[rescue] happy new years and shit like that

[Fogg, James]

Bill and Amy get the vote for worst New Years (my condolences).

I have been on call since Thursday, but the company is shutdown for the
Holidays, so not much BS. We learned long ago that if we can keep the
programmers away from stuff that everything runs fine.

So, I had to stay home. Watched Shreck on DVD (what a riot) and fell asleep
around 11:30. Wife tried to wake me, but I was dead. Next day I watched
Office Space. That was a great movie for anyone in the techno fields. I
swear that I have worked with most of those people in the past (Vicinity has
a great staff, nothing like Office Space).

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
~ Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:24 AM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [rescue] happy new years and shit like that
~ 
~ 
~ On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:22:30PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
~ > What did everyone else do?
~ 
~ Amy was here at teh house, with a 101F temp and the flu; I 
~ spent the night
~ shuttling back and forth between work and home, taking care of her.
~ 
~ here's how yesterday went:
~ 
~ Was supposed to be my day off, since I was the ONLY unix admin on duty
~ last week during the holidays, and have been pushing some 
~ serious overwork
~ lately.
~ 
~ Went to bed 9:30 Sunday night.  Woke up 9am Monday morning.   
~                       
~ 9:10 shower.
~ 9:40 finish thawing, out of shower.
~ 9:50 reading email.  email from work. "hope youre reading 
~ email today.."
~ 9:55 head into office to reboot linux box, it will only take 
~ five minutes
~ 10:05 -                                                       
~                   
~         Reboot <linux box> that went down.                       
~         boss: "oh, while you're here, can you bounce <other 
~ box>?"              
~         me: sure.                                             
~                   
~         <bounce other box>                                    
~                   
~         <get page, <big alphaserver> is down>                 
~                   
~         <go start the 15-minute boot process on big 
~ alphaserver>                
~         <finish booting alphaserver>                          
~                   
~         <go to lunch>                                         
~                   
~         <come back>                                           
~                   
~         boss: "<rs6k> has been down since thursday, they just 
~ bothered          
~                to tell us.. can you please take a look at 
~ it?"                  
~         <send corefile to compaq for alphaserver>             
~                   
~         boss: "oh , btw, that rs6k will need a monitor and 
~ keyboard"            
~         <haul 20" ibm monitor w/cable, rs6k kb/mouse, out to 
~ truck>             
~         <haul equipment 3 blocks away to other building>      
~                   
~         <get equipment up steps and into building>            
~                   
~         <spend 20 minutes trying to get card access into PBX 
~ room>              
~         < get access into pbx room>                           
~                   
~         < .. rs6k has no video card.>                         
~                   
~         <go back to office>                                   
~                   
~         <find laptop, install redhat>                         
~                   
~         <go home, get serial "connect anything to anything" 
~ cables>             
~         <go back 3 blocks to work>                            
~                   
~         <haul laptop over to other building>                  
~                   
~         <connect up laptop, no response from serial console>  
~                   
~         <say fuck it, go home>                                
~                   
~ 6:15pm - home for the day, after my "just take five minutes" reboot.
~                                                               
~                   
~ Boss said "please, take wednesday off. I'm sorry."            
~                   
~ 
~ 11:15pm - page.  <alphaserver> is down again.  
~ 11:24pm - ">>> boot [ENTER]" (yes, I'm < 5 minutes from work)
~ 11:42pm - "<system> console login:"
~ 11:50pm - back at home with Amy
~ 12:00am - happy new year.
~ 5:00am - head to bed.  Woke up at 2pm or so today, I think.
~ 
~ Bill
~ 
~ -- 
~ Bill Bradford
~ mrbill at mrbill.net
~ Austin, TX
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