Home again - power came on 3 minutes before I walked in the door. Decided on oriental cuisine cooked elsewhere. Tried to get a voicemail on the way out the door to pick up food - still crappy cell signal. Talked to my immediate boss on the phone miniutes later in the car - power came back at work! The previous voicemail was him informing me that the CEO wants someone in the office 24/7 until the power comes back on. Yah, riiight.

Dinner - yay.

My IT hire heading in to work tonight to reconfig power and test systems - yay.

Working heat and waterbed heater - yay.

Hot water for the first shower in over 36 hours - YAY.

Now to get some sleep and try to get a plan together to defend against the ass reaming I'll be taking bright and early on Monday morning. My joy is boundless.

Brief list of IT issues for Monday:

- T1 phone failover worked, but the circuits were so jammed that they forwarded to fast busy signals instead of the answering service.…