Talk politics.

Given that right now is one of the busiest times of the year for me here at work, as we performance test our servers to make sure they can handle the load of Open Enrollment season**, so I didn't really miss the downtime so much because I spent most of it generating test data, writing automated test scripts, and arguing with out infratructure team about why their idiotic security rules weren't securing anything (I have enough access to the right systems already to be able to steal any data I wanted pretty much any time I wanted) but were preventing me from doing my job the right way.


**= for those not in the states, here with most health insurance provided by employers there is a time in every year that is set aside to make your choices for which health care plans offered by your employer that you will enroll in (as well as make other benefits choices), typically that time lasts for 2 weeks somewhere between September and November. My company manages that process for other companies and so we get a huge boost in traffic to our servers during those 3 months (like from less than 300 concurrent users at peak to possibly as many as 4500 concurrent)