I didn't post an update last night as I was too wiped out from the day. But markvd and I did safely return home from our work trip to Cleveland yesterday. We got in sometime around 6:45pm last night, were picked up with my truck courtesy of lady-curmudgeon and had dinner. While we were at the restaurant work called. What a shock ( Read more... )

We're back at the hotel. There's no fridge in either of our rooms so our celebratory Blue Moons are being served over ice from the ice machine. In plastic cups.

Why are you looking at me like that?

Stop judging me!

Our access runs out in 15 minutes. We aren't "done" by any means but we have enough of the core infrastructure configured that we can go home tomorrow and do the follow-up work from remote ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite like an electrical brown-out when you're in the colocation facility at 2220 hours to add a sense of excitement to your day. And to see how well your new facility provider has trained their staff for emergencies like this.

Fourteen hour day today.

Yesterday was 12.5 hours in the new datacenter, today was 13.3 hours. On the plus side we got BGP running, networks routing, the VPN established and the IP phones working - all courtesy of a box that's classified by Juniper (the manufacturer) as a "SOHO" class device. My appreciation of their gear continues to grow ( Read more... )

For this morning, I present G/B/D...

Good: The continental breakfast at the hotel we're in has a make-your-own waffle maker. They are tasty and this concept is badass.

Bad: I lacerated the back of my skull when I was shaving this morning. Ow, dammit.

Different: Having Tia from housekeeping knock on my room's door when I'm in the bathroom.