My cat's sleeping on my desk next to me right now, using my spindle of driver CD's as a pillow.
It looks to be one of the most un-comfortable positions he could have possibly adopted given the number of nearby, infinitely-more-squishy-than-CD-like objects he could otherwise have used.
Not surprisingly, he doesn't seem to mind at all.
Ho-hum.
Thursday... Yeah. Not really sure what to make of this week.
Was doing some work in the town where all our Carrier-WAN services terminate, and then hop onto the internet at large.
Figured seeing as I was there, I'd swap the NPE in one of our 7200 routers which was over-due for an upgrade, save our other sysadmin some time.
Wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be. Since migrating all the OSPF areas into one gigantic area 0 backbone (for various amusing reasons, chief among which were non-contiguous areas), the resulting outage of 15 seconds was hardly painful. Was kinda neat to see paths re-converge on the already balancing alternate router.
Naturally, the day following, my 'What did I miss?'-o-meter was nagging me. Waiting... patiently... to strike at the opportune moment. Fortunately, it's moment never came.
However, there was a minor power failure in the co-lo from where fluctuator spends it's days serving up it's vast bounty of useless information to literally tens of users.
Amidst the chaos, what I initially assumed to a PSU failure alarm in the chassis, is actually an alarm for the 5v on the system board.
Well, balls... Guess I'm calling Dell tomorrow... What was briefly 'Redundant PSU's, no problem!' is suddenly a little more irritating.
Oh-well, that's just how it goes I guess. Maybe they can tell me where those rack rails I asked for got to while I'm at it.
Hmm. I forgot how much I enjoy driving at night during the winter.
Clear sky, almost completely full moon, fresh snowfall, music just loud enough to drown out the sound of the studded tyre-roar.
The cataclysmic state of the roads also ensured a quiet drive - only a half-dozen or so vehicles the whole way.
Tired sarlok, is tired. In many more ways than one.
Not sure why, but think I finally came to this realization sometime tonight.
Toodles.
