That's how I want to be right now. Dead or asleep, whichever. File server is depressing me. More corrupt disk issues and completely missing directories. I dread to think of how many files have gone missing this week. Hopefully on the weekend we'll be able to copy everything to different disks, then nuke the container and start again.

I blinked and missed it somehow.

Raid array lost disks *twice* over the weekend. Going to be complaining bitterly to dell tomorrow.

The baby kribs are getting bigger. Some of them have fairly distinct horizontal bands on them now. Although they've gone very skittish and won't come up and eat out of my fingers anymore :(

Went to the parents for dinner... mmmmm roast pork and crackling.. food doesn't get any better than that.. :):):):) David came too and we played a game of 500 (Dad and Dave won - doh :) )

I also suggested my idea of getting Christmas presents for ourselves rather than for each other and then bringing those to Christmas day so everyone else could see what we got. Mum completely loved the idea. Dad doesn't care, not sure what David thinks. It seems a little wrong somehow, as the whole idea of Christmas presents is about giving to *others*, but practically speaking, we can all get something that we really want, and say it was from the family, end up spending the same amount of money, and not have to go through the hassle of trying to find something the others would like (which more often than not we have to ask each other what we want anyway). So anyway, we'll see how we go.

Spent a goodly portion of today tidying up. Luc and Liz and the kids came over to see all the space lego. Aside from that didn't get much done. Watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (and ate a bunch of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans at the appropriate moment :) ). It's strange to me that noone wants to eat them when I offer!? I don't know why that would be.. lol!

Friday night:
Crash out with contreau

Saturday morning:
Finish reading the Malloreon

Saturday afternoon:
Finish uploading new Host1 pricing and momentary freedom

Saturday night:
Go to work and play musical servers/hard drives/disk arrays/scsi cables/emm cards

Late Saturday night:
Head out to Malabar and watch fireworks at the bunker near the rifle range

Sunday morning:
Check the file copy job and think it's carked it half way through. Head in to work to kick it

Sunday:
Spend the rest of the day supervising file copying, and playing musical servers

Sunday night:
Crash out in front of Titanic, and catch up on my memes

OK so I spent the entire weekend trying to clean up the mess on the Host1 site. Almost accidently deleted the whole registration directory, doh! However I'm still not really any closer to figuring out how the whole process works. Warned Vic that I could make the changes by Go Live of Friday, but there'd be no guarantee of them working, and volunteered Kirk to clean up the mess :)

Also did a trial run of restoring all the data on the file server. It took literally all day, several problems. Go Live of Saturday is a monstrously scary thought.

Oh, and I saw Quidam on the weekend. Was excellent, although not as good as Alegria

Had a thoroughly sucky day today. I've put in an order for a better day tomorrow. Dunno why it was so bad. Just trying to get my brain around tedious stuff mostly.

I actually got invited to go skiing this weekend. But this weekend would have to have been the worst that could have come up. Any other weekend I may have said stuff the expense and the crowds and just gone. But for about the same price I could go midweek and get five full days of skiing for the same price. So I sadly declined. But I'm definitely going to go this year. Even if I have to go by myself! The snow is just too good to pass up, and with global warming it may never be this good again.

Had an interesting night though - did a breakdown of all my USA costs to see where all my money went. It was quite interesting. I ended up spending about $7800 on the trip, plus another coupla thousand on cameras and hard drives and memory and shoes and the like.

Now I think I'll go to bed to recover from kaos waking me up in the middle of the night last night.

Feeling very unmotivated and blah at the moment. Dunno why. Maybe it's cause dinner got cancelled. Maybe it's cause the weekend is nearly over and I have to go back to work tomorrow. Can I go home now?

My weekend went something like this:

Saturday:
get up
stress over fish tank
setup new fish tank for kribs
relatively lazy afternoon
go to parents for dinner
get home
go out to party in town

Sunday:
go to party
get home
go to bed
get up
go to church
get home
put on a load of washing
go out to lunch
get home
hang out washing
go out to dinner
get home
crash

If I had the energy I'd talk about the "interesting" events of last night's party, the 25 minute wait for a train there but a 5 minute wait for a bus home, the fact that Chris has recently become single again, the four hours sleep, the nice lunch with David and Yvonne, and the nice dinner with Ric. I have eaten so much today it's ridiculous. And on that note, I'm going to bed.

My big tank appears to be leaking. Although I can't tell where from. This is going to be an *interesting* weekend :(:( Going to have to find somewhere to put 100L of water and nine fish, not to mention a tonne of plants and gravel.