tired, so tired

need to get some solid sack time. Today was just silly. We think we've tracked down why the database is having the unholy kicked out of it on my little project of doom - it's the app. The Symmetrix is performing like a champ, the 6500 is doing well, and the database is ok. That leaves the app. In the meantime, I have 6 build documents to complete before Friday, and I got handed hostname allocation today. Bugger. Course, I'll get IP's and switch ports tomorrow, I just know it. On the upside, took my storage guys out for lunch at Zio's. Twas good to vent a little and eat some good food. Tonight I got chinese on my way home, and now my lovely bride is doing homework and watching tv while I play railroad tycoon II. Soon I'll sleep. Ch-hah - when I'm dead maybe.

quick update on the weekend

So after a really shitty day at work on Friday, I got to go trench and edge at the parents-in-law. They're away in California, so the children are attempting to surprise them no end. The MIL will be very pleased that her pond in the back yard is almost finished. So, in the end, I spent the evening acting as playground for the 5 and 3 year old niece and nephew. I put my back out seriously swinging them around, but good time was had by all. Yesterday was bitsy stuff - mowed the lawn, did stuff around the house, repotted some of the plants, put the planters in at the end of the driveway, then retired hurt with my back. Today was even lazier, but I got some CCNA study in - I'm getting close to being ready to take it, and then I'll start cracking on the Solaris 7 and 8 certs, as well as the EMC stuff and MCSE2000+I. Stop laughing - it's only to get to do the Citrix Administrator/Architect certs anyway, though I think the active directory stuff would be very useful. Dislocated and relocated my knee while changing sheets on the bed tonight - I'm starting to swell like a mother and bruise, but I should be ok by tomorrow. Must learn to do things right with my right knee. Watched "Sex and the city" which amuses me no end, and I'm about to go to bed cuz I'm tired with all the heat and work that's been going on.

yawn

almost time for bed. Long day. Too much paperwork, too much boredom, too much too much all at once. I've come to the conclusion that I'm inestimably bored, and so will be taking steps soon to relieve my boredom. I may well even go back to operations (gasp!). Need water. Need something to drink. Need a good nights sleep - last night the thunderstorms kept us up and then I had to drag myself out of bed by the scruff of the neck this morning to get out and on the road. sleep, and lots of it. good sleep. Watched "Chicken Run" tonight - must find Wallace and Gromit videos of "the wrong trousers"(!!) Nite nite.

do not want to be here today

I guess I just have run out of motivation at the moment. It's been a year of big changes so far and I'm a little burned out. 6 months of straight work without a break is really beginning to take its toll. Last night was branch meeting night. The worst part was the room - a little dinky conference room crammed to overflow with engineers, the air conditioning turned off at 6 (we were there until 8), it just was wrong. Driving home was even worse. If I'd have left work at the normal time, I would have missed the thunderstorm. But because it was 7:45pm when I got on the road, I went straight through it. Torrential rain, people pulling over to the side of the road (not even under the overpasses), it was bad. Did not sleep well last night at all. Too much going on inside my head. Now I'm at work and it's not where I want to be. Oh well.

zoop

tuesday. Of course, the weather waits until I'm 2 minutes from the office and then proceeds to dump rain on me. I am now wet and stinky thanks to the thunderstorm that has left a cloud not unlike a cloud of doom over the office. Much to be done today. I have build documentation to complete and I need to finish off some quoting and ordering and all that good stuff. No meetings except for one! Need to plan the move of servers from one datacenter to another. To top it all off, there is a branch meeting tonight which means I don't get home until 9 or so. Boo.

monday

it's monday everyone. just so you know. Disjointed weekend. Went and did stuff on Saturday including seeing Tomb Raider (not worth it, even for Angelina in tight fitting clothing), then pottered around the house on Sunday. This included spreading crap on the lawn and weeding. Didn't do a lick of work or study, helped in biology study, cooked dinner, took out garbage. Life is just so... boring sometimes. Not bad boring... in fact, boring is the wrong word. Routine is a good word.

edgy, a little strange

is how I feel today. I'm a little frustrated with life right now - nothing major, just discontent. Having my 6 month review yesterday got me thinking a lot about what I want to do in the next 6-12 months. Busy day today. Much to be done in terms of layout on the EMCs. Whee. Trying to nail down my training and stuff and get stuff done in between. My TODO list was like 15 today, and I completed them all, it's just that 15 more items turned up. Wheee. Lunch done, waiting for meetings, so I go now.

foop

I really should update this at night about the day before, if that makes any sense at all. Last night I went home and we took 2 of my nieces out to dinner at Backyard Burger (mmmm!) and then out to the parents-in-law to water plants while they are in California. It was fun - they're nice young people with their heads screwed on right. Then I spent some of last night catching up on email etc. Today started at $MUMBLE_TOO_EARLY and was pretty much RS until 10:30, when I went to the company offices for my semi-annual review. Basically, all goes well and I'm a good guy, alas, no pay increase yet. Pat on head for doing good job followed by lunch at copelands - 12oz of steak is just not enough! Back at work now and doing much paperwork. I have asked a project manager to find out from the vendor how the filesystems should be laid out, and if possible, what color the sky is. I HATE stupidity. Off home shortly.

