The weekend was almost good. On Saturday we had a t-ball parade to get
to. That turned out well. I walked with Chloe’s team and wore the team
t-shirt — I guess I’m kind of an assistant coach. I like the idea, but
because I have to spend a fair amount of time watching Grace I’m pretty
unreliable.
Ben’s soccer game was rained out.
I got an excellent workout in from 3pm until about 4:15pm. I worked my
ass off on the bike for about 20 minutes, then I did another 10 minutes
on an elliptical machines. Then I did a circuit of lifting weights.
Finally I came back and did another 10 minutes on the elliptical
machine again. I felt really great afterwards.
On Sunday I took Chloe, Grace and Ben with me to Rockport - I had
accidentally left my credit card there. It was still raining so they
weren’t really doing anything else. We sang along with the School House
Rock CD in the car. Ben sat in the front seat with me. I also passed
around my camera and let the kids take pictures of each other. When we
got there I got the kids some fudge, which they loved. A fish market
was selling “Salmon Snacks with dipping sauce”. I found this intriguing
so I bought some and it was delicious! It was smoked salmon with some
kind of dill sauce. I also had a latte which was really nice because
we’d been walking around in the rain. The kids were great — really
well behaved.
When I got home I got word from work that there had been a fire and all
the electricity was off in our North American HQ. The fire marshal was
saying that he’d have to shut the facility down for two days! So me and
all the other infrastructure people traveled to the disaster recovery
site, which is about an hour away to start failing over.
When we got there we found out that some electricians felt they could
go around the burnt out conduit & transformer and maybe they could
get power back by 7pm or 8pm. So we were told to hoof it back to HQ.
Once we got there we discovered the whole building lit up like it was
Christmas! Every light in the place was on! Except in the computer
room, where it was completely dark. The electricity is routed through a
UPS (and maybe a generator) that’s supposed to protect the machines
from power surges. Unfortunately there was something wrong with the
wiring and we weren’t getting any juice.
Then the fire alarm went off because the smoke detector’s battery
backups were failing. The fire department showed up and we were stuck
outside for another 45 minutes or an hour. Finally we were allowed back
in and they were able to get some power to our core networks and
servers. At last some of our people were able to start working. I
didn’t happen to be one of them. I cooled my heels for a couple of more
hours until about 9:30pm or 10pm.
Then we started bringing up the SAP application on all the servers for
which we are responsible. ERP, CRM, EBP, PLM and BW! Each of these
acronyms represents a “constellation” of development, quality assurance
and production servers and each one of those may be made up of a
database server, application servers and/or secondary servers (J2EE,
pricing engines, image services, etc). There were three of use working
to bring up these applications and it took quite a while. I was told to
go home around 11:15pm and the last person from my team got to bed
@3am. There were good parts to the weekend and … well, less good.
Today I’ve been recovering from our disaster and finally seem to have a
handle on things again — its noon now.
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