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Forgot to mention, I has my new glasses! Some of you may (or may not, I keep stuff that really worries me out of my LJ) know that have recently been having vision problems. In my right eye. (err noobies, I'm blind in my left eye due to some hilarious accidents). This, as you can imagine, Freaked Me The Shit Out. Especially one event where I had what I can really only describe as a "jagged matrix" coming down diagonally into my vision for several hours.

Thankfully my eye is not degrading or spazzing out from overwork. I am in fact, light sensitive. I've always kinda been that way (hence my ever-present sunglasses) but now I'm even more so. I blame the LCDs. So I have some seriously funky new purple filtering glasses to wear when my eye bothers me. They do make me look disturbingly like my grandmother, however o.O. And I have some new sunnies that are the absolute bomb and the new toy to play with at work, since due to the way they filter the light spectrum, they show up even the most minute of flaws in an LCD screen. Seriously. Shit you can't see with the naked eye shows up clear as day the instant you slip these babies on :D

Speaking of work...the rundown has been unfun. Lesse. We've had three roof collapses, one site had a breach that flooded 600 sqm of floor (and considering it only had something like 700sqm, this was FUN) and our main campus lost three floors to storm damage. IT has, however, pulled through and foreborne, even through the outrageous panics of others and unreasonable demands (Hey, shithead. I don't care if you can only print black and white. I have a fucking company full of executives WITH NO FUCKING ROOF) . Also had to do a lot of gruntwork - repatching, reimaging, frankenputers, you name it just to try and get space and facilities for staff that have been moved from hither and yon. It's only today that we've even started to look at the total damage and what we can possibly recover. Lots of overtime,and lots more to come... but also lots of money, so I may nose about for an Ebook for [livejournal.com profile] torasin (I offered to get him one for his birthday but he said "meh". Since then he has developed a mild case of Ebook Envy and now wants a new shiney :P)

Nortel VOIP phones btw, are remarkably resilient. We've found ones sitting in a litre of water that were still running. Mind you they were powered off the POE in the comms room (thankfully safe), but still...

At this point, it very much looks like Beans has had a stroke. We had a long, tearful discussion on the weekend over whether or not we should consider having her put down. But she's still in there, and still the same obnoxious snot, so we're giving her every chance we can and lots of PT. She's been feeding herself lately, and even though her entire right side has lost most motor function, she's learning to adapt. I caught her using a back foot to push food in her gob the other day :D Unfortunately she does have a tendency to fall over and lie on her right side most, so she's lost some fur from rolling in food and then not grooming it properly. So we're grooming, feeding, and being a little ratty crutch as she half-assedly meanders about. She's currently gumming my foot as I write this in vengeance for the heinous crime of giving her a bath tonight. Our main concern atm is her left bottom tooth - if it doesn't break on its own soon, we'll probably have to get it cropped at the vet - it's getting too long due to disuse and the last thing she needs is bloody vampire fangs.

it sounds horribly cruel, but if you could see her...bits of her don't work. But the rest of it works fine, and as long as she's not distressed and still has a decent quality of life, we're going to pamper her rotten.

So yes. Life has been....BLARGH of late. But hey, weekend's comin' :P

Now, I do believe I have things to write.....

Date: 2010-03-12 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nicodeimus.livejournal.com
Unfun indeed 0.0

Beans is proof, if ever it were needed, that rats are the most adaptable species in the world *nodnod*

Date: 2010-03-12 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taleya.livejournal.com
She was disgustingly chipper tonight. Had a bath, went all HULKSMAASH and then pooped on me while I was washing her, pooped on me while I was drying her, pooped on me while I was washing the poop from the drying back off her, and then sat on my feet and ate my pizza.

Ingrate

Date: 2010-03-12 11:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nicodeimus.livejournal.com
*amuuuuused* What are the big hairless rats for, if not mistreating?

Date: 2010-03-12 11:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taleya.livejournal.com
Portable toilets, evidently. We were calling her the lean bean poopin' machine. She's got a lot better balance too, but is still very slow. And absolute pants on certain surfaces, but she's mapped out the couch quite well (she sits under the doona with me while I laptop and plots evil things.)

The other lot got a slice of pizza in their cage. Friday night treat. I have to record that sometime on video - fucking pirahnas have nothing on a bunch of pizza-seeking PEWs

Date: 2010-03-12 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nicodeimus.livejournal.com
Aw, glad to hear she's getting accustomed to it. Surely couch and duvet are the only two surfaces worth mapping?

The world won't know that fact until we genetically engineer pizzamen for the new wave of huntsmen. "THE PIZZA CHASE IS ON! RELEASE THE PIRANHA!RATS!"

Date: 2010-03-12 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taleya.livejournal.com
SOUND THE HORNS AND SCENT THE ANCHOVIES!

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