Wednesday had a slight change of plans from the usual, since Steve had a bunch of work to do. That meant no Rock Band 3, so Stephanie and I pooled our resources for dinner—salad, chicken, and the last of the leftover enchiladas. And then we watched episode 6, season 4 of “Babylon 5″, “Into the [...]

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Monday: waded through the Augean Stables that my e-mailbox had become, and put out a number of fires that had cropped up while I was away. There wasn’t a whole lot that was really going on, actually. Tuesday: Found a serious filesystem problem on one of the backup machines. Somehow, it thought that one of [...]

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Thursday: Again, it was raining a lot. Went to several local stores, read books and magazines, played with the cats, and so forth. Friday: It was (still) raining, though not as hard as earlier. The trip to Mackinac Island was still off. But what the heck. We ended up not doing a whole lot, though [...]

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Vacation! Sort of. I spent most of the last week in Michigan, seeing the family. Sunday: Traveling. No surprises on any of the flights, though the Phoenix to Detroit flight was bumpier than usual. Monday: Less traveling, though we went to downtown Mt. Pleasant and took in all the sights and shops. This took less [...]

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Friday was relatively normal at work. Got just about everything set, since almost all of us are going on furlough and/or vacation in the next few weeks. I hope not many of the other folks will want drastic changes to a bunch of things, since we’ll be short-handed for a while. Had lunch with Temre [...]

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Let’s see. . . Wednesday had a whole bunch of stuff at work. It felt like every 30 seconds, someone had something minor that they needed me to do right away. And then there was a bizarre problem where someone couldn’t get to a directory, and it totally wasn’t obvious what had happened, and it [...]

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This is one of the giant storage arrays at the secondary datacenter. It’s got over 80T of disks in it. No idea what they use it for, but it must be really important. If you stand next to this cabinet, you can feel a ton of heat coming out from it, even though giant A/C [...]

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Monday! Well, there wasn’t that much really going on. A box had far too little disk space. After talking with some other folks, I figured out how we could reclaim at least a few percent of that space without causing any problems. We should be good for another month or two, we hope. (Our servers [...]

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Saturday didn’t have all that much going on. It was a peaceful day, though Stephanie and I watched a couple of episodes of “Babylon 5″. Sunday was a little more involved. I did laundry, got groceries, and made dinner. The entree above was a big part of dinner. I was going to make plantains to [...]

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Friday was pretty good, since I had the day off. Took some canned goods to the food bank, then tried again to find some kangaroo meat. Zach said he wanted “marsupial enchiladas”, it’s possible to buy kangaroo meat, therefore I should be able to do this. Of course, they didn’t have any at the specialty [...]

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