This is the sort of Friday that makes you truly appreciate weekends.

Before I arrived at work today, I had two simple tasks to accomplish: Finish the computer I was prepping, then take the computer replaced by the first computer and prep it for a new sales hire. Easy enough, especially if I’m left alone for most of the day.

Oh, but no, it can’t be that easy. For starters, the most recent new computer I placed has turned out lemony, and not in that “fresh scent” sort of way. (It’s either bad RAM or something between the drive and the controller, not sure which, but luckily we have 1 year on-site service for these machines.) Well damn, now I had three computers to bring to life, and I lost more than an hour on troubleshooting.

I finished up the original computer I was working on and got it placed, then took the replaced computer back to my office to begin a clean install of Windows 2000. It went well for the first couple of hours… install, patch, network, patch some more, start installing apps… and BANG. It went to lunch. I don’t know precisely how, but given that it happened less than an hour before I had to leave work to go home and mind children… argh. And in all the excitement of trying to figure out why that computer died, I couldn’t finish the replacement computer for the lemon I’d given out earlier in the week.

Double argh.

I’d go in this weekend to work on those machines but I already made plans to be in Seattle the entire time. I hate dropping the ball like this. On the other hand… dammit, I just don’t think I should be blamed for having two Acts of Gawd land on me in the same day. I worked my ass off today, and have almost nothing to show for it.

Again I say, argh.