab and 2 Macs from the library, only one of which I was able to log on to. Turned out the Mac had exactly enough hard drive space to install Windows so I had to dash up to Walmart to buy a flash drive to install Inventor on. Then I was told I had spent my budget for the year. I wish someone would tell me what my budget is at the start of the year but I guess I don't know the secret handshake.
Finally got Inventor up and running, kinda, on my PC and it immediately started doing odd things, largely, I think because the first step of the implementation instructions says "install the parts file as Clawbot" with no further instructions. Where to put it? Not a freaking clue. So I shoved it somewhere sensible in a new directory and was able to open it by double clicking on it. Yay!!! I placed a couple of parts in my first drawing and needed to turn one around to bolt the parts together. But the rotate tool rotated both of them. Bollocks. Never mind, let's try shoving a nut and bolt in one of them. Clicked on the right icon to show all the places you can stick a nut and bolt and, surprise, the bloody thing wouldn't let me put a nut and bolt (or anything else) in any of them. So now I have posted a nice polite message (much more polite than this) on the support website to ask where I should store my project, how I stop everything rotating together and how to join components. Did I mention I have spent my budget? And that the book costs $70 and the "Help" website gives an Access Denied error? So I think bed is an option right now.
So I went to the head coach's office and phoned them. "Leave it to us - we'll change your password to blahblah and you log on with that and then change it to something you have never used before. OK - back to my room and logged in with blahblah and changed it to something I may remember. Needless to say, while all this was going on I remembered my old password but Windows wouldn't let me use that again.
This was the top of the slippery slope - last year I was asked what was needed on my students' supply list and I replied "a computer with Windows installed" because that's what Autodesk Inventor and Python 3.5 run on, not on a Mac. (You can install Windows on a Mac and it seems to work OK if slowly). This somehow got on the supplies list as "a computer capable of running Windows is preferable". All my students' Macs are capable of running Windows but none of them has it installed. So I asked for some low-powered Windows machines - got back 2 clunkers from the science lab and 2 Macs from the library, only one of which I was able to log on to. Turned out the Mac had exactly enough hard drive space to install Windows so I had to dash up to Walmart to buy a flash drive to install Inventor on. Then I was told I had spent my budget for the year. I wish someone would tell me what my budget is at the start of the year but I guess I don't know the secret handshake.
Finally got Inventor up and running, kinda, on my PC and it immediately started doing odd things, largely, I think because the first step of the implementation instructions says "install the parts file as Clawbot" with no further instructions. Where to put it? Not a freaking clue. So I shoved it somewhere sensible in a new directory and was able to open it by double clicking on it. Yay!!! I placed a couple of parts in my first drawing and needed to turn one around to bolt the parts together. But the rotate tool rotated both of them. Bollocks. Never mind, let's try shoving a nut and bolt in one of them. Clicked on the right icon to show all the places you can stick a nut and bolt and, surprise, the bloody thing wouldn't let me put a nut and bolt (or anything else) in any of them. So now I have posted a nice polite message (much more polite than this) on the support website to ask where I should store my project, how I stop everything rotating together and how to join components. Did I mention I have spent my budget? And that the book costs $70 and the "Help" website gives an Access Denied error? So I think bed is an option right now.
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