oh god, I'd tried to forget working at one of those. trying to get apples fake windows printing protocols to play with Industrial HP printers hanging from a VMS fake windows NT 3.5 network over hubs that were of a different manufacturer than the switched rest of the network. (somehow that department happened to not only have grabbed the budget for its own equipment, but had also grabbed the budget for networking its own building <shudders> needless to say my dreams at the time featured now recently dead and sainted Apple luminaries and a selection of sporting Lumber that would have been the envy of many sporting teams that Mr Horse of this parish happily supports.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.