It started when I got up at 5am to a server alarm, some jackhole in China decided to make 200+ simultaneous HTTP requests and chug down my monitoring daemon. So I thought I’d be nice and just ban him (all requests originated from a single IP), but then I was busy sending out several hundred 403 Forbidden messages, so I dropped down to the firewall and told it to drop all packets that had anything to do with his network. Things are running late, jobs that were finished are having to be redone because someone decided to make changes at the last minute (I have a 3pm deadline for a database that I just got an email about it changing!). So yeah, today sucks.
PS Dave finished up the HVAC work: $194 in parts and over $600 in labor. It’s like having your car worked on.