Nice, sleepy, rainy day. BBQ lunch made huge by the carver forking over two huge burnt ends -gratis ( Read more... )

Halt! I've finished the majority of the documentation, instruction and the labels for the cables are in hand ( Read more... )

Morning meeting went well, good info emerged including floor diagram and cabling layout.
There's some things missing but the site team can work with the vendor for that. Layers of an onion...

Body Blow, Body BlowJust found out that International Beer Mafia got the processor assignments wrong so, systems have to re-do ( Read more... )

Finished with this week being shitty to gory end. This place can't even get a UPS envelope mailed ( Read more... )

Not a HellWeek but a steady pace. Small break/fixes with drama queen change control ( Read more... )

Busy both yesterday and today; sure as nuclear hellfrost taking two comp days for this.
Saturday -alerts starting at 0630 due to maintenance continued till lunch. Ops in Poland are more outgoing/aggressive,
which is great compared to Asia but I've got to get used to the Polska accents.

Then I worked on/off from 1900 to 01:30 Sunday.

Further Toil ( Read more... )

Twelve more hours to go. Things are quiet and I'm digging it.
Forgot about a break/fix in Asia -Crowley, on vacation checked his emails.
I felt a little bad but it's a defer-able item so the level of fucks given...

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Slightly before and slightly after calls. Neither too bad. Monday down, four more days to go.
There will be a dark thirty project Saturday, final confirmation is tomorrow.

This Didn't Keep Me UpAsian Ops calls last night at five till 23:00 to follow-up on a 1.5 month old ticket ( Read more... )

On-call starts tomorrow with the bonus that Crowley, our man in Asia, begins vacation next week and I'll be covering break/fix there.
8 pm call with him tonight to review docs, requests, procedure [13 hr time difference].

Take That Operations!Coordinated a repair action mid-day that required isolation by Ops. For fun [and since Shizerw0k is so ( Read more... )