I was upstairs working on one of the admin folks computers yesterday. They both have nice new (less than 3 year old) Dell AMD baised machines and both have suffer hard drive failures in the last two weeks. The first one I was able to recover the data, this one how ever made the "click/wurrrrrr" of doom and I didn't get back nott'n. The most important stuff (accounting/payroll) is backed up to the server nightly, but unfortunately she lost a lot of documents and such. I think I'm more upset about the data loss than she is. I really need to look hard at our disaster recovery stuff, especally workstation back up.

Historical side note: Back in the days of the Voyageur fur trades on the great lakes they tell stories of transporting barrels of "high wine" which would of course occasionally decelope leaks and have to be consumed.

Other background: we set up a community Halloween party in a big tent behind HQ every year.

So the other admin who's computer I fixed last week is running around getting ready for halloween including sorting donated candy for the party. We got to talking as I worked and I mentioned how Reece's peanut butter cups are the best candy ever. It came up because several bags of them were being sorted. She offered me a bag which I of course declined on the grounds of growing waist lines. I turned it down several times until finally she tore open the bag and set it on the desk saying ,"oh look it broke open, no choice but to eat them now. "

Which we proceeded to do with the help of several chief officers.

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