last few days

so where was i? who knows these days. the last few days have been pretty busy. today was a busy day at work, but nothing overly exciting. just busy. the low-light being a meeting that i prolly didn't even need to attend which wasted nearly 45mins i could have been doing other things that would have been more productive.

so that backs me up to yesterday.

in a word.

SUCKED.

i got a VM from RB which said i had to goto SW from here because there was a high-pitched noise coming from the server room that was generating a large number of complaints. and while there, check out SS's PC as she can't seem to connect to the network.

the high-pitched noise turned out to be one of the batteries in our brand new UPS (installed friday night) seems to have failed. fortunatley, everything plugged into it still works, but i can't move stuff to the working ones w/o taking the entire office offline. would have only taken a few mins, but i can hear the complaints already. fortunately, i was able to mute the offending UPS, and we'll wait before deciding what to do.

so that left me SS's PC. which when i hardcoded an IP addy, it worked fine, but shortly after sorting that out, there was a laptop that was doing the same thing. and then my laptop started doing it as well. my wireless was working for some reason, but if i plugged a cable in, it died. i spent the next few hours trying to figure it out. after looking at the event log and researching, it was looking like DHCP was corrupt and i might have to rebuild it.

so i went to lunch.

after getting back, and doing some more research, it looked to be related to a lack of diskspace on the C: drive of the server (running at about 3MB free - doh) as it happened, the arcserve log was a whopping 185MB so i nuked it and that helped a lot. after stopping the DHCP service, realizing that i didn't have notes on what i needed to do, restarting it actually seemed to fix the DHCP problem. only i didn't discover it until 20 mins later when i looked at the event log.

well, i guess that's a good thing for me, esp if my role is going to shift more into the network/server support side of things and away from the laptops (at this point in time, that is a big WOO HOO!) so i learned something yesterday: LOOK AT THE FUCKING EVENT LOG! it may be somewhat cryptic, but it's a good starting point.

go figure.

sunday was a grey day, but i had dim sum with M, F and F's fried S. it was at a place i hadn't been before, but it was good. altho they need to have a better cart rotation schedule. the same carts kept going by us. M really wanted some of the turnip cake, and it wasn't until we were about to pay the check when she finally came by us. afterwards, we headed over to the Colonial Theater to see Little Shop of Horrors. F's boss got them from the Globe but she couldn't go, so she offered them to people in the office, and F managed to get them. so we had 4 orchestra seat tickets. they were last row orchestra seats (in front of the soundboard) that that's ok. we enjoyed it, and it was a lot of fun. plus Audrey II was cool :-)

so i've managed to see more legitimate thee-a-ter in the last 3 months than i have in the last 3 years.

and in reading thru an article in sunday's globe that was talking about TV and the author made an interesting point - we can read a book, but not several books at the same time (reading 1 chapter at a time) but we can while watching TV. altho he seemed to think that if it was a serial (eg: 24) where things build on previous events, he preferred to watch it on DVD. but i thought it was interesting. i like reading a single book at a time (maybe that's where i'm going wrong), yet i can keep details of a multitude of shows straight w/o getting too confused.

i wonder if it's time for me to buckle under and go tivo...i'd build my own DVR, but it's more effort than i think i'm willing to put into it right now. and i'm beginning to think that getting an xbox might be worth picking up. there are a bunch of games that i want to play, but i just don't have a powerful enuff PC, and i'm not in a position to get a new one, so something like an xbox might be a good idea for me. plus the games that i want to play have been around for a little while, so they aren't the expensive ones either. something to ponder i suppose. maybe if someone would send me an xbox (working of course, don't need the dvd plugin thing) it would help me. i'll even buy my own controllers. so xbox and associated cables. that's all i need.