Spent most of the week screwing around with the most un-fun part of any sysadmin job at a tiny company: End user Windows support. The user who lost a window under another one was the most entertaining I suppose.
Phone vendor was supposed to show up early in the week and get the install started. He had an emergency repair to do and didn't show but did stay in touch and he's so far behind now that it sounds like he will stop by on Wednesday of next week.
So today was the last day of screwing around with the four (soon six) new laptops to make a new Windows 7 and 8.1 images to load them quickly in the future for others getting this hardware. Also slapping SSDs in them since Dell doesn't even offer SSDs in them from the warehouse for whatever stupid reason.
Needless to say, the first image attempt in months and months is unholy unmitigated Windows hell getting the image right.
(And thanks Dell. Can't slipstream in a few patches into the factory install maybe? Bastards. 110+ updates immediately after boot.)
Hung out tonight until midnight screwing with those, putting an SSD in my desktop Mac at the office, and patching a XenServer cluster by hand that won't do a rolling upgrade anymore since 6.5 came out -- by forcing VMs around the cluster as needed by hand at the command line.
So basically computers wasted my entire week by needing stupid things done to them, none of which were even slightly interesting.
Being a two person shop definitely has disadvantages. I miss the days of never seeing Windows at all, ever, at larger companies, and not needing to touch it at all for years at a time.
