The darkness cleared as we got out of the tunnel and it
occurred to me that I couldn't be all that injured. Then again, maybe I was.
Someone was going to p..
I died.
Of course, a true BOFH considers this not really as dying, but
more of going home for the holidays.
Five seconds later, I'm getting the upside of 15Kv across the
nipples. (These ambulance guys sure know how to party).
BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL LIVES!
Three weeks later I'm back on my backside and feeling rested
at relaxed behind the console again. The rest has done me good, I feel
_great!_. I catch up on everyone's email then let the students know I'm back
by performing an impromptu preventative maintenance in the middle of lab time
by kicking the restart switch (They love it really)
I flip today's excuse card, "GLOBAL WARMING" YES YES
YES! What a welcome home!
It's the end of the month so all those automatic email
reminder programs will be sending messages all over the place. I set the
system clock back 7 days to buy some peace and quiet and swap the printer
ribbon for the three year old one with holes in it.
I sort through my snail mail and crack open the BOFH Monthly
Newsletter, "kill -9" and check out the articles therein. There's a
nice peice of making OS2 slow, boring and painful, but it looks exactly like
the OS2 installation instructions to me... Ah, who knows. I head straight to
the BOFH Wizard section to see if any of my articles were published. All of
them!!! Even the one about the c compiler that randomly removes one line from
the source code it's compiling!
The phone rings.
"The Screen on my PC is blank!!!"
"It's the power cord" I say
"No, I checked that. When I switch it on, it does
nothing!"
"It's the power cord" I say
"No, I checked and it's all plugged in properly. There's
no lights on the keyboard or anything"
"It's the power cord" I say
"Oh. I just noticed, the cord's not plugged in
properly!"
"The power cord?" I ask
"Yes... Woopsy"
"No worries at all" I say "Is it all working
well now?"
"Yes, I think so. I'm sorry, you WERE right all
along"
"Yes, we're getting a lot of this, it's due to the
current Global Warming problem. It causes random thermal expansion and
contraction resulting in temperature induced movement of friction based
holding mechanisms.."
I listen carefully. Nothing. In other words, >DUMMY MODE
ON<... "You can fix it permanently tho'" I say
"Really? How?"
"Well it's all to do with lowering salt deposits on the
metal contacts"
"Oh!" (Dummy mode irrevocably engaged)
"All you need to do is just take the power plug out
deposit some dilute mineral salts on it. Do you have some dilute mineral salts
on you?"
"Uh, no?"
"Ok, no worries, just stick it in your mouth drool into
it. But make sure you wipe the plug first to get rid of any germs, and TURN
THE SWITCH OFF ON THE MONITOR before you do - we don't want a nasty accident!
"Oh. Ok!"
*Fzzzt* *clunk!*
I hang up as the receiver hits the floor. Disk space is too
good for them.
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