crash

got into work today and ch had bad news- the computer crashed overnight. so i spent all day today on the phone with tech support. loading disks called "airbag." rebooting from the tapes of our saved data. nothing. there are still problems with our "kernels." the tech guy finally gave up and said it was hardware related. we'd have to either find someone local to find parts for it, or he could upgrade our system to the new version. how much would that cost? over $10,000. yes, that's the right amount of zeros. we'll call geek squad, thanks.

except geek squad doesn't know unix. in fact, not many people know unix. we have someone coming by to check it out (at $100 per hour) and hopefully they can get it running again in a week. but i was going to print out the address labels for our valentine's day postcards today. i was supposed to get them in the mail by friday. i don't know if we even HAVE a list of names and addresses still on our computer. let alone if anyone ever will be able to get to them.

i wish i worked for The Man in these cercumstances. then i could feel schadenfreude instead of sorrow, guilt and fear.

if any readers pray, please send one up for rosexpression's server.