Longest day at work (so far)

Yesterday was officially the longest day at work that I've experienced so far.

Some background information: Infinite Campus (where I work at) has literally outgrown the rented office space that we used to call our home, so now we are moving into a newly-constructed building that should give us plenty of room to breathe in and for future expansion. This weekend is the official transition (a.k.a. move-in weekend), and by Monday morning everyone will be starting work in the new building. Well, as most large-scale construction projects go, this one went way behind schedule early on (I hear we are currently 1 month behind schedule, but nothing can be done to delay moving in, so...), so now we're in an extreme clusterfuck of working around all the different construction and moving crews in the last-minute rush, getting stuff set up in an attempt to minimize the number of complaints directed towards us IT staff come Monday morning.

Yesterday morning started with me walking into the building/construction site at around 8:30 AM. I ended up spending the entire morning on my hands and knees (this is where knee pads really come in handy) pulling up the carpet and floor tiles to reroute the power cables underneath because they were put in all the wrong places all over the building. The good thing is that we had a handful of volunteers from the office who came to help us, otherwise we would never have gotten that task of mythic proportions done. Lunch consisted of lots of pizza (thanks to our CEO/benevolent dictator, who ordered them for us). Then I spent the entire afternoon helping the fellow IT staff install wireless access points onto the ceiling, which required extensive use of 12-foot ladders (I stayed on the ground to hand off supplies when needed). Dinner was at Taco Bell across the street at around 8 PM. After dinner we headed back to the building to plug data cables in a systematic fashion all over the office floor. By that time the 3 of us peons and our dictator were the only people left in the building. Finally, at around 10:12 we decided to call it a night after patching in the entire upper floor, but it wasn't until 10:30 PM that I was on the road driving home.