Well, that was fun.

Monday turned out to be the day that customer realised that next week is Christmas. Therefore, we were busy, extremely busy.
Then we had a power spike/brownout/thingy.
First, the database server went down. This server is also the logon server for the network. The UPS didn’t, and the raid system wasn’t, then the filesystem stopped. It took me until 1am to (gingerly) retrieve data from the server.
Then the network became a notwork…why? Because the logon server was non-existant, and therefore nobody could be authenticated. The intervening time until 1am was spent patching the network together so it could be accessed the next day.
Also during the power thing, an essential machine became inactive, due to a particular part siezing. This was Bad.
Then another machine broke down.
Then another lost hydraulic pressure.
Then we lost water pressure.
*Then*, then we got busy with a crapload of pre-xmas work dropping on our laps.

So that was my Monday.

I need a holiday.

Quote of the Day

From today’s Dilbert, by Sourpuss:
“People say the glass is half full. But they don’t say of what.”

Space… The Final Frontier…

These are the voyages of my DVD player as I start my collection of the Star Trek DVD sets.
I’ve instructed my parents, and come to an arrangement with my wife, that Star Trek DVD box sets are legal tender for gifts.
Season 2 of TNG was first, for my birthday yesterday, and there will be more to come.

Also, Stargate SG1 box sets are only about $50. They’ll be on the list too.

In a world…

…where big-balled men can take the piss out of themselves, a Video is made.