How things change

Today I was adding a couple network cards to a new firewall...and realized that I had no idea if I had any screws to hold them in place. It's been a long time since I've opened up a machine to replace a part, and a longer time since I've been doing it on a regular basis.

Today, for example: drafting an RFP and going over acceptance testing with the PI; decoding bits of protein modelling procedures so I can understand what he's doing; reading up on Torque, Maui and trying to figure out the difference between OpenMP and OpenMPI.

Five years ago...no, longer, six, seven even: debugging crappy DLink switches; getting workstations from auction; blowing dust bunnies out of the central fileserver.