Had a weird day, started to write out a long post about it, deleted it
due to well, weirdness. Going into work early tomorrow to field support
issues post migration tonight, since I can't stay late to help with said
migration (contract worker problems). Kind of stressed due to the anxiety
I get about having to be up earlier than usual. Wanna stress out a fox,
give him an early task.
Otherwise, glad tomorrow is Friday. Glad the weekend has little in the
way of 'must do'. Some computer foo, some adulting, hopefully a lot
of decent sleep, bad movies, and good books. Ahh, this is much more positive
post. So I think I'll call it. Ciao!
Spent last night watching 'Kingdom of Heaven' and then reading a random
book on the Templars. Well, the first 1/4 of the book was about the lead
up to the Crusades, going as far back as the first human settlements in
the area around Jerusalem. Which on one hand really makes sure everyone
is on the same page, but on the other hand wow that's a big lack of knights
in red crosses. Still it's a good read. Went to sleep, had weird
dreams about being some kind of guard/warrior from somewhere in the time
period I was reading about (that's a lot of ground, but there wasn't
much to date things by), except we were going to what looked like a modern
grocery store. Not a clue what that means.
Woke up, checked on running scripts on Dagon. Started watching '300: Rise
of an Empire' because I was in an Eva Green mood. Went to the store,
got most of a week's worth of groceries. Came home, started laundry, been
watching 'Prince of Darkness' because well, it's Easter. *chuckle* Think
I'm going to watch 'The Omen' next, since I've been enjoying 'Damien' on TV.
Happy little heretic here *wink*
Mostly done with the upgrade, all the VMs are migrated, updating the
last of them now. Still working on the backup of the big data drive.
Need to pause it when it gets to backing up the VMs because that's still
being updated. I have a small laundry list of things to fix/update, but
I have time.
That's about it for today, going to veg out, put up laundry, make something
for dinner and sack out I think. Catch you all later *waves a tentacle*
Been a decent week. Well minus the massive allergy attack at the begining.
New level of allergies, I sneezed myself off a conf call. Work is still
decent. Even when it's stressful it's not too stressful. Went with
Amythest to see 'The Finest Hours', fun little seafaring/disaster flick.
Especially at the cheap theater.
Weekend has been good, hung out with Amythest watching bad movies last night.
Came home fairly early for a Friday, and went to bed with a book before too
long. Got up this morning, started the great migration. Did some chores,
got dinner from Freebirds, and have been watching a bunch of horror flicks.
Nice fun movies.
Still working on the computer foo. I've mostly got everything working
the way I want, currently migrating VMs to the new box. Need to also
find my notes to how I had the posting to wordpress via Vim setup.
Then I'll probably leave the old dagon up and running to copy the things
I haven't thought of over, as that always seems to happen. Still, much
less painful that some other builds of mine.
Tomorrow I've got more chores to deal with, and probably more importing
of VMs. And probably more cheesy horror movies. I do love them so. That's
about all for today, tune in tomorrow for more rambles probably.
*waves a tentacle*
Workstations have been swapped. Got 90% of the goofy stuff done, now it's
copying config files and running into random 'Oh I forgot about that' stuff.
Fun times here at Château Innsmouth.
It's Saturday, and it's the day I swap workstations. So of course I'm
stalling. Running backups and syncs before I make the swap. Queued up a
bunch of movies on Nyogtha for while this is going. Wild times for
Château Innsmouth. I'll be back on later to either cheer or whine. *waves
a tentacle*
In other news, today is my 2 month anniversary at Carcosa Corp. *cheer*
I also ran into a former coworker with the Shoggoth Pit at the store today.
Seems things have changed, and a certain person who drove me to the brink
of unhappy madness is no longer there. Passed on recruiter info, and I'll
talk to said recruiter next week. He's a good egg, rarely made me want to
go all stabby. So schradenfreude, nice to see ya *grin*
Spent the non-new Dagon rest of the day watching assorted ghost flicks,
doing adulting things (aka chores) and stuff. Things are pretty organized,
other than the big pile of laundry for tomorrow. Oh yeah, and I have to
take out all the dishes from the cabinets so the bug people can spray on
Monday. *sigh* Hate that.
I've also been seeing a cat around Château Innsmouth (well outside).
Little grey and white kitty, has a collar but no tags. Skittish, not
so much that I couldn't come up slowly and scratch him/her behind the
ears and check the collar. Cute kitty, I'm hoping he/she has a family.
