I was composing an email to Kellnerin when I realized that said email was one long extended rant about the period of time between November 19th and yesterday, and it's no fun to rant to people about ranty things when the rant is really just a complaint about nothing.

I'm over it, almost.  The trip to New Mexico was awful, tolerable only due to being able to see some folks on my mom and stepfather's side of the fam whom I have not seen for years and years, as well as being able to spend some time with Maria (Laurea's sister).  Saw my grandfather (my mom's father) who I had not seen since hurricane Katrina wiped his house off the map.  He tells me, "I lost everything I owned except for three changes of clothes and my car.  But the worst of it, the real kicker is, I lost my girlfriend who done run off with another man."  He's a tough old rascal, though, and I'm sure he'll be OK in the end.

I blame the entirety of the trip's suckage on my wife.  She's completely at fault.  I could detail all the ways that my vacation sucked, but it would just make me realize how much the rest of my life needs tuning.

So, we go on "vacation," we turn around days later and come back.  Everything at work had been quiet, waiting.  I step in the door and blammo.  Whole place starts to fail piece by piece.  In just one day....just one day last week I had entire floors of network go dark, servers spontaneously kernel panic, systems die, orders go awry, people cavitating...worst fucking week ever.

Then we had a...let's call it a file infection.

That finished yesterday, the file thing, after 14 and 15 hour days, no weekend, way too much time taken manually scanning individual systems.  An illustration of my mood:
To: geo-all
From: blixco
Tuesday, December 4th, 03:32
Subject: a reminder

If you have a linux workstation, IT set a root password, as well as an administrative non-root user.  IT also set your system to use NIS for authentication.

If you changed any of this, you will find your system removed from the network, and your rights as a user removed.  The sixteen of you who are not reading this email due to having no physical access to our network may wish to ask around as to why your machine states "No bootable media found" when you turn it on.  You may then wish to cease panicking, find the IT department, and beg forgiveness.  Your hard drives have been confiscated and mounted under existing systems to sanitize an infected file.  You may get them back if your supervisor clears you to do so.  This mistake cost your department $500 per instance.  I sincerely hope your attempt at locking your employer out of their equipment was worth the trouble.

Sincerely,
IT

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So, the last couple of weeks have been bizarrely difficult at home, on vacation, and at work. 

My reaction to it all has been unreasonable and petulant.

I have nothing further to add.