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• Being successful is failing.
• A smile costs tears of blood.
• A laugh is approaching death.
• Having a good day means giving life away.
• Sweet words are misunderstanding.
• Light creates shadows.
• The end has just begun.

Schw�chen

Du hattest keine.

Ich hatte eine:

Ich liebte.

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-Bertolt Brecht

August 13, 2008

Next on the traveling schedule was Richmond Virginia.� What a great trip only 4 hours!!!� It was a prefect weekend in Richmond.� The weather was beautiful, our capacities at the school were reasonable; it was just an all around good time.� Friday night “the guys” wanted to go cart racing.� I opted to go, my work partner decided to stay back at the hotel.� Shannon’s first trip with the school was Iowa.� She’s a great gal but life on the road had not been good for her – particularly concerning her bowels, if you get what I mean.� So she decided to stay in that night and take a little medicine to try and relieve herself.� The last trip she tried exlax, this time it was a 6 pack of bud light.� So we arrive at the go track – it is an indoor facility.� When we get in side and I take a look I realize this is not “mini golf” type go cart place, this is serious!� The first round my goal was just to hang in there, not embarrass myself and certainly not to sustain any major industries.� I did not do too bad my first round, although most of it was a complete blur because I just held the gas down and tried as hard as I could to make every turn.� After some advice from my coworkers on how to navigate the track I improved significantly, I even passed one of the boys.� It was really a blast but by the time we were finished with the 3^rd round my arms were wasted.� I don’t think I could have gone again, thankfully it was late and we needed to head back to the hotel.� The road show is on a break now for 2 weeks.� JGRS has offered me work in the office to keep me employed fulltime while we are not traveling.� I don’t to anything very exciting.� I’m kind of the odd jobs gal, but works work right now.� I did follow up with the Cabarrus County Visitors Bureau and they are still 30 – 60 days out on make a decision.� While I what to hear more about that job I will continue at JGRS.� They are two more traveling dates this month, Atlanta and Talladega.� I have been to Atlanta before and Talladega should be interesting.

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August 13, 2008

Next on the traveling schedule was Richmond Virginia.� What a great trip only 4 hours!!!� It was a prefect weekend in Richmond.� The weather was beautiful, our capacities at the school were reasonable; it was just an all around good time.� Friday night “the guys” wanted to go cart racing.� I opted to go, my work partner decided to stay back at the hotel.� Shannon’s first trip with the school was Iowa.� She’s a great gal but life on the road had not been good for her – particularly concerning her bowels, if you get what I mean.� So she decided to stay in that night and take a little medicine to try and relieve herself.� The last trip she tried exlax, this time it was a 6 pack of bud light.� So we arrive at the go track – it is an indoor facility.� When we get in side and I take a look I realize this is not “mini golf” type go cart place, this is serious!� The first round my goal was just to hang in there, not embarrass myself and certainly not to sustain any major industries.� I did not do too bad my first round, although most of it was a complete blur because I just held the gas down and tried as hard as I could to make every turn.� After some advice from my coworkers on how to navigate the track I improved significantly, I even passed one of the boys.� It was really a blast but by the time we were finished with the 3^rd round my arms were wasted.� I don’t think I could have gone again, thankfully it was late and we needed to head back to the hotel.� The road show is on a break now for 2 weeks.� JGRS has offered me work in the office to keep me employed fulltime while we are not traveling.� I don’t to anything very exciting.� I’m kind of the odd jobs gal, but works work right now.� I did follow up with the Cabarrus County Visitors Bureau and they are still 30 – 60 days out on make a decision.� While I what to hear more about that job I will continue at JGRS.� They are two more traveling dates this month, Atlanta and Talladega.� I have been to Atlanta before and Talladega should be interesting.

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August 6, 2008

Newton Iowa???� I had never heard of it either.� But it was the next stop on the road tour.� It’s actually a town of about 15,000.00 about 30 minutes outside of Des Moines and is home to Iowa Speedway.� It’s a track that was designed by Rusty Wallace several years ago.� Friday was a pretty good day at the track, not too hectic so the gang decided to head out for some entertainment.� After some pretty intense discussions it was decided we would go bowling!� Newton has a nice 12 lane AMF bowling alley.� I, believe it or not, was the high bowler for the first game.� Things went down hill after that.� It’s not that I got worse, it’s just that everyone else got better.� The trip to Iowa was one of the longest I had been on.� Typically it would have been a 17 hour trip, but on the way up out box truck was having mechanical problems so that put us behind schedule.� It took us about 20 hrs to get to the hotel.� Things did not get better on the ride home.� We came across traffic that was at a complete stand still.� There we sat for over 2 hours.� So once again another 20 hour trip.�

Crying only a little bit

is no use.� You must cry

until your pillow is soaked!

Then you can get up and laugh,

Then you can jump in the shower

and splash-splash-splash!

Then you can throw open your

window and "Ha, ha! Ha, ha!"

And if people say, "Hey,

What's going on up there?"

"Ha ha!" sing back, "Happiness

was hiding in the last tear!

I wept it! Ha Ha."

-Galway Kinnell "Crying"

quoted p. 219, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self,� Stephen Cope

"You don't weep unless you've been happy first: tears always mean something enviable."

- Graham Greene, Journey Without Maps, p. 35

Good morning.

7:30 - talking with Becky on IM

- Clover & Basil need to be added to the backup rotation.� Opened ticket 469134 to (ch)InkPen and pointed lgto to haydn for backups.

- Becky already talked with Staph-O about monitoring.

8:00 - Emails floating about regarding IM00105055 and the SMTP routing of inbound and outbound mail through our parent company's Domino servers.� This is probably what's killing my POP3 on the Blackbird project and I sent an email to Rob (THE HORACE GUY) about it.

8:30 Not sure if the ENG/OPS meeting is still on, but I'm double booked with this and PD2.� PD2 will be priority.

- No call yet from wick prick regarding the changes made to the DOCU boxes.

8:55 - Need to add a few user accts for people in Dev:

Prince Chili Longhorn: sudo access

Wick Prick : account in dev portal with sudo

*********

9:00 - Things I NEED to get done today

- Switch off password prompt on sudo in non-prod

- verify nsswitch.conf entries are files ldap winbind for passwd & dns files for hosts

**********

9:00 - ENG/OPS meeting.� DC got all hung up on my desire to shut off the password prompt for non-prod.� I really wish that people would refrain from offering opinions on technology that they neither use, nor understand.� kthxbye.

10:15 Rob (THE HORACE GUY) says to use� entddcmfs01 instead of ohcollnp039 for PFF so I forwarded that out to Prince Chili Longhorn and Tigger.

10:30 - Finally joined the team meeting, already in progress.

�12:55 : Non-prod: verified nsswitch.conf orders and set PermitRoot to NO in the sshd_config file, restarted sshd.� For NON Prod, all direct root access is officially gone.

- The wick Pricks are still testing my script changes.� They had one weird issue which Chops couldn't find a reason for and they can't reproduce it, so we're going to assume all is OK.�

- Just for clarification, the changes I made to their scripts make the WICK DOCU environment function the way it was originally designed and documented.� I have remediated the jackassery done by whomever thought they were clever and re-wrote them to do something they should never have done to begin with.

- Friday Night Change control - Must fix prod scripts for WICK ::before:: altering the the sshd_config or changing the root password in Prod.

1:45 - Becky needs me to check the OV environment to make sure the mail relay hosts are pointing to the right place.� apricot, iris, basil, and clover are the kids I checked first - apricot has 'mailhost' instead of 'mail', but they resolve the same so I'm okay with leaving them as-is.