So, despite all the assurances, another supplier’s supplier has let him/us down. No tape drive arrived this morning. To give them their due, though, they did offer to pay for a bike courier to get the drive to us today Alas, even coming from their most northerly warehouse, the bike wasn’t going to arrive before 4 or 5 o’clock this afternoon and I couldn’t wait that long.
So I was left to tell the, now thoroughly disgruntled, office staff that I was going to return home with their backup tapes and restore their data to
On top of that, yesterday’s disruption to BA flights had the knock-on effect that today most of BA’s staff and equipment were in the wrong location, so more flights (including my own) were cancelled. Hence, I’m sitting on a GNER train struggling to get any response out of their onboard “Mobile Office” WiFi network, which to be honest is complete crap; slower than dial-up and constantly failing to return pages.
At least I’ll be home in good time to see Brett and enjoy tonight’s poker game!
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