It's getting worse by the second!
What is it with this guy? I have been to Cleveland twice, and of the opportunities to get a ride to and from the airport, I have selected this limousine driver two out of four times. The first time was when I flew in last week. And during that time, while heading to downtown, we saw five car accidents on the highway due to rain.
Today, some serious doo doo hit the fan. Come on! Seriously, if anything can go wrong, it definitely has at this client site. First we shipped the wrong software and hardware to them. Next the motherboard on one of the servers failed. Great! A $28,000 part in a $85,000 brand new server failed. Then a newly replaced correct hardware failed and had to be replaced. I thought things would have settled down yesterday when I left work before sunset, but a critical hard drive crashed today! I dread what kind of wrench the system will throw me next.
So instead of getting on my planned 16:50 flight out of Cleveland, I had to switch it to the 21:10 flight, which was the last one out. While on the brink of having to work through the night and flying straight to Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow versus catching the last flight out if I can resolve the remaining issues tonight, I was worried. I called the aforementioned limousine driver up. He was far away, but he would be at my building no later than 20:00.
19:55. Problems resolved. I definitely can go home. 20:05. My cell rang. His words? "I'm here. If you want to make your flight, you better hurry down here. It's getting worse by the second." What? When I finally got out of the building, it was apparent to me that it has already started to snow real bad! I thought the forecast called for heavy rain tonight and snow on Friday. I guess weather can be fickle.
When we got on the highway, we were slippin' and slidin'! And what do you know? We drove by three car accidents on the same highway as the last time I rode with him. Two for two. When I travel with this guy, car accidents occur. But I'm sure it is all just a coincidence. Or was it?
Today, some serious doo doo hit the fan. Come on! Seriously, if anything can go wrong, it definitely has at this client site. First we shipped the wrong software and hardware to them. Next the motherboard on one of the servers failed. Great! A $28,000 part in a $85,000 brand new server failed. Then a newly replaced correct hardware failed and had to be replaced. I thought things would have settled down yesterday when I left work before sunset, but a critical hard drive crashed today! I dread what kind of wrench the system will throw me next.
So instead of getting on my planned 16:50 flight out of Cleveland, I had to switch it to the 21:10 flight, which was the last one out. While on the brink of having to work through the night and flying straight to Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow versus catching the last flight out if I can resolve the remaining issues tonight, I was worried. I called the aforementioned limousine driver up. He was far away, but he would be at my building no later than 20:00.
19:55. Problems resolved. I definitely can go home. 20:05. My cell rang. His words? "I'm here. If you want to make your flight, you better hurry down here. It's getting worse by the second." What? When I finally got out of the building, it was apparent to me that it has already started to snow real bad! I thought the forecast called for heavy rain tonight and snow on Friday. I guess weather can be fickle.
When we got on the highway, we were slippin' and slidin'! And what do you know? We drove by three car accidents on the same highway as the last time I rode with him. Two for two. When I travel with this guy, car accidents occur. But I'm sure it is all just a coincidence. Or was it?
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