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I've just removed the casserole from the oven. Now there's a mouthwatering smell throughout the place. Well, the beef will be tasted tomorrow, I hope it turns out as tasty as its scent suggests.
My kittycat went to a concert, so I've got a little bit of time to surf and read and listen to music and chat a bit. And type up a live journal entry.
Yesterday we went to the tigerranch again. My favourite leopard, Laila, has had to undergo a hysterectomy last week due to infection in her womb. The poor thing was still rather dazed as she was lying in her cage. It saddened me to see her this way, but I'm told she had been under considerable pain and it needed to be done. It seems she is on the way of recovery.
Other than that it once again was a very relaxing day. I could stand to have that more often.
I believe I have written about the terabyte-in-a-box server that we use for backup. Its power supply died last week, and just when I was also reinstalling my laptop from scratch. Talk about convenient timing - that thing had the only current backup of my accounting data at this point in time, except for the "tertiary backup", which in good banking tradition means the paper printouts I of course keep. I was fully expecting to spend the rest of the weekend typing all that back in, and I'm afraid I may have cursed rather colorfully, but thankfully now I don't have to.
We exchanged the power supply on the server, and it started up, except for two hard drives. Now, we have two raids in there, one for booting and swap, and the other for the actual data, and there was exactly one disk missing from each of them - which meant everything was working just fine. There's a tongue stuck out at you, Murphy!
After I had copied the data I needed to start working on the quarterly statement for EF, we fiddled around with the cabling of the two remaining disks, until they started up as well. Wait a bit while the server resyncs its raid, and everything is back to normal.
Some random stuff that's been happening in the time I haven't updated...
I asked tanidareal to do a commission for me. She sent me a sketch that made my jaw hit the floor. Seems, in time I'll have very nice squirrel lj icons.
Work has been rather more of a drudge lately than it used to be. But when I got sick a couple of weeks ago, to my intense pleasure I found out my employer actually means all that stuff they say about how their people are their most important asset. So, I try to do my best and reward them for their attitude. Who knows, in time things will get more interesting again.
Got my degree papers back for the thesis I did earlier this year. So now I have my second MSc, and with a distinction, too.
My kittycat went to a concert, so I've got a little bit of time to surf and read and listen to music and chat a bit. And type up a live journal entry.
Yesterday we went to the tigerranch again. My favourite leopard, Laila, has had to undergo a hysterectomy last week due to infection in her womb. The poor thing was still rather dazed as she was lying in her cage. It saddened me to see her this way, but I'm told she had been under considerable pain and it needed to be done. It seems she is on the way of recovery.
Other than that it once again was a very relaxing day. I could stand to have that more often.
I believe I have written about the terabyte-in-a-box server that we use for backup. Its power supply died last week, and just when I was also reinstalling my laptop from scratch. Talk about convenient timing - that thing had the only current backup of my accounting data at this point in time, except for the "tertiary backup", which in good banking tradition means the paper printouts I of course keep. I was fully expecting to spend the rest of the weekend typing all that back in, and I'm afraid I may have cursed rather colorfully, but thankfully now I don't have to.
We exchanged the power supply on the server, and it started up, except for two hard drives. Now, we have two raids in there, one for booting and swap, and the other for the actual data, and there was exactly one disk missing from each of them - which meant everything was working just fine. There's a tongue stuck out at you, Murphy!
After I had copied the data I needed to start working on the quarterly statement for EF, we fiddled around with the cabling of the two remaining disks, until they started up as well. Wait a bit while the server resyncs its raid, and everything is back to normal.
Some random stuff that's been happening in the time I haven't updated...
I asked tanidareal to do a commission for me. She sent me a sketch that made my jaw hit the floor. Seems, in time I'll have very nice squirrel lj icons.
Work has been rather more of a drudge lately than it used to be. But when I got sick a couple of weeks ago, to my intense pleasure I found out my employer actually means all that stuff they say about how their people are their most important asset. So, I try to do my best and reward them for their attitude. Who knows, in time things will get more interesting again.
Got my degree papers back for the thesis I did earlier this year. So now I have my second MSc, and with a distinction, too.
