Bad Start, Decent Finish
Aug. 1st, 2023 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickI didn't think today would go well when the day started, and for a good portion of the day I was right, but I can't complain about how the day ENDED -- here, let me show you what I mean with the old to-do list --
Work – A horrible drag of a day – things started off poorly with me encountering some awful and heavy traffic on the morning commute, then continued getting worse when I came in, got the checks scanned in for the GL, then started on the transaction reports – only to find that, apparently, my internet had gone out. I was like “figures” and went to reboot my computer –
And then my talky coworker asked if anyone else was having trouble. And my other coworker confirmed she couldn’t print her GL reports suddenly.
Turned out, the ENTIRE NETWORK went down around 9 AM, including internet and access to all our shared drives. Which meant that me and my coworkers couldn’t actually do our jobs, because everything we need to DO said jobs either lives on the internet (our database) or on the shared drive (spreadsheets and such). So we settled in to try and kill some time, figuring out IT department would have it sorted soon.
. . .they finally let us go home shortly after 2 PM, with no end to the network troubles in sight. *heavy sigh* It is a REALLY good thing I charged up my phone to full last night, as I was working it HARD to keep myself entertained – lots of solitaire, lots of Merge Dragons (finally cleaned up my camp a little bit), and even some futzing around in the “Notes” app, putting down some new notes about the basics of Smiler’s Otherland for later transfer to my tumblr drafts and discovering that it actually lets you doodle in there as well (I did some “I’m bored” scribbles). But we were all pretty cranky about having to just sit around at work looking at our phones without being able to use our computers by lunchtime, and I’m pretty sure there would have been open revolt (as in, us just leaving early and damn the consequences) by 3 PM if they hadn’t let us go. Like, if I want to sit around doing nothing, I can do that at home on my own time! *grumbles* But at least they DID let us go early, and hopefully by tomorrow the network woes will be solved so I can be bored with merging duplicates instead of just being bored.
One plus to the whole mess – left plenty of time for beanbags this afternoon! We played another three rounds, and I did a little better than usual (starting with a game where I got only fives for the first four throws) while Dad had his usual “two great games, one ‘eh’ game” set and Mom did rather worse, unfortunately. Though that final game was really close! Final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-W-3; Mom 3-3-2. Hopefully she can pull it together for a win tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to Oxventure Presents Blades In The Dark – “The Wardens of Bellweather Crematorium!” I picked back up with Kasimir, who had found a lovely grisly murder to camp out and await the arrival of the Spirit Wardens. They arrived shortly after their crow in a wagon with a metal box and a rudimentary coffin in the back, especially designed for dealing with, uh, corpses that may not all be in one piece. Kasimir waited until the body was loaded, then, during a quiet moment, slipped into the box with said body. The lid was put on, and the carriage started heading back to the crematorium. Which was just fine, until Kasimir tried to lift the lid a little for some extra air and found it was stuck. . .
Switch back to Lilith, who decided the best way to stop her Mentor Warden from finding anything worrying was to own up to the one thing she’d brought to actually show them, taking a fake book and opening it to reveal a spirit bottle with a particularly nasty spirit inside that she’d caught in flashback. The Mentor Warden was slightly put out until he noted what spirit it was and then happily put it on the conveyor belt, praising her for her work and giving her back her things, yay.
Switch back to Kasimir, who was starting to run out of air in his little box! Johnny first called for a flashback for Kasimir to have a fortifying chug of whiskey (XD), then ticked two load to produce some demolition tools, since, you know, Kasimir’s so good with explosives and all. XD Fortunately, he didn’t intend to blow the lid off – instead, he used the drill intended for making holes to place charges into to drill an air hole or two in the box, which allowed him some air and just enough of a view to see he was being taken into a loading bay of sorts. The very loading bay that Lilith was in, in fact –
And thus we came to the part I saw in that “best of” video, where Lilith, sent to do some on-the-job training by the Mentor Warden, opened the box and saw Kasimir lying in a pile of gore holding a tiny drill. Kasimir promptly began mouthing “it’s not what it looks like.” XD Lilith quickly decided the best thing to do would be to put Kasimir on the conveyor belt and advise him to roll off said conveyor in the next room, “Prep.” She dragged him out of the box (relieving Johnny, who thought she’d intended Kasimir to roll himself AND the box off the conveyor) as he went limp, got him on the conveyor, and watched him disappear before helping the other Wardens load more corpses.
