Well, yesterday was a fun day, starting off in the morning.  I frequently stop by Whataburger on the way to work to pick up my favoritest breakfast of all time - the Potato Taquito with EXTRA cheese.  By the time I *get* to work, I’m usually done with the meal.  So I have an empty whataburger bag with wrappers and the empty drink cup as I’m driving up to work, and we have a convenient dumpster right outside the back door.  One is for recycling and one is for normal garbage.

Interestingly enough, and related to the story unfortunately, I keep my proximity badge in my wallet.  That way I can conveniently unlock the door by just passing my wallet over the badge reader.

Because I’m just walking from the car to the dumpster to the door, I keep my wallet handy.  I typically get to the dumpster, throw the trash into the recycling dumpster and then get to the door with my wallet ready to unlock the badge reader.

(process that a little bit)

Yup, I threw my wallet in the dumpster, with the trash.

So now I can’t get in the office unless I get into the dumpster.  A coworker saves me a little and lets me in, so I get a chair, climb up into the dumpster (fortunately it’s just cardboard and paper), grab the wallet and jump out.  Nothing like a little physical exercise to get your blood pumping.

Then I remember - we have digital video cameras all around the office.  16 of them - 14 inside, 2 outside.  I set them up 6 years ago.  It automatically records everything and just keeps the last 3 months or so, such that the disks are always full and it auto-replaces the oldest video.  I can get myself a little video of me getting my wallet in the dumpster, having to jump in and retrieve it, and then I could post the video on my blog and laugh at myself.  HA HA HA.  Wouldn’t that be hilarious?

Yes, it *would* be.  Except when I go check out the video server, it’s not recording.  It has all the video from about september last year up until january this year, and is showing live video from the 16 video feeds, but nothing’s been recorded since.  CRAP.  I guess my story will have to be enough for you all, and you do NOT get to see video of me hopping in a dumpster.

So a lot of today was spent trying to find out what’s going on with the video server.  It is old (6 years), and it has 5 75GB hard drives that it keeps the video on, and it seems one of them died.  ARGH.

I’ll leave you with one of the pictures we snapped of Harry Potter’s Owl.  I’m sure he’s been missing it since the most recent movie.   (Note: the cameras record when it detects motion - it’s so cool that it snapped an owl picture!)