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It didn't affect me directly, but Mr. MG got hammered. MG Jr's kindergarten holiday concert was this afternoon, but just before it started, Mr. MG got paged that a major server had crashed at work. He spent half the time on the phone, but managed to stay for the concert. He left soon afterward (during the punch and cookies portion of the event), but when he got to work and joined the investigation, it turned out that neither he nor anybody else could figure out why the server crashed and rebooted. It just...did (inconveniencing hundreds of medical personnel in the middle of the day).

THEN he stopped at a store after work, and when he came out, his car refused to start. Took forever to get auto club service, because it began to snow pretty heavily. He suspected it was the battery, even though he never had any warning light come on.

He called me to fetch the pizza he had ordered and had intended to pick up on the way home, so I tossed MG Jr. into the car, and it took us an hour to get there and most of the way home because of the snow, when it normally would have taken half that time. Just as we neared home, my cell phone rang--the auto club couldn't get Mr. MG's car started, so we had to turn around and drive ALLLL the way back to pick him up. We were on the road for a total of TWO HOURS (traveling with a cold pizza).

*Sigh.* My brother and his family are taking the red eye from California tonight to visit for Christmas; I hope this doesn't affect them.