It looks like I should prepare for some blustery winter weather. The area was put under a winter storm watch last night which lasts until this evening. Tonight we are to get 2-4 inches of snow with winds gusting up to 60MPH.
Now, when I say this area I mean Eau Claire. I'm up here this week for business. Snowstorms aren't really a problem for me. Driving in them, however, is. I think the storm warning we're under extends south to Jackson County. Thusly, if I get a bit south of here, there shouldn't be a whole lotta snow. We'll just have to wait and see.
I'm up here with a couple co-workers, Dan & J.D., to upgrade some PCs. There were supposedly 25 to be done but we found yesterday that there are, in fact, only 17. This is a very good thing as it took me a little over 7 hours to upgrade one PC yesterday. Of course, this is wholly ridiculous as the only thing that really needed to be done to the guy's machine was to have Office 2003 installed. Why the DNR has it set up that a computer needing Office upgraded has to be completely wiped and reimaged is beyond my comprehension. The guy uses a very hefty piece of mapping software so he had nearly 20GB of data that needed to be backed up. This took forever and a day because it had to be backed up on a slow external drive via USB 1.1. We are scheduled to bascially do 2 PCs a day and be done tomorrow. But now I'm behind. Luckily, I stayed late yesterday and managed to get through part of the process on the 2nd PC I was scheduled for yesterday and got the data back up for the PC that is scheduled for upgrading this morning. Hopefully I can get 3 boxes knocked out today. I believe that J.D. got 3 done yesterday. He wants to leave tomorrow right after we finish which I'm amenable to. If the storm is done by then, I'll be happy to bust outta Dodge tomorrow night. Otherwise I'll leave Thursday morning.
This out of town routine lasts until Xmas. I'm in Madison next week but am off to Wisconsin Rapids the week after that.
Well, I'm gonna shower, grab some coffee, and head next door for another day of fun.
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