Crushed

The day started well.

Well, as well as any day that starts with a meowing cat and the sweet smell of mackerel cat food at early o clock.

I got to work and there was an email. "Thanks for fixing that thing yesterday. Did you know that the other way we do the same thing is now broken?" No, I didn't know. Weird problem. Anyway. I investigated. I found what was wrong. I proposed an answer. The proposed answer was accepted. Made my fix and boom, problem gone.

That was the high point of the day.

The rest "geht schief" or "went wonky" if you'd rather. A torrent of phone calls - which were fine (but some people need to know I'm interested in the problem not the whole history of their project). But at 4 an email pinged in.

The title was meaningless to me. I tried to read the text. No idea. The only thing that I knew for sure was that it was asking me to do something that I've never heard of and couldn't find any documentation about.

And they want it done tomorrow morning.

I've asked for a bit more info but I expect I'm going to get nothing. Took the confidence right out of me.