I never made it home. This seemingly innocuous piece of software ended up disabling my entire mail server for seven hours. Now it's almost 8:30 and I still haven't slept...normally I'd just take the day off. But today is the office staff review followed by a free food & drinks bonanza. So I have to make it back. After I make it home. After I make sure everything here is running smoothly.

I was almost out of options this time. By hour six, I had almost resigned myself to restoring from yesterday's backup, meaning I'd throw away a day's worth of e-mail from everyone. On top of the fact that the maintenance I was supposed to do all went wrong, so I would've wasted tons of time getting us back to where we were the day before. Luckily (skillfully?) I managed to isolate the problem in hour eight and brought things back up without any problems. Except, of course, that now I have to explain to my boss why I'm going to be out this morning, catching some sleep.

The thing about computers is that there's no point getting frustrated: they don't have any empathy. You either solve the problem or not. I solved it.