And so Kasimir was taken to the prep room, where he was dumped on a metal table with a load of other corpses! There were two Spirit Wardens in here, using knives to rapidly strip the corpses by cutting their clothes off and flinging them aside, where anything valuable was gathered up to be melted down or otherwise resold to help fund the Crematorium. Kasimir quickly rolled off the table, face-down, to get the attention of a Warden – then, when said Warden came over, complaining about how the conveyor aperture should be bigger to make things easier for them and not cause corpses to drop, and started to pick him up, he spun around and used his vial of slumber essence (which doesn’t even take up load on his sheet!) to drop the guy. A roll of five meant that he did this successfully (mostly by pouring the stuff into every slit he could on the mask), but the Warden landed ON him when he collapsed. Kasimir did not consider this much of an impediment, though, instead using a flashback to get Edvard to give him “hook-and-eye fastener” tearaway clothing so he could change quickly and then taking the Warden’s cloak and mask and rolling the body under the conveyor where it wouldn’t be immediately missed. He got a CRIT on that particular roll, and thus did this so smoothly and perfectly that the other Warden didn’t suspect a thing – AND he remembered to take the guy’s mace, which he quickly learned was as much an electric stun wand as a simple beating-about-the-skull implement. :p And so he set to work as the Warden. . .
Switch back to Lilith, who, after inquiring if there was any chance that she could talk to some of the Wardens in different departments (Mentor Warden: “I admire your initiative, Intern – absolutely not”), instead chose to use the medium of a bathroom break to try and sneak away (apparently you’re allowed one a day). She headed back the way she’d come and down a hallway, where she observed that the doors all had brass plates next to them – they turned out to be the steampunky equivalent of keycard scanners, as she saw when a Warden tapped a plate they had around their neck to said plate to open the door into what appeared to be the crow room. Lilith continued on into the bathroom itself and located a handy vent, set where the mirrors would normally be (no need for those when everyone is in anonymous masks), pulled out a multitool to open it up, and climbed on in. She scrambled around, glancing through the ventilation grates, until she came across none other than the big old bell room! There were two Spirit Wardens in there, observing a giant map of Volisport and marking where various relays lit up showing where people had recently died, then feeding punchcards with the relevant information into a machine to make the bell ring – silently, interestingly enough. Apparently the sound only exists at the site of the death! Lilith happened upon them (and rolled well enough to overhear them) just as they had their 30-second recreational break, where one asked the other what they thought Bakoros was doing in the Progress Room – the dude used to give talks and expound upon new efficiencies in the process he had come up with, but now he spent all his time in that room building something. . .
Switch back to Kasimir working as a prep Warden, having pocketed one Coin’s worth of valuables. XD As he moved some prepped corpses back over to the conveyor belt to be taken into the actual crematorium, he took a chance and wrote a quick coded message in blood using the special Billhook glyphs he remembered from his time with the gang (using a flashback to ensure that Lilith also knew them) on the conveyor belt, in case their spy was in there. Sure enough, a couple of minutes later, a Warden strolled in, and – upon seeing Kasimir limping, as he’d indicated he had a bad leg in the message – choked out (and at least slightly electrocuted) the other Warden. She revealed herself as the missing Taryn, and Kasimir confirmed he’d been sent by Erin to exfil her. Taryn seemed puzzled as to why she’d NEED an exfil, however – Kasimir said the Billhooks hadn’t heard from her in a month, but Taryn insisted she’d continued sending out her messages (apparently she’s in charge of helping with the reports of how many corpses are processed every two weeks and suchlike that are sent to be published in the local papers – an illusion of transparency, I guess – and has been using the same glyph system Kasimir used to contact her to sneak coded messages to the gang in those). So that’s interesting. . .we’ll see where this goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice is ALMOST out of Grout’s hellish maze! She’s found the room where Grout’s most loyal ghoul was locked up in response to Grout’s growing paranoia about LaCroix (not that Alice knows it was LaCroix Grout was paranoid about), and the weird makeshift chapel with the newspaper about how he faked his death back in 1925, so all that’s left now is to climb the stairs to the left of this final landing area and finally get out of this hellhole! Back to the original hellhole, where I have two more tapes to transcribe before Alice can finally reach Grout’s bedroom and discover what happened to him. