[rescue] happy new years and shit like that

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:22:30PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> What did everyone else do?

Amy was here at teh house, with a 101F temp and the flu; I spent the night
shuttling back and forth between work and home, taking care of her.

here's how yesterday went:

Was supposed to be my day off, since I was the ONLY unix admin on duty
last week during the holidays, and have been pushing some serious overwork
lately.

Went to bed 9:30 Sunday night.  Woke up 9am Monday morning.                         
9:10 shower.
9:40 finish thawing, out of shower.
9:50 reading email.  email from work. "hope youre reading email today.."
9:55 head into office to reboot linux box, it will only take five minutes
10:05 -                                                                         
        Reboot <linux box> that went down.                       
        boss: "oh, while you're here, can you bounce <other box>?"              
        me: sure.                                                               
        <bounce other box>                                                      
        <get page, <big alphaserver> is down>                                   
        <go start the 15-minute boot process on big alphaserver>                
        <finish booting alphaserver>                                            
        <go to lunch>                                                           
        <come back>                                                             
        boss: "<rs6k> has been down since thursday, they just bothered          
               to tell us.. can you please take a look at it?"                  
        <send corefile to compaq for alphaserver>                               
        boss: "oh , btw, that rs6k will need a monitor and keyboard"            
        <haul 20" ibm monitor w/cable, rs6k kb/mouse, out to truck>             
        <haul equipment 3 blocks away to other building>                        
        <get equipment up steps and into building>                              
        <spend 20 minutes trying to get card access into PBX room>              
        < get access into pbx room>                                             
        < .. rs6k has no video card.>                                           
        <go back to office>                                                     
        <find laptop, install redhat>                                           
        <go home, get serial "connect anything to anything" cables>             
        <go back 3 blocks to work>                                              
        <haul laptop over to other building>                                    
        <connect up laptop, no response from serial console>                    
        <say fuck it, go home>                                                  
6:15pm - home for the day, after my "just take five minutes" reboot.
                                                                                
Boss said "please, take wednesday off. I'm sorry."                              

11:15pm - page.  <alphaserver> is down again.  
11:24pm - ">>> boot [ENTER]" (yes, I'm < 5 minutes from work)
11:42pm - "<system> console login:"
11:50pm - back at home with Amy
12:00am - happy new year.
5:00am - head to bed.  Woke up at 2pm or so today, I think.

Bill

-- 
Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX