andygates: (hellboy)
andygates ([personal profile] andygates) wrote2007-03-28 10:01 am

Is that all you got?

Fire alarm (caused by the UPS) leads to UPS shutdown at 5am; thirty servers and critical infrastructure turn off.  Bike breaks another spoke.  Air-con failure at a satellite server room.  Lift breaks down with me in it, while fetching a bunch of fans for said server sauna.  Cue dramatic escape with the red phone and door-prising and jumping and everyfink.

C'mon day, is that all you got?

[identity profile] ankaret.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you may be in some kind of late-90s man-rage movie. Quick, check and make sure you're not being played by Michael Douglas.

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Not unless he's hit the pies lately, though I must confess a certain hyper-caffeinated enthusiasm for Excel's conditional formatting which might be indicative of a good postal breakdown. And I'm armed with a banana.

I knew that hanging around on the Zombie Squad forums was dangerous to my mental health. I'm waiting for the dead to rise. It's either that or dinosaurs, I swear.

Oh, hang on, it's the Helpdesk. Ankylosaurs at Dean Clarke House, you say? Gnawing through the network cables?

Groovy. *cracks knuckles*

[identity profile] ankaret.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Undead dinosaurs. They moo 'Braaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiins' and try to chew out the back end of your spinal cord.

[identity profile] spike150.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a god damn Spectral Tyrannosaur!

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
U win teh internets as well!

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Earlgreykeyboard!

U win teh internets.

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2007-03-28 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Turned out there was the evaporating million quid and the World O Train Hassle yet to come, but I was saved from going berserk by the anticipation of a ebay auction ending. Just-in-time consumerism is the glue that holds society together!