Manic Mondays

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Is it just us, or does everyone wind up knee deep in returned pool equipment on Monday mornings? I spend so much time on a typical Monday checking in, cleaning and updating pool laptops that were out for the weekend or longer (especially the Monday after a patch Tuesday!)that it seems I don’t do hardly anything else. Of course, the fact that one of them came back without our VPN software installed, and needed to go back out to another user today added a bit of urgency to the whole process! I should probably go back and figure out what happened to the VPN software tomorrow. It might be time to interrogate some people. 🙂

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