Office Ghost Town

[bjarvis]

There's me and one other sysadmin in the Urbana data center today. After a quick exchange of e-mails, I've found precisely two others in our Reston data center. I'm now frantically reassigning work tickets to the available bodies --myself included-- so we don't have to reschedule a lot of work.

Traffic was light although the few commuters on the road were clearly terrified of the slush. In a couple of spots, I'd agree: I270 northbound effectively was two lanes wide the entire distance to my office, even though there's 3 lanes and 4 lanes of physical pavement... the MVA simply hasn't plowed some lanes at all. There's also one major spot where the drains are clearly blocked: there's a swimming pool of water across all lanes which could easily trap small vehicles.

It was a source of great amusement to see that all of the vehicles --and there were lots-- which had spun out and were abandoned in the snowbanks and medians were all SUVs. :-)

Comments

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

You know, every time I see "sysadmin", at first I read it as "sadism". Can't say why, but can't say it's inappropriate in this case, either.