!Rant Security PSA - If your going to post a picture of your desk setup please, please, please do it with the PC's locked and desks cleared. I've seen WAY to much useful intel being leaked on this weekly question and I haven't even bothered to try reviewing metadata.

!dev I'd just helped a client cut over to a new fiber connection and then left for Vegas, about 2 days into the trip my wife and I decided to hit a breakfast spot that had bottomless mimosa's, which was of course a claim we had to test.

As we are walking(stumbling) out of the restaurant I get a call that the connection has crashed and the entire car dealership is unable to sell cars, which they tell me is important functionality.

So I make it up to my room and break out the laptop, luckily the mgmt interfaces are still available externally so I'm able to log in and then have the fun challenge of 1) not falling off of my chair 2) not accidentally making a change that kills what connection I have in and 3) fixing their actual issue.

Took me almost an hour to find a simple OSPF issue but at least got them working and happy. However by that time I was beginning to sober up, which is the absolute worst thing that can happen while day-drinking and ended up basically causing me to be be hung-over for the rest of the night, including my wifes friends wedding, which she wasn't thrilled about...

The moral of this story is to make sure to NOT stop drinking while dealing with unexpected production impacting events.

It's 10 PM, 3 week long hackathon project needs to be done by 8AM, nothing actually works.

I remember pouring a beer and sitting down at my PC, and then coming in second in the hackathon the next morning, but nothing in between.