Baby!!

The whole thing with balance I am trying to find with the jump between the 8 to 5 grind and TN/FH is tough, not that it isn’t possible, it’s just a change in mindset, as well as making sure to take a break, relax, breathe, you know that sort of thing - and tonight a much needed break was had, a game of Catan, 2 Nephews, a Niece, 2 friends and 1 Solomon.

Such a beautiful baby, got to hold him for a little bit, he’s got some good muscles already pushing around as he laid across my chest more or less as I held him on the couch - just honored to get to meet him, hang out with the Poon’s - my buddy Lanie was there, as well as Blaine and Cameron, apparently Gavin had some sort of prior “thing” with a certain “lady” friend, geeze, what’s so special about a lady friend when you have cool people playing Catan? :) he was missed, but it was a fun evening, got to even give a piggy back ride, so I mean that alone sum’d up the evening.

It was a great break, and I have actually taken most of the night off, I do have some spot work here to do shortly with some domain renewals, cancelations, and I am also looking to move forward on some alternative email options for both FH/TN that are just standard POP3/IMAP (no fancy Exchange) but simple alternatives and see if I can’t package it with standard accounts over time and absorb the cost in and offer email managed off server, vs. on server, would let folks store more on box - but before I go into business mode, I want to find a snack, and relax a bit more, as tomorrow is Friday, which means every little project people forgot, will hit my desk!

Speaking of work though, the backup server is as such:

  1. ABIT IP35 Pro (Fancy)
  2. Intel Core 2 Duo (E6420) 2.13ghz (Conroe)
  3. 4 GB GeIL Ram (2 x 2GB sticks)
  4. 5 x Maxtor 500GB SATAII Drives (4 in RAID5 - other will be primary OS aka nothing critical for backups)
  5. 4 HotSwap Enclosures for the Drives
  6. Promise FastTrak PCI SATAII Controller (mixed feelings, but some positive reports)
  7. 750W Power Supply
  8. Other Assorted Goodies: ie. cdrom, floppy, Radeon X700

A nice little rig, but more I read about the promise card the more mixed I feel about it - but we’ll see how it goes probably Tuesday at this point since most stuff is shipping from CA, so it’ll be here probably Monday/Tuesday.

Anywhoo - sleep is nearing, so work must be done, I’ll write more tomorrow after bowling! Night folks!

Posted on 6 March '08 by Chuck Brown, under General.