The problem with working on Saturdays is that there's no distractions, so work is very "concentrated". That is, I could probably do more on a Saturday than about three days normally. Well actually, I'm also under a lot more pressure because usually there's some sort of outage involved, and you can't afford to waste any time. It does leave you feeling incredibly drained though. Worked all day, dinner at the parents', met Fabian finally, then home to continue working on stuff I didn't finish this arvo. Still trying to work out the idiosynchrasies of w2k3/iis6, which I'd never even seen until a week ago, and hoping it's secure enough.
Now I can barely keep my eyes open, but still have to hang out the washing. blah.
Took most of the day to get one thing done today. Blah. Finally got it done, which let me clear the desk to setup our new web server. The old one was out of warranty which was good enough reason to buy a new one. I love my job hehe. I now have a week to set everything up, install everything, and plan the migration from the old one. I can't remember how long it took last time we did a migration (actually that was an upgrade over nt4), but I'm sure it took more than a week of planning and doing. yikes.
Gamera got hammered again today by a ddos on the sportsbetting site. The customer has been asked to leave.
Got home, won lego set 6807 which I've been after for months, watched Armageddon all the way through, then 9pm comes round and Campbell calls up and we decide to head out to Evilhouse for a video night. We're watching "American Splendor". It's a bit strange, rather slow, but funny in a few odd places.
It's friday! yayy
Tuesday Twosome:
1. What are the last two movies you saw?
Fame, seesh I can't remember what I saw before that, it's been a couple of weeks.
2. What are the last two TV shows you saw?
Survivor all stars and CSI
3. What are the last two items you purchased?
Six inch pizza on Italian herb and cheese today, nachos yesterday
4. What are the last two beverages you drank?
Orange juice, lift
5. What are the last two sites you surfed (before coming here)?
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/TV/static/SydneyNight.html? and ebay
Much better mood today. Very loooonnnnngggg meeting at cia tho. Left to get home in time for survivor, and everyone else left too :) And suddenly it's late. blah.
I was feeling blah and bored over dinner and went blog hopping. On the Friday Five I found Gazza's blog, which had a link to a physical attraction test at match.com.
It was quite interesting.. it shows you all sorts of faces and features and at the end it shows you "your type".
Some of things it said...
Are you picky?
Very Picky: It's official: You're "picky." The fact is you are drawn to the most handsome of the handsome. You know what you like in men and are more selective than most women your age. Your tastes seem instinctual. You'd make a great casting agent, because you have a good eye for men who have "star quality." In real life, your high standards may be an obstacle for you. It's hard to find a man with the strong features you like, who's also well-rounded in other ways. Still, you know the importance of a real physical "spark" in a relationship, and aren't willing (or able) to settle for less. The challenge is finding a man who really wows you physically, even if he's not the most handsome man in the room.
How You Compare?
Very Selective: You are very selective, compared to most women, in the types of men you find appealing. You're wowed by "movie star" good looks, and in general, appreciate men with "traditional" or "mainstream" appeal. You probably face a lot of competition going after the most popular guys. Let others fight over the "movie stars" and you'll find a more unique guy who can be your own personal "hunk." See the pie chart below to see how many women fall into picky or open categories.
Looks
Some may call one of your types "Pretty Boys," but all you know is that they're gorgeous. The combination of classic good looks with small noses, beautiful eyes, and full lips is hard to resist. These guys tend to be clean shaven, have clear skin, and get good hair cuts. They're taking good care of themselves so they can be "pretty" just for you! [Well, you and the 1 in 3 women (33%) that are also after them!]
Funnily enough, they were the same results as Gazza :)
What I found most interesting was just how few other women found "my type" attractive:
Here are some of the guys that came up as "my type":
Or in this case, have dinner, go home, go to bed. Stoopid problem at work kept us late and in the end we didn't even solve it. Sux when that happens. At least if you can make something work after a couple of hours it's not so bad because you know you've achieved something. But as it was, the change we made had to be rolled back because the two servers in question wouldn't talk to each other anymore. blah.
At least I made one thing work today - got active directory to force out connections to our sus server.
I was thinking of doing a tech support sub-blog at one stage. I'd put up any of the errors/problems that I came across on a given day, and I what I did to solve them. I'm sure hits would go through the roof (I used to get quite a few referrals on "an error in updating your system has occurred"). The only problem is, I'd have to revisit work at home, and that really wouldn't be a lot of fun. Maybe one day I'll get off my butt and do it.
It's hard to believe I started our active directory upgrade just a day and a half ago. It feels like about a week ago.
