Woke up to snow this morning. This is the third time in 10 days. Since 12/4 we have had over 6 inches of snow, 1 inch of ice, and several inches of rain, and my pond is still pitifully low. Some people just got their power turned back on yesterday. For this part of the world this is very severe weather. I wonder what the rest of winter will bring.

One of the casualties of the storm seems to be the server at the office. It has rejected two keyboards and loses the mouse often since the power out. No one had seen fit to have any sort of alarm for the UPS kicking in, and after 12 hours, the whole setup died. It all rebooted, but the server has been fussy about I/O devices since. The data is OK, will try another backup tonight.

At every location that I have visited in the last 2 weeks the VPN worked well, and all drives have mapped. I am starting to feel like this project will survive. Need to get 2 more locations up, and then Phase 2 begins. (Of course, the ED does not realize how long this will take, or that there even are more than 1 phase to the project, the sales rep from the telco who sold it is long gone.)

*Company Christmas Party tonight!*