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5th December, 2023
It started like just another Tuesday. But boy did things escalate quickly.
Firstly, on the personal front: Indian matchmaking expertise has forced us to rejig our India travels, literally days after we spent a couple of grand booking our tickets. Thank the stars, eh? The trip was meant to be pure leisure and for the Mrs to finally meet her folks after almost a year. It’s now become the first of many milestones for my sister-in-law’s shotgun wedding. More on this later, but I now need to think of how to make it happen within budget and on time.
On the work front, this would mean more holidays (that I can’t afford to take because of what I am about to tell you next).
The workday was as humdrum as you can imagine, quietly productive but nothing earth shattering. And as I was back home and assisting the Mrs in wheeling our overflowing trolley around the shopping aisles at Asda, my teams notifications erupted. 6:30pm — end of the work day, surely? Alas. We’ve been hit with a critical outage impacting EVERY SINGLE ONE of our components in our multi-million dollar customer premises. And hey, it’s my job to fix it.
So I jumped on calls, whilst packing some much needed sausages and driving back in my rusty old Range Rover, jabbering away on my AirPods. The Mrs, as you can imagine, was most…
