Twenty-four hours left and then I taste Xanadu in beer form. The break-fast beer, which is always tasty. Not sure of what ( Read more... )

Once again, you’re having fun and I’m not. No beer for the past four days and this extends into next week ( Read more... )

This year, it’s obvious work has been getting in the way of beer/metal/etc. though this isn’t anything new but for this year,
I’m way down in hijinx, schemes, etc.

The rest of year looks to be better with Project Paul-Tango-Raunchy’s major milestone going live next weekend.

After that point, I’ll be on “easy street” for the rest of the year with ( Read more... )

Today my manager, Ms.Ed, let us know that starting immediately she would be:
1. Working from home on Wednesdays
2. Be on vacation this Thursday and Friday
3. Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights: if escalation is needed, we’re to call her boss, Weird Herald.

Project Paul-Tango-Raunchy Claims Another
For the past couple of months, her micromanagement has ( Read more... )

One call at 02:00 that kept me up until 03:00. I put in best effort to continue my sleep like normal people get to but it was patchy.

Ops is falling behind and should’ve called earlier on some issues. In order to stem that off, I’ll be calling them every night at 20:00
to see if there’s anything looming that they’ve forgotten. It’s ridiculous but ( Read more... )

One call but it hit at the right time [between cycles] and I continued my sleep like normal people get to.

This was a down tempo day with busy work; nothing project heavy. This pace will pick up by the week’s end car-wrecking into
Saturday in which I expect to get pulled into the evening after the day crew says “¡No más!”.

Broke Data and Touch-Your- ( Read more... )

No calls. I slept like normal people get to.

The issues with the new data replication method still go on with more testing and conjecturing. The problems center on a group of 5+ year-old boxes that should have been replaced three years ago. Anybody got a home for 28 terabytes of data?

Maybe it’s microcode. The obvious thing would be to replace the ( Read more... )

The high six-figure people are now engaged from Broke-data, Big Blue, Touch-Your-Crotchie and InfiddleVestCorp. Best brains being sent to one of the companies’ HQ in California in order to figure out what’s going on with project Paul-Tango-Raunchy.

The project has been going on for about six months now and with about three weeks until go-live do any ( Read more... )

I do not recommend a slice of cocoanut crème pie an hour before a workout but today’s blah gym session was due to running around a datacenter for nearly twelve hours the day before. Aside from weekend changes, project Paul-Tango-Raunchy hit fail mode -AGAIN. I had a sandwich with one beer for dinner and went to bed a little after 10pm -on a ( Read more... )

Total Hell continued on Sunday. I did not sleep due to the phone going off every forty-five to ninety minutes. And for stupid shit too.

Everyone kept death marching as I could hear conference calls in the background while on the phone with operations. Ms.Ed was still on the conference call I dropped off at 19:30 -it was over two hours later.

I rarely ( Read more... )