“I propose a courtroom sketch artist with Tourette's channeling Salivdor Dali. Only for the sake of accuracy.”

External MAJOR: Tale of Apathetic IncompetenceGetting all the liars into a room can be a slightly awkward situation. It's easier when the main liars say they have an ( Read more... )

The pattern is obvious -leaving for nearly a week of vacation inadvertently yields set-backs to the project.
But I don't care. The current monkey wrench can be worked around so that box #3
in the pirate plex goes in as planned.

Main production boxes 5 & 6 I turned over last weekend? Friday, there was a “last minute” configuration change
involving box ( Read more... )

Black clouds continue to impair the Pterosaur's flight path -you guessed it, inner and outer forces
continue to peck away at this project. I'm not shocked anymore; I just revise, correct, adjust and move on.

Inner Conflict
Part of my last config was wrong and though it was caught, Breckenbrew confused it with another box
in the test environment [close ( Read more... )

Reviewing the weekend further, I uncovered more errors, miscommunication and not following procedure.
Ksam and Samurai are idiots. The chain reaction of both working together means that it will never happen again.

Samurai's got too much gray hair to have performed like this. I like the guy but I don't know if he's capable
of meeting the group's ( Read more... )

One call at 0600 -so that doesn't count as I was waking up. Lots of small things dealt with today, no remaining issues
to deal with other than a couple of disk replacements tonight but I'll leave Ops to “manage” with the CMiiGW* process.

At 1000, I received a last minute request to come on site for my performance review. Kayak is going on vacation
for ( Read more... )

Almost at noon today, InfiddlevestCorp lost a specialty processor
-a coupling facility [think shared memory between multiple processors].
This was an old machine [8 yrs at least] and used for development/some production
and is paired with another machine for failover but there's still impact.

I troubleshot the issue quickly and managed the problem for ( Read more... )

What we have here, Jim, is a shitwolf. Do you know what a shitwolf is?

Concerned people [i.e. managers] don't know what to make of me “showing no remorse”.
I find this amusing. Run a better data center and these things don't happen
-plus I'm not known for this type of action. Though now known as a lamb with lion's teeth.

The Weight Upon TheeNo ( Read more... )

The Quarterly Outage weekend lasted from 19:30 to 03:30,
getting home 0400-ish. Aside from “time served”, it wasn't too
brutal -just chaotic in that the schedule changes from what's advertised
as being up or down: systems, applications, consciousness, etc...

“D” Stands for DejectedAt Friday's retirement party for The Wizard, on ex-employee ( Read more... )

Lots of things happening at InfiddleVestCorp and chaos is coming with
the big buy due to arrive by the end of June [est.]. There may be some opportunity
for me to wrangle money but I need to brainstorm treacherous acts.

Cast Updates
The Wizard -our true senior group member retires at the end of this month.
One vendor is throwing a farewell party for him ( Read more... )

No one [work-related] ran over the gypsy lady's black cat. No calls last night; I slept as normal people do.

Bureaucratic Macramé
Getting basic day-to-day things done like you would at any company -regardless of industry- can be annoying but
at InfiddleVestCorp it requires tenacity. TWO WEEKS of many emails, phone calls but it's done, I've shifted ( Read more... )