Procrastination

Yes, I procrastinated doing my blogging last night. And I even procrastinated doing my washing. So when the city electricity went off at about 10:40pm, I was caught off guard!

So, I won't go into all the details, but to make a long story short, that which I wanted to blog last night, didn't get blogged because by the time I actually got to sit down to blog, the batteries had died on our Internet. Ooops. So I read my book instead :)

Anyways, I was going to blog about my headache prevention actions yesterday. I've been getting killer headaches every afternoon for the past several days. Does it have something to do with the heat? Probably, I'm thinking. Since the headache usually starts around 4pm, when I've been sitting in my 41C, 42C office for a couple of hours after lunch. And then it usually goes away once I cool down in the evenings (after my cold shower at about 10:30pm).

I also realized that I really haven't been drinking all that much water in the afternoons - I just sorta forget to get out from behind my desk and go and find anything to drink. So yesterday, I remembered the thermos that we've got stashed in the back of the cupboard, and I dug it out at lunch-time. After cleaning the rat footprints off the top (who knew rats could have such cute little footprints?!), I filled it up with ice and water, and trotted back to my office, clutching my prize, hoping to stave off the afternoon headache.

And lo and behold, it almost worked! I only had a minor headache by the end of the afternoon, rather than a terrible headache! I tried the same tactic today, and got away without any headache at all... though today was quite a bit cooler, thanks to the nice cloud cover. In fact, it's only 29C at 11pm tonight! So much cooler.

On a more work-related note, I felt rather relieved today because, with input from a few of my computer geeks scattered around the world, I figured out how to save a dictionary that I thought had been lost from one of the computers here. It would have been a few months of someone's work, and I simply could not figure out how to get back what I thought was lost. One of my colleagues here is a bit "click-happy", clicking through any dialogue box he feels like clicking and doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things on the computer that I can never seem to undo. And he never remembers what he clicked because he doesn't pay much attention to it when he clicks things! I've now made him promise to count to 10 before he clicks any "OK"s.

Anyhow, I'm glad he didn't lose his work, but it took me several hours of fiddling around with things and skyping and emailing to try to figure out how to get his dictionary back! On the bright side, I've also learned a bit more about how this particular dictionary making software works. Not intuitively, that's for sure! But it was satisfying to see if all back to how it should be and to understand a bit more about how the program works so I can help a bit more efficiently next time someone has a problem with it... unless the Lord miraculously sends us a resident computer geek before anyone has any more problems :)