It’s inconceivable to me that we could lose a server! But, for some reason on Friday morning a crucial business-continuity server had disappeared. Further, it had been offline for some thirty hours and that fact was also just being discovered. Then followed a most frustrating day that I was very glad to have come to an end. The server was eventually found. It hadn’t been shipped to Gresham, Oregon, as reported by some people but was, in fact, exactly where it was supposed to be. The network connection had failed and needed to be restarted. The workday ended with a “come-to-Jesus” meeting with my boss. That’s not the kind of meeting one likes to have at the time of year when he’s writing my annual review.

So, I got home in a fairly foul mood in time to head to the Church for the annual Christmas Creche festivities. Again, a bunch of little things that should have happened didn’t and I ended up spending the entire evening there serving punch and cookies. The event was a brilliant success which helped to diminish my mood. By the end of the evening, the only issue was my very sore feet from being on them too long during the evening.

It’s now a Monday morning and I’m back in the office. The day was supposed to start with a dentist appointment that didn’t happen. I showed up at the supposedly appointed time of 7:30 a.m. to find that they thought the appointment was tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. I’ve got my own “come-to-Jesus” meeting that’ll happen in about 45 minutes. I’ll be meeting with the staff here in a one-way-communication meeting to see if we can’t break this cycle of haphazard work accompanied by a “so what?” attitude. I’d like to think that things can only get better, but there’s plenty of room for things to get worse.