View From the Bushes

I'm not sure what it is about Mondays. Perhaps it's a self-fulfilling prophecy: you expect Mondays to be bad, so they are. I think I may take off next Monday and try to break the curse. In any case, that's why I didn't post an entry yesterday, not that anyone noticed. :( Getting into the technical nitty-gritty of the problems yesterday would bore the snot out of you, but there is an interesting story in there nonetheless, which I will tell you.

So yesterday was my Grandma's 93rd birthday. It was scheduled for six o'clock in Ogden, about an hour away for those unfamiliar with Utah. Of course, because 5 o'clock is rush hour you have to leave by around 4:30 to be sure of making it to Ogden by 6:00. So as soon as we started having problems yesterday I began to question whether I would be able to leave early enough to make it to the party. I figured that if I left work by 4:30 (which would put me home around ten to five), that it would still make sense for the family to wait for me, otherwise I would send them on without me. At 4:25 (twenty-five minutes after I had planned on leaving) everything was working and it looked like I would make it to the party after all.

I was two minutes away from home when work called and asked me whether I was sure my stuff was working when I left. I told them that it was working when I left, but I would check it from home. Well, as it turns out the network guys, after everything was working, had decided to try one more thing, and of course it once again, as we like to say, "broke the world." So I had to turn around and go back to work while my family went to the birthday party without me. I have managed to extract some revenge. I've managed to evoke a substantial amount of guilt in the network guy primarily responsible for trying "one more thing" by telling him that the birthday may have been my last chance to see grandma alive and if she dies before I can see her again it will be all his fault.

If we didn't laugh at other people, what would we laugh at?
Ross