Monday: Spent until almost 2:00 desperately looking for a fix to the AS/400 issue only to find out it was a bad port on the 3Com switch. Unplugging the jack — yes, just unplugging the Cat-5 cable from the switch — caused the switch to fully reset itself. Whoops. The AS/400 is now jacked into a D-Link switch and so far I haven’t heard any complaints since. Could this be the second 3Com to go south this year?

Tuesday: Department Heads meeting in the morning, Access Control computer rebuild the rest of the day.

Of course there’s always the usual collection of small fires to fill out any given day. But that’s why you haven’t heard from me this past couple of days. And don’t expect things to get better any time soon.

Why?

The Compaqs are coming. The Compaqs are coming. Twenty of them, any time now.