Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Recipe for Workday Insanity

It's been a "Perfect Storm" kind of scenario...

Yesterday, my work PC crashed about an hour before I had to leave for a dentist appointment. Between lost files and lost time, I probably lost about half my workday, too. No worries, my Wednesday calendar is clear, so I'll catch up, right?

I came in today to find my building's A/C is on the fritz—on the single hottest day this year—and to add insult to injury, we've run out of bottled water (both individual, and water-cooler). So, I'm sitting here with a little desk fan blowing on me full force, drinking glass after glass of tepid-warm tap water, trying to remember why I didn't just call in sick this morning...

Update: Oh, but it got better. Less than an hour after I wrote all that, we lost all network connections in the building. No Internet, no email, no networked drives... nothing. I'm guessing the LAN room, where all the cables connect, overheated. I gave up just after 4 and went to the gym.