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These have been some intense days.  The day before my birthday a member of my staff resigned abruptly.  It was on the best of terms and had to do with an educational opportunity, but it was sudden.  So instead of sharing sodas and fried bananas with the staff, I spent my b-day learning the finer points of updating and managing our savings and loan data from 8AM to 6PM.  C’est la vie!  Just as I was settling into two jobs at once, our computers started coughing and dragging their feet and then like clockwork keeled over with viral infections!  Now the database was locked inside of a sick computer and I was making phone calls on the quarter hour to one of the few computer techs in the province.  A few high stress days and long caffeinated nights later the computers are talking to us again and the data is up to date in smiling precision.  We’ve got the vacant job posted; applications are rolling in.  We won’t replace Tony, but hopefully we’ll find a great, capable new colleague.  I’m enacting some new strategies to keep the computers safer and getting good experience with our loan software- a technological baptism by fire.  It’s all good and I am still looking forward to going to work tomorrow.