weight loss and stress

weight loss and stress are a strange combination to talk about. Part of the reason I haven't been updating a lot lately is that I am running our business alone right now, my partner and her husband , whom is my service manager are away for a 3 week trip to Australia right now, during which is normally our busy time. But with it being so warm we figured not a big deal . And I was all for it .
Lets face it , 60 degrees is not good for a heating company , we aren't going to be that busy.It's slow enough I have my crews on slow hours , rather then laying anyone off they are each taking one day a week off.
Well during the first week my main server crashed .Yep, the one that runs my vertical company software, you know the proprietary one that you need to pay a fee every year to the software company to maintain. Yep THAT one!The one that does all my billing and bills receivable and payable . Hmmm? not a good thing. Well I finally managed to get it to boot and run but to fix it took me almost a week. It involved Hirem's boot cd {Thanks you Hirem !! This is a great piece of work if you need it!!} and portable usb hard drive and replacement hard drive. Oh and like 8 hrs of time over Thanksgiving to mirror the drive both ways.
And I wondered WHY? my weight had gone UP? Stress!! oh and Thanksgiving maybe but I believe more in the stress theory. It's a damn good thing I drink decaf coffee .
So , finally get that little thing fixed and low and behold this week, the workstation starts acting funky , okayyyyy now what?? It's drive seems to be running all the time and running slow as molasses , well lets hit it with spybot and the antivirus. WTF!! 88 Virus and Trojan ???? OK don't panic , clean , oh no, system files white list unable to clean. yep, the windows files themselves are infected. lets reboot and it goes into an endless reboot . #$%#$%^#$. As I slowly bang my head on the desk. Can we all say "FUBAR" Yep totally melted down. Lovely, just wonderful. This one has the quotes we write on it , and more vertical software. sigh, can't win.
Someone hide my garlic croutons and lock the door .
The workstation didn't have a backup of itself, so this little exercise in frustration has taken me 3 days to fix and I am still not happy with the way its running. At least it works ,I have recovered almost all the data , I need to get a couple programs back up but it's working again. The vertical software company is supposed to log in and fix the supported programs . Stress, nah this isn't stress , much .
Give me the damn croutons and no one gets hurt.