Weekend?_what_weekend?

title: Weekend? What weekend? date: 2006-03-12 13:38:56

On Friday morning a transformer blew up at my work's building and we lost maybe a third of the outlets. It wasn't as bad as it could've been, since we kept power to the servers.

In the middle of dealing with that, I was told that there were seven new machines that had to be on the network, like, now. A thought that B knew that when A talked about test machines, A meant machines that had working home directories. B didn't know that. A also thought B knew that the test machines were needed now. B didn't know that.

Friday afternoon we were told that power would be down Saturday from 8am to 1pm while they fixed it. I ran around letting people know and asking if anything needed to be turned on in a special order. (Some of our equipment is a little mysterious for the likes of me.)

Saturday morning I was in at 7am shutting down the network and unplugging everything I could. Saturday afternoon at 1pm I was back to turn things on, only the work wasn't done and no one could tell me when it would be back up. Did some small maintenance jobs but couldn't really tackle anything big w/o power to at least boot up the machines. Called people to let them know what was going on.

This morning I was in at 6.30 am and hallelujah, the power was back on. I did some other maintenance, then started bringing things back in earnest. It all went pretty well except for a fileserver with a bum disk. Arghh. Currently letting that freeze in hopes it'll start working again so I can then rsync all the data off to the big-ass fileserver, while waiting for cold meds to kick in.

After that, it's off to dinner for my father-in-law's birthday...I hope. It's 1.30pm and I'm still not sure I'm going to make it.