prompted by my co-worker Kaya’s hard-core devotion to lose weight, i bought a scale. it is a cheap, analog, hard-to-read thing but it should help me gauge my relative progress. Kaya is being much more extreme than i think i will. i’m more interested in developing healthy habits than immediate benefits. i believe my current weight is about 136. if i get some time this evening, i will be redesigning the diary. so many things to do! =)

i worked from 10-4 yesterday, worked on spike, went out with some buddies and watched ‘Dark City’. i’m not sure if it was the two beers i had or the exhaustion but i was not very thrilled with the movie. it provided very little excitement. maybe if i had seen in 1992 or whenever it came out. i woke up today about 10 and i have been fixing issues with spike until now. smtp auth wasn’t working, as well as gallery. this experience is really helping me find the weak points.

i am tired. i lost a few scripts i had recently written. bummer. i should be able to recreate them without too much difficulty, but it sucks nontheless.

i wanted to be busy, and busy i am. the ressurrection of spike in bellingham’s data center went well. now comes the long and arduous task of reconciling data differences and getting it back to the position it was in. i intend on doing that tonight. i’m real busy at work – my own plate is full and i have been eager to volunteer for other things as well. why? well – idle hands are the devil’s playground… or something.. ;P if my brain is busy working on stuff then it cannot be drafting scenarios about the end of the world, the end of love, etc. gotta go, too busy.

spike decided to take an unannounced vacation today. apparently root raid under linux sucks and now i have one dead server. luckily, belle is still functioning and all the backups are intact. it took about 30 minutes to extract the needed setup files from the backups and populate belle. this experience has taught me quite a bit, and i want to record it. belle needs to have copies of all of spike’s setup and they need to be in as much of place as possible; failure should take less than 5 minutes; spike and belle need to do more rsync’ng of each other’s unique data (home,spool,etc); root raid needs to be eliminated in favor of a solid drive and another drive which will be mirrored (but not dynamically); i need serialcon access and a sweet boot/initrd image that has network tools. i’m going up to bellingham tomorrow (if bill allows it) to address some of these things.

i have two really good sisters. that is so very rare, i think. i’m proud of them both, i admire qualities in both of them, and i’m lucky to know both of them. they say credit where credit is due… and that goes to mom. =)