It's not supposed to be doing that.

You know it's going to be a bad day when you walk in and OldOfficeLady goes "Oh hi, about 6 people have called for you!". PonyGirl, our head IT contractor, was not-so-strangely absent. (it's a guy, has a ponytail, is at least 35 years old, and deserves it).

Our Remote Desktop server had been restarted last night (critical update, http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/microsoft-patches-critical-crack-in-windows-operating-system-20100803-114az.html). All well and good, but PonyGirl forgot to remind me (or himself!) that the server's config requires a button press to continue boot up (ala "Press F1 to continue!"). I boggle at why the fuck this is so.

In fact, I tend to boggle a lot. It's a pretty awesome word!

I had hoped that would stop the torrents of calls, but not so.

PonyGirl can't tell difference between AM and PM, and our domain controller decides to restart itself at 9:30 this morning for some scheduled thing. Queue another 10 calls saying "Yea my e-mail is asking for a password!". 

At least I had a chance to show off my true professionalism - when you walk into the server room, turn on the monitor for the domain controller, and see "Windows is shutting down..." and you DON'T automatically say "What the fuck?!" in front of your boss.

Today can only get better...I hope.