No calls yet and 15 minutes until my overseas colleague takes over ( Read more... )

No calls. I slept as normal people do.
Finished up small loose ends for the weekend project teams to oversee. One meeting left at 14:30
-BrokeData new technology overview, then it's off to the weekend.

Whipping Boy Placement
Ksam is taking over on-call duty tonight [till I get home] while I attend the Mike Scaccia's [Rigor Mortis/Ministry ( Read more... )

Toil and trouble across the days. Saturday proved busy due to drama queens and re-zoning SAN switches,
something that wasn't realized in the planning for the migration. I suspect that now this will be reviewed prior
to each migration. To be fair, this is something that wasn't a factor until recently.

I Don't Know What I'm DoingAs I explained a ( Read more... )

Nothing like ed-U-cation to further your career. Offered and accepted an Advanced Data I/O course this coming week ( Read more... )

Thursday, I head down to Dixie to support the processor migration which kicked off this past weekend ( Read more... )

Not sure about y'all's neck o' the woods but here in DFW the flu is raging.
Shots aren't working -I don't bother anyway. More people around me have gotten
it than in previous years. I'm keeping fit, clean and nutritionally sound.

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The Tally Thus Far1. Samurai hit after NYE ( Read more... )

One phone call from the On-call at 0310 but no matter as I woke earlier and was reading till I fell back asleep.
If Ksam paid attention the box calling home wasn't an issue since it's empty/isolated for de-installation Saturday.

Now That the Oven is Pre-heated
10 hours remain as “acting manager”; tomorrow Breckenbrew comes back to an enlarged mess.
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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... )

No sleep last night [except two 30-min catnaps, some today] due to issues shattering the maintenance window.
In Dixie, one processor lost a channel domain and Dtown took a large production hit around 0430.

Working with the Handicapped
Despite going through the weekend plans and actions with Samurai and Ksam -twice,
the two combined proved to be not ( Read more... )

The shaky duo of Samurai and Ksam are “ready” to take on the weekend duties.
I've reviewed the project plan I constructed [MS Project] twice and given them all the tools and guidance
I can but I'm ready to jump in, should things get tricky but will do so from home. It's expected that they'll need help.

The Keg Blows
International Beer Mafia keeps ( Read more... )