I truly do. I was all set to trek into the office to kick a server that hung in the process of rebooting, but I called him up to make sure he'd be happy for me to claim the overtime or just let it go til tomorrow, and he said he'd do it. What a sweetie :)

One for the ewwwwww books, from The Pen - Kangaroo vs Snake

And one for Aurelius, from OzGuru - "it's is not"

I'm so tired. Three or four nights in a row of midnight sleeps and 6am wakes. blah.

It's only Tuesday isn't it? blah.

Two hour staff meeting at cia. blah.

Bookcrossing meetup at the Porterhouse Pub in Surrey Hills. Stayed for three rounds of trivia, where we were losing, but I got a few answers right. Only brought home one book, and that only cause I started reading it (short stories) and felt like I should finish it. Had to put up with Sunday drivers on the way home and lights that favour side streets.

And now it's 11pm. blah.

1. Shape up:: ship out
2. New Orleans:: jazz
3. In the bedroom:: sleep
4. All the time:: blah
5. Philosophy:: religion
6. Tyler:: matt (is that a person?)
7. Disturbed:: deranged
8. French kiss:: tongue
9. Solidify:: liquid
10. Furtive:: effort

80 gig drive take two.

Let's hope this one lasts a little longer.
Tomorrow I get to try and recover two weeks of files scattered over wherever I could find space.

Host1 pricing updated again. Only took all day. Blah.

Bed time. (after doing the washing up and washing my hair)

As seen at Blogography and Lost Pilgrim:

The idea is you put the first sentence of the first post of each month for 2004 and see what you end up with.

So today we had our office Christmas BBQ. Somehow I ended up organising the whole thing.. probably because I'm the only girl around while Jodi's away. blah! Tips for next year: don't forget sauces, nibblies for before lunch, more serving dishes/implements, and containers for leftovers.

We found a very pleasant spot, although unfortunately the bbqs were a couple of hundred metres away, and being used, so we couldn't keep an eye on them to make sure noone else would come along to use them. So a couple of people went back to work and picked up a bbq to use from there. That worked really well, and we had a great spot with lots of shade, lots of space to play cricket and soccer, and lots of seating. All in all I think the afternoon went fairly well.

Came home via the post office and picked up a couple of boxes of lego. Gonna have lots of fun building it all :) And going to try and convince the dude that sold it to me that overcharging me $46US on postage is not on.

Just had dinner. I kinda forgot before because I wasn't hungry after such a big lunch :)

There's this point at about 5pm on a Sunday afternoon where I just feel really low. Combination of feeling bored because it's really too late in the weekend to start anything new, and the thought of having to go back to work.

It's not so bad these days as it used to be when I was a student, when there was the added feeling of dread of not having done enough homework.

I think I'll just go to bed.

I think I had just about the worst day of my career today. On Saturday morning during the first of the raid container rebuilds the file system on the file server decided to get corrupted. But of course with very few people accessing the server we didn't know about it until this morning, when one group of users couldn't get to their directory at all. After we checked the event logs and saw what was happening we thought we should do an emergency shutdown and chkdsk so that the affected users might be able to do some work that day. However the server decided it wanted to reset the permissions on every file on the server. All one million of them. After two and a half hours and 150000 files we decided we'd risk losing everything and reboot out of it. The server came back up, but all the file permissions were utterly screwed.

So while everything was so fubar, we decided to go back to the ultra 160 emm card and cable, because we knew that they at least worked. Plus dropping back to 160 from 320 we may eliminate some of the flakyness in the raid containers.

So after replacing the card and rebooting, it was then a matter of resetting all the permissions. Fortunately I'd only recently done a bunch of permissions scripts and consolodation of our documentation, so it wasn't such a difficult thing to reset all the permissions on the box to what they should be. But it did take many hours.

I still have a few major directories to go, and then I have to figure out which files were corrupted and try and restore those from last week's backup tapes.

The irony of all of this is, the backup tonight is running faster than it's ever run before on the new server. And this is on a "slower" emm card. Which may tend to suggest a problem with the 320 emm card or the new cable. Who knows. Dell certainly don't. Before all of this started I talked to them this morning, and they were going to escalate it to their second level support. Well they called back this afternoon and I kinda let them have it somewhat. Well not badly, I just told them what I'd gone through all day and that we'd gone back to the old card. He offered to send out a tech and I said well that would be somewhat difficult on a production server to "fiddle". I want to get the machine settled a bit more, and have some sort of way to recover to another machine if necessary. This of course involves buying another server, and replication software that I haven't had time to research yet :/ Blah.

Urgh. What a horrible day. It's the biggest unplanned outage I've ever had at work. Very distressing.

I was going to go to bed, but I have this urge to watch the backup finish, so watching Peter Pan to recover my mood somewhat.

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?

Had a busy cleaning day today. And tidying. And organising. And researching.

Pulled Jason in lego apart and put it all away. Sorted out a bunch of recent ebay purchases (I've bought a bunch of stuff recently and it's always fun going to the post office not knowing what you're going to get - Friday I came home with two packages and had no idea what was in them until I opened them - like getting birthday presents :) ). Played with my camera.

oh I know why I'm so tired. Had an Evilhouse video night at Campbell's last night - watched Spun and Cypher. Both very strange movies. Went to be around 2am blah!