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: One-third check, with me still working on catching up with GrayStillPlays – today we had yesterday’s offering, “Cars vs explosions in GTA 5!” And trust me, that title does not do this Alex Torture Board justice, because – okay, you know how in mid-July we had Barbie and Oppenheimer open on the same weekend? This board is a representation of that, only five million times more cursed. Gray had to make it across Alex’s board of explosive horribleness using custom modded Barbie cars that included a cloth-top sedan that looked like a hedgehog thanks to all the legs sticking out of it, a quad made to look like a scorpion with plastic arms and legs sticking out of it (with the stiletto heels serving as the stinger), and a pick-up truck with a horrible evil Barbie torso sticking out of the hood along with all the arms and legs. XD The challenges Gray had to conquer with these terrible terrible cars were the Train Explosion (jumping over an exploding train that could and would shuck you into the desert with its explosive force if you looked at it wrong); the Indiana Jones Explosion (specifically Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as Gray had to go down an increasingly narrow road as refrigerators like the one Indy hid in at the beginning of that film got thrown at him from an exploding barrel); the “Ken had had it enough” explosion (a circular pit filled with and surrounded on either side with explosive barrels, with a Ken teleporting around it throwing proximity mines to make jumping it even tougher); the “Arms Race Be Like” explosions (a series of four explosion pits of increasing difficulty, going standard American Explosion, larger Russian Explosion, American Explosion with extra nukes raining from the sky, and Russian Explosion with giant orbital missiles (one in the pit to bank off of, one rotating above it from a helicopter) that Gray had to jump without being blown up); the “Defuse Barbie Bomb” Explosion (with Gray having to find a way to get past a Barbie on a chair with a bunch of explosive barrels under her in his way); and the Oppenheimer Explosion (with Gray having to find his way around a giant bomb and up onto the upper platform while clearing the explosive barrels up there so he could get the checkpoint). Many cars were tried, many cars failed, with the winner being a pink arena car with a nice boost, the ability to weather refrigerators to the face, and a bejeweled shield on the back that Gray could eject to clear the barrels under the Barbie and then (with the help of a repair kit) also to clear the barrels in front of the checkpoint. Said checkpoint took Gray to the top of the viewing area on one of the mountains –
Where Alex then proceeded to let off an explosion that ESSENTIALLY COMPLETELY NUKED LOS SANTOS. Like, seriously, large chunks of the landscape were just LAVA. Lava that wasn’t even properly rendering, no less. It was seriously impressive. *nods* Though it didn’t stop Gray from getting the win, as that was near a skydiving point atop the mountain, away from all that nonsense. XD Talk about the Barbieheimer to end all Barbieheimers. . .Alex is gonna have to work to top this one.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I wanted to make this a priority during my extra two hours, and so, after doing my usual online rounds, I spent an hour and a bit finishing off the text and tags for the final two Chill Valicer Save update posts for Victor Luvs Alice for this week (detailing the One Nice Day of the honeymoon) – and then, while going back and queuing them, adding alt text for the images! Because I want to get into that habit now that it’s a thing. *nods* So that’s all in the Victor Luvs Alice queue for tomorrow, and I have some A:MR Alice fanart for Thursday, and that Corpse Bride/Everything Everywhere All At Once meme for Friday, and – well this for Song Saturday – it’s a pastiche of late 1990s Eurodance songs by someone named DJ Crazytimes, called “Planet of the Bass.” It’s very goofy and very fun – just the sort of thing my Smiler would like I think! :)
As for Valice Multiverse – one thread reply from Lily, another daughter of Victor’s played by deathmaiidens, singing “The Rainbow Connection” with Victor as he plays piano, aw. Nice and simple!
And I just got a chance to watch some CB, A:MR, and Smiler clips on YouTube, so that makes me happy as well. :) And now it is time to go to bed and -- well. We'll see what the work situation is tomorrow! Hopefully it will be either a) network problems solved, go about your business for the next couple of days before your vacation or b) network problems NOT solved, don't bother coming in just yet, enjoy the extra free time. :p Night all!
