Today. Another surreal day. The entire day was just odd. Routine, but it did not feel normal ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the campus luncheon for the IT Awards. It's an annual event to recognize outstanding IT service across the campus. They accept many nominations (individuals and teams) and give out many awards for the best 10-20 people. I won this back in 2000 ( Read more... )

At the suggestion of one of those trainer tips on The Biggest Loser, I chose to try out using an exercise ball as my office chair...

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Four years ago I posted my first LJ entry, December 18, 2005. Without a doubt, it's been a wonderful experience here on LJ, but one I've not taken advantage of the last few weeks. Speaking of work ( Read more... )

Yep, drowning..., that's the best way to put it. Not treading. Not making any headway. Just completely immersed, but learning to hold me breath very well. When people in the hallway ask me how I'm doing, I don't say, "OK" because that would be a lie. I just say, "It's been better". There are just so many things happening that are all critical ( Read more... )

Yes, I've been working many, many long days consecutively (including last weekend) and I'm so tired. I'm starting to dream about HBA drivers, iptables and kickstart on a regular basis. The big upgrade is tomorrow and we're all set. If all goes well, we will all be done with this major milestone by 1700 tomorrow, so wish us luck. The procedure ( Read more... )

I continued in my struggle to keep our new database server from becoming a boat anchor. However the funky drivers for the fiber channel HBA, the version of Linux, the SAN, kernel issues and a host of other things were out to get me today ( Read more... )

Pretty good weekend and happy with what was accomplished ( Read more... )

Overall, it was a pretty good week ( Read more... )

The transfer of Blackboard is done! It actually took less than 24 hours. Only a few small bumps with the process, but nothing to write home about. I'm actually very glad this is done. This relieves me and my group from a major resource hog. It seems so weird not to worry about that huge application any more ( Read more... )