Today was supposed to be the day I spend catching up on a project that I'm showing on Monday. I was going to spend a little time with Crystal helping her move some stuff into her new house, then vanish to home so I could fiddle with the massive Excel File. What happens? 9:00 this morning, almost right after I get out of the shower, the emergency beeper goes off. I call in and I'm thinking, "No problem. I'll go in, tinker a bit on the machines and I'm off to Crystal's." Wrong! I go in and find I have to call support out in California. The guy doesn't know what's up so I have to wait until the next guy. I hang around for a while then go to Crystal's. They've already finished there so I don't accomplish much. We eat and I bail early to come back to work. Oh did I mention that the Cornhuskers were having their annual Red-White scrimmage that draws huge crowds to campus.. And did I mention that I was driving into campus at the same time the crowd was all leaving... I finally get a hold of someone who has an idea and we decide to wait until 4:30 to reboot the machines, to keep disruptions low. I get a call at 4:00 saying they want to do this now. So we do, I go running to get the off-site backup tapes and we start. It's now 6:15 and I'm still waiting. ERF! I left my Excel files at home, so I can't work on that project - which means I'm probably going to be up most of tonight - or not doing some of the social stuff I had planned for tomorrow. The best I can do right now is try to work on my poster session.

I can't wait for my vacation. I really can't.