My server room is bereft of servers. For 4 years it's been humming with 
computers and switches, routers, a KVM switch, various tape robots, and 
so forth. Now it is empty, and silent.

I no longer have the server room key next to my front door key. Now my 
keyring holds only a single key.

Everything I've been maintaining has now been either boxed up for 
shipping to America, or carted away to be recycled as waste electronic 
equipment. (That includes a perfectly functional Dell PowerEdge 
rack-mount server with a dual-core Xeon "Woodcrest" CPU, dual-redundant 
PSU and hot-swap SAS with 2-way RAID-1.)

I just drove home from my office, which now no longer contains a desk, 
chair or computer.

Everywhere the building echoes with emptiness. I have seen my colleagues 
of over a decade for the last ever time. (Including the rather cute 
accountant.)

Officially, my last day is tomorrow. But I no longer have an access card 
to enter the building with. And even if I did, my office is empty, 
everything I ever worked on has left the building, and there aren't even 
any chairs of the tea room.

The end of an era, my friends, the end of an era.

Considering I don't even *like* the frigging job, I feel oddly 
melancholy... :-(

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