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Nov. 10th, 2005 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogMy wife just gave me a foot massage too fantastic to find a sufficient superlative to describe. That, together with our other activites of the evening, combine to make me a very happy pup. *Mrrf!*
I can't wait to get to Windycon tomorrow. As I've probably mentioned before, I have this Friday and Monday off which is taking significant stress off of me since work has been hammering me for the last week and a half.
There are some good things about work though. I ended up going home today with a Compaq Proliant 800Mhz floor standing server. I already have my PIII Xeon machine so that isn't worthy of headlines, but it came with not only three 9GB 7200RPM SCSI Ultra 2 drives, but also an 18GB 10000RPM SCSI Ultra 3 drive and an Ultra 3 to Ultra 2 adapter board. Alright! I've installed all four into my server, Alphawolf, and I'm performing a low level format on the first one as we speak. Once done, I'm going to reinstall 2003 server on a partition on the 18GB drive, put the three 9GB units into a RAID5, and put all of my web content and mail folders on it. It's still not as much space as I'd like considering it's got a 50GB IDE drive in there now and I'd like to move it all to SCSI, but Evil Bob has an external SCSI enclosure like the one I have that crashed and he may let me use that. This box isn't going to go live as my web/mail server any time soon, but I'm going to start working on getting it configured as a DNS server and DC too.
By the way Posi; those two drives you gave me to try out did actually spin up when I attached them to the Ultra 3 to Ultra 2 converter, but they make very unhealthy clicking noises and time out. I suspect they're quite dead. Do you want them back, or should I make some wall art?
I'm excited about the con, though that goes hand in hand with some trepidation. I hope I do well. Andrea has promised to set aside a couple hours at the beginning of these evenings to be social specifically with me, and that does a lot to raise my comfort level. Knowing that I'll have her there with me for a while, maybe I'll be able to work toward being more comfortable in general. And after she goes off on her own for the night, I'm sure I can find something to do. I'll have Dark Tower and other things with, and if no one wants to play games I may just go and read.
But, on the subject of things to do at cons, if anyone wants to keep company for a time with a silly, nervous dog, that would be nice.
Hmm, writing about the games reminds me that I need to get a few of them together. I think I'll do that while my drives format.
I can't wait to get to Windycon tomorrow. As I've probably mentioned before, I have this Friday and Monday off which is taking significant stress off of me since work has been hammering me for the last week and a half.
There are some good things about work though. I ended up going home today with a Compaq Proliant 800Mhz floor standing server. I already have my PIII Xeon machine so that isn't worthy of headlines, but it came with not only three 9GB 7200RPM SCSI Ultra 2 drives, but also an 18GB 10000RPM SCSI Ultra 3 drive and an Ultra 3 to Ultra 2 adapter board. Alright! I've installed all four into my server, Alphawolf, and I'm performing a low level format on the first one as we speak. Once done, I'm going to reinstall 2003 server on a partition on the 18GB drive, put the three 9GB units into a RAID5, and put all of my web content and mail folders on it. It's still not as much space as I'd like considering it's got a 50GB IDE drive in there now and I'd like to move it all to SCSI, but Evil Bob has an external SCSI enclosure like the one I have that crashed and he may let me use that. This box isn't going to go live as my web/mail server any time soon, but I'm going to start working on getting it configured as a DNS server and DC too.
By the way Posi; those two drives you gave me to try out did actually spin up when I attached them to the Ultra 3 to Ultra 2 converter, but they make very unhealthy clicking noises and time out. I suspect they're quite dead. Do you want them back, or should I make some wall art?
I'm excited about the con, though that goes hand in hand with some trepidation. I hope I do well. Andrea has promised to set aside a couple hours at the beginning of these evenings to be social specifically with me, and that does a lot to raise my comfort level. Knowing that I'll have her there with me for a while, maybe I'll be able to work toward being more comfortable in general. And after she goes off on her own for the night, I'm sure I can find something to do. I'll have Dark Tower and other things with, and if no one wants to play games I may just go and read.
But, on the subject of things to do at cons, if anyone wants to keep company for a time with a silly, nervous dog, that would be nice.
Hmm, writing about the games reminds me that I need to get a few of them together. I think I'll do that while my drives format.
