that was the day that was

[topaz]

Short synopsis: if you've ever tried to diagnose a server failure by talking to someone reading error logs to you over the phone, on a dying cell phone battery, while driving at rush hour on a city expressway to visit your spouse who's in the hospital --

-- I don't recommend it.  Really.  Not at all.

Comments

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

You are a dedicated employee, my man. I'd have been telling them to wait until I got to the bloddy hospital.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Normally I would have just turned off my phone, but this was a worst-case scenario -- over the weekend we lost a mission-critical server which I've been almost exclusively responsible for, so there was no one else to turn to for information on it.

[psongster.livejournal.com]

This is in the when it rains, it pours, department?

But I agree ... this would be an especially bad time for you to get into a traffic accident :-J.