…was the subject line of the email Paul sent out yesterday morning. At 6am, all was fine. When Paul came back a little later after making breakfast, his computer had died. Not a good thing for a full-time telecommuter. It would take several days to re-create his full development environment on my computer, but he has been able to download enough stuff (taking up most of his work-day on Monday with non-chargeable hours) to be productive today. He thinks that most of what he lost was not work related and will be able to salvage fragments of other things (like our Quicken data) once we’re back in the States. We contemplated trying to change our tickets to get home a day or two sooner, but decided against it due to logistics and cost. It’s changed the dynamics of our going home a bit and means we’ll probably drop decent dough on two machines for Paul before coming back. It also means limited updates on coldspaghetti while my beloved workhorse of a machine plays pinch-hitter. Talk about an “oh shit!” sort of day!
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