Lot of things to get done next week. At least one major deadline got moved up on what I’m calling “the ‘Our World Is Changing’ project.”

We recently went through a tech upgrade that, frankly, doesn’t benefit line agents much. In the interests of security, we’re now unable to download files or make changes to certain directories. Which is good. Unfortunately, our workhorse “programmable” key files now reside in the directory we can’t touch, meaning that whatever we had for programmables on the day tech services upgraded us is what we’re stuck with for keys, forever. Can’t update them permanently, only until the next time the set is rebooted. Can’t write completely new keyfiles either, apparently. So if I ever do a significant change to a key, I’ll have to file a tech service request.

Except, of course, for old technology – a method of storing keys that I hate to use, but will now probably fall back on for loading up changes for the day. I’ve just realized that one essential key that I update daily will be affected by yet more tech changes coming next week, so I guess I’ve got a workaround.

Meh.

I was supposed to get a lot farther up on training people and downloading software, but this hasn’t been the week for that, owing to the usual frequent interruptions. We’ll see how it goes.