Stayed awake til morning playing games… (part of which is trying to cheat the portal gun into half life 2 episode 2… with some rather interesting results)
Then I gets a succession of calls from the trainee who’s covering the night shift at work.
The last call is to the effect that the system is stuck at one part of it’s dayend processes (this happens once in a blue moon and has typically happened for the trainee!
So I hang up to give myself a minute to think, ring back, tell her she can go home.
I log in remotely (through gotomypc, then rdp, then radmin to the system) to sort it out… abandoning where it had got to, restoring files, redoing processes etc… this system is complicated enough when it is working smoothly. It’s a motherf***er when things aren’t!
It’s now 10:19am and I’m typing this post while I wate (‘wate’!!! I must be tired!!!) wait for some remote servers to reboot…
And I’m in work ‘today’.