Sometime during the night the database server had crashed and it continued to do so all day.

Complicating matters, the engineering "coach" and one of the graphic designers were off in Italy at the time.

The new Database administrator was in charge. He's a hell of a nice guy and I felt sorry for him, because there was no way he could possibly know what was causing the problem.

Meanwhile, being the only graphic designer in the house, Sherms was being terribly overworked. I took pity on him and volunteered to do a few graphics projects. Yes, today I didn't have to look over my shoulder when I fired up Photoshop.