The first thing I do in the morning is come in and swap out the backup tape from last night and put in a freshly rotated one for that night. Then I begin booting and I get some coffee and a glass of water and come back to check the production server logs for errors. Next comes email which includes the output from the cron job that ran the backup last night and check what was done and how efficiently. There’s also the occasional alert email about something going wrong elsewhere. Then I begin plotting things I want to get done that day in emacs.
After that I begin making the rounds in the office to check in with users and see if fixes from the day before are working for them. When I make it to my desk after that, I check on the firewall logs from yesterday to make sure nothing fishy has been happening, and that things are generally ok.
It’s usually at this point that printers start exploding.
What a hilarious button on this post! Thank you for that -