It took me until 12:30am to get to bed, in large part because I forgot about the need to reformat and reinstall the laptop, and in small part because of the need to do laundry so I could actually finish packing.

It took me almost five full minutes to get my brain working when, at 3:30am, the overnight guy at work called to tell me the email server had kicked everybody off. (And by “everybody” I mean “him and the one other guy who was there.” But you get the idea.) We’re having That Damned Email Server Problem again. The late night I put in on Tuesday was a complete waste of time (and money spent buying a network card and having it Fred-X‘d to me).

It took another twenty-five minutes to walk him through the entire procedure of gracefully exiting everything on the server and then bringing it back online again.

It took about another half-hour to get back to a nervous, fitful sleep.

My alarm went off at 6:30am. I start my vacation today, one way or another. Here’s hoping I’m coherent enough not to do anything boneheaded between now and, oh, my next chance to get some sleep.

See you Monday night, folks…