I should be careful what I wish for. Only a couple of days after wishing I could do more travelling, I find myself sitting in an airport lounge again.
Yesterday our Edinburgh Office reported that their server was making a loud buzzing noise. In IT terms, a buzzing server is a Bad Thing. Unless you ask them to, servers shouldn’t buzz. When they start doing it without being asked then there are really only two possible cause; electrical (usually doesn’t last too long before your server sets the office on fire or electrocutes the person investigating) or mechanical (something is catching against something else, which wasn’t happening before, so probably means something has failed/is failing.)
Sure enough, this morning the server died with the infamous Windows’ Blue Screen of Death, from which it would not recover.
The Edinburgh server was getting a bit long in the tooth and was scheduled for replacement later this year anyway, so it seemed best to make an opportunity out of a crisis and, after a couple of quick calls to our hardware supplier, a brand new server will be delivered to Edinburgh first thing tomorrow morning. I will be there to meet it, having paid through the nose (well, okay, the company paid through the nose) for a flexible flight and a hotel room in central Edinburgh during the Festival.
All being well, though, I will have a nice straight forward day, configuring the server and restoring its data, thereby becoming a hero to the staff in the office, yet still have time for a relaxed dinner and an early evening stroll through the Princes Street Gardens before a timely taxi ride back to the airport and the flight home.
Would any of you care to make a small wager with me about how long it will take for that idyllic plan to go wrong…?
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