One text from a drunken friend reporting about a new awesome beer and then at about 23:30 or so a brief work call but for the most part, I slept like normal people.

Just me and Ksam today, while everyone else had time off. There’s been worse days but the work got done. Damn, this place is a wreck, like a restaurant's kitchen three-quarters the way ( Read more... )

Time to take up the other half of my on-call duty, now that Clivesdale has taken off to Mexico for vacation. I used reverse psychology and told him “not to eat the worm”.

Things are degenerating with project Paul-Tango-Raunchy. Last week they realized we need to focus on tape replication between the sites. That’s still in the works and there’s a new ( Read more... )

One call at 03:21; right in the middle of a massive beer-induced soma-state. I was flying nowhere near the sun -straight to enlightenment and BAM…the phone rings. That problem was quickly dealt with and I continued with on/off patterns until 12:06 [hey, I need my beauty sleep].

Hell Day, Hell Night, What Does It Matter?
Project Paul-Tango-Raunchy ( Read more... )

Returning from lunch yesterday, I noticed a large group bunkered in the Htown room. Tension and defensiveness oozed in a way I haven’t ever seen in the near three years I’ve been at InfiddlevestCorp.

Project Paul-Tango-Raunchy isn’t going well. Internal Busy Machination now recommends what amounts to re-engineering. These consultants have sat in the ( Read more... )

I was “offline” this weekend in the InfiddlevestCorp rotation.

No work. No family drama. Nowhere to be. Nothing going on.

I embraced nothingness and relaxed with the exception of going to gym on Saturday.

For the rest of April through May, I’m going to be working just about every weekend to migrate the majority of the systems to IBM z10 EC’s. There’ ( Read more... )

No calls. I slept as normal people get to.

I opted to go into the office today to run a meeting regarding the install of twelve SAN switches, with which I need to do something local now; then later, we’ll will expand the fabrics for remote data replication [project paul-tango-raunchy].

Not a lot unity amongst participants and procurement is holding ( Read more... )

One call at about 10pm -I was awake- that was another group’s problem and easily deflected. No disturbing calls and I slept as normal people do.

Updated Organizationally Sound Practices
Ms.Ed got a clue. There is now having a daily meeting to review the status of all the project items here and related to Paul-Tango-Raunchy. There’s also a daily email ( Read more... )

No calls. I slept as normal people do. Two nights in a row, now comes the potential for an attack by the machines -I believe they are grouping.

InfiddleVestCorp’s Project Paul-Tango-Raunchy [a very big project] -which was pushed last year- looks like it’s going through but has a sketchy ship date for the equipment. It’s a lot more real now compared ( Read more... )