Happy 5th Anniversary Terri!

Can you believe it?  5 years…  It doesn’t seem like that’s even possible.  Seems like only yesterday we were walking down the aisle together…

Back to work today…  I called in sick yesterday, but I really don’t feel that great today either.  If I thought I could get away with it I would have called in sick again today.  But, I can’t.  I’ve got stuff to catch up on that I wasn’t around to take care of yesterday…  And I’m out tomorrow anyway…  So I’ve got to get as much done today as I can.  I’m certainly not in the mood for work today though.

Holy hell…  Today was absolutely terrible.  Spent 13 hours working on that god-awful server, on a Saturday, while sick.

And that’s after working an 11 hour day yesterday…

And working several late nights during the week…

And giving up half my weekend last week…

I need some freaking time off.  Enough time to get healthy again, if nothing else.

It is entirely too early to be awake on a Saturday.  Never mind the fact that I feel like roadkill…  It’s 6:45 AM, and it’s Saturday - I should not be awake.

It’s about 7:00 PM and I’m finally getting home from work - which makes for a very long day. Especially when you’re fighting some kind of cold-type thing. Worse still, is that we didn’t make anywhere near as much progress as I thought we would today.

We tried to rack up all the equipment… Only to discover that we’ve got some kind of mutant rack that’s about three inches shorter than everyone else’s equipment. Absolutely none of the rails would fit into it. So, after messing around with rails for about an hour, we gave up and started stacking things. That’s right, we’ve got all our equipment literally stacked in the bottom of the rack. Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?

Then we had to move the data over to the new server… There’s about 60 GB worth of it, and the old server only has a 100 Mb NIC. We brought down a couple Gb NICS…but the old server didn’t like any of them. So we wound up transferring all the data at 100 Mbps. Blazing fast!

To make matters worse, their “IT Guy” was constantly under foot - asking questions, poking buttons, offering suggestions, trying to be helpful… Yes, he was genuinely helpful here and there, but for the most part he was just getting in the way. His favorite thing to do, despite being told not to several times, was pull out one of the hot-swap RAID HDDs and marvel at the fact that the servers didn’t crash… So the servers were rebuilding their disks for most of the day as well.

Eventually I gave up and threw together a quick ROBOCOPY script to finish moving everything and we went home. I’m hoping the script will be able to run undisturbed after their “IT Guy” goes home for the night…and when we come back tomorrow morning we’ll be able to start installing software right away.