Ack!

[altivo]

Too many things happened just before 5 pm. A massive thunderstorm hit just north of the state line, with lightning displays visible through the glass wall at the north side of the building. Then the power dropped to almost nothing for about a second, enough to reboot most equipment that wasn't on UPSes. The circulation desk lost networked access to the library system, which always causes panic. Servers shut down as directed by UPS systems. Everyone went into panic mode and forgot the steps they needed to follow, leaving me to pull it all back together.

Found that my login that is authorized to close down hung sessions on the main server is apparently not valid. Or else we had so many hung sessions that I couldn't start one. Took a while to sort that out, and in the midst of it all, a call from Alberta (up in Canada) about the issues with Userful. (Now an open problem for five days going on six. They've "solved" it repeatedly but none of their solutions work. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, as another issue has been an open problem for months now.)

Oh, and two book shipments arrived, and five new computers to be set up, and the Summer Reading Club announcement wants to be on the website "now." Once I got the power issue sorted out, I went home. The rest can wait.

Comments

[moonhare]

*checks calendar* Is it Wednesday out there?

[hrrunka]

...or maybe the gremlins aiming at Wednesday hit a day too soon?

Strange windy weather we've had the last couple of days. Usually wind comes with rain, but yesterday was sunny, and would have been hot but for the wind. It's been blowing all night. Today the sky has at least turned grey, which fits the wind better...

[altivo]

We often get heavy wind on clear days too. It depends on those mysterious things marked "H" and "L" that crawl around the weather maps and leave snail trails behind them. ;p

[hrrunka]

Here we usually get the tightly-packed isobars associated with fronts, and fronts usually bring at least cloud, and more often than not, rain as well. I think there was a steady high pressure system end of last week, and it was strong enough that the frontal systems around it were pushed away rather further than usual. We did finally get some rain last night.

[altivo]

No, it wasn't Wednesday, but most of the scene did repeat itself on Wednesday.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Do you need a library cat to help get in the way? :D

[altivo]

We already have one. Her name is Emma and she's a grouch. You don't want to cross her path, 'cuz she hates other cats and especially males.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Ahh but has she met someone as suave as me? *makes one eyebrow go up and down quickly*

[altivo]

Try it if you like, but you get to pay your own vet bill and pick up your own fur off the floor.