Its saturday night and I just called my boss for the 2nd time

In my last post I think I stated I explained I was on call for work and was stuck at home. yup.. work has been calling me a lot since thursday since one of my servers started acting up.

The problem I just explained to my boss is that DHL is holding on to some memory needed to get my server up again and they do not want to release it until tomorrow morning. It doesn't make any sense for me to boot the server as it will crash again the next time it tries to access the current bad memory.

Now this server is the real boss, what it wants.. it gets (well in 4 hours as stated by the HP support contract), this is an entrprise class server with 12 processors, 27GB of ram and over 5TB of raided fiber channel disks (mostly raid 1 so double that figure). I often try to assign a dollar value to this server but my calculator overflows :-p

yup.. I am just a pawn here waiting for the movers and shakers to do their stuff, this is how I figure the escalation process will go:
me -> my boss -> his boss -> HP -> DHL
Just to get some memory modules on a Saturday night. I am feeling a little uneasy at the moment as I do not know the outcome of this situation and my ass is also on the line if I don't follow the proper procedures.
I think I have everything covered thus far, informed the dba, informed my boss, contact vendor.. the only thing I didn't do was inform the change manager that I would be making this hardware replacement to the system. I will hold my boss responsible for that one, he gave me the go ahead to do it without producing a RFC. Lets hope all turns out well.

I am stuck in my house/The show

Yup.. another public holiday and I am tied to my home as I am on call for my work place and need to stick around somewhere that has internet connectivity so I can VPN in if anything pops up. Anyway enough of work, I went to an art show a few days ago (I'm not really into art but my walls are so plain, so maybe one day I will spruce up my apartment with a piece). Here are some pics of the show:



I have also recently decided that young girls are no longer for me, goodbye young and perky, hello old and saggy. Younger girls are just hot, there is no real material behind them or they hide it really well. Either way older girls are more my speed for now.

This week was pretty much a waste

No work got done at the office.. mainly due to the fact that there was nothing to do. The AC in my office seems to be stuck on high so I have perfected the art of sleeping in my chair in cold dry conditions. To give you an idea of the conditions, the jacket you see me wearing is standard issue at my office and is really meant to be worn in freezer rooms for storing meat.. etc. I figure one of the problems is that the AC is meant to cool a room of 20 people but in this case there is only 1 person maybe 3 on a good day.

This is a picture I took from one of the windows you see behind me. When I am dying of bordom I might turn around and look at the people walking on the street below for a few minutes or so. I work in downtown Kingston, a place not too desired by many. I hear gunshots on occasion and have seen someone get stabbed through my window but once you are inside the building its pretty secure :-p

I should explain why I have so much free time at work :-). I am a systems administrator for enterprise class servers. Most of the machines I oversee only provide the infrastructure that runs business logic so there isn't much need for me to interact with the end users. Don't get it twisted though, when things are failing the torrential rains start and when it rains it pours. So my main activity is just ensuring that things and failing and to prevent/detect future failures with these not so gentle giants.

zzzzZz

What have I been up to lately? I went to an expo last weekend and after that I went to a classic car show :)
At the expo a cute booth girl tried to pick me up for her friend, she flirted with me for a bit and I took her business card and told her I would email her, which I have yet to do :D. I am not really feeling this friend thing but anyways we will give her a chance maybe. Anyway the picture on the left is one of the cars from the show, I didnt realize these cars were still on the road, I some of them had valid registration stickers on them o_0

An update on the office situation:
I have been up at the corporate offices all week thus far, people are all around, its kind of odd. There is no privacy in cubicle life, I can't take my usual afternoon nap anymore. Atleast I can look forward to next week when I return back to my usual desk/officespace downtown.

What day is today?

As usual I woke up this morning oblivious to the time/date and even the day of the week. I stayed in bed for a bit trying to figure out if today was Wednesday or not then went to over to my mobile phone only to realize today was really Friday. This little slip up completely changed everything.. I got out of bed, grabbed a granola bar for breakfast and got into my Friday routine.

Its the same old at work.. nothing to do. Next week is going to be different though, I opted to work up at the corporate building where everybody else is for a bit. I will be leaving behind my large windowed work space for a stuffy cubicle. I hope I remember to take everything needed from my desk downtown before I leave work today. I have been known for leaving things behind.
Things are going to be different, down at my office is quiet and private. Seriously.. I had a 30 minute nap since I started typing this entry. I guess the hustle and bustle of life in the corporate building would gently prod me to be more productive.

