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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
It was nice of Jen not to rub it in on the thread or anything... but I went to Chiles over lunch to sit and write my story. And an hour later I realized I had left my wallet on my desk at work. Ack! My wonderful loving wife came down and paid for me so I did not have to wash dishes. I felt so stupid :P
That’s good news! And congrats on the multiple jobs!
I figured rubbing it in on the thread would use up all the “you owe me” credit so I didn’t. ;-p So you still owe me.
I’m going to Trinity Restoration tomorrow and getting the oil changed in Oz. They do all kinds of work on cars, restoration only being a part, but I figure I might as well establish a relationship with them...kinda like a pediatrician, you know?
Ah, so will you plan to use them when the Bug is road worthy?
Yes, that’s right.
;-)
Their restoration prices are pretty steep. But the have a real reasonable oil change and you get a free car wash.
That reminds me, I need to dig up a muffler place. The Battlecruiser has been needing a new one for ages.
That was quick, wasn’t it? How is she doing?
Evenin’ folkses...
[sip]
Well... another trip to the mothership has come and gone. Flyin’ back out home in the morning. Wow, was this ever a busy week. Maybe my most productive trip in months.
Making big changes to the whole helpdesk / ticketing thing. Got lots of good time spent with my new gal that will be handling the phones and helpdesk... she’s wonderful. :-)
We’re moving the datacenter in a month or two. Twice. over to a temporary space... rebuild datacenter... move everthing back. gadzooks.
breathe...breathe...breathe...
just home from rehearsal, got Luke in bed whilst Jr. is helping the Mrs. load up for her training tomorrow...
got to do homework for the class i’m taking and then get some word count in
i’d rather go to bed
Oh dear... good luck with the words...
Wow... good luck with that!
The good thing is that class is over on Sunday. The bad part is that the show opens three weeks from tonight.
Corin, you shouldn’t do the show this year.
I’m having qualms. My characters are all so happy right now! The MCs are married and have this weird little happy family full of secrets. Sigh.
I’ll make a note of that.
heh. yah, it’s gonna be a nachtmare.
We’ve been culling out old gear as fast as we can, but we’re going to have about eight mostly full racks that will need moved over in an altogether too short period of time.
And it’s everything... the cisco routing/firewall/LAN gear, servers, SAN... the works.
We’ll probably get a weekend to do the move. Seems like enough, but I just know that when it comes down to de-wiring and re-wiring all the fibre channel and gig ether back there it’s not going to be a swift process.
But it’s not every day you get the chance to rebuild your computer room... so in that way it’ll be kinda nice. Lots of new power options. New cooling system(s). And best of all, a brand new backbone LAN for the server environment.
OH— and I think I’ve got buy-in for seismic isolation of the racks. I dunno if you’ve seen these things, but they’re isolation bases for the racks that let them ride a ball-and-dish thing in an earthquake event and not be shocked by sudden movement of the building.
It’s neat stuff, but spendy, like $2,500 per rack. But that quake in Palo Alto a few weeks ago may have sealed the deal. :-)
Do you have backups going to a different region, or is that too spendy?
We’ve got real-time (or close to it) replication of email to a warm spare system in Phoenix. Also duplicate VPN and webmail and some other intranet stuff there. email is really the oxygen for this company, the most essential system. Everything else can be down for some hours or days and we can work around it.
We’ve got a 15Mb DS3 dedicated between SFO and PHX to get that done. I told the board that I picked Phoenix because it was “geologically stable and politically uninteresting”. No terrorist is going to nuke Phoenix. San Fran... maybe. But phx should be OK. :-)
If SFO slides off into the ocean the rest of the company should get by OK for a while. The survivors should be able to swim into a starbucks and at least check their mail. :-)
Though, we haven’t done a failover for a year or so. About time to test that again.
I’m wondering if I’m actually going to be able to kill off my victim chick. The story was supposed to almost start with her death, as I think I’ve mentioned, and then kind of deal with how everyone was affected by it.
Instead, I’ve spent the couple of days writing a happy little love story about how she and her husband met and all.
Oops.
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