I'm a Bad Person

[bjarvis]

I've been UNIX primary all of this week so I've barely had enough time to dash downstairs to get a salad for lunch. Today, I've passed the pager to the weekend guys so I'm off the hook.

Since I was in the vicinity for a separate business function, I indulged my sudden craving for a fast greasy McDonald's burger. Fortunately, my inner angel nudged me at the last minute, compelling me to replace my longing for a Big Mac with a mere double cheeseburger. Well, two of them actually. This small substitution hopefully staved off my eventual death-by-artery-clogging by a few hours, but I still feel dirty in a contented, satisfied kind of way.

Comments

[cubmike74.livejournal.com]

hold on a second there bucko. Am I understanding this correctly?
2 double cheesebugers < 1 big mac??

Not that I'm one to judge, look at me. I've known more than a few double cheeseburgers. LOL

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Off hand, I have no idea if 2 double cheeseburgers is truly < 1 big mac. I'm afraid to find out 'cause my feeling is that like Schrodinger's cat the answer is undetermined until one looks; thanks to Murphy's law, once one does look, the answer is the precise opposite of what one hoped for.

In short, I'm doomed either way so I'm indulging in a happy fantasy that 2 cb < 1 bm.

[bigmacbear]

"What have you done with the cat? It looks half-dead!"
-- Mrs. Schrödinger

[pagerbear.livejournal.com]

Passed the Pager?! To whom did you pass the Pager?!

I don't recall being asked if I wanted to be passed!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Relax and go with the flow... you'll like what happens next. :-)

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

I think congratulations are in order for surviving being primary. ;-)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

As ugly as the chore can be, it's actually better than it used to be several years ago.

When I started in the primary rotation in 1999, the servers tended to drop like flies regularly, there were no automatic failovers and/or clusters, switching to contingency was painful, disks and CPUs were unreliabable, automated monitoring was shaky and backups were sluggish. The pressure was incredible.

Nowadays, our servers are in clusters, load balancers redirect traffic as needed, we have durable SAN arrays, our monitoring is pretty good & interconnected and our backup libraries are vastly improved. In short, the pressure is vastly less intense than it used to be --thank god. I would have burnt out years ago otherwise.

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

I started sysadminning in 1999 and I recall that era, although I wasn't primary for anything until just before Y2K. When the other admins quit and I got to do the shutdown/startup. But it wasn't a high-pressure organization. ;-)

Now I'm back in a small shop without most of those amenities you list, but .... once again, luckily ..... it's not high pressure.

I absolutely burned out when I was in a high-pressure shop without good failovers/clustering/etc.

DOUBLE CHEESE / BIG MAC

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

two double cheeseburgers:
880 Calories, 46 Grams of fat

Big Mac:
540 Calories, 29 grams of fat

Re: DOUBLE CHEESE / BIG MAC

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I needed that. I'll start working on my funeral preparations now.

On the good side, I would have ordered two Big Macs so I saved 200 calories and 12g of fat.

Re: DOUBLE CHEESE / BIG MAC

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

to quote Schroedinger's cat:

"Don't open the box! Fer gawd's sake, don....."

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Screw Micky D's, it's pizza for me tonight. :-)