Holy Schmoley! Here's to hoping the holiday season treats you more
kindly. I thought I was busy....
John
Brian Morris wrote:
Sebastian,
I've just been too busy. Starting 3 weeks ago, here is what my schedule
has looked like:
- On Wednesday I came back into contact with my 2 daughters, 11 and 13,
whom I have not been able to talk to for the last 10 years. Some very
emotional catching-up was done and continues.
- Gave RLUG presentations on Thursday evening and stayed up late
chatting outside the pub.
- On Friday we began receiving 236 servers at the Reno data center (out
of about 600 total that will come over the next 6 months), and
converting them all to the new LAN/WAN configs (including a new hostname
convention) as well as adding more NICs into many of them in order to
have management interfaces.
- From that Friday to the next Friday, put in 91 hours to get the new
servers settled and work with the App team to reconfig their apps for
the new hostnames.
- Leave early on that Friday to catch a noon flight back to Fort Worth,
Texas.
- Arrive in the evening (Texas time) and see my wife (who I left behind
there to try and sell our home) for the first time in 2 months, then go
have dinner and drinks with our friends from south Texas that we hadn't
seen in 7 years.
- The next morning, get on the road with a fully-loaded 24-foot moving
truck and 15-foot trailer with our second car on it. Include the wife
and our 2nd dog. Left the hotel at 0545 CST.
- Drive said truck (which won't do better than 35 MPH on any given
grade) to Reno over the weekend and _must_ be back in town by Monday
morning in order to take over my first on-call slot during the holiday week.
- Some asshat in Tonepah fills up my truck with unleaded gasoline
instead of diesel fuel at 1815 PST on Sunday. Got 3.4 miles down the
road and everything went haywire.
- De-trailer the car and drive back into Tonepah to raise some hell.
Wait 4 hours while a wrecker picks the truck up and brings it to an auto
shop who converts the fuel out and re-filters everything.
- Re-trailer the car and get back on the road at 2230 PST, arrive at our
in-laws in Reno at 0330 Monday.
- Get a few hours of sleep and take over the on-call slot at 0800.
Pager starts going haywire at 0910.
- Over the next 7 days (which includes Thanksgiving), I got a single
night of uninterrupted sleep. I was such a zombie the day after
Thanksgiving that everyone in the house was telling me to take a nap
because I was being "snippy" (go figure). Total time worked (mind you,
the U.S. division of my company was actually shut down during this week)
for that 7 days was another 64 hours, most of it at night.
- During this week my wife and I investigated 9 rental properties to
consider (we won't be buying until next Fall).
- Be on calls and up all night Sunday and come into work dragging ass on
Monday. Relinquish the on-call status and breathe again.
- Got approved for a rental house on Wednesday (4 BR, 2 bath, 2 car,
landscaped, in Double Diamond) and had to set up for all the services to
be installed and whatnot (6MB/static IP'd DSL, Dish, electricity, water,
etc.). Fill out lease paperwork Wednesday evening, then meet with my
wife's friends here that she hasn't seen in 5 years. Another dinner and
more drinks.
- Complete lease paperwork via fax this morning and hopefully get out on
time in order to cap off a nice, round number of 56 hours for this week.
- Move from the storage unit on Mill street (and what little we have at
the in-laws) tomorrow (Saturday) morning to the new house in Double
Diamond. I have to drive the "Two College Guys" 24-footer once our
stuff is loaded in from storage since their insurance won't cover it,
then they'll unload it all again at the new property.
- Hopefully be mostly settled in by Sunday evening.
- Work from home next Wednesday because DSL comes in the morning (they
insisted on a site visit although I won't even let them into the house)
and Dish comes in the afternoon (I made arrangements between them and
the property management yesterday (Thursday) about what can and cannot
be done with a dish and cabling at this house).
- My direct deposit finally kicked in last night (4th paycheck) but I
got gouged on taxes because of all the overtime so it was less than I
had expected (and counted on) for this weekend's move, lease and
deposits. Brian will be brown-bagging his lunch for the next two weeks.
- At work this morning BGP went nuts and we lost our route to most of
the Net and to the external faces of the rest of our networks. I took
charge to work with Sprint to get their shit together, and am still
helping them troubleshoot some frame errors as I write this.
That's why I've been more quiet than usual. ;-)
Brian
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 10:27 -0800, Sebastian Smith wrote:
The list is quite... too quite. What's everyone up to? I'm currently
writing an API for our Linux controlled robots. I've also been
researching how to enable all the security functionality of my new laptop.
I'm planning to have biometric security configured for authentication over
winter break. What else... I've been playing with a lot of network
utilities lately (My API is network bound... so I figured I could use some
tools for debugging). I'm sure most of you know of the "Top 75 Security
Tools" at insecure.org, but if you don't check out this webpage:
http://www.insecure.org/tools.html
There is enough functionality in those programs to keep you busy for a
while ;)
Enemy Territory has also been eating up a lot of my time. For those who
like first person shooters (that run natively on Linux) goto:
http://www.enemy-territory.com
If you start playing let me know, and we can rendevous somewhere on the
net. Or, you can keep an eye out for TaYpworm... he's usually at the top
of the stats list ;)
- Sebastian
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