Work – A horrible drag of a day – things started off poorly with me encountering some awful and heavy traffic on the morning commute, then continued getting worse when I came in, got the checks scanned in for the GL, then started on the transaction reports – only to find that, apparently, my internet had gone out. I was like “figures” and went to reboot my computer –
And then my talky coworker asked if anyone else was having trouble. And my other coworker confirmed she couldn’t print her GL reports suddenly.
Turned out, the ENTIRE NETWORK went down around 9 AM, including internet and access to all our shared drives. Which meant that me and my coworkers couldn’t actually do our jobs, because everything we need to DO said jobs either lives on the internet (our database) or on the shared drive (spreadsheets and such). So we settled in to try and kill some time, figuring out IT department would have it sorted soon.
. . .they finally let us go home shortly after 2 PM, with no end to the network troubles in sight. *heavy sigh* It is a REALLY good thing I charged up my phone to full last night, as I was working it HARD to keep myself entertained – lots of solitaire, lots of Merge Dragons (finally cleaned up my camp a little bit), and even some futzing around in the “Notes” app, putting down some new notes about the basics of Smiler’s Otherland for later transfer to my tumblr drafts and discovering that it actually lets you doodle in there as well (I did some “I’m bored” scribbles). But we were all pretty cranky about having to just sit around at work looking at our phones without being able to use our computers by lunchtime, and I’m pretty sure there would have been open revolt (as in, us just leaving early and damn the consequences) by 3 PM if they hadn’t let us go. Like, if I want to sit around doing nothing, I can do that at home on my own time! *grumbles* But at least they DID let us go early, and hopefully by tomorrow the network woes will be solved so I can be bored with merging duplicates instead of just being bored.
One plus to the whole mess – left plenty of time for beanbags this afternoon! We played another three rounds, and I did a little better than usual (starting with a game where I got only fives for the first four throws) while Dad had his usual “two great games, one ‘eh’ game” set and Mom did rather worse, unfortunately. Though that final game was really close! Final scores were me 2-2-W; Dad W-W-3; Mom 3-3-2. Hopefully she can pull it together for a win tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to Oxventure Presents Blades In The Dark – “The Wardens of Bellweather Crematorium!” I picked back up with Kasimir, who had found a lovely grisly murder to camp out and await the arrival of the Spirit Wardens. They arrived shortly after their crow in a wagon with a metal box and a rudimentary coffin in the back, especially designed for dealing with, uh, corpses that may not all be in one piece. Kasimir waited until the body was loaded, then, during a quiet moment, slipped into the box with said body. The lid was put on, and the carriage started heading back to the crematorium. Which was just fine, until Kasimir tried to lift the lid a little for some extra air and found it was stuck. . .
Switch back to Lilith, who decided the best way to stop her Mentor Warden from finding anything worrying was to own up to the one thing she’d brought to actually show them, taking a fake book and opening it to reveal a spirit bottle with a particularly nasty spirit inside that she’d caught in flashback. The Mentor Warden was slightly put out until he noted what spirit it was and then happily put it on the conveyor belt, praising her for her work and giving her back her things, yay.
Switch back to Kasimir, who was starting to run out of air in his little box! Johnny first called for a flashback for Kasimir to have a fortifying chug of whiskey (XD), then ticked two load to produce some demolition tools, since, you know, Kasimir’s so good with explosives and all. XD Fortunately, he didn’t intend to blow the lid off – instead, he used the drill intended for making holes to place charges into to drill an air hole or two in the box, which allowed him some air and just enough of a view to see he was being taken into a loading bay of sorts. The very loading bay that Lilith was in, in fact –
And thus we came to the part I saw in that “best of” video, where Lilith, sent to do some on-the-job training by the Mentor Warden, opened the box and saw Kasimir lying in a pile of gore holding a tiny drill. Kasimir promptly began mouthing “it’s not what it looks like.” XD Lilith quickly decided the best thing to do would be to put Kasimir on the conveyor belt and advise him to roll off said conveyor in the next room, “Prep.” She dragged him out of the box (relieving Johnny, who thought she’d intended Kasimir to roll himself AND the box off the conveyor) as he went limp, got him on the conveyor, and watched him disappear before helping the other Wardens load more corpses.
