The past few weeks have not been good on the hardware front:

• An IBM RS/6000 PSU tries to murder colleague
• The UPS for RS/6000 cluster at work died
• Then we had a power outage at work
• Then the UPS was fixed - requiring a Sunday at work day
• Then the UPS of phone system dumps sulphuric acid fumes into server room - office evacuated
• Then the Power-pylon in front of my home burns down, so home was without power for 7 hours
• When the power was restored I discovered that my Ethernet switch had died
• I was late into work this morning because the alarm clock lost the alarm settings because of the power cut