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What an AWFUL morning!

What an AWFUL morning! We were told on Friday the power would be out from 0800 to 1300 today. No big deal, we'll just crank up the generator. But after it was up and running I was having problems with UPSs on the computers, and then find out the line output is varying quite a bit, going as high as 121 volts. Then, John tells me he's going to shut down generator 'cause it's running low on fuel. So I shut down my two servers. But when he tried so start it up, it won't turn over, and the battery is too low. She he heads across the street to start up the big diesel generator on the MAF base. OK, powers back on. Meanwhile I'm trying to get a couple 'new' drives into Tomas's computer, as his went belly up last week. After fighting for over an hour, I finally get two drives in there and get them formatted. Now I discover that my http://www.thehoffmanfamily.com/ e-mail server won't boot. There is some sort of hardware problem going on with the memory of the mother board! So now I've got to get that figured out. And to top it off, I was hoping to get on the plane to Quito this afternoon. Oh, and they're stuck in Ambato because of the weather. Hopefully it will clear and they'll make it down, but I'm not holding my breath. It's been cloudy and raining since about 9 AM. So, it seems it can't get much worse! Just gotta' keep my chin up and trust that the Lord knows what's best.