Night of broken glass, anyone? So I forgot to mention earlier that we had a killer storm come through last night when I was over at Chris's. So...much...hail. Like, ok, usually when you get a hail storm, it'll last for what, two to three minutes tops? The hail seriously went on for about 10 at least. So when I left I checked my car, and everything seemed good, but as I was driving home my windshield was acting very wierd. Taking a look at it today, it seems that it got scratched up during the storm. I can still use it for now, but I guess I better call up insurance and get that replaced. I know that when winter comes, water will get in there and freeze and destroy it. *sigh*
On top of that, I broke my first peice of a/v equipment in my life yesterday. We finally found where a lot of our old equipment had been stashed from an old set-up in one of the renovated buildings, so we moved that out and on to another room. Well, the major problem with this campus is that it's not all connected, and not completely wheelchair accessible. (Not sure how they can get away with that, but whatever.) So in order to get the a/v carts out of this one building and into another, we have to take them outside, on a very uneven sidewalk, and into the next. So, you guessed it...I hit a break in the sidewalk that stopped my wheels, and crash! the whole thing went over and the overhead projector went crashing into the pavement. I'm just thankful it was a transparency projector from the '70's and not, I dunno, an LCD projector or some shit like that.
So I've spent my first hour here working on that - my manager said not to worry about it and just surplus it, but it actually wasn't that bad. Other than a few superficial scrapes on the outside, the only thing that ended up damaged was a small corner of the mirror in the lens head. So I took that off and cleaned it out, and it works just fine. So maybe I'll get back some of the points I lost for dropping it in the first place.
The bad part is that stupid me leaned into the glass shards that I had dumped on the table, so now I'm attempting to get the glass out of my skin with a tweaker. Fun times.
On top of that, I broke my first peice of a/v equipment in my life yesterday. We finally found where a lot of our old equipment had been stashed from an old set-up in one of the renovated buildings, so we moved that out and on to another room. Well, the major problem with this campus is that it's not all connected, and not completely wheelchair accessible. (Not sure how they can get away with that, but whatever.) So in order to get the a/v carts out of this one building and into another, we have to take them outside, on a very uneven sidewalk, and into the next. So, you guessed it...I hit a break in the sidewalk that stopped my wheels, and crash! the whole thing went over and the overhead projector went crashing into the pavement. I'm just thankful it was a transparency projector from the '70's and not, I dunno, an LCD projector or some shit like that.
So I've spent my first hour here working on that - my manager said not to worry about it and just surplus it, but it actually wasn't that bad. Other than a few superficial scrapes on the outside, the only thing that ended up damaged was a small corner of the mirror in the lens head. So I took that off and cleaned it out, and it works just fine. So maybe I'll get back some of the points I lost for dropping it in the first place.
The bad part is that stupid me leaned into the glass shards that I had dumped on the table, so now I'm attempting to get the glass out of my skin with a tweaker. Fun times.
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