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November 18th, 2007
12:28 pm - Mid-November in Texas
So ... the last month has been a rather jam-packed one. A brief update on what I'm doing and where I'm doing it seems in order.
This last week, I've been at the Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) in Dallas. I loaded up on tutorials, focusing on Solaris 10 administration and performance tuning, Cfengine, shell scripting practices, and OpenLDAP. By the end of the week, my brain was pouring out my ears, as these classes are very much akin to drinking from an informational firehose. While at the conference, I reintroduced myself to a few people, got to know a large number of very interesting folk, joined the League of Professional Systems Administrators (LOPSA), and got far too little sleep. The vendors also gave me nifty toys, including bar towels from Google, a half dozen T-shirts, a rubik's cube, two bags, and a handful of nick-knacks. All in all, a definite win.
In order to save on lodgings, I stayed with my in-laws, who live only about a half hour away on the DART, and my boss said that it would be acceptable to VPN in to work remotely the first few days of this coming week. Consequently, since my lovely wife and I were intending to spend Thanksgiving with her family, I arrived in Dallas on the 10th, to return to Indiana on the 25th. Apologies to those who weren't aware and had hoped to do something with me during that time.
After a lazy Saturday and a (perhaps excessively) brisk workout this morning, I'm feeling far more human. The conference had started to wear on me, and I hadn't even been drinking that much with the LOPSA folks. ...not that this was any fault of theirs; they made every effort to make it easy for me to do so.
I've also had some stressors of late; good friends of mine have had some really rough times, and there has been some drama surrounding my grandmother being put in a nursing home. ...but I've got my heath, a pretty good job, and a lovely and talented wife. Overall, I really can't complain.
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![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/27620801/6534184) | | From: | ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) unforth |
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| Date: | November 19th, 2007 05:51 am (UTC) |
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Sorry to hear about stressors, and I hope your grandma's okay; my family is going through something similar with my grandfather, and it raises all kinda tough issues. :( So best of luck, and have a great holiday... :)
You got to drink from the firehose!1
And sorry to hear about the Stuff. Lame, man. I'll be here when you get back, ready to hit the Guitar Hero, yo. (;
(PS You still owe me twenty bucks.)
(Nope, it never gets old. ;)
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/30649974/1936420) | | From: | brisance |
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| Date: | November 20th, 2007 05:48 pm (UTC) |
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Sorry about the tough time. You can complain, by the way, if you like. I'm the unofficial fairy godmother of complaining with a fair amount of bureaucratic authority in these matters. So, poof, I grant you three complaints - use 'em wisely. :)
As a possible source of minor amusement, I wasn't paying attention on my friends page and thought this entry was ratmmjess'. I was profoundly confused about his massive career shift until I icon-checked and realized it was you. |
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