this inspires GREAT confidence

today was a big day in bureaucracy - we handed out $44 billion dollars and our technology people were scheduled to run a "disaster recovery failback." the notice for the later sent a few days ago stated that this test needed to be done "to help ensure that the department's websites have continuous availability during a disaster."

then this message came today from our tech people -

due to technical difficulties, disaster recovery failback is being rescheduled to a future date

what's that you say? a meteor is hurling towards earth and is set to destroy our online capabilities? well, could you tell it to wait? we seem to be having technical difficulties ...