The upgrade went ok, although it could have been better. We had some wierd issues with dns that I didn't get in my test domain, so ended up having to put dns on the server we were upgrading rather than leaving it on the member server, and then move it across later. And DHCP stopped working when we upgraded the member server it was on, because it turns out you need to authorise dhcp servers in the domain. I didn't have dhcp setup in the test domain, because that would have just confused matters at the time. But at least that was an easy fix. We only had to go back to earlier ghosts once in the day, and managed to work our way around the other problems.
After work, went over to Chris' where a BBQ for his ex flat-mate's girlfriend was in full swing. Had some wine and relaxed for a few hours before getting home very late.
This morning in church, I burst into tears when someone killed a huntsman spider that was wandering around during the break. Sad I know to get that upset over a spider. I don't even *like* spiders.
This afternoon I wasted time drooling over lego and reading Eric Harshbarger's site some more. Didn't get any of the cleaning done that I needed to. Then George picked me up and we took the kids to the fair and went on plenty of rides. Well, they did, George and I mostly just watched. Although I did get lots of goes on the big slippery dip taking Rachel down, and got to drive a dodgem car. Haven't done that in years.
Then Sunday night dinner got moved to Luc and Lizzi's. Was feeling grumpy though, and I'm not sure why. I always seem to get grumpy when I go to their place for dinner.
Finally, almost time for bed. Just need to wash my hair and my lunch plate. blah.
btw, the Superman logo above is my first ever lego mosaic. I built it from sight off the logo on the DVD, so it's not exactly to scale. But I think it turned out fairly well. It's whet (sp?) my appetite for making more mosaics .. but need a *lot* of bricks if I'm going to do it properly!
Successfully moved global catalog servers from AD DC to another on my test domain today. This was after stuffing around with dns last week doing some trials, and leaving it pointed at the wrong place, so the domain controllers wouldn't talk to each other. "frigging dns" is all I have to say about that.
Also successfully connected an OS X mac and an OS 7.6.1 mac to the servers, doing file and print sharing.
Now that those problems have been overcome I can go back to the original plan of having new print and dhcp servers setup by the weekend for a big changeover. *scary*
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ps, in case you were wondering what on earth I'm talking about.. I'm planning our work deployment of active directory. We're upgrading our windows NT 4 domain to 2003. You know those ads on at the moment that say "we're merging all these domains and making it all easier blah blah blah" to which the boss just looks at him, and so he says "we'll save $2 million a year" ... well we're nothing like that really, given that we only have one domain and two servers, but that's what we're doing. I've been thinking about it for a couple of months, but really working frantically on it for the past couple of weeks when we all suddenly realised that next year was only 6 weeks away, and we plan to go live with it mid January. fun fun fun!
Had a Christmas party today with a bunch of people that I haven't been together with in probably at least 3 years. It was this core of people that mostly used to live locally and go to the same church. Since then it's diverged somewhat, and 10 (!) offspring have been added. The reason I haven't seen several of them much in the past few years was because of something that happened when I was going through some pretty deep depression a few years ago, and two of them rejected me at the time and made me feel even lower, if that were possible. As I've said in previous entries, I have trouble with forgiveness. But I decided I would at least try, and so went along to this Christmas party, which is the first time I've been in the same place with the two of them since that time. So it was all good, I was civil, and even friendly, and basically relaxed (and a beer or two certainly didn't hurt either). Then towards the end of the party one of the girls says to me "I'd like to compliment you - you are happy and friendly blah blah blah". To which I said, well what are you comparing it to, we haven't seen each other more than twice in three years. And she's going well yes you're more happy. Ok so everything I've been trying to forget all comes back to me, and it's like, well if I wasn't happy in your presence before, it was *because* of you and the hurt you caused me. But of course I couldn't say any of that cause I'm too chicken. So I ended up grumpy and pensive after all. *sigh* I should definately have said something.
The night finished off with some of the boys playing xbox, which I was invited to play, but I had absolutely no idea about the game so gave up and left; and then to top off the night the flipping eway toll tag thingie didn't bleep cause the sticky tape died in the heat today and it fell off and I just had the thing on the dashboard. So now I have to chase that up on Monday. Just what I really didn't need.
Suck day at work today. For no real explanation, just felt grumpy with everything and everyone. Must be the weather. I did burn my first ever dvd today tho.. 40 minutes to burn a 4.7gb disc.
Then tonight we were supposed to have an owner's meeting but it ended up getting cancelled due to lack of interest. But it did give me time to catch up on a few videos I hadn't seen yet.
Gonna wander off in the general direction of bed
Had a nothing day today. Got my flat mostly tidied up tho, so I suppose that's a good start.
I'm watching Armageddon at the moment. It's an utterly ridiculous movie, but still a lot of fun. I was just thinking as they were launching the shuttles that it would be very cool to see a real life space shuttle launch.. but the chances of that happening any time soon are pretty remote. Nasa probably will go back into space eventually, but I suspect it will be a while yet.