Today was busy. Start off the day with printing down. While trying to figure that out, it looks like the core router is down even though it really isn't, and then a crossover switch on a fiber converter fails and takes out the Internet connection. All this while we're not sure what's actually going on, and are going through a large list of machines nimda (one of the servers which watches the firewall/router very closely) has identified as behaving like they have viruses, just in case their traffic is causing some of it. For lunch Ross, Dave and I were able to relax at Dave's place and eat Wendy's. My sister on the other hand apparently met most of the department and spent lunch talking about me. I heard about it from at least 3 people at work, and everyone at home, and still don't know all that went on. Oh well. The afternoon wasn't much better. The Nick and I moved a few printers to a different place on the network so we could get some printing back up, and about the time we finished the regular stuff came back up (unrelated to us moving them). We wanted to eventually move them anyways, so it wasn't all in vain. Of course during the afternoon nimda kept finding more and more machines to yank, and we tried to catch up on all the stuff we would have been doing otherwise... Every year for TA training they end it all with pizza and a movie, so at 6pm I went to join the party. We watched Best in Show, which was very funny, but probably not appropriate for the setting, especially at Bethel. After that went and found the system had identified more machines with viruses. At that point I figure leave them on the network for a while since they can't get out, and we'll hopefully get all the currently vulnerable machines infected and therefore off the network before the next round of new machines tomorrow. Sorta cruel, but effective. I feel sorry for Network Services with all this. At least it's automatically creating Incidents so they can just be sent to the Help Desk with all the information in a consistent state (including the user if we know it). I decided to go home relatively early and watch Die Hard since I've had it from Netflix for a few days. That's a fun movie, with impressive effects (especially for 1988) and really good sound (even DTS). I had totally forgotten than Alan Rickman plays Hans Gruber - he has the perfect style for a terrorist. Anyways, the rest of the week doesn't look any less busy, and I work Saturday, so time for sleep for me.