We were unable to answer any emails sent to us yesterday afternoon or evening because we were not on line due to the installation of a new UPS backup system. The old one which I had bought as a used surplus unit several years ago finally gave up the ghost.

I had known for a long time that the old unit was bad but just put off buying a new one because of the cost of the beast and the difficulty of installing it. Obviously I'm not talking about something you buy at Wal-Mart or even Compusa. I've got some of those too. Even keep one on my 100 gallon fishtank which only has one huge fish in it.

Even though we spent 2 days getting ready for the installation we were still down well over 8 hours yesterday evening getting it installed.

We didn't lose any emails in the process but it sure did put a hitch in the git-along for a few hours, but partly because we also did a thorough cleaning job and servicing on 6 of our computers while we were down.