Sort of like the Navy.

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.  Unfortunately.

I went to the gun show this weekend for the usual: cheap ammo and home-made jerky.  There's a husband and wife team, the husband sells lever guns and six shooters, the wife sells home-made cheese, jerky, and canned goods.  I think she does better business than he does.  Lately she's been relegated to the foyer outside the show...maybe canned goods and jerky aren't tacticool enough for the boys inside.  We talked a bit, and I bought 3 pieces of turkey jerky ("those were my neighbor's turkey, mine ain't ready for slaughter yet") for $5.

I did manage to find several examples of the next pistol that I'm going to buy once I sell off a few pieces.  It's made by Uberti (the guys what make Benelli shotguns) and it's a turn-for-turn repro of a Colt Frontier single-action.  Because I feel the urge for a sixgun and a horse right about....now.  No....now.

There was a guy at the gun show who had, among his firearms and accessories, a stack of bumperstickers.  The stickers show a peace sign and next to it these words: "footprint of the American chicken."  I purchased all of them from him (the whole stack only cost me ten bucks) and placed them in the trash in a container of half-eaten nachos on my way out the door.

I don't have a problem with people who think incorrectly.  Ain't nothin' wrong with being wrong.  You learn a lot of important lessons that way.

When I got home, I checked out the latest on my server woes.  I work seven days a week, have I mentioned that?  My main UNIX server, the one that serves all the NFS shares attached via iSCSI, the one that has all the problems?  It was sitting at a load average of 127.6 125.5 197.5.  TomCat had gone off the rails, and one of my interfaces in flaky, so I ended up having to remotely bounce the thing.  This is normally where I'd say "then I had to drive in to work because it never booted" but it was my lucky day: it booted, then promptly refused to re-mount the iscsi array.  Took roughly two hours to get that sorted.

In the middle of that my grandparents called and told me about my sister-in-law's dad.  I didn't know the guy all that well, but what I knew of him was good.  My brother wrote a very honest, very touching toast to him.  I haven't been able to get my brother or nephew on the phone...I assume they're just tired of it all at this point, and need to hang on to each other for a little while.

This week was all about lipstick and pigs.  I managed to make the $3k that our iSCSI debacle is going to cost us sound like money well spent.  It's not bad, actually: the vendor is loaning us a new iSCSI box for a couple of weeks, and we're buying 5TB worth of drives from them to stuff in it.  They're selling the drives to us at cost (I don't know how much y'all pay for storage, but $2880 for 5TB is pretty decent in my book) and we're picking up shipping.  The fix: copy all the company's data from the current array to the loaner, nuke the current array, then copy it all back.  I'm still not 100 percent sure about logistics...how to best copy the data in linux, for instance.  There's only one way to do it in Windows: robocopy.  But Linux, there are a few decent options.  rsync, maybe?

Once this data is back and settled and our performance on the array is good (due to no stupid ass software raid) I'm totally going to find another job.