Well today I was going to finish my Ice Storm story but it is not done yet, that is OK because of the reason I did not finish. The reason I did not finish was: the Pubic Troll visited me again!

I was typing on my balcony, I was exhuatsed though because it was a long day! We sent a friend out to Mali, well OK we saw her off, and it was emotionally exhausting! I got home and was pretty sad, because I will not see my amazing friend for like two years…so I typed some story and while I was in the middle of it, the Troll appeared!

TOUCHING! he exclaimed, I have a fun idea!!

TROLL, what is it? I was excited to see him, as lately the Troll has been good times!

TOUCHING, I think you should come with me! We will have fun at a MegaCorp’s expense!

HOORAY! I said, and with that the whole balcony vanished and we were in a huge datacenter@

TROLLWhere are we?

We are in a MegaCorp datacenter! We are going to turn it off, I need your computer help to do it right, we need it off for a long time@

TROLL YOU HAVE THE RIGHT MAN! I assured him, and set to work looking around the datacenter to see what we were up against! I looked around and around, it was a huge building and no one was in there but big racks a labeled HP-INVENT!

I could not find anything on the server racks labeled, APC (that is the company that makes backup battery power supplies for servers, etc, it is a nerd knowledge nugget!) I DID find a huge array of plugs and a bunch of big hand-grip type of switches, with a glass barrier and “MAINS” and “EMERGENCY USE ONLY” labels on the glass in big red letters, temptingly above the delicious switches!

RUMPLEFORESKIN! I shouted, and he was there! TROLL I FOUND THE ACHILLES HEEL! They do not have backup power because the admins are poor or retarded, and this electric area is where we shut it off! If you unplug all of the servers from the racks as well then it will takes them days to get things running right again!

TOUCHING YOU ARE A GENIUS! He cried out, I broke the glass___the Troll vanished___and then as I was hitting the glass and throwing the Mains switches off I could hear the rushing of air and the *BEoWwooooooop* noises of the Troll furiously unplugging every blade from its rack at lightning speed! Finally I threw the last switch and unplugged the big plugs, and the red emergency lights kicked in@

TROLL WE ARE DONE! I shouted, and with that I was teleported back on my balcony.

I laughed at the adventure memory, I was hoping the Troll would be back there too but he did not return. I got a disturbing e-mail from him though, about an hour later:
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from: troll@dimension_y.net
to: touching@thepaperboy.com

TOUCHING,
THANKS FOR THE DATA CENTER HELP, THE TECHS WERE DELICIOUS!

))))R4Skn

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I laughed some more, but I did not know what we did! Then I went to Myspace and found an error from TOM about some fucking power outage!

DAMMIT the Troll tricked me! I was going to message people and waste time, but NOOO the Troll had to be a dick again!@

He is my most inconvenient friend!

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