Done. Working from home; it's rainy and relaxed.
Not going to accomplish much for Shizerw0k today....

DebZ will be here in a bit to join me in some MDF training this evening.

Now the machines call someone else to say they’re broken.

Felled by Lord of All Fevers and Plague. It looked like allergies until late
afternoon when a fever developed. Still low -below 101F.
UPDATE: now 101.5F.

Now working from home to prevent spread of contamination and rest.

Thursday, I'm to fly out to the Dixie data center. Not looking forward to it.

Dropped by la officina to pick up my laptop in anticipation of working from home next week.
Thought I'd take 15-20 minutes and clean-up the inbox from the weekend activities
From end of day Friday to mid day Sunday, there were over 1,300 emails.

One-thousand-three-hundred emails.

The majority of which [1,000-ish] were in the junk email folder. Outlook ( Read more... )

On-call duty starts next week. No telling how it's going to go.
For a couple of months now, it's been quiet with small repairs/issues.
Lately, our main issues are broken/undocumented processes and vendor support.

No machine chatter telegraphing attack plans though I will sleep bank to prepare ( Read more... )

The black cloud, capable of sending rain and hail is watching, waiting for the right time to strike. It's just kept the setbacks
manageable for now. There's still two big hurdles before we even attempt the go live: trunk and jumper testing.
Trunks get connected and tested this coming week.

Despite verbal and written instruction, S.U.K.Nyet ( Read more... )

The sound of winter here in Dallas are sirens. Last night, through this morning it rained, sleeted and snowed.
From 0500 till about 08:30, emergency services screamed every 30-45 minutes. Now it's about every 90 minutes.

I chose to work from home and not even deal with traffic. Things should be better tomorrow, besides I'm still in the
swing from ( Read more... )

No calls. I slept as normal people do. Early bedtime tonight to prepare for Lpar battle in the morning.

Remote access problems have plagued for months now. It works fine but at certain points -mini-interruptions in the morning
and around 1400, it will drop and not come back for 10-15 minutes and continue until about 1500-1530.

The tikka masala squad ( Read more... )