The Day Spirals Downward...

Actually, my day started spiraling downward last evening. I was prepared to hand off my shift as Unix primary point-of-contact to the night shift when I learned that my nighttime counterpart would be in late because of a family emergency. I didn't think anything of it since problems rarely crop up until automatic reboots begin at midnight, but this time, I was blessed with a hard drive failure on a production server.

Again, this isn't a big deal since we have redundant disks. I could just log in, confirm the issue, set up a service call and get the disk replaced. Alas, scheduled maintenance at work shut off our VPN access so I had to telephone around to various offices to find someone I could walk through the required steps.

Eventually, all was resolved but it was very much past my usual late bedtime.

In the middle of it all, at least I had a chance to call my mom to wish her a happy 60th birthday.

I woke up this morning with a slight headache and nasal drip. By the time I got to the office, my eyes and neck began to hurt too. It appears I'm coming down with a cold. Yay.

I'm going to go across the street to the CVS to get a box of kleenex and any chemical combinations which can hold me together for the remainder of the day. Club night in Baltimore ce soir is looking very iffy.

The Day Spirals Downward...

Actually, my day started spiraling downward last evening. I was prepared to hand off my shift as Unix primary point-of-contact to the night shift when I learned that my nighttime counterpart would be in late because of a family emergency. I didn't think anything of it since problems rarely crop up until automatic reboots begin at midnight, but this time, I was blessed with a hard drive failure on a production server.

Again, this isn't a big deal since we have redundant disks. I could just log in, confirm the issue, set up a service call and get the disk replaced. Alas, scheduled maintenance at work shut off our VPN access so I had to telephone around to various offices to find someone I could walk through the required steps.

Eventually, all was resolved but it was very much past my usual late bedtime.

In the middle of it all, at least I had a chance to call my mom to wish her a happy 60th birthday.

I woke up this morning with a slight headache and nasal drip. By the time I got to the office, my eyes and neck began to hurt too. It appears I'm coming down with a cold. Yay.

I'm going to go across the street to the CVS to get a box of kleenex and any chemical combinations which can hold me together for the remainder of the day. Club night in Baltimore ce soir is looking very iffy.