sometimes, it actually works!
May. 8th, 2025 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlknow that the grand office shuffle of 2025 is over, local IT decided that he really needed to _do_ the computer upgrade/transition that was budgeted for the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
As far as I can tell, there were no major issues. Some of my work actually got easier(!) as the upgrade fixed the voter database printing issues (I can now print natively from the website, rather than going through a multistep process). Logging in to the voter database *and* the accounting software both required only one extra confirmation each. As I got upgraded to a physically smaller laptop, I also got an external monitor, which required a certain amount of desktop rejiggering, but that, too, is done.
I hauled a trunkload of cardboard boxes off to the recycling center on my way home from work, so that's another stack of shtuff out of the basement.
I have been slowly working my way through the gardens, but we've been getting (much needed!) rain, so there've been days when I've been home but the ground's been too soft. I was able to get into the E garden yesterday afternoon and do some weeding, though. Tomorrow, I think I'll move a few things from the deckside garden which is going away so that J can replace the deck skirting. We will need to replace the cat's "stack of sun warmed bricks" at some point, though....
As far as I can tell, there were no major issues. Some of my work actually got easier(!) as the upgrade fixed the voter database printing issues (I can now print natively from the website, rather than going through a multistep process). Logging in to the voter database *and* the accounting software both required only one extra confirmation each. As I got upgraded to a physically smaller laptop, I also got an external monitor, which required a certain amount of desktop rejiggering, but that, too, is done.
I hauled a trunkload of cardboard boxes off to the recycling center on my way home from work, so that's another stack of shtuff out of the basement.
I have been slowly working my way through the gardens, but we've been getting (much needed!) rain, so there've been days when I've been home but the ground's been too soft. I was able to get into the E garden yesterday afternoon and do some weeding, though. Tomorrow, I think I'll move a few things from the deckside garden which is going away so that J can replace the deck skirting. We will need to replace the cat's "stack of sun warmed bricks" at some point, though....
