i am tired. i lost a few scripts i had recently written. bummer. i should be able to recreate them without too much difficulty, but it sucks nontheless.

i wanted to be busy, and busy i am. the ressurrection of spike in bellingham’s data center went well. now comes the long and arduous task of reconciling data differences and getting it back to the position it was in. i intend on doing that tonight. i’m real busy at work – my own plate is full and i have been eager to volunteer for other things as well. why? well – idle hands are the devil’s playground… or something.

spike decided to take an unannounced vacation today. apparently root raid under linux sucks and now i have one dead server. luckily, belle is still functioning and all the backups are intact. it took about 30 minutes to extract the needed setup files from the backups and populate belle. this experience has taught me quite a bit, and i want to record it. belle needs to have copies of all of spike’s setup and they need to be in as much of place as possible; failure should take less than 5 minutes; spike and belle need to do more rsync’ng of each other’s unique data (home,spool,etc); root raid needs to be eliminated in favor of a solid drive and another drive which will be mirrored (but not dynamically); i need serialcon access and a sweet boot/initrd image that has network tools.

i have two really good sisters. that is so very rare, i think. i’m proud of them both, i admire qualities in both of them, and i’m lucky to know both of them. they say credit where credit is due… and that goes to mom. =)

You are capable, competent, creative and careful. I like the sound of that!

i can’t blame my parents but i’m not sure i would have realized how much i enjoy wine if they hadn’t offered it to me… ;P so i am currently enjoying a glass of wine after having worked for about 6 hours on a contract project for polyformus. i hope to get more contract work and i hope to fill my schedule to the point where i have 0 free time.