You've all had one before, probably several. Today, I came back from vacation/family work day to find my work computer pretty well toasted. I think it must have been in the middle of a major upgrade I told it to do before I left. The only reason I can think that the computer would have shut down is an extended power outage. I have the computer on a UPS battery so it should have lasted through a short power outage.

Anyway, I've been struggling with it all day and have decided to backup my files and complete the upgrade by doing a full install instead. I'd really rather be doing something else, but here I am. Hopefully, I'll have a complete system by the time I leave today.

I also hit a snag in my top priority project, beside fundraising. I'd been pretty excited about using Moodle to build out a section of our new online approach to parts of our Candidate Orientation (due for a rename). Problem is that out current host doesn't support Moodle, so I'm having to think about adding on another host for this purpose or maybe a Moodle specific service to get us started. This has larger reaching impact than I'd hope this project to have in terms of infrastructure.

Maybe this is just God's way of reminding me to not only backup my files, but also backup and see the bigger picture of what I'm really doing.