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[OT from cottage renovations]

(I can get away with this because I've never identified the day job in this space)
to describe today as an eventful day at the office would be a tremendous understatement.  never before in my professional career have we:

• lost the domain
• had a server room fire

that's right, we lost the domain.  for an online company it's completely unthinkable.  it would be like having a bank miss its payroll, or if the Mint were to run out of pennies, or, or, ...

that's right, a server room fire.  just one component, and I was in there and managed to get it disconnected from electrical power and though I hustled it off the floor it was a damn shame that I resisted the temptation to chuck it into the duck pond.  it would have been unkind to them. 

we're going to have one heck of a time topping this come next week.