Drabble 22/25

Story to include the phrase, "Where's my coffee?"

Troubleshooting Required—Unplug, Monitor, Patch

"I don't get it, Boris — the system's reporting nothing wrong!"

"Well, Mik, we're fucked. It's been down too long, people are asking questions."

"People, or people, mate? How long—"

"Don't worry about that... It's not our problem, yet. What haven't we tried?"

"Well the firewall's up, virus scan was negative, remote connection is solid..."

"And there's still a disconnect between the LLM and—"

"Yeah, I don't think we have any choice but do a hard reset."

"Fuck it, we'll lose everything since the last backup but..."

***

The throne finally flushed.

"Covfefe," the President mused, "what the hell? Where's my coffee?"