Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a moron.

I didn’t come in at midnight. Instead I almost literally crashed at about 11:00, so I decided to come in at 4:30 and skip doing the full system backup I’d planned for midnight.

At least I got a few hours’ sleep.

The first instruction on the sheet as I go to do the JDS release upgrade says, “Do an MFSAV.” Sure, no problem, I can find that in the menus. I thought I did, and I ran a procedure that insisted it was doing the MFSAV. The first time through, though, it halted on a bunch of files because they were in use by another process. I found this out after my attempt to run the JDS upgrade script failed.

So I ran ENDUPM to free up those files, then ran my MFSAV script again. And the JDS upgrade script still insisted I hadn’t done so. At this point I put in a call to JDS tech support.

Who politely, and without laughing too loudly, told me that I was running the wrong MFSAV script.

By now it was almost 7:30, and the MFSAV takes half an hour. In other words, I blew three hours getting to the starting point of a process that was slated to take a total of three and a half hours… so I’d be done by the time the Traffic department wanted to start getting their work done.

So. No JDS upgrade today. JDS upgrade tonight, midnight-ish. And I’m a freakin’ moron.