It’s summer 2016, and this IT pilot fish is doing a hardware upgrade for a long-time client — and things aren’t going as smoothly as they might.

“I had already done the hardware install on the two-year-old server, and was fighting to get the OS to recognize the changes,” says fish. “One of the client’s office staff was near me working on paper bills, and a window air conditioning unit behind me was giving me a bit of a chill.

“I was pounding away at the keyboard — and then the power went off.

“Except I didn’t realize that. I only thought how nice it was that someone finally turned off that AC air.

“Soon I realized someone was staring at me. The woman working on the bills had a look look of disbelief on her face.

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