10:20pm:
Oh christ what a day.� I started out 30 minutes late.� That's no big deal really, except I missed a txt message from Slick saying, "Mapquest says there's a big fire by work.� Should I be worried?"� I never did find out if he was joking about that, but man I was getting nervous as I got closer & closer to the office late.
Finally I texted him back saying, "I'm not afraid of a little smoke.� But I'm running 30 late." he replys, "Me Too".� Which is a real funny between the two of us because we're always joking about how we never get into the office before 9am.� On the occasions that we bump into one another on the way in, we inevitably crack up laughing about our tardiness and the fact that nobody cares.
Once at the office I ran upstairs looking for Slick at his cube, but he wasn't there so I went across the street to the P3 building which is about 1/4 mile away in the 9:30am burning-fucking-desert-heat of 109 degrees already.� I had to go to the Security office to get a temp badge because I forgot mine and strolled around the entire half-circle of the campus building down to the stairway that leads up to Margie's desk where I ran into Slick in the hallway...just arriving.� We take one look at each other and crack up laughing.� He says, "I was just texting you to tell you where I was."� I say, "I love this fucking job." and we giggle like a couple of kids all the way in to Margie's office.
Margie isn't there.� There's a guy from XYZ there who's assiting Margie (read: doing the work for Margie), in the task of migrating over from one SAN switch to the other.� Slick and I decide to go downstairs for coffee.
Keep in mind that I had just rushed upstairs from the parking garage, ran into my desk, back out of the building, across the street 1/4 mile in the desert, into security, obtained the badge, ran another 1/5 mi around the building, up the stairs, to her desk, back down the stairs and into the cafeteria in under 10 minutes.� My metabolism was running high already on the 2 cups of high-caffiene coffee I drank on an empty stomach.� Now I'm dumping more hot coffee into my system.� I started getting icky and sweaty.� I said, "I'm running like a speed freak." to Slick, and he looks at me and says, "Yea, somebody might think something's up."
So I decided to slow down on the coffee, and went to the ladies room to wipe the dripping sweat from my brow.�
We got the operation under weigh, had it done and the meeting over in less than an hour.� Which blew both of us away, it went way too fast.� Frankenstein Hair said he has an instruction sheet for the process and wouldn't let Slick or I stop to read it and write anything down, so fuck if I know if its any good.� We're doing another test tomorrrow.
== I need to make a note about the fix for samba on zeppelin.�
-- Stop pointing samba mounts to redmond washington for authentication, move them to athens georgia instead.� Make the changes for winbind in the nsswitch.conf file if they aren't already.� all three of them matter.� then alter both the krb5 file and the smb file, recycle them and it should work.�
-- Fix the damn samba mounts on the killian LM servers for Opie.
-- see about the openldap 2.2.13 package on RHEL3/9 instead of the 2.0.27 package� Talk to Tammy about it if you have to.
-- Lunch with the CIO went well I think.� I told Joey that I was doing a lot more work than I should be, but that I love my job and wouldn't work anyplace else.� I love what I do, the people I work with, and the environment and freedoms I'm given as an employee.� And that is 100% true.� I do bitch about my job in my journal here, and I make snyde comments and jokes about people, but I really do like my job.� For all its silliness and faults.� And I think the old Salty Dogs who run the place are a bunch of nice men and women who really, genuinely care about their employees.� They show it in the way they treat us, the benefits and freedoms they give us, and the honest loyalty that they build with the people who work for them.� And I must say I think I'm lucky , and proud to work at an American Company in the United States, with fewer than 2000 employees.�
Our party on Saturday was wonderful! Couldn't have wished for better. Everyone that was here had a very good time, loads of food, and great laughs.
Mandy and Scarlet were so grateful, it made me feel so good inside to hear it. I had done so much work for the party and hoped they'd appreciate it and they did, bigtime!
We took loads of pictures, which sounds logical but I'm such a goof and usually forget to take them, so I'm happy I didn't this time. I got some great shots of all my kids together, which we know doesn't happen too often and they look so happy. I believe they really do love each other and getting together helps them remember those feelings.
I'm planning to have copies of the pix made and we can put them in the album we got for the girls, which we'll give them on Thursday. The big day!
What a trip it is to think that my daughter is gettng married. I recently attended the wedding of my neighbor's daughter. It was in the planning for a long time, official invitations went out, the catholic church was reserved, a lovely ballroom was booked and the catered event was perfect�in everyway. Nicole looked stunning in her flowing white dress, her husband-to-be was so dashing in his tux, large improvement over his baggie shorts and tshirts!
We will have none of that, Mandy wants it simple. She said that in the future there could be a formal ceremony for their friends and family that won't be attending on Thursday.
On the one hand, I'm happy, on the other, I'm not.
You gotta let your children go, let them have their lives, enjoy their ups and stand by in the downs. I find myself thinking, "how does this reflect on me?"
2:30 pm:
Today makes exactly two weeks that I have been out of the hospital---Happy happy!
I called Steve today and took the car to him. He says the car is going into two gears at once. He has a big project he's working on and won't get to the car until Thursday.� I left the car there because what can I do? The car won't go in reverse!� he says he has to look up some info on the computer to see what it can be. It may help to change the fluid out..but if that doesn't work then he will have to take the transmission apart--and that will cost A LOT!
So Wanda's moving out of my dad's house!!!� YEAH!! Although it can't be pleasant to have the person you love move out twice!� She pisses me off!� She's using the truck so when she's done with it I will be able to use it.�
But I am hanging out at dad's house today. I rented more movies!� I have rented over 17 movies this month! Guess I have to catch up on the movies sooner or later.
My sugar went really low around 12:30 pm today. I was watching a movie at my dads and didn't feel well. So I took my blood and it was 70. I asked my dad for some oj and i drank two small glasses...that's a lot for me.
I didnt sleep so well last night. I was up most of the night. So I called my diabetic dr and asked her to please give me some liquid sleep meds.� I am still waiting for a call back.� The blood work is not back yet either.
Ok..well enough for now.
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- Seriously fucko weekend.� Friday night went out with Chez for a drink or two, took her back to her car around 7 so she could meet up with Kellie to see a movie.� Didn't want to tag along so I stopped at a borders books for a while and read before driving home.
- Saturday I got up late and went out with Auriel shopping for motorcycles (Vulcan 900 classic maybe), went to the Can't Stop the Serenity charity event, had a really late dinner and stayed up half the night watching Sopranos.
- Sunday, got up and went straight to Urgent Care to see wtf is wrong with my throat.� I swear something is stuck in there and driving me half nuts.� They took an x-ray and said they don't see anything.� I should go for more xrays today but fuck it, I have too much work to do.�
- I talked with my mom & one of my brothers on IM for about half the night, watched the end of Sopranos Season 1 and episode 1 of Season 2.� Made myself a salmon fillet with potatos and mushrooms for dinner.� Some exciting life.
- Must cancel appt with Sofya today at 4.
- 09:00 - Groggy and tired this morning, can't drink the coffee fast enough.� Dr. suggested trying an antihistamine last night to make my throat stop feeling weird so I took a nyquil.� They always make me feel woogy.
- Mail from Matt T. with defects list from 6/27 testing round.� Slotted at 10:30 to discuss this and other topics with Matt & SS.
-- Gathering materials and docs & targets for dev LDAP implementation this afternoon.�
10:45 - 10:30 meeting with SS & Matt etc regarding date "issue".� Prince Chilli Longhorn is back from his trip to his home country.� He understands my point and agrees.� SS didn't even show up for the meeting.� Everyone on the call is in agreement that I'm not changing system locale settings in order to alter the short-date displayed in the app.� They will push SS to get it done in his coding or to find the resources to make it happen on the backend.
10:50 - Mr. T. showed me the new search engine he built for our docs.� This is seriously dope shit.� Bookmarked and will be used FREQUENTLY!� :)� Well done Mr. T!
2:50 - Fucking around most of the pre-noon and afternoon hours with LDAP setup in Dev.� Pan won't auth against apollo no matter what options we set up.
authconfig --enableldap --enableldapauth --ldapserver=apollo --ldapbasedn=ou=sic,o=int,o=sctsdlabbr --enableldaptls
authconfig manual setup fails.� Hoppy and Hooper both on the line.� We run through various iterations of the configuration.� Using URI instead of HOST, verifying nsswitch.conf is setup, alternating between 27366 and 389 on port, alternating between separate port line & including it with the URI.� Watching the logs shows various errors.�
-- Pull clone of Pan and give it to Hooper to muck with in workstation.�
-- Existing clone of pan on texoma, delete and reclone.� Delete didn't free disk space, talking with Slick to find out why.�
[root@texoma dx11]# ps -ef|grep ccag root����� 1191���� 1� 0 Jun26 ?������� 00:34:13 /usr/sbin/vmware-ccagent -s -d root���� 21335� 1191� 0 14:13 ?������� 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vmware-ccagent -s -d [root@texoma dx12231]# kill -9 1191 21335
-- Slick is going to blow away the clone of oceanus and see if we can get the disk to report free & clone Pan.� Ok.� Copy is working.� He suggested having Cartman check the network traffic both ways.� Sent email to Hoops.
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