I got a new CPU at work today as part of the upgrades we’re all getting. I was supposed to get it yesterday, but nobody from the IT team showed up; when I called to ask about it they didn’t give a reason but rather rescheduled me for noon today.

The woman showed up today around 11:30 and I wasn’t ready, so I asked her to come back. It took me about 15 minutes to get situated, and then I figured I’d just log out and let her do it. It turned out she was waiting right outside my cube, so I said she could go ahead and get started. I took my lunch out to my car and ate it while reading The Great Society Subway, which is about the history of the DC Metro. When it arrived from Amazon it was much more textbook-y than I had been expecting, but it turns out to be very interesting. After I ate I took a little nap and then went back inside a little before 1:00.

I don’t have room in my cube for a guest chair, so fortunately someone in my aisle was teleworking and I was able to sit there and keep reading. The woman had said it would take two to three hours for the switch, but to my surprise she was done by about 1:30. She had installed the printer in my cube as a local printer (it’s a network printer) so I had to fix that myself, and she couldn’t find my PST file for Outlook so I looked at the ghost image myself and fixed that too.

I had backed up my Firefox profile yesterday, so that wasn’t a problem at all. Everything went back to normal (after three required reboots) and I continued as if nothing had happened. It was a lot less painful than I’d been expecting.