2005-12-08

bjarvis: (urbana)
2005-12-08 10:46 am
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*yawn*

This morning, I had to upgrade the operating system of a Sun Microsystems E450 from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8. I've done it literally hundreds of times before so it's largely a no-brainer. However, a disk upgrade was also required so I had to be at the office in person to begin the process rather than initiating it from home so it could be in progress while I drove to work.

Since the work was to begin at 6 AM, my alarm was set for 4:30 AM. Ugh.

Despite getting up at an ungodly hour and trudging to work on time for my part of the project, the database weasels weren't quite as timely: we actually started an hour late. That wasn't a big deal overall, but it could have been another hour of sleep otherwise.

Fortunately, the upgrade --both hardware and software-- is now complete and appears to be 100% successful. I am, however, very sleepy even though it's not yet 11 AM EST. I'll probably knock off early today with a side trip for a chocolate sundae on the way home.

The planet is hereby put on notice: nothing else is allowed to go wrong within my sphere of influence for at least 12 hours.
bjarvis: (urbana)
2005-12-08 10:46 am
Entry tags:

*yawn*

This morning, I had to upgrade the operating system of a Sun Microsystems E450 from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8. I've done it literally hundreds of times before so it's largely a no-brainer. However, a disk upgrade was also required so I had to be at the office in person to begin the process rather than initiating it from home so it could be in progress while I drove to work.

Since the work was to begin at 6 AM, my alarm was set for 4:30 AM. Ugh.

Despite getting up at an ungodly hour and trudging to work on time for my part of the project, the database weasels weren't quite as timely: we actually started an hour late. That wasn't a big deal overall, but it could have been another hour of sleep otherwise.

Fortunately, the upgrade --both hardware and software-- is now complete and appears to be 100% successful. I am, however, very sleepy even though it's not yet 11 AM EST. I'll probably knock off early today with a side trip for a chocolate sundae on the way home.

The planet is hereby put on notice: nothing else is allowed to go wrong within my sphere of influence for at least 12 hours.
bjarvis: (Canada)
2005-12-08 11:23 pm
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And now a message from your friendly Canadian gov't!

Elections eligibility information for Canadian ex-pats forwarded to me by the kind folks at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC...

Information from Elections Canada )

For more information, please consult this on-line guide:
http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=index&dir=39ge/ec78610&lang=e)
bjarvis: (Canada)
2005-12-08 11:23 pm
Entry tags:

And now a message from your friendly Canadian gov't!

Elections eligibility information for Canadian ex-pats forwarded to me by the kind folks at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC...

Information from Elections Canada )

For more information, please consult this on-line guide:
http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=index&dir=39ge/ec78610&lang=e)