Where's John when you need him?

So today, at the lab, we had a chill water / chiller failure and mayhem. Whatever. Even the people who have been there for 10 years can't agree on how things are actually run in that stupid building. Bottom line: The Machine (a big ion probe) is partially cooled by water. Water that thus needs to be cooled beforehand. So whatever f*ck-up happened today somewhere on campus messed up with the building's chiller, and ended in us not receiving water. The Machine shut down.

And what did John do?
( Spoiler for the season premiere of Person of Interest )

But because we don't have a John Reese, we had to shut it all off. Hopefully it'll be back up and flowing again tomorrow. But I just wasted 2 freaking days of tuning and analyses.

The one positive thing about this big fail? I did get to be home on time for the Person of Interest premiere. :)