Well, this Friday was a good day. Work was pretty good, even with a very long conf call. My mad skills at system monitoring came in handy, as I figured out a quick organization fix for Cacti, and came up with a 'in theory' way under Nagios to alert for processes that A. use 95% of the CPU, and B. last more than 30 min. And I could do it with the built in plugins. I've never DIY'd my own Nagios scripts before, but between my brainmeats and Nagios having good documentation it was a 5 min to have a plan. And since I'm working on a Nagios setup here at Château Innsmouth, I'll test it over the weekend before testing it more on the devel and stage networks at work.

I also volunteered to help a fellow Lovecraftian in Hungary with a thesis he's doing on HP Lovecraft. He had a ebook copy of Joshi's epic 'I Am Providence', and had about a dozen citations, but he was worried his committee would argue that the citations didn't match the physical page numbers (which I've heard of before). So, I have the 1st edition hardbacks, so he sent me a list of quotations and their chapters and general location, and I verified the page numbers (which were way different than the ebook). Didn't take long, maybe 30 min. Felt good to help another adept of Grandpa Theobald. *gains 2d6% in Library Research*

I've also watched some really bad horror movies. I'll post one of the reviews later (I did some of my best writing on Facebook ranting about this flick). I've moved on to 'The Descent', one of my favorites. Ubuntu released 16.04 yesterday, so I'm updating my test VMs. Tomorrow is hermit day, with a side of organizing, and possibly a marathon of the 'Hellraiser' flicks (random idea I had). I've got to move Dagon and Shoggoth onto the UPSes, as the last power blip showed me I oopsed there. There will probably also be a labeling fest, along with more VM updating and the aforementioned Nagios experimenting. Probably will be other experimenting, I have a list. Sunday is back to normal, laundry and TV and Amythest time. Then back to work. I have a meeting/lunch with my recruiter on...Wednesday? I definitely have to give my recruiter company this, they keep up with their placed minions. I also have a bunch of work to do, still playing catch up from being sick, and I keep coming up with ideas on how to do things, that lead to me getting assigned the deployment of said ideas. But, instead of freaking out (well for long) I take it as the challenge it's intended as and go with it. So I expect the next 3 months to be interesting, and not in the Chinese curse sense of the word.

So that's the most of the state of the fox. I'm still feeling fairly meh physically. Worst allergies ever. Mood is better, then again given how low I swung for a while, I kind of have to be better. Looking forward to a number of book pre-orders and future geeking and well, stuff. Catch you all later. *waves a tentacle*