rambling, but oh it felt good.

[celyste.livejournal.com]

( Ma'am... even that request takes balls! )

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[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

I've come to realize your average goat is not a sufficient sacrifice for ensuring the Exchange server rebuild goes smoothly.

Any suggestion as to what I should be offering to the gods?

Difficulty: Mayhem!

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

FYI on the Exchange server rant:

This isn't my job. My job is working nights, doing 24x7 network security for the Army.

This was a favor for my town's fire company.Their own IT people are quite often literally putting out fires and saving lives I used to work for a small business that did some IT support for them. I was the only one there qualified to do this level of stuff, so I still do a lot of the more complex tasks.

...And nothing is more complex than when you discover the damn thing was configured by Dell with its 4x160GB SCSI drives in a RAID-0... and one of those drives is dying.

It's up. Drive replaced, system re-raided and rebuilt. Mail is flowing, spam is not. And I finally got more than a couple of hours sleep.

You... appreciate me! Cool!

[kait-the-great.livejournal.com]

( Feel good story, so put behind a cut - I got tipped at work! )