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Bueno, acaba de ocurrirme algro gracioso. Lo cuento en este email:

Hi all,

Let me break my long silence with something that happened just one minute ago…
I don’t want to sound mean, but this fact that you are about to read has
occurred in very similar ways a few other times. Never as funny and nonsense as
this one, though. These are the facts:

BACKGROUND: As you know I work for the Spanish Embassy. In my name card says “IT
Engineer”, but they should have written “IT Bitch” (as some of you already now
:-p). I think that because anything that has cables is assigned immediately to
be taken care by me, the Bitch.
Another fact that you should know for the complete understanding of this tale is
that the company that I work in has a maintenance contract with HP/COMPAQ
worldwide. This means that any hardware problem is solved by the HP/COMPAQ
service LOCALLY. The appointments are arranged from MADRID after I ask for them
and they are approved by Madrid. I cannot call HP/COMPAQ service and ask them to
come. The office in Madrid has to do that.

TALE: I am sitting on my chair, in the office. This guy enters the office. I
cant see him (from my desk) but I can *HEAR* him. After 3 seconds, one of the
secretaries comes by:

- Unai, it’s a guy from HP
- What does he want - I ask
- He comes to fix
- Well… to fix… What?
- Let me ask him…

So she starts speaking in Korean while I start approaching them. I see him. He
is a young well-dressed-in-dark-and-dead-colors technician. He wears glasses and
has a briefcase hanging from his shoulder. He holds some papers. So I ask him
(in English language):

- So, what do you want to fix? - from now, the whole conversation is translated
simultaneously into Koren by a secretary.
- I don’t know
- How can that be possible?
- Well, I come to fix the “DISC”

He shows me some papers. It is an email printed. It’s from Madrid. It said that
there where problems in the “DISC”. So I ask:

- Good, I see. So… Hard DISC or floppy DISC ?
- I don’t know…
- Well, call HP and ask, then
- Ummm…. don’t you have problems ????
- NO
- Ummm… then… um… can I just see REPAIR EVERYTHING ?????
- What do you mean by that ???????????????
- Well, check all your hardware…
- NO!!!! CONTACT HP AND GUESS WHAT IS YOUR TASK. THANK YOU. BYE.

So the guy leaves.

Eso esa fue mi respuesta “no existe una solución”. Y eso es lo que sigo creyendo. Estoy en la oficina. No podemos hacer nada, mas que utilizar Internet. La conexión mas importante ha fallado. Y no se puede reestablecer. Claro, esta conexión es tan importante para el funcionamiento de la oficina que ha sido configurada a través de un nuevo equipo LINUX. Y ha fallado. Acabo de llamar al servicio técnico de Madrid y tiene que esperar a *LA* persona que sabe arreglarlo. Llega en una media hora. Hasta entonces, esperaré navegando por Internet.

Agosto esta siendo un mes… extrano. Es un poco la vuelta a la normalidad tras la tormenta que ha durado aproximadamente seis meses. Tormenta larga. Y oscura. Muy muy lluviosa. Mas profunda que nunca, de hecho. Nunca recordaba haber salido tanto ni tan seguido.