Network Down! Network Down!

This has been a crazy morning. Sean just got back from his trip to Pennsylvania, and when he comes in to the office this morning, he’s greeted by a network that doesn’t work. BootsnAll itself was fine, just that its behind-the-scene monkeys couldn’t surf or check email. What to do? Well, watching the Tour de France (go Lance!) seemed a pretty good idea…

Our computer man, Bob, has been here for the past 30 minutes, performing a little geek surgery inside our server’s digital guts. Everything’s now pretty much fixed, but it’s times like this that really remind us how much our business depends on wires and buttons and just being able to access the Internet. We’ve been able to do some things, like have meetings and discussions, but still, a lot of the day has been us sitting here swearing and seeing if we can fix anything. Very frustrating. It’s like we suddenly weren’t able to breathe, or like our hearts stopped. Well, okay, maybe not, but still, we need our net juice!

The withdrawal is the worst part. Personally, I was just about ready to scrounge up a typewriter…