Last night we had a rather hefty batch of thunderstorms move through the area. One of the strikes tossed our local power distribution grid for a loop and every computer was off this morning. This is always a really interesting time to find out what fails. It’s during these events that devices, computers, network gear, you name it take a hit on the chin. Maybe they’ll be fine, maybe it’ll be a total KO.

So far we’ve got the “Garden Level” out of network capacity altogether, the third floor has spotty connectivity and when I pulled into work my phone was ringing that people on the second floor were having problems accessing their files located on one of my servers. That wasn’t it though! Of course not.

My computer was off, when I turned it on my Apple Trackpad was unreachable via Bluetooth. Tearing the device out of the bluetooth settings and rebooting then re-pairing fixed that, and we’ve had instances of that happening throughout our office for people using the trackpads.

It’s a lot like the USS Enterprise when she’s hit by a torpedo. It’s always Engineering that is picking up the pieces, dealing with leaks, or exploding. Sometimes I feel a little bit like Scotty, “It’ll take 3 weeks to fix, but I can have it done in 2 hours” or Chief O’Brien “That’s broken? AGAIN? I JUST FIXED THAT!”

At least it keeps us employed and occupied. We won’t go into how these strong storms and odd weather patterns are cause for concern… p’shaw. 🙂