Overworking oneself on Sunday and subsequently spending Monday Zombie-style seems to be a promising way to get ammo for the My Worst Mondays Ever Department. Take what happened to me yesterday as a little how-to, in chronological order.
Early in the morning, research something on the internet, group everything nicely in Mozilla tabs, do not "bookmark this group of tabs", hit Crl-Q instead of Crtl-W, spend 40 minutes to trace back your steps and resume where you stopped yourself before. Consuming loads of coffee, spend the day semi-awake and less than semi-productive. In the evening, think hey, I could try to improve this and that on my server. Find yourself locked out soon after [Ed: locked out. The "out" was missing before. Sorta took the whole point away.] Have the server well hidden behind your desk with no screen connected to it. Instead, remote control it over LAN using Remotely Anywhere or a similar product - remote control it if you have access, that is. You would never hit "block all traffic" on your firewall anyway.
Find your workhorse notebook joining the bandwagon and serving you three W2k blue screens in a row. So you now saw it five times in total on this machine - two times the 18 month before, and three times the last 20 minutes. Decide you can spend the evening without server access and, um, why not watch a movie. Remember that your movies are stored on the server you don't have access to, dig for the CD copy of that movie you haven't seen for a while. Also dig for the CD module you removed from your notebook as you never use it and as you like it lightweight on the road. Find the CDs scratched, select another movie, repeat digging. After watching the movie on the sofa, send the notebook to standby, carry it back to your desk and remove the battery instead of the CD module. The CD module was in the left slot, wasn't it? Reboot.
Have four desk lamps in your working room. Switch them on, see three light bulbs quitting service in a row. Don't have spare bulbs handy. One lamp per room is enough anyway. Decide to fix that server. Can't take more than a minute. Proceed to the basement. Dig for that ultra-heavy Eizo screen you put out of service after you surrounded yourself with notebooks all over the place. Lift the thing to your server, connect, find out that you screwed much more than ever expected possible with so few clicks. Spend two hours fixing the basics. Reboot. Curse and swear, write that day off. Reboot.
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