And so Kasimir was taken to the prep room, where he was dumped on a metal table with a load of other corpses! There were two Spirit Wardens in here, using knives to rapidly strip the corpses by cutting their clothes off and flinging them aside, where anything valuable was gathered up to be melted down or otherwise resold to help fund the Crematorium. Kasimir quickly rolled off the table, face-down, to get the attention of a Warden – then, when said Warden came over, complaining about how the conveyor aperture should be bigger to make things easier for them and not cause corpses to drop, and started to pick him up, he spun around and used his vial of slumber essence (which doesn’t even take up load on his sheet!) to drop the guy. A roll of five meant that he did this successfully (mostly by pouring the stuff into every slit he could on the mask), but the Warden landed ON him when he collapsed. Kasimir did not consider this much of an impediment, though, instead using a flashback to get Edvard to give him “hook-and-eye fastener” tearaway clothing so he could change quickly and then taking the Warden’s cloak and mask and rolling the body under the conveyor where it wouldn’t be immediately missed. He got a CRIT on that particular roll, and thus did this so smoothly and perfectly that the other Warden didn’t suspect a thing – AND he remembered to take the guy’s mace, which he quickly learned was as much an electric stun wand as a simple beating-about-the-skull implement. :p And so he set to work as the Warden. . .
Switch back to Lilith, who, after inquiring if there was any chance that she could talk to some of the Wardens in different departments (Mentor Warden: “I admire your initiative, Intern – absolutely not”), instead chose to use the medium of a bathroom break to try and sneak away (apparently you’re allowed one a day). She headed back the way she’d come and down a hallway, where she observed that the doors all had brass plates next to them – they turned out to be the steampunky equivalent of keycard scanners, as she saw when a Warden tapped a plate they had around their neck to said plate to open the door into what appeared to be the crow room. Lilith continued on into the bathroom itself and located a handy vent, set where the mirrors would normally be (no need for those when everyone is in anonymous masks), pulled out a multitool to open it up, and climbed on in. She scrambled around, glancing through the ventilation grates, until she came across none other than the big old bell room! There were two Spirit Wardens in there, observing a giant map of Volisport and marking where various relays lit up showing where people had recently died, then feeding punchcards with the relevant information into a machine to make the bell ring – silently, interestingly enough. Apparently the sound only exists at the site of the death! Lilith happened upon them (and rolled well enough to overhear them) just as they had their 30-second recreational break, where one asked the other what they thought Bakoros was doing in the Progress Room – the dude used to give talks and expound upon new efficiencies in the process he had come up with, but now he spent all his time in that room building something. . .
Switch back to Kasimir working as a prep Warden, having pocketed one Coin’s worth of valuables. XD As he moved some prepped corpses back over to the conveyor belt to be taken into the actual crematorium, he took a chance and wrote a quick coded message in blood using the special Billhook glyphs he remembered from his time with the gang (using a flashback to ensure that Lilith also knew them) on the conveyor belt, in case their spy was in there. Sure enough, a couple of minutes later, a Warden strolled in, and – upon seeing Kasimir limping, as he’d indicated he had a bad leg in the message – choked out (and at least slightly electrocuted) the other Warden. She revealed herself as the missing Taryn, and Kasimir confirmed he’d been sent by Erin to exfil her. Taryn seemed puzzled as to why she’d NEED an exfil, however – Kasimir said the Billhooks hadn’t heard from her in a month, but Taryn insisted she’d continued sending out her messages (apparently she’s in charge of helping with the reports of how many corpses are processed every two weeks and suchlike that are sent to be published in the local papers – an illusion of transparency, I guess – and has been using the same glyph system Kasimir used to contact her to sneak coded messages to the gang in those). So that’s interesting. . .we’ll see where this goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice is ALMOST out of Grout’s hellish maze! She’s found the room where Grout’s most loyal ghoul was locked up in response to Grout’s growing paranoia about LaCroix (not that Alice knows it was LaCroix Grout was paranoid about), and the weird makeshift chapel with the newspaper about how he faked his death back in 1925, so all that’s left now is to climb the stairs to the left of this final landing area and finally get out of this hellhole! Back to the original hellhole, where I have two more tapes to transcribe before Alice can finally reach Grout’s bedroom and discover what happened to him. