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A Case of the Mondays

2020-08-10

Woke up feeling crumby from sleeping poorly and I am so relieved to be able to work from home. It is wild to think that in the past I might have dragged myself into work and suffered all day purely to avoid "wasting" a sick day. There is something up with the networking at work which has meant that everyone is having issues reaching different resources and everyone's productivity is dragging as a result. It feels like fortune smiles on me today though, with everyone twiddling their thumbs I've been able to take it slow without issue.

One productive thing I've managed to do is defeat Microsoft Teams' "Away" tracking, which annoyingly kicks in every 5-10 minutes. A few lines of Powershell scripting to toggle scroll lock every once in a while tricks the activity tracker to keep me "Available".

$s = New-Object -com "Wscript.Shell"
while ($true) {
    $s.sendkeys("{SCROLLLOCK}")
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 30
}

I just have to remember to turn it off when I knock off for the day.