and so it goes

Monday again, everyone. Just in case you were wondering. The weekend was pretty good. Saturday was a hodge podge of things - mowed lawn, cleaned house, did a bunch of little jobs. Went and purchased multiple things for the house - new sink, shutters etc. Sunday was Chiefs Fan Day. We went out to Arrowhead to watch the mini-training and we both got a little sunburned. Not too bad, especially for this lad from the wide brown land down under. But for the light skinned of the world.. Watered lawns and generally puttered around the house - garbage day for us is on Monday, so Sunday is "find crap to throw out". Now, I'm at work. Slept pretty well last night. I have Evil Plans(tm) brewing in the back of my head which is making sleep a little difficult, but I am sleeping. Now, if I could just get a little more energy during the day.. Oh, and my parents-in-law made it back from their sojourn to Nebraska. My MIL has laryngitis. She always gets sick when she goes to Nebraska. This can only be a sign, but given that FIL is *from* Nebraska, alas, the sign cannot be heeded all that easily. Anyhoo, at work, working, will continue to work. Busy day, but hopefully the Other Evil Plans will come off today.

foop

well, today was a busy day. woke at 6, was out of the house by 6:30 due to having to make copies of the build documents I handed off today. Got into work at 7:25 (good drive in!) and proceeded to kill some trees. Missed the daily conference call, but that's ok. Went and handed off documentation, made it through alive, then went to meeting about Project With Idiot in Charge. Got to meet the storage admin I've been working with a lot lately, and picked his brains and he picked mine and many clues were exchanged between he, the EMC SE who I want desperately to be just like, and myself. Got >< close to smacking the project manager with a big stick for being stupid, though I have a Evil Plan to make it all right. Missed conference call on my albatross project (eg, ancient mariner), missed big project con call, missed lunch with the other contractors due to EMC guy taking me out to lunch. Cool! Back for another meeting on storage, had brain wave that not only delivers the development environment for the follow-on project to the big project 3 months early, but also frees up space in the load testing environment (we have a full symmetrix, well, ok, it's one of many full symmetrixen we have), AND frees up floor space and power in the DC at the building I'm in. I'm so smart sometimes. Then I picked up chinese for our survivor night, and we ate crab rangoon and laughed at the poor sods on the show. Now I need to sleep. Moni's news makes me happy, and it's friday and payday tomorrow, and my lovely bride was accepted into her university of choice for her bachelors! All in all, a good week!

foop

so, the morning began at 4am. My lovely bride can only fall asleep with the TV on, and after an indeterminate time. So what inevitably happens is that the TV is on all night. It doesn't bother me at all, because I can sleep through anything (viz. the thunderstorms a couple of nights ago that kept her away and had me snoring away next to her). What does wake me up is "Cops", which comes on at 4am. I don't know what it is, but it just wakes me up like clockwork. So I wake up, realise it's 4am, and go back to sleep. Anyhow, we finished most of the bathroom last night. Got the border up after the paint had dried for a day, and I proved my manliness by hanging a shelf. Go me. I need to hang the towel rail and another shelf and we should be done. After that, it should be a matter of repainting downstairs in the guest bedroom and bathroom and then allowing my lovely companion, bride and decorator to go nuts. She's torn between asian influence and doing an Australian theme. I don't mind which - I think her decorating tastes are impeccable. So I got into work at 7:30, was on the daily call by 8, then spent an hour beating the head of a PM in with Yet Another Review of his project. Had a chance to talk to one of the developers, and I'm pretty sure we're on the same page as regaring the Two Projects In One Body (tm). Now I have mountain dew and documentation to write, so I go now.

