Skipped seven days worth of post... the mouse was complaining. sigh - so many things in the to do pile that I"m not getting what I want done.

Looking up references for a waiver for a hard drive I have... Drive failed, but someone has already compromised it by pulling the cover. So - not only is it failed, but 'open' - got to protect myself and the company I work for now.

However - I'm really thinking I'm not going to do anything at all with it other than return it. Risk verses reward issue. Being that it's already been opened - and likely not in a clean room there is little I feel I can do at this point.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just passed off the on-call shackle (phone) for the next five weeks

Lucky - we pass it around at the start of each week. could be a moot point though.. sigh.

@valentina said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ughhhh I was waiting for my 2 quesadillas hungry as hell and a kid threw up right next to me!!!!! I'm not eating anymore

ugh - send that table the bill...

If I wasn't on call this week,.. I would be drinking all ready... sigh.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got a deal on a nice boat.

This is what I ended up with

They said,.. a LITTLE water damage.

(disclaimer: no, I didn't by a boat. and if I had, it would have had a label MATCH BOX on it.

metaphor for the current employment?

lol - several things - but to be honest .. yea... very likely.

Shopping / planning out a new HF antenna system as the one I was using was just pulled down and completely destroyed. sigh

Oh well.. no HF digital work tonight. I suppose the upside is a 100' $40 piece of feed line (coax) saved more damage that i have. I may have lost the antenna, mast and feed line, but I didn't lose the radio, tuner or power supply.

Think I'll ask Bob for some help though...

It was nice to have a three day weekend,.. got to work at a coal forge making some mokume gane Still some work left to polish them up, but they should be nice gifts. I was a little disappointed that I wasn't swinging the hammer,.. but - all in all, I am happy when the day and the outcome.

visited family and otherwise didn't do much. Now I'm dealing with the work issues again... Remember - treat people decently and they'll be more than happy to give and do more...

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hooray for successful generator testing... can I go back to bed now?

Only after you use this 2gal fuel can to refill the fuel tank...

I despise being on-call. sadly it comes around every four weeks... well at least for now. Not sure about the new gig yet.

I've got to have a loud annoying ring tone. And it can't sit next to me. While I have a huge problem with sleeping, I can sleep through it. So I found a few tones on Zedge and use them.

Of course if it goes off and I miss it,.. I can expect a punch in the shoulder from my wife to go turn it off... she likes her sleep too....

and here we are posting from the little bugger

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Good Grief.. Just skipped about a months worth of content here... ugh. Been way to tired and way to far behind to keep up. And with work, just don't have time.

Smoking some cheese after a weekend of normal chores and house work. Also working offloading some images from the phone.. Don't want to believe that tomorrow is Monday again... sigh.. oh well. Time marches on.

I can empathize. The past two weeks at work have yielded me little time to take part in forums.

I have come home completely beat. It's a 45-60 min drive in, and a bit more coming home. This makes for a full 10 hour day really. And i'm not sitting like I had been, so this is good, but I'm just not accustom to it. Oh and the freight elevator was out two days..

I've managed to deploy about 30 24" monitors, manage some inventory, learn a bit about OrcaScan for barcode scanning, and get two computers deployed - with stress.

State applications are horrrid... They have SCCM and gods I miss ScreenConnect, and Chocolatey... I mean barf.

They have had to build and move to a new SCCM server, which broke every package they had... not that they were good to start with.

It's crazy the amount of personal touches you have to make on EACH stupid software in some cases.. Like,.. this one REQUIRES Firefox 52.2.... NOTHING ELSE works!!! like FFS WTH.

Ah well.. It's a pay check. I went into this as a stopgap measure.

All the recent design work has me rethinking what I had planned to do with building a Desktop and or laptop.

I think now I'll scrap the idea of a decent class desktop and go with a laptop, and consider retiring my Dell 2 in 1 as well. Besides, the back and forth of Desktop, laptop is a bit annoying.

Been working (with @scottalanmiller ) on a network / server build of a start up. I've designed out some simple office networks in the past, one or two servers, switch stack, phone system. But i've not worked on designing one as advanced as this one is. My biggest 'hangup' right now is storage, storage at a level I've not seen in a sub 500 employee business.

I may have a meeting with them later this week,.. but will see. Lot to think about, and digest - Glad I have ML to pull from.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs
Well,.. at least it’s not the Fireball got poured in my tumbler face...

okay, what's the story of JB and Fireball?

Have you had fireball?

LOL,.. yes. But since I trying to see if my heart will explode with all the Mountain Dew I drink,.. I figure wth

Just finished migrating my UBNT WiFi controller from one computer to a rPi on DietPi - I had tried the 64b version of DietPi,.. but found that it didnt' work. so dropped back to the 32b version.

New AP arrives tomorrow and I retire the LTS models

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to fill eight hours of work is... well work. I miss and enjoy working from home.. but it's also a pain. We have to document in .25 increments.

I've managed to listen to droning training, all while updating my instance of NC, rPi and laptop running U20.04.. about out of things I could do..

do you have to document what you're doing every 15 minutes??
how unworkable.

In a manner of speaking yes - I'm taking the approach that a call or a email is .25 - even if it only takes me eight minutes to address... and updating the spreadsheet is part of that,.. so - meh what ever.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller @JaredBusch I went ahead and set up a Zoho account. It was very easy and it even built the DNS records on the registrar. Only needed 2 email accounts. $24 plus tax for a year. Been using the ISP provided email for 20+ years, and I don't even have them for a provider anymore.

I quit using the ISP email a long time ago... its crazy to think back and try to count he number of years I've had gmail... Since the invitational days.. wow..

Son getting married today,... so traveling,... still two hours of driving,.....

Whoot - Creality Ender 3 Pro was under the tree... While it was missing one screw - it's leveled and running a test print.

WHOOT - Been wanting one, and now I get to make all kinds of things.... for giggles.

Bored and can't sleep. First print finished after 5hr39min. The sample included. Printed nicely for dang near out of the box.

While I wait for a spool of filament, will print off some 'mods', starting with a new selector wheel... This is gonna be fun.