Sheri had to go into work last night, so I went with her. We left the house at 7 PM to get there by 8 PM. She had two hours of things to do before a technician from Sun was scheduled to be on site at 10 PM that she had to let in and work with.

I made a pot of coffee and read the newspaper, the latest Newsweek, and the latest US News and World Reports.

The Sun guy showed up right on schedule and only took an hour to perform the upgrades. Everything tested out OK. No surprises.

All that was left to do were six boxes that were in another building. She didn't realize this going in, but these boxes were not accessible on the network for doing upgrades, so we had to physically go over to this building to do the upgrades.

After checking with her boss to make sure about everything, we caught a cab to the other building at 11:30 PM. The building is on the west side of the Merchandise Mart, and is the same building that the Holiday Inn occupies.

The servers that she had to upgrade had a jumper setting that write protected the firmware on the motherboard. We didn't have any tools with us to open up the servers and move the jumper, plus if we did and we broke something, her company would be responsible for it. We did get one server popped open, but the jumpers were just too small to move without tools. Also, on the server we opened Sheri was not tall enough to move the jumpers, so I would have had to do it. I don't think they want a non-employee working on their servers. What if I got electrocuted. How would they explain that to their insurance company or to OSHA. Normally Sun does these kinds of changes, and if they break it, they are responsible.

So at 1 AM we got a cab back to the Sears Tower parking garage and drove home.

We stopped at Meijer for a snack and some odds and ends on our list. We didn't get to bed until after 3 AM. Sheri had a scheduled conference call to do some more upgrades at 8 AM. That is why we are just now starting our day.