Since I seem to have the time...

... I may as well post something.

Saturday
A wonderful, glorious day. The best I've had here in as long as I can remember, really. People showed up early to gaming, but that's okay. It was a little slow starting out, but things finally picked up. I've been a bit tormented by my campaign the last few sessions, but this one really made me feel things could work out well.
Afterward there was dinner out and a walk in the snow, albeit a brief one. It all made me genuinely happy to the extent few things do anymore.

Tuesday
A rough day at work. Things were hectic in general, but I ended up staying until 8pm to get one particular computer working properly. In the end, I had to reinstall Windows 2000. Until the last hour, I was seeing no progress whatsoever.
But that computer runs programs quicker than I've seen since it was new...

Tonight
Yet another rough day at work. You know things are bad when you're caught before getting to your office by someone saying "My monitor's not working. David said to tell you when you got in." This followed shortly by David saying "Be forewarned: All is not well." Boy was he right.
It's uncanny. Upgrades around here never work as advertised. A couple weeks back it was out primary networking/program server that failed. This time it was the NAS we use to store most of our data that decided any attempt to upgrade it's operating system should be a chance to take eleven hours to reformat itself and then simply not reconnect to the network.
Oy.
So, after some fourteen hours, I'm still at work and babysitting restoration of files to alternate locations so we can continue to work. The paper must go out.

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