I'm trying not to be tempted into adopting a kitty. I still don't want to
have anything relying on me at home, even if it's cute and fuzzy. *tries
to cover up the 'Sucker' on his forehead*. Yeah, that will work. *wink*
Not much else going on. Probably going to go to bed after another
flick and some more installs. I am tired still. Plus, there is bookage
to read. We'll see. But for now, have a good night.
New Dagon is here, Ubuntu-Mate 16.04 beta is installed and I'm setting up
all the softwares. Good to have a computer delivered to you by your
IT expert. *grin*
The stats are as follows
AMD FX(tm)-4130, 3.8 GHZ quad core CPU
16 gigs of PC3-12800 RAM
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD
Seagate 6TB sata drive
NVidia: GT610 video card
LG DVD-RW drive
Snazzy green case.
So yeah, I'm happy. I have snazzy computer, I have SSD epic boot time,
and it does all the things so far. *happy dance* More babbling later
probably. Ciao.
Thank Cthulhu it's Friday. This week has been kind of nuts, felt pretty
miserable Wedneday and called in. My sleeping has been erratic as hell,
but until last night there were no nightmares...
Then I had the mother of nightmares this morning, not going into details as
it was epicly personal. Woke up crying, that's new. Stayed up for a
while, then went back to sleep...and ended up in the same nightmare.
Didn't wake up crying at least, but I just stayed up and metalled til it
was time to go to work. Mood got better, but I am drained. Really hoping
for no dreams tonight at all.
Not much else. Tomorrow I'm getting my upgraded system back, and I'll
probably spend most of the day and night installing, tweaking, copying.
I was planning on spending all weekend working on it, but I decided to
space it out, since I'm going to want to make sure everything works before
I swap stuff. And there's a billion tweaks on Dagon that I'll have to
replicate. So that will take a while.
Ok, calling this a post. Going to head to bed early (for a Friday).
And now it's 1 bell (aka 8:30). Time flies when you're writing blog
posts.
Saturday was good. Slept weird, had strange dreams about Marvel superheroes
and other geeky stuff. Got up earlier than I planned, convinced myself
to go be an adult and do the grocery shopping. Came home, got stuff
organized, and headed up to visit friends and put my IT department
to work. One problem, as he asked me 'Did you bring the drive rails?'
And I had to be that customer and go 'What rails ?' So, road trip to
Microcenter, which was railless. No big deal. Was going to order a set
and have them shipped over from the case manufacturer, but their site
is a tad evil. (luckily I found them when I got home, being a packrat
has advantages). I'll ship the rails out on Monday, and I already ordered
some other bits via Amazon and shipped them over. So I'll have Dagon 2.0
by next weekend.
We headed back to base, watched a horrible dino flick called 'Jurassic
Attack'. Horrible acting, worst commandos ever, and another line in
the Vulpine catalog of strange things "Don't spank the triceratops".
(note to people, spanking a triceratops causes dumb commandos to be
run over). Then after some debate, we ended up watching 'Mad Max: Fury
Road'. Which was better the second time around, and with subtitles. After
that, I ended up coming home. I was tired and feeling kind of icky.
So I came home, found the rails, am talking computer bits and zenning out.
Tomorrow I'm going to hang out with the musketeers, do laundry and go
see 'Zootopia'. Then back to Carcosa Corp on Monday. No wild plans
for next week. Not much else, so I'll call this a post. Night all.
Another week has passed. Been a kind of crazy week, note to future me,
taking melatonin, even when the pshrink says to, leads to a weird mess
of brainmeats. At least on my current med cocktail. Work was also
stressful, changes in how my group does things, and our manager was in
town. Note, bossman isn't a bad guy, but he's remote most of the time so
it was odd working with him there. I think it was odder for my cohorts
than for me. Things worked out ok, and today was me fixing a bunch of
stuff for the developers. Useful fox was useful. Felt good to be the
fixit guy today.
After work I came home, decided to put on 'Excalibur'. I love this movie,
but I've avoided it for years because the battle music is "O Fortuna" from
"Carmina Burana", which I used as my work ring tone. Got to the point
when hearing the start would trigger anxiety. Well, 6 months to the day
of leaving The Shoggoth Pit, I'm offically able to at least listen to the
bits in this movie. Yay!
Not much else. I started to write a long 'State of the Fox' but then
I remembered I did it last week, and nothing much has changed. New Linux
box soon, hopefully a fun restful weekend. Ok, I'll catch you all later.
Ciao.
