It is two in the morning, the office usually filled with employees, is empty and I stand here in the freezing server room. The monitor shows 75% completion and as I wait for the server to come up, I contemplate on yet another cup of coffee. This might make it difficult for me to sleep, my exhausted brain is clearly under some illusion that it might still get some rest tonight. The monitor shows the completion number slowly increasing; I think, I might make it home by 3:30 but then, as it often happens, the progress just stops, and an error appears, I head to the kitchen. I will definitely need a third cup of coffee. Three hours have gone by, I have troubleshot the errors, fixed the issues and restarted the server. The progress is going at a much faster pace, and the completion reaches 100%. It is a decisive moment, as the server comes up; I begin running tests to ensure applications are running smoothly. My job is to ensure that when users turn on their computers and begin to work, they experience no interruptions. It is 7:30 in the morning, employees are coming into the building, I am walking out, shirt untucked, eyes droopy, legs weak, someone turns and says good morning, I say, yes it is.