So I did this cheesy test...

It turned out to be pretty accurate, the only thing off about it is the "multiple dates with multiple people." That is not for me, I would rather just give all my attention to one girl for that day/night.

Your Candy Heart Says "Cutie Pie"

You always seem to have a hot date, even though you never try to meet anyone. A total charmer, you have a natural appeal that keeps you in high demand. Your ideal Valentine's Day date: multiple dates with multiple people Your flirting style: 100% natural What turns you off: serious relationship talks Why you're hot: you're totally addicting

What Does Your Candy Heart Say?

The pictorial intro

I was looking at the pictures on my computer to decide which ones of myself to post and decided that I will paste the good the bad and the ugly :-)
I also decided not to spare my friends too, so if your picture was in my possession you shall be a victim too.

well this is me.. Adrian W, if you didn't know
This is Melissa D, my x, isn't she purrty?
lol.. yeah this picture needs a little bit of explanation, this is me and Raquel X. I think. Sorry if my face is scary in this one, I had a bit to drink before this picture was taken sooo

This is my friend Adrienne R, she will probably cuss me for putting up this picture but I had to do it, look at that rack on her.

Have you ever been woken up by a flash? This has happened to me too many times.


I wasn't ready yet.. unfair
what was I pointing at?
This is what I was pointing at.. Melissa B, my new friend :-) . She and her other friend saw my camera and decided they were going to take crazy pictures of each other. It is a safe bet that they won't be doing that anymore after they see this post heh.
This is Melissa B's partner in crime, Tenneth M. Both of them are models apparently and they carried their model tendencies to my place . Tenneth M after she wakes upMe and Moniqueue M. celebrating her b-day at TGIF...

Behind the name..

I thought I should explain the name Sectio Divina.. Apparently when you sign up for a free service after it has been in production for a few years, people run away with all the good names. I searched high and low but failed to find anything of use in my native language so I turned to greek.. nada then I turned to latin.. Sectio Divina cha-ching!

It translates to Divine Proportion which speaks of the Golden Ratio

This golden ratio is related to the Fibonacci series and is found in all aspects of life from the paths taken by excited atoms to the paterns of leaf growth on a plant to galaxies. Look it up sometime, it could be interesting.

Anyway back to more important matters at hand, I left my mobile phone at home today. I did not realize this until I was almost at work and wondering if anybody missed me yet then thought they would just call if anything popped up when I realized the phone was missing. I decided that there was no way I was going back home for it just to join rush hour traffic again and that I will just pick it up at maybe 9 ~ 10am after traffic died down. 10am came around and I was not feeling the vibe to go back for it so I decided I would do without it for today, sorry peeps who tried calling me :-p.
Of course at lunch time in the canteen my supervisor's phone started to act up and he asked me to borrow my phone to make a call. Now this is some bad luck right there, out of all the days for him to ask to make a call he chose the one day in the past year I've forgotten it. Its kind of bad on my part as I normally get work to do via my mobile phone.. I am not sure why people don't just pick up their desk phone and call my extenion.. there is always email anywho.

dropped off the list

Went shopping for groceries last night and saw Kris Kelly.. great right? no, not really. Now this girl used to be one of the Jamaican celebs I used to drool over ever since I saw here one night at the Rib Cage on constant spring road. There is nothing wrong with her but she has a bit much junk in her trunk for my taste :-(. Maybe I didn't notice before as at the time the place was dark, I was under the influence and it was like 3am in the morning.

1. Sexy Body Sasha
2. Kris Kelly
   
3. Tami Chyne
   

We are now bumping Tami up to the numbero dos slot and there is now a free space available on my wanted list. Tami is a sure thing as I have also seen her at the supermarket and she is hotter than the media show, so we are safe. Any local female celebs reading this may apply in confidence within for the vacant slot left by our dear friend Kris.

Do not expect much

If you are expecting much from this blog, I must warn you that I am as deep as a teardrop.

In keeping with those sentiments I shall go ahead and post the following picture:

My friend pointed this out to me last weekend, this lovely jug I got from Rikki-lee H. (many thanks) is just like the jug on the Kool Aid packet!

thats hot

My first post

Well I am new to blogging and this is my first post, hence the blog title hello world :)

Those of you in the know will understand the deeper meaning.