Another Restless Night

Sleep has been evading me fairly regularly over the past couple of months. I strongly suspect the problem is work-related. In my previous jobs, I was easily able to leave work issues at the office and my home hours were my own. Now that I'm largely working from home and my hours have dramatically greater flexibility, I'm not able to shut off the work-related items as cleanly and issues can haunt me late into the night until I am completely depleted of energy.

Tonight, my pressing issue is a crash of a critical production server earlier in the evening. It has all the appearances of a RAM issue; I hope to be able to run extended diagnostics on it tomorrow morning --as soon as California wakes up to tell me I can start-- to confirm this. The snag is that I'm planning to head to Rehoboth Beach, DE, for a square dance fly-in this weekend. If this server isn't fully functional, I can't go.

In my perfect world, I'll run the diagnostics, confirm my suspicion that a DIMM is faulty, dash out to purchase a replacement, install it and be hailed as a hero (OK, I can live without the last part)... it would all be done by the afternoon. Life seldom goes my way on this sort of issue though: with my luck, the diags will be inconclusive and I'll have to miss the fly-in and spend a week with an engineer swapping bits & pieces until we get some magical combination which doesn't burst into flames while fielding telephone calls every two hours from my board of directors in California asking why the server isn't functioning yet.

In any case, there is nothing I can do about this situation right now so the productive thing to do would be to sleep and deal with this during business hours tomorrow morning. Alas, my subconscious isn't anywhere near as pragmatic as my conscious mind. *sigh*

Another Restless Night

Sleep has been evading me fairly regularly over the past couple of months. I strongly suspect the problem is work-related. In my previous jobs, I was easily able to leave work issues at the office and my home hours were my own. Now that I'm largely working from home and my hours have dramatically greater flexibility, I'm not able to shut off the work-related items as cleanly and issues can haunt me late into the night until I am completely depleted of energy.

Tonight, my pressing issue is a crash of a critical production server earlier in the evening. It has all the appearances of a RAM issue; I hope to be able to run extended diagnostics on it tomorrow morning --as soon as California wakes up to tell me I can start-- to confirm this. The snag is that I'm planning to head to Rehoboth Beach, DE, for a square dance fly-in this weekend. If this server isn't fully functional, I can't go.

In my perfect world, I'll run the diagnostics, confirm my suspicion that a DIMM is faulty, dash out to purchase a replacement, install it and be hailed as a hero (OK, I can live without the last part)... it would all be done by the afternoon. Life seldom goes my way on this sort of issue though: with my luck, the diags will be inconclusive and I'll have to miss the fly-in and spend a week with an engineer swapping bits & pieces until we get some magical combination which doesn't burst into flames while fielding telephone calls every two hours from my board of directors in California asking why the server isn't functioning yet.

In any case, there is nothing I can do about this situation right now so the productive thing to do would be to sleep and deal with this during business hours tomorrow morning. Alas, my subconscious isn't anywhere near as pragmatic as my conscious mind. *sigh*