Your early August "still here"

[julesjones]

It's been an interesting couple of months. I am still working in the office, because we physically can't work at home for various reasons, other than the workarounds set up for the people who are shielding - which require people physically in the office for those workarounds to be possible. Much of this is because the database can't be accessed from outside the building, again for various reasons. We were promised a New! Shiny! database before all of this kicked off, because we had problems with the old database directly traceable to it basically being the Windows XP version of what was either a Windows Me or Windows 3.1 database (I have heard different origin myths). Said New Shiny will be accessible from outside the building. We were promised that the New Shiny would be here last autumn. We are still being promised that it will be here in autumn. The more cynical amongst us have enquired "which autumn?"

Anyway. I have had aura or actual migraine all week, not serious but enough to keep me off my home computer, and aura for a couple of weeks before that, ditto, so no updates. Not many books to report either, because I put my Kobo down somewhere inside the house and kept forgetting to find it, only to find that I had nothing to read on the bus but whatever was on my phone. It turned out that I had put the Kobo down somewhere near my computer, because I'd been intending to write brief reviews of the previous couple of books I'd read...

I have at least made some masks. Not quite enough masks yet to allow for spousal unit suddenly needing some when they became mandatory in shops, but getting there - I have enough but no spares should they be forgotten on laundry day.

Comments

[graydon]

Bother the persistent migraine!

I hope that it shall indeed by this autumn, by whatever necessary assemblage of miracles.

[agoodwinsmith]

Thank you for checking in.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear your doing OK, apart from the migraine of course. I hope you get the new shiny database and that it will allow you to work from home if necessary.

[watervole]

Sounds like real fun with the database...