Hurricane Watching, Part I

Right now I am sitting at the office trying to get some work done. Now while this is work that can normally be done without actually affecting anything, we have a policy here that no changes that have even a slight potential of causing an outage, no matter how unobtrusive, be done without proper change management and during a non-production window. Sunday mornings from 00:00 to 07:00 are my non-production window for just about every system I touch. The short version of this is I get to spend a lot of Sunday mornings working.

Before I left for the office, Natalie was having a serious problem sleeping. This is not normal for her. For me, yes, this is normal, and expected. For Natalie, this means there is a problem. It seems that there are a number of things driving Natalie bonkers. First is the garage sale she had today. She did not get the turnout she expected. She wants to believe that the rain, a light drizzle really, kept people away. Be that as it may, she did not make as much money on the sale of our old junk as she thought she would. That bothered her. Add that to her dislike of people who really do not like going to garage sales who DO go to garage sales and you start to see what I mean.
Normally, at this point, I would just tell her to calm down, and we can talk about it in the morning. Not this time.