Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Brief thunderstorm, dropped the miserable temperature four or five degrees F, made lots of noise ...

And in the one strike that made things flicker, every device I've checked so far[*] came through without a problem, except one:

The file server rebooted. I'm running the fsck script now. (*taps foot impatiently*) The bedroom Linux box doesn't seem to have been affected directly, but suddenly any app that was touching a file from downstairs became unresponsive.

I'd been meaning to stick a UPS on the file server the next time it was powered down for any reason. I just hope the scavenged UPS that I plugged it into a few minutes ago is in good enough shape to do the job.

(This is a mere annoyance, not a Real Problem. I just find the notion that the only machine at all to hiccup was the one that all the other boxes complain about not being able to find.)

[*] I haven't checked the clocks on the VCRs yet, nor tried to ping my housemate's computers. But I do expect the file server to turn out to be the only device that glitched.

[Make that a nine degree drop in temperature -- it continued to fall after I'd posted this. Much less miserable now.]