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. =)

You are capable, competent, creative and careful. I like the sound of that!

i can’t blame my parents but i’m not sure i would have realized how much i enjoy wine if they hadn’t offered it to me… ;P so i am currently enjoying a glass of wine after having worked for about 6 hours on a contract project for polyformus. i hope to get more contract work and i hope to fill my schedule to the point where i have 0 free time. but i want it to be a stress-free schedule, filled with fun activities. =) t-minus 1 month. yeah, i’m counting.

I think I made a diary entry that didn’t make it due to some messing around with mail settings on my local machine, so I’ll make a summary. Brian came into Seattle on Friday night and I picked him up; then we hung out with Susie and David. It wasn’t bad, we ate Mexican food and then went to a bar. I really dislike going to bars though – stinky, loud, and typically boring. I worked for several hours on Saturday and ran some errands; then I went to Korean food with the three + a d00d named Chuck. The food was good but I was real tired and a little cranky. What I realized is that I was really annoyed with the way Susie interacts with me when there are other people around. Normally we have interesting, engaging discusions and that was missing from every one of our encounters this weekend. At worst, I was pissed; at best, I was annoyed. However, I think encounters like this are good to put things in perspective. Relations between people, as between countries, animals, etc. needs to be balanced from time to time. I feel as if I put too much faith in my friends and not enough in myself.

article by Bill Mann