Drained...

Yesterday was one of those days from hell. Where I wish I had just stayed in bed. I've been really tired lately, probably due to being shorthanded at work and working crazy hours. Last monday night I was at work till 2:00 AM and didn't get to bed till after 3:00. Thursday I worked from 8AM-6PM. And Saturday night I was woken up at 1:30 AM to take care of a problem at work.

I showed up at work yesterday to discover I was the only one there from my group. I knew one of the guys was going to be out, but didn't know the two others were as well. As I walked into my office, I was greeted by a frantic co-worker reporting a problem. What I thought was going to turn out to be a quick 5 minute fix turned out to be an 18 hour adventure which I just resolved about 30 minutes ago. I sat there yesterday practically rebuilding the whole configuration. I guess the lack of sleep disrupted my problem solving skills enough to where I was feeling helpless. I basically applied the equivelent of a band-aid to the system that was having a problem, and prayed before I went to bed that noone would call me overnight. Well the system held overnight and on my way in, the solution to the problem dawned on me. I applied the fix when I got in and it seems to be working perfectluy today. I guess I just needed a good nights sleep.

I really hate when I get sleepy and feel overworked because I wind up being grumpy and moody towards Rachel. So after the grumpy guy I've been the past week, I think I owe her a foot massage or something :-).