The life of a sysadmin
Well, that was unneccessarily exciting...

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Current Mood: pleased

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and...
Just to make that repair job a bit more surreal, while I was on my way there and back I was listening to the BBC on the radio. They were talking live with journalists in combat zones, who were yelling over the sound of artillery fire. At one point they had to retreat, and kept transmitting throughout.

This isn't a bad sign about the war or anything like that - it just suddenly makes it very, very vivid that shooting is going on right now.

Sigh.

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and...
Random bit of dialogue with one of my TA's during our grading session tonight:

Kathryn: "Your computer is named olorin? You are such a geek..."

Me: "Wait a moment. You know that reference, and you're calling me a geek?!"

Have I mentioned that I have really cool TA's?

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Bugger
Well, it's now 2:30, and I've spent most of the day nursing sick computers. Right now I'm trying to get RAID to restart, which is proving to be an unnecessary pain in the ass because of some really poorly designed software.

I really hope I can make game tonight. I really do.

(Incidentally: If you're trying to send me e-mail, it may be a while. E-mails aren't being lost, but until the system is working again there's no way for me to receive them. Yes, I am the head sysadmin for the server where I get my mail... sigh...)

Update: Well, the system is working again, and I may well make it to game tonight. Of course, none of the backup systems are working, so my weekend just got more interesting...

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