spanish sahara

work has been really busy this week so far. they have put in some very tight deadlines for some projects, and its getting a little ridiculous. a few weeks back i was annoyed that i would have to delay my holiday from my usualy slot at the beginning of september but actually it appears that fate has been kind to me, as it looks like i am going to be away on a nightmare week at work.

there is a piece of work to build a few ESX servers for a new virtual server cluster that is going to have a lot of servers migrated to it next saturday. this migration can't be delayed. only problem is that we won't get the servers to build till monday and there are invariably patching or network or storage issues. basically 5 days to build a big ESX cluster and make sure its configured correctly and stable is cutting it a bit fine. thank goodness i won't be here to do it. it could all go right, but there are lots of ways it could go wrong.

i got a stroppy email from my boss about why i put in a request for zoning and masking some LUNs to another bunch of ESX servers i built, after the monday night deadline the storage team want. my request went in on tuesday morning. i just replied i forgot as i was juggling a lot of shit around and said it was my fault. i actually wanted to reply, christ its just zoning and masking some pre-existing LUNs to a few more servers, why the fuck must they have 5 days notice to do something that takes 5 minutes. i only get 5 days to build a load of ESX clusters and that takes a lot longer to do.

anyways, the clusters i would have had to build have been handed to one of the other guys here. i already told him that i thought it was a tight deadline, but it could be done if he had no issues. if he gets any major issues though, he could be in trouble. he is not looking forward to next week. i am because i will be on holiday. :-)

..now all that is left is for me to duck out of work on a couple of weekends after i get back because they are planning to move a whole bunch of NT4 domain controllers to another datancenter and new networks, and i want no part of that shit.

anyways, i have broken the back if what i had to do this week. hopefully there will be no surprises over the next couple of days. this weekend i will have forgotten about work as i stroll around on a sunny new york afternoon.

this will be my last post for a few days. not sure if i will post much while i am away but i will take a lot of pics to post when i get back. it will be a long day on friday. a full day of work and then i have to go to the airport, 7 hour flight, and then hopefully catch my train to new jersey where i will be staying with my uncle. if i can get here before 1am local time then i will be happy.....and tired.

today i have mostly been listening to foals - spanish sahara.