I don’t know what happened yesterday.

Everything was running along smoothly as per normal, when one of my web sites sneezed.

Now it was a small sneeze – nothing that would warrant a day off work, let alone a doctor’s certificate – so I wiped its nose and forgot about it.

Then fuck me but all my sites suddenly went arse over tit.  Now I have quite a few and for them all to go at once meant something serious.  I checked the Interwebs but there was no mention of a nuclear attack so I assumed it was something else.

After a brief bit of testing I discovered the problem – no power in the server farm.  I can only presume that the cleaners had pulled out the plug to the servers so they could plug in the floor polisher.  I waited and sure enough after an hour and a half, they plugged the servers in again and all my sites reappeared.

The cleaners are now sacked.  It shouldn’t have taken that long to polish one fucking floor.

I thought that was the end of it, but it wasn’t.

A couple of sites sneezed.  Then a couple more had coughing fits.  There seemed to be some sort of contagious illness  running riot around the farm.  I won’t call it a virus because that would make all the other servers nervous, but there was something afoot.

There was little I could do as I wasn’t going to drive to the farm and it was getting late.  I decided to sacrifice a goat or two.  That didn’t work.  I disembowelled a kitten but that had no effect either.  I sacrificed one of the neighbour’s first-born and that seemed to do the trick.  All the sites stopped showing symptoms…..

…. except this one.

I tried everything else I could think of and a few things I hadn’t though of but poor old Rambles was in a potentially lethal coma.

I went to bed.

This morning it was back in the land of the living again.  But only just.  It had been in a coma for nearly ten hours, had only just woken up and was now muttering about seeing tunnels with bright lights at the end.

I don’t know how long it will last.  I don’t know if it has just gone into remission with plans to die later today.  Maybe it’s just doing the rounds of all the sites that link to it, saying a fond goodbye.

Or maybe it just needed a break.

I suppose now I had better go and apologise to the neighbour?