Cockup; "Almost Famous" AND The Tooth Fairy

This morning, I thought of trying to go to work, but I felt so lousy, I decided to go back to bed. About 11:30, I decided I might try to go in, which I did. But by 2, the fever was back, and I was drenched in sweat, so home I came. Actually, this afternoon, I felt worse than I have so far.

I missed an important meeting this afternoon, which I would have preferred to be at, but there was no way I could have stayed there.

To complicate matters even more, the web server when down Friday evening. And this was the weekend that the web was to be part of a major fund raising effort. I went in Sunday afternoon to try to catch up. One of the technicians was there working on the server, and he said he had been unable to bring it back up. So he had had to swap hard drives AND operating systems, and copy files over.

I created some pages on my desk top, then checked the web, and we were back up. But I was unable to access the server, because of course, it was a different server AND a different operating system. I went looking for the technician, but he had left, leaving me with no way to update files.

When I left this afternoon, I still could not access the web server. This time there was a different type of glich. Oh, me! Oh, my!

It's not like this has not happened before. For indeed it has - numerous times. And I've pointed out the incidents, and quoted from the log files, make suggestions and mentioned the need for monitoring. But not a lot happened. So now we have another major cockup that could have been avoided.

I could definitely go on here, but it is too depressing.

The highlight of my day was watching "Almost Famous" on E! It's a "reality" program about the performers in a Las Vegas show called "Skintight."

It definitely gives the impression, as did "The Fire Within" on Bravo about performers preparing for a new Cirque du Soleil show, that management would be at home in 19th century Russia. The performers are commodities.

I did get to gaze at the gay dancer, who has a delicious nerdy charm. Dark-rimmed glasses, a goatee, a straw cowboy hat with a cluster of faux diamonds on the front, a sleeveless denim jacket, spiky ruffled hair. And a chest that I want to cover with chocolate, then lick off. (I know! I know! I've used that line before.)

There was one of the funniest commercials I've seen in ages. A hand reaches down and removes a tiny object, then places another small item in it's place. The camera zooms out, and you see a woman in white with wings. She heaves a hugh bag over her shoulder, then tumbles backward down the stairs behind her. Thousand of objects fly everywhere. She lands at the bottom of the steps and scrapes her elbow. She then gathers up the objects. In the next scene, she is at a convenience store purchasing a bandage for her elbow. By now, I realized she was the Tooth Fairy, and the objects that made the bag so heavy were quarters. She sees a coin change machine. And in the last scene she is shown walking out the door with a bundle of bills under one arm, and a much lighter bag over the other shoulder. Great commercial, but I have no idea the name of the coin change machine.

PAX!