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when insomnia serves you well
Discovered around 11:00pm last night that we'd had another unexplained power failure at work and that my entire environment was down. This makes two weeks in a row, for exactly one-hour stretches at approximately the same time of night. Coincidentally, they've just built a new power plant on campus that they want to test and have bitched about how we keep makin' them give us advance notice. Unrelated facts? Who can say?
Anyhow, got my network back up around 11:15pm, then got most of my servers back up around midnight, then spent the next two hours trying to get my LDAP server back online with no luck (database corruption, backup server got toasted in last week's outage, yadda yadda.) Gave up a little after 2:00am and went to bed. So:
2:10ish: turn off light and go to bed
3:15ish: Ada wakes up crying and wants comforting.
3:45ish: Kieran wakes up but resettles himself, but not before waking me up.
4:25ish: cats have fight on my bed
5:00am: alarm clock goes off. Soft jazz maybe not best choice for waking up music.
Out of the house by 5:45, the Elder Child dropped off at classmate's house to catch the bus later at 6:15, sprogs dropped off with very groggy daycare person at 6:30, I walk in door at work at 7:00am for a 10 hour OSHA safety training course. During short bathroom breaks between learning about scaffolds, trenches, electricity, and the intricacies of navigating stairs, fired up the Happy Little Laptop and worked on database problem. Fed us lunch (inedible) during ongoing training, no escape. Let us go finally a little early at 4:15pm, finally get LDAP back up and running (w/ concerted team effort) about five minutes ago.
Very sleepy now. Hopefully will not fall asleep on drive home. Leaving work shortly to go get kids and go home. Take-out for dinner sounds very good (wish someone delivered to my hidey-hole in the woods.)
Best phrase from safety training:
"Stairways: each trip up or down is the start of a new adventure."
Anyhow, got my network back up around 11:15pm, then got most of my servers back up around midnight, then spent the next two hours trying to get my LDAP server back online with no luck (database corruption, backup server got toasted in last week's outage, yadda yadda.) Gave up a little after 2:00am and went to bed. So:
2:10ish: turn off light and go to bed
3:15ish: Ada wakes up crying and wants comforting.
3:45ish: Kieran wakes up but resettles himself, but not before waking me up.
4:25ish: cats have fight on my bed
5:00am: alarm clock goes off. Soft jazz maybe not best choice for waking up music.
Out of the house by 5:45, the Elder Child dropped off at classmate's house to catch the bus later at 6:15, sprogs dropped off with very groggy daycare person at 6:30, I walk in door at work at 7:00am for a 10 hour OSHA safety training course. During short bathroom breaks between learning about scaffolds, trenches, electricity, and the intricacies of navigating stairs, fired up the Happy Little Laptop and worked on database problem. Fed us lunch (inedible) during ongoing training, no escape. Let us go finally a little early at 4:15pm, finally get LDAP back up and running (w/ concerted team effort) about five minutes ago.
Very sleepy now. Hopefully will not fall asleep on drive home. Leaving work shortly to go get kids and go home. Take-out for dinner sounds very good (wish someone delivered to my hidey-hole in the woods.)
Best phrase from safety training:
"Stairways: each trip up or down is the start of a new adventure."