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sleepy workday afternoon
Wednesday, March 26 2025
At work today again, I continued to try to find a way to make Windows 11 display a narrower taskbar. Eventually I installed a program called Windhawk that promised to do just that. But the moment it was installed, both my web browsers (Edge and Chrome) crashed and refused to work when I tried to open them. That's a pretty serious problem, since nearly all my communication and data lookup in this new job happens on web pages. I tried uninstalling Windhawk, but, since my computer is so locked down, that required an administrator password. And my password lookup tool is a web app. So then I had to get that working on my phone. But even with an admin password, Windhawk refused to stop running and uninstall. I tried killing the process in Task Manager (which required an admin password). But even with an admin password, I couldn't kill it. I'm not used to using a computer where I don't have complete control, and I felt like I was now at the point of improvising basic tools from paperclips while locked in a prison. The improvization that worked to solve this particular problem (and mercifully kept me from having to call in a guy from the IT department) was deleting a settings file used by Windhawk (which required an admin credentials to do). After that, Windhawk failed to launch on startup, and then Chrome and Edge started working again. Just to have backup web access using a completely different browser technology should this happen again, I installed Firefox.
Finally giving up on making the taskbar smaller or reduced in scale, I ended up turning on a feature I have never used in the past: taskbar auto-hide. I don't like it, because with the taskbar hidden, it's a little like driving bind. But there are good things about it being hidden as well, such as not having the time always in front of my face. That can make a slow day grind even more slowly. For some reason I felt extremely sleepy this afternoon and would've taken a nap had it been the slightest bit socially acceptable. But it was only my third day in a new job!
One glimmer of hope had come earlier today after I finally got all the dependencies installed and working for a very complicated proprietary web app that I will be working on. With that out of the way, I could finally figure out how to make a change in the front-end Angular code that a lead developer suggested that I make as sort of an intro project. (Using advice from ChatGPT, I quickly figured out and implemented some changes that did exactly what needed to be done.)
There was a snow shower on drive home, though it wasn't anything the windshield wipers couldn't handle. Once back home in Hurley, I quickly made a stir fry using tofu, mushrooms, onions, kale, some cabbage, carrots, celery, garlic, ginger, lime juice, nutritional yeast, vegan broth, and some little Asian peppers. Once that was made, I took Charlotte for a fairly short walk on a walk on the terrace west of the Farm Road and then back home on that Farm Road.
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