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: One-third check, with me still working on catching up with GrayStillPlays – today we had yesterday’s offering, “Cars vs explosions in GTA 5!” And trust me, that title does not do this Alex Torture Board justice, because – okay, you know how in mid-July we had Barbie and Oppenheimer open on the same weekend? This board is a representation of that, only five million times more cursed. Gray had to make it across Alex’s board of explosive horribleness using custom modded Barbie cars that included a cloth-top sedan that looked like a hedgehog thanks to all the legs sticking out of it, a quad made to look like a scorpion with plastic arms and legs sticking out of it (with the stiletto heels serving as the stinger), and a pick-up truck with a horrible evil Barbie torso sticking out of the hood along with all the arms and legs. XD The challenges Gray had to conquer with these terrible terrible cars were the Train Explosion (jumping over an exploding train that could and would shuck you into the desert with its explosive force if you looked at it wrong); the Indiana Jones Explosion (specifically Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as Gray had to go down an increasingly narrow road as refrigerators like the one Indy hid in at the beginning of that film got thrown at him from an exploding barrel); the “Ken had had it enough” explosion (a circular pit filled with and surrounded on either side with explosive barrels, with a Ken teleporting around it throwing proximity mines to make jumping it even tougher); the “Arms Race Be Like” explosions (a series of four explosion pits of increasing difficulty, going standard American Explosion, larger Russian Explosion, American Explosion with extra nukes raining from the sky, and Russian Explosion with giant orbital missiles (one in the pit to bank off of, one rotating above it from a helicopter) that Gray had to jump without being blown up); the “Defuse Barbie Bomb” Explosion (with Gray having to find a way to get past a Barbie on a chair with a bunch of explosive barrels under her in his way); and the Oppenheimer Explosion (with Gray having to find his way around a giant bomb and up onto the upper platform while clearing the explosive barrels up there so he could get the checkpoint). Many cars were tried, many cars failed, with the winner being a pink arena car with a nice boost, the ability to weather refrigerators to the face, and a bejeweled shield on the back that Gray could eject to clear the barrels under the Barbie and then (with the help of a repair kit) also to clear the barrels in front of the checkpoint. Said checkpoint took Gray to the top of the viewing area on one of the mountains –
Where Alex then proceeded to let off an explosion that ESSENTIALLY COMPLETELY NUKED LOS SANTOS. Like, seriously, large chunks of the landscape were just LAVA. Lava that wasn’t even properly rendering, no less. It was seriously impressive. *nods* Though it didn’t stop Gray from getting the win, as that was near a skydiving point atop the mountain, away from all that nonsense. XD Talk about the Barbieheimer to end all Barbieheimers. . .Alex is gonna have to work to top this one.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I wanted to make this a priority during my extra two hours, and so, after doing my usual online rounds, I spent an hour and a bit finishing off the text and tags for the final two Chill Valicer Save update posts for Victor Luvs Alice for this week (detailing the One Nice Day of the honeymoon) – and then, while going back and queuing them, adding alt text for the images! Because I want to get into that habit now that it’s a thing. *nods* So that’s all in the Victor Luvs Alice queue for tomorrow, and I have some A:MR Alice fanart for Thursday, and that Corpse Bride/Everything Everywhere All At Once meme for Friday, and – well this for Song Saturday – it’s a pastiche of late 1990s Eurodance songs by someone named DJ Crazytimes, called “Planet of the Bass.” It’s very goofy and very fun – just the sort of thing my Smiler would like I think! :)
As for Valice Multiverse – one thread reply from Lily, another daughter of Victor’s played by deathmaiidens, singing “The Rainbow Connection” with Victor as he plays piano, aw. Nice and simple!
And I just got a chance to watch some CB, A:MR, and Smiler clips on YouTube, so that makes me happy as well. :) And now it is time to go to bed and -- well. We'll see what the work situation is tomorrow! Hopefully it will be either a) network problems solved, go about your business for the next couple of days before your vacation or b) network problems NOT solved, don't bother coming in just yet, enjoy the extra free time. :p Night all!
