WOEs and Wows
Apr. 28th, 2004 01:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aA somewhat annoying daytime today.
It was wretched hot, as it has been since mid last week.
Worse, one of our machines at Skotos blew up a bit shortly after noon. I eventually went up to our machine room to sort it out, and decided that a disk had blown a gasket. Fortunately, we use RAID arrays at Skotos, which means that I pulled out the bad disk, put in a new disk, and told the RAID array to rebuild itself. No fuss, no muss, with most of the time taken diagnosing the problem, getting a handle on how the machine was set up, and waiting around while various boots, fscks, and rebuilds happened.
Afterward, Kimberly and I took a night out as a reward for a frustrating and hot day. Well, not really a night out, but some purchasing and some eating.
The purchasing was at Comic Relief on Kimberly's dad's dime, via belated birthday money. I picked up a recent Vertigo book called It's a Bird which was a superb semi-autobiography by Steven T. Seagle, one of my favorite ex-Vertigo writers. The other was volume IV of ALan Moore's Promethea .
The food was Mel's Diner, nothing fancy there.
Other than that, I finished up some reviews tonight and otherwise relaxed, first with the aforementioned IaB and later with the third hour of Stephen King's, thus far disappointing, Storm of the Century.
It was wretched hot, as it has been since mid last week.
Worse, one of our machines at Skotos blew up a bit shortly after noon. I eventually went up to our machine room to sort it out, and decided that a disk had blown a gasket. Fortunately, we use RAID arrays at Skotos, which means that I pulled out the bad disk, put in a new disk, and told the RAID array to rebuild itself. No fuss, no muss, with most of the time taken diagnosing the problem, getting a handle on how the machine was set up, and waiting around while various boots, fscks, and rebuilds happened.
Afterward, Kimberly and I took a night out as a reward for a frustrating and hot day. Well, not really a night out, but some purchasing and some eating.
The purchasing was at Comic Relief on Kimberly's dad's dime, via belated birthday money. I picked up a recent Vertigo book called It's a Bird which was a superb semi-autobiography by Steven T. Seagle, one of my favorite ex-Vertigo writers. The other was volume IV of ALan Moore's Promethea .
The food was Mel's Diner, nothing fancy there.
Other than that, I finished up some reviews tonight and otherwise relaxed, first with the aforementioned IaB and later with the third hour of Stephen King's, thus far disappointing, Storm of the Century.