Not all Upgrades Are Pleasant

I am typing mad. Well, half-mad. I was working on my assignment for the whole week, and it was going fine. I am running my script that automatically logs me in to a system, changes my password for a total of 600+ users. After, I would go through them again for the terms and condition. Then another round for the final check if everything was set. Then start assigning these user IDs to their proper scripts for tonight’s run.

Easy-peasy and nothing I have not done before :

1.)    Change password

2.)    Respond to the Terms and Conditions

3.)    Final run for login in case I missed out some users that had failure to change passwords

4.)    Assign these users to the program they will be running for tonight’s activity

Although it automatically does numbers one to three, I must monitor its run because it might brick at some point, or my connection may fail. I have been doing that the whole week in preparation for tonight’s deployment.

So last night (or maybe early this morning I was not aware of the time), a pop-up shows up saying something about an upgrade. This upgrade will affect the program I am running. I know so because it has happened on a regular that updates do come and this type requires tweaking after. I have no choice though but to have the machine complete the update it says it must complete. So, I paused what I was doing triggered the update, had my machine restarted and as expected, my program will not start again.

I am normally a calm person. But not entirely when I have stayed up a lot of nights for what I was doing only to be halted by some “upgrade” that does not help me at all. There have been talks between me and my colleagues because there were a lot of upgrades lately that really affects our daily output. We all agreed that every time a pop-up comes up, our heart stops, and we hesitate to accept the change because from previous experience it will take a while, stop us from what we are doing, and sometimes we would need help which also presses the button of impatience on my end. Trauma.

 Well, isn’t that a lot of similarities with life – Computer system -related upgrades and life’s trials?

So yes, in my frustration, I am going to turn this into a prompt response. Lols. Tagged by @Bloghound in response to similarities prompt authored by @JonicaBradley . I have another topic supposedly set for that but this happens and I have to let it out somehow.

Life is good generally. But it is not without stunning trials. Having computer nowadays is good generally. Until some things do not function well to your advantage. Stunning events.

 Most times we go about smoothly. We have our system already set, our schedules laid out and we are fully calibrated and adjusted to what we need to do to get to our goal. For me in this case to be done with what I need to do hours before the set deployment because I would want to have a quiet Saturday morning doing other things than sitting in front of my workstation as I did the rest of the week. I want a break.

Game changers. We get served with those. Some things happen and disrupts our plan. As Murphy’s law would say it, “If anything could go wrong, it will.”

Life’s struggles and trials are part of life. They make us or they break us. But most of the time we come up stronger and better than before. But during that moment that you are struggling, none of that is pleasant at all. We hear of success stories and crave for the same fist-pumping victories and yet we never really want, or we have no idea the path to getting there. It is one thing of hearing the story and knowing the end is victorious and another going through your own story without any idea when that “victory” will be coming or if it will even be the outcome.

System upgrades does that, too. To make things easier, some break in the system is needed, recalibrated and reconfigured before we can a “feel” that boost. Before that is felt, most upgrades will stop your momentum.

Some upgrades and trials require us asking for help. It is needed but it also disrupts the “straight” plan we have in our heads. Let alone the battle with self and accepting the fact that we cannot do things alone no matter how many times we have been through this and no matter how many times we have claimed ourselves experts on a matter. And if we have a timeline set, asking for help is super disconcerting. Because every tick of the clock that is spent on briefing and debriefing the incident, we know that the next agendas we have, will have to be adjusted as well.

Some system upgrades can be set for later. Life’s trials, well, we can “ignore” them for a while but somehow both would need to happen. We can snooze them all we want but we still must go through them upgrades and trials and neither is pleasant.

Inevitable, necessary and not hundred per cent pleasant.

 Now, where’s my coffee. . .

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