Well so far at least 3 pieces of shingles have come off the roof. If the wind weren’t so bad (20-30mph gusts now) I’d climb up and take a look at the damage on the roof, because the rain will be following shortly it appears, the doppler is massively orange/red in some spots, we have a big yellow/orange blob coming towards bako - and when I say coming towards, I mean moving very, very, very, fast, under an hour ago the system was off the coast, its truckin.
So I am hoping my final migrations wrap up soon, as I am on the last batch, and it’s moving quickly, but the power has blinked 2-3 times already, thankfully the UPS is keeping up with the blips, so no interruptions on the internet/imac as of yet, but I have the phone and MBP charged and ready to go - just totally crazy.
Anywhoo - looks like things will be done within the next hour, maybe 2 tops, load across the server migrating is smooth, so I am hoping things will be complete very very soon, unpacking one massive site, packaging a massive site as well, so hoping things will wrap up, come Monday I can put in the final bits, and tada - all good. So as long as I don’t blow away here soon, I’ll be done and I can rest easy for a while. Night all! Happy Sunday!
So far nothing bad has happened, no one has called angry and threatening to sue - so so far so good, only 1 small server to roll tonight, should be pretty painless. I got some sleep, but not as much as I’d of liked honestly, but as it stands at 10pm the last bits will move over, and come Monday, DNS servers will be moved, and Tuesday I’ll migrate TN/FH to the new server for them, so going well.
If FTP is down for you, your using the old server, try OpenDNS or clear your DNS cache and close out apps, and try it again. For now, I am going to zone out and pass out, so if you have issues, email me.
So far so good, gotten 3 servers squared away, 2 little ones remain, shouldn’t be so bad, going to run em real quick this evening, probably 3-4 hours max, but I’ll probably start at 10pm vs. 11pm and try to be in bed no later than 3am on Sunday.
Then its sleep, sleep, sleep - must get a schedule down in which I can hold a normal 9-5 time-frame for some reason offices don’t operate from 12-7am! Silly companies.
Anywhoo, rest soon. Thanks for the prayers! More later…
So tonight is it. The big move (just started). Granted it’s not 100% done, but the last move is mainly of FH/TN websites, so that’ll go Tuesday at the latest - mainly want to keep it in one place till after a day or two of tickets is taken care of, but Thursday I’ll be requesting the other servers be shut down - which still leaves me with a bill, but something manageable, until I can relocate that final server - then I can be completely off the old provider.
It’s busy lately it seems, we met up at 9pm last night to see a old friend, however we never heard back that’d he was coming, but we figured - never hurts to try - so instead we had a fun dinner, and I had a nice chat with Jacob, it was a fun evening, I finished it up with some more relaxing - almost too relaxed for tonight, but I am hