I always am likening having our own business to being farmers. When the kids didn't want to help with filing or come up to the office during the summer I would talk about how farmers' kids would be helping milk cows. When we had to cut vacation short or Tom had to work incredible hours to make a deadline I would think of having to get the harvest in before it rained. So now we have damage control after the cows have broken through the fence and trampled through the corn.
Our office was broken into last night. The good news is that we are insured and that the thieves were not interested in anything but obvious computers. Just one room over were all our servers where we also host other sites. Now that would have been a nightmare if they had had the smarts to go prospecting and knew what to look for. The bad news is that they went for the glossy stuff: our sub-leaser's G5 and Apple monitor, my computer and 1-day-old Apple monitor (sigh), and Chris' computer and one day old Dell monitor (we were comparing the Apple and Dell to see what the differences in color were ... neglible for anyone who is interested). No files were lost, at least those of any importance, because they are all kept on the servers, which were spared. Anyway we back-up nightly and take the tapes home in case of fire, flood, or ... theft.
So not that big a deal except in terms of time lost and finances juggled to replace the computers to get up and running as early as possible tomorrow.
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