busy busy busy

busy this morning. Woke up at 6am, out of the house by 6:45am, at work by 7:25am. Straight onto the conference call at 8 and the cans of worms open as launch date approaches. We finished painting the bathroom last night, and it looks cool! The blue make the room seem a little larger, and I need to do some work on the shelves and stuff that are going in to make sure they sit flush against the wall when they hang. The bedroom decorating is almost done, with just the bitsy stuff to hang on the wall. Spackle makes filling holes so much easier. Need to fertilise the lawn tonight. The wind has dropped off and it's very nice out there today. Which sucks because I'm stuck inside, while the rest of the troops head off an an all-hands. This is just getting silly. IP addresses should be on the way. yay. that means completed document. All we need now is power to the racks and we're done!

awooga!

it's monday. Monday. Monday! A pretty good weekend, if a little stormy weather-wise. Thunderstorms in KC. Spent Saturday variously stripping wallpaper and cleaning. Pretty good day. Slept right through the bad thunderstorms overnight, much to the amazement of my lovely bride. Sunday was a nice day, if very windy. Did some shopping, mowed the lawn, waited for the thunderstorms to arrive (they did), stripped more wallpaper, hung a shelf, generally puttered around. Now I'm back at work. With any luck, I'll be ready to hand off the small pile of documentation I've been working on for the past 3 days, and my project engineer is back and can go to the meetings I went to last week for him. Much to be done, so I work now.

gads, busy!

i'm busy but productive. This is a change from being a hamster in the wheel. Mucho documentation done today. The cables have had their PO cut, I've ordered many more CPUs and memory, and things proceed apace elsewhere. Just got to finish the build documents and I'll be on easy street tomorrow. Oh, and the status report. Back to it - my coke is almost done, but I'm on a roll.

almost time for bed

8:30 is just too early. Where did my youth go? Made it through the day. Too much work, not enough time, and I have left a critical piece of email at work. Which means what I want to do I can't tonight. Bah. Sleep, bed, laugh at boot camp. Yay me. Night.

biddle

still working away. Lots accomplished. Need to keep at it though. Funny how network access gets so much quicker when noone else is around :-)

busy busy busy

the rest of IT is disappearing off to an offsite, so the contractors are left running the shop. I'm pretty damn busy. Ick. Too much documentation, too much other crap, and not enough time. Oh, and all the people I need to talk to are away at... the offsite! I swear, companies need to realise that they're paying contractors to sit on their asses for this time due to the rest of the division off having warm and fuzzies. Bleh.

good weekend?

mine was pretty good. Went to the doctor on friday afternoon to discover that I have bronchitis and am overweight. Duh. Spent saturday variously in bed or suffering from stomach cramps from the antibiotic, and at easter family gathering. Early night to bed as I was fairly stuffed. Sunday was a good day. new clothes for me, mowed and edged the lawn, then helped out with homework. You know, I every so often have pangs of not hacking endlessly, and then a nice day like yesterday and I don't care. The weather here has turned coldish. It'll maybe get to 60 today, and won't warm up until Thursday or so. Good drive in today - zipped all the way along Renner from Midland to avoid the crush of 2 lanes of traffic turning into one, and to keep out of the right lane. Need to gas up on the way home, and I really need to reburn my driving CD as it's all scratched. Rage Against The Machine do not handle skipping all that well. Off to meeting.

day 2 of the lurgy

yes, I survived the night. Actually, I don't feel too bad this morning. I'm still congested in my chest, but the volume of phlegm (ew!) is much less. Yay. Drive into work was more fun than the drive home last night. The crack-crazed monkeys were out in force again, but this time, it was pouring with rain! Huzzah! If there was something that was really need to spin out the monkeys, it's a lot of rain. So, needless to say, it was an interesting drive home. Work goes ok - there are a whole bunch of folks out to a Sun presentation on the SunFire servers. I, alas, have meetings all morning so can't attend. But hey, what are you going to do? I am kontractor-skum, so I am not allowed to go. Boo hiss. On the plus side, it means I can get a lot of work done, that is if the scum who are doing the datacenter move can stop being loud and obnoxious. I can tell there is Trouble Brewing.

today

must be "Drive like a Crack-Crazed Monkey Day", and noone told me. I drive fast but safe. I even see the speed limit occasionally. But lots of people doing 85mph on a bad stretch of road scare me. The trooper at the roadworks must be doing an awful lot of business today :-) In other news, the lurgy seems to have spread. I have a chesty cough, a stuffed head and I sound husky. I have been drowning myself in orange juice and I feel ok (no headache or other nasty things), I just look and sound worse than I feel. More vitamin C for me.

did I mention..

I watched the matrix on saturday night? Now I wait for the exchange server to stop doing it's brick impersonation so I can get back to work. Whee.

boo doop be doo

ta da! I have returned from the weekend! not much to report. The weather took a turn for the hotter and more humid, which was ok. A chance to air out the house. Put up 2 ceiling fans - the living room now has a ceiling fan, as does the office. Yay us. Wasn't too much of a hassle, though I'm going to have to track down the reason why the office fan vibrates a lot. Sunday I got my haircut (the annual summer shearing), and then dumbly mowed the lawn at 1pm. Came into the house and drank an awful lot of water, then retired hurt with a migraine. Slept (with the aid of tylenol pm) from 6 until 6, so I guess the combination of hard work while a little ill plus caring for my sick bride conspired against me. I'm ok this morning, tho. With the exception of dumb drivers. A little explanation. I take I-435 S to work every day. This normally not too bad. Up to the State Line it's great - small amounts of traffic, few cops. After State Line, the Kansas drivers arrive. There is currently two sets of work going on in a 3 mile stretch of road - they're working on the bridges over Midland Drive. So the road goes from 3 lanes to 2 to 1. Now I don't have the best eyesight in the world, but even I can see and interpret the signs on the road side stating that there is roadwork ahead, that it's a 55mph zone, that there is the left lane closed 1/2 mile ahead, that the 2 left lanes are closed 1/2 mile further on, and then the freaking big blinky arrows pointing right. $!$!#@!!@! Then, I hit the offramp to 87th Street, and there is some idiot in his nice new SUV who is in the left lane, indicating a left turn, then pulls out into the right lane right in front of me, still indicating left. I mean, I can understand that the driver is a lazy plonker, but it's stupid in the first degree to pull that kinda crap. Anyhoo, weekend survived, and now back to the fun and games.

bah

jesus h christ on a pogo stick, is it that difficult for HP to find a particular model hub? Yes, hub. Don't bitch at me that we need a switch, it won't work. ServiceGuard is a pain in the butt about this. In other news, I think the procurement manager needs... nah, I won't say it. It's not very nice. Too many meetings, too many crap hacks to cover mistakes, blah blah blah.

snore

almost time for bed. It's been a long day. Lunch with the boss went well - i just sent him my list of training requirements. It's about 2 pages long, and represents an awful lot of $$. I hope he doesn't fall out of his chair. Work was pretty good today. Solved a few problems, smacked a few heads. The operations manager was having a Really Bad Hair Day. I mean, her hair was _awful_. I smell a bug in netbackup (shaddap Van), which is nuking 3 out of the 18 streams after 100GB of backup. Saundo no like, bad juju. Time for sleep.

bah

too little sleep, too much going on. My lovely bride is currently ill, but she's at school, so it can't be too bad. I, on the other hand, remain robustly healthy. Boo for me. Lunch with the boss today - it should be a productive time. Zio's is apparently a good restaurant, so we shall see.

zoom

and yea verily, we did get a full nights sleep, we did have a good drive in, and we are slowly making everything right in the world. The weekend was pretty good. A little cold, but this week sees the first really good temperatures after a long winter. Got a bunch of stuff done, except a haircut for me. I'm a little shaggy at the moment. The niece birthday party yesterday was fun. Got to meet more of the extended family, and the terrible twosome (niece and nephew) proceeded to expend vast amounts of energy in wrestling, tumbling, and general mayhem. the day has yet to really begin, so it's more coffee for me!