You Must be This Insane to Ride this Ride

[bjarvis]

My rollercoaster of a day has begun.

Bad: I've just wasted 90 minutes trying to get a wretched Sun Microsystems 6800 to boot correctly so I can upgrade it to Solaris 10. I knew I had to correct the network interface alias in the boot prom but I didn't know the boot prom has a bug such that the "network-boot-arguments" parameter must be cleared or the machine will fail on booting. Bloody figures.

Good: At least the machine is booting correctly now and I can get on with the upgrade.

Good: My boss sent me a note saying that I've been awarded a small one-time performance bonus. At the moment, I have no idea when it will arrive in my paycheck, how much it will be or why it was awarded. Some particularly happy customer? some special project? lifetime achievement? not going postal? Your guess is as good as mine currently.

Bad: I'm still the on-call UNIX primary point-of-contact.

Good: This is my last day as such and it has been rather light this week, all things considered.

Bad: It could still all go straight to hell before the day is out.

Good: Tomorrow is payday.

Good: cuyahogarvr just wrote to say that my car's windshield has been replaced. I just need to avoid stressing it at all in the next 24 hours to let the sealant do its thing.

Comments

[bradferd23.livejournal.com]

Ohh... The Dear Employer could give you another $10,000 worth of stock!!! giggle... Yeah, right...

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

That would be 12,500 shares at the current price. I'd be a majority shareholder. :-^

[apparentparadox]

How do you avoid stressing the windshield sealant? Do you have to drive like an old lady, avoiding those high-speed turns on two wheels? Or do you have to keep all those super-models from sprawling across the car?

Or, maybe you just have to avoid the "cop pulls over bad boy" scenes for a day?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

In this case, it's pretty mundane: drive smoothly and open the windows before closing the car doors to ensure air pressure doesn't push the windshield out.

We were planning to take kent4str's PrincessMobile to squaredancing tonight so my chariot wasn't going to see use until early tomorrow anyway.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

I thought it meant you just weren't supposed to yell at it.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Not that I'd object to any "cop pulls over bad boy" scene either... you volunteering? :-)

[apparentparadox]

I don't volunteer for anything!

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you didn't volunteer to be Oscar... ;-)

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

Some particularly happy customer? some special project? lifetime achievement? not going postal? Your guess is as good as mine currently.

Shameless bribe to get you not to leave?

Bad?

[caller-dayle.livejournal.com]

Brian said: "Bad: It could still all go straight to hell before the day is out."

That's always true every day, in every situation, in all geographies with all people. I'd vote to change "Bad" to "Something I try not to think about but is nagging at me today."

Or you can just ignore the anal retentive wordsmith formerly known as caller-dayle, and stick with the pattern.