short entry

too much to do, too much to think about. McVeigh is dead. He can rot in hell. didn't sleep well last night, for reasons unknown. I feel ok, just tired. played a lot of railroad tycoon II yesterday - maybe that had something to do with it. Not a bad drive in today, despite it being Crack-Weasel Monday and all.

rain rain rainity rain

it's raining again! Friday was a complete shambles. I was due to be shoehorned into a cubicle with my brother consultant from 7am to 12 midday. Ok, fine, I'll rearrange my schedule and be absent (as requested) for the move time. So I go out to Lee's Summit to our mondo data centers out there. Do much good, have some fun, then drive back to find.... nothing had moved! My phone and PC had not moved. Fscking morons! And during the while, the rest of Engineering had disappeared off to an all-hands meeting. So imagine this, if you will.. a floor full of cubicles, all empty except for 1 that has 2 people sitting in it. And they wonder why I want to leave. Saturday was bits and pieces day. I have sandals now so I do not kill people with my sweaty sneaker feet, and we watched "The Replacements" last night. I just got home from picking up Lamars donuts for breakfast - take it from me folks, Lamars and Krispy Kreme aren't in the same ballpark, let alone the same state. Now, I don't know what I'm going to do for the rest of the day. My lovely bride has an ookie eye, so I think rest and relaxation are the name of the game.

and then there was one...

this morning was not a good one. It was hot and muggy last night, and so I slept really badly. When the alarm went off I was not ready to get up, but dragged myself by the scruff of my neck out of bed and into the shower. Yesterday... meetings, meetings, meetings, too much work.. oh, and then Nice EMC Rep called me and said "I have 2 dugout tickets at the Royals game tonight - do you and your wife want to go". HELL YES. Totally ruled. 3rd base was 50 feet away and the Royals won! Only downside was that it was a wednesday night and I had to come into work today, but that's ok. Left the game at 10:30 or so, stopped by Sonic (mmmmm!) on the way to the parents-in-law to see them before they left for their 6 week sojourn to California today. Got home about 11:30 or so, tried to sleep but didn't drop off until midnight or so :-/ No more rain today! The bad part about that is that when I get home tonight I have to mow and fertilise. That's ok, but it's liable to be nasty outside. My lovely bride has a class that will run until 8 or so tonight, so I have the chance to do much when I get home :-)

will noone rid me of this errant rain?

It's raining *again*. I suppose I shouldn't bitch because it makes the grass grow, but for $DEITY's sake, enough! Long day yesterday. Missed a couple of meetings I didn't have to go to, alas, I seem to be paying for it today with a grand total of 2 hours out of the entire 8 free to do things other than meetings. Argh. My folks are currently in Indonesia and should be back in Australia today (at least today on the other side of the date line). Sounds like they had a blast in the UK. Me, I'm just tired. Too little sleep, too much work, too much crap, too much. And I want a puppy.

ARGH

damn you marcie & cynthia. Now *I* *WANT* *A* *DOG* *AGAIN*. Wah. Slow day. got a whole bunch of stuff done, and signed up to donate blood tomorrow. Hopefully I'll pass out during the Afternoon Of Meetings. It's thunderstormy again outside. Hope my car is ok.

rain rain rain

gads, has it been that long since I've updated my journal? Basically, it's been wet in the midwest for the last 3 days. It started on Friday with a thunderstorm, saturday was ok but overcast, sunday was weird - starting raining as we were coming back from home depot, and then it started to thunder and lightning and storm at around 10:30pm or so, and continued throughout the night. It was icky. There were thunderclaps right over the house and 10-15 seconds of sheet lightning all through the night. My lovely bride wasn't able to sleep hardly any of the night, and I got woken up a couple of times (by her and by the lightning). Saturday we went to see "Pearl Harbor". What an emotional rollercoaster that was. I mean, the romantic aspects were standard wartime romance cruft, but the battle scenes and the raw emotion portrayed got to me really badly. I was still shedding tears when I walked out of the theater. Sunday was supposed to be a day to Do Nothing. Instead, there was a minor fight about me going to get the paper at 7:30am (despite having been up until 11:30pm the night before), and then I had a sad time for a couple of hours. I just didn't feel happy, which I suspect was biorhythms being out. We ended up at Home Depot and bought a door which my lovely bride had been coveting for years and the F-I-L and I brought it home in his F-150 Lightning. That is one *sweet* truck. Fire engine red, 5.9L V8, very very very nice. Then the thunderstorms and crappy movies and now it's Monday. Renner was closed at the underpass to K-7. There was one lone car that had tried to drive through the standing water stuck out in the intersection, so I turned around and hit Lackman through to College. Now I'm at work churning out the build documents - I have 4 to send to the SA's "officially". Go me! Toodle whom.