Spending the day

i've been there sorta.

I spent 2.5 days once re-entering all of the paycheck entries and their budget entries *manually* through an interface that I coded...because the owner of the company/senior network engineer didn't turn backups back on for one of our clients and a hard drive crashed.

Gotta love it...good times, eh? j/k

Hope it gets better for you, man.

by the scummy one Aug 4, 2009

fighting the urge to get back on the rocket and just gooooooooooo!

for the past 4 days, I have thought every morning to myself:

"Why don't I just call and quit."

For some reason I come in still.

Oh yeah...it's called...BILLS :^0

to wake up everyday and have to go to "that place".

The only time I have ever HATED going to work was my last shoprat job, but hating it was the only thing that kept me motivated to finish school and getthephluck out of there.

There are places in this country that don't have a hurricane season, lower cost of living, and decent wages.

Bills schmills. If you would quit buying things you wouldn't have any! Turn off the gas and cook everything on the grill like a real man! I guess you can keep the running water.....

you wouldn't break them! :D

it's a Dell 2850!!

by charliespencer Aug 4, 2009

?

at least I have another one that works!

My log files are hitting the roof but as far as the users are aware nothing is wrong and I fixed it all within 30 minutes.

Kind of glad I configured things correctly in the first place!

Just gotta wait for the restore (taking an age - thats what I get for storing a few system images on a DC) and then grab the latest system state from the backup.

Could have been worse I guess....

by notsochiguy Aug 4, 2009

...if this is the worst thing that happens to you all day/week, you're making out a lot better than most.

30 minutes to restore a DC is pretty good. Make sure you note that come review time!

You may not have automated failover, but with a manual switch or restore it should take even less than 30 minutes!

is this just the free ESXi you download form VMWare or the bought version?

by charles bundy Aug 5, 2009

Got a BDC and an old SQL 2K server virtualized and have had to "recover" them after the host array failed (VM storage only.) The longest thing in the process was formatting the array :).

And we have almost no power at work. I got sent home to work.

What a hardship.

I know you are crushed, but you will get through it! :D

Haven't been looking at the weather, local or national, so didn't realize storms were coming through.

Hoping the rain stays away. Both boys are at camp this week.

Funny. The other two programmers, both male, are still working from home. They don't live any further from work than I do.

How predictable that I would be the one called back in. I'm so sick of this bullsh*t.

Yeah, I'm the lucky guy coordinating with emergency services, power and utility providers, infrastructure and building maintenance to make sure everything will work. So when everyone gets sent home from bad weather or building services problems, I usually end up working later.

:(

by gsg Aug 4, 2009

We don't have that excuse. We have our generators that run the red plugs. The red plugs are what the medical equipment and essential services run off of. If our power goes out, we're still working and then have to stick around until it comes back on. It means more work and hassle for us.

still had power. They took my area to give to someone else and sent me home. Then when the power came back on, instead of continuing to work from home, I had to drag myself back in.

I just kept my 'working from home clothes' on and left my hair in a ponytail. I'm waiting to catch grief for that.

I'm the guy stuck making sure we don't have issues during power cut overs in such situations. I once saw the power provider improperly bring up the 3 phase main lines and cause a main buss to explode. Wow, it was nuts. The fire dept kicked us all out for safety concerns and completely shut down the building to everyone but the electrical contractor since there were live 3 phase lines everywhere and widespread power issues.

Back in my NC youth I remember hurricane parties! Just be careful who you're with when the lights go out and it's all good!

and make sure you have plenty of batteries, so you still have tunes! :D

a 5500 watt generator so you can keep listening to tunes and watching TV and keep the food cold ;)

Spent 1/2 the day preparing documents for training I've to give to next week..

And a short while ago I had to try and explain null values to someone.. the look of disbelief I got when I told them that if they try and add null to another number the result will always return null (for ms access)..and then throw an error :)

* never get non programmers to try and program anything the results are too scary *

people don't understand that there IS a difference between zero and a field being blank.

Run into that in Excel a lot.

I love when people would clear a cell by hitting a space. fecks it all up.

gotta love the trim function lol ;)

ya..normally i don't bother explaining the proper way..but ughh.. dunno..its not that hard to grasp

by charliespencer Aug 4, 2009

Because unlike the rest of them, you can see it coming a long way off. Can't do that with an earthquake, tornado, etc. Floods, maybe.

Thankfully in Michigan, most are not an option.

In my entire life, there has only been one tornado within 20 miles of where I live.

by jamesrl Aug 4, 2009

A mile down the road from the home where I grew up, a tornado trashed the pig barn of a farmer. He was shocked but clearly relieved it didn't hit the house where his family was holed up. The house was only maybe 100 feet away. We knew it was a bad storm but didn't know about the twister till after it was over.

My youngest brother was 100 yards away, at my Grandmother's house, from a tornado that killed a few people a few minutes after it passed my brother.

Still, the tornados are few and far between, we can't complain compared to those living in hurricane prone areas.

James

by gsg Aug 4, 2009

I had to replace my roof a couple of years ago due to one. At certain times of the year, we'll have one or two every couple of weeks. In the one where my roof was damaged, this one house was demolished. I almost bought that house, but went with mine instead.

We pretty much know if we're going to have good chance of tornados, so I have my routine down to the point where by the time I crawl in my shelter, it's lined in pillows and quite comfortable.

All my bills are paid. I afford them quite easily. It's called money management.

Worst thing isn't the cards or anything. It's that because of rising property values plus the fact that my homeowners insurance has doubled since I bought the house 5 years go, my mortgage premium went up by $200+ a month.

And as for moving somewhere that doesn't have hurricanes, lower COL, and decent wages...I've already found somewhere.

Now, I'm just looking into the ramifications of short selling the house with a mortgage and HELOC. If I can short sell and it gets me out of both, I am gonna start the process then move up near my office and rent a house.

They have dozens of never-lived-in homes up here for rent that builders just want to pay the note on every month. I can get in one $500 a month cheaper than my current home cost, plus put the yard maintenance on the landlord.

And I don't hate my job. It's just tiring with the rush to do nothing, dealing with not having the terms of my agreeing to work here met, etc.

Hell, they're already 3 months late on my pre-arranged raise. And if the back-pay doesn't happen when it does come through, I might just walk and tell them that they are in violation of the agreed-upon terms.

And yes, I got it in writing :)

by nicknielsen Aug 4, 2009

when I was dispatched 150 miles out of my territory. Now I have 9 calls to close by end-of-day.

At least I'll see the sun between stores. B-)

are you familiar with them?

Do you know of a good company in Florida that does them?

Our company President lives in Florida (not sure where) and was interested in getting this.

Lookes to be a disk failure that did not show up on the RAID alerts.

The light was blinking orange yet the server alert panel suggested all was well.

Alas the server just suddenly rebooted and got stuck in the POST.

Replaced the disk but the array was lost so nothing to rebuild from.

New card inserted, replaced faulty disk and threw the image at the machine!

Just a few AD issues to sort now..

don't want their little heads to explode, ya know? :D

http://www.bhcpower.com/?p=57

but needed to give a half @ssed explanation to her..as she's in the development team.
:0

makes me very frightened..

by jamesrl Aug 4, 2009

I was at a county fair and was looking at them, can't really afford one, but the man gave me a price of $6000 CDN installed (8KW model which can run a small house or critical circuits in a larger house).

They come on automatically and run on eith Natural Gas or propane. Obviously if the house already has natural gas, that makes it even better.

They are wired into your house, they sense when the power is gone and kick in automatically. No fuss, no muss, nothing to start. They do a little self test monthly, and they have some routine maintenance, but you don't have to worry about losing power when you are away. The farmers buy them to protect their milk coolers.

James

knew what they were, but not who are reputable dealers in the area.

In a few weeks, I am going to have to start that project of researching that.

Thanks for the link, it gets me started.

I wonder, when they send you back and forth like that, are you getting mileage?

Do they think they need to babysit you, or just being PITAs?

by the scummy one Aug 4, 2009

and not killing on company time

she doesn't kill. The dead don't suffer.... ;\

Not to mention, as she has said before, it takes much longer for mental scars to heal than bones. :D

Their normal misogynistic selves.

that chicks get treated like that.... ;\

Sorry JD but I'll take a hotter climate any day of the week. The bikini and "more revealing clothing" season in Michigan is way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way too short for my taste!

:)

I will pass on living in a giant sandbox, thankyouverymuch. :D

While the season is short, we have so many lakes and rivers, we have one of the best boating in the US.

I get major migraines from excessive heat, so would not fit in well moving further south.

But after joining the gym and going regularly for over a year, that (and many other minor problems, aches and pains) seems to have stopped. Which is excellent for me, because I love the sweltering heat for some reason. Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I do so enjoy punishing work outside in unbearable heat. As long as I intake massive amounts of water, I actually feel better once it is all said and done. Of course I don't [i]smell[/i] better until I shower.

:)

Edit: I've been boating in Texas, Florida as well as up and down the SE coast. It definitely isn't a bad scene for recreation or fishing purposes. Navigating shipping channels at ocean inlets in boats under 30' on the east coast will separate the men from the boys, as well. I've seen many a grown men cry out for their mothers and atheists start praying once the bow goes near vertical and all you see is clouds followed by that unnerving sound of the prop revving as it leaves the water for what seems like an eternity. Of course it usually isn't that bad, but I've seen it like that many times once the weather gets the least bit bad. And it is much less of an event in boats over 40', but where's the fun in that?

:)

Kohler:
http://www.kohlerpower.com/residential/sectionfront.htm?sectionNumber=13561

Have your company president contact a manufacturer of one of the big, houseload generator companies like:

Cummins Onan:
http://www.cumminsonan.com/residential/

Norwall Powersystems:
http://www.norwall.com/

Or there are others...

Any one of them can give him details on anything from 5KW to i think as high as 100 KW solutions that run on propane, natural gas, diesel, etc.

Then the best thing to do when he decides which system is best, have him get the company to recommend a good installer. Installing down here is critical because of ground water seepage (for the fuel storage), installation to avoid wind exposure, corrosivenes of airborne salts, etc.

It's not a cheap option, but you can keep a house online down here with one of those systems (if done right) for a couple of weeks.

Tornadoes are so wildly unpredictable. I went through one once. My house barely had a few shingles ripped off. My neighbor at the time however, had severe structural damage and an oak tree on his car. The half dead pine tree next to my house that was leaning didn't fall. I did get around to cutting it down the next day!

:)

I'll take a hurricane ANY day of the week. At least I know what to prepare for or if I need to get the heck outta dodge. Of course, with hurricanes there is always a chance it can spawn tornadoes, as well...particularly on the north east side of the eye wall.

Having visited Cali, I hate earthquakes! With any other natural disaster I've experienced, the ground is the one constant you can count on so I find it particularly unnerving to have it move.

by charliespencer Aug 4, 2009

I don't think you can manage the host server or it's guest systems without the 'for pay' supporting VM product. If you already have that product, you should be good to go. Otherwise...

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vmware-esx-articles/general/vmware-esxi-server-compare-esx-server.html

I will let HER know. :D

tell HER that you know geeks looking for side employment in FL too lol

That behavior sucks for the whole barnyard. Too bad the bosses are such c0cks.

:x

Even back in HS, when I was in sports. Makes it difficult when you are/were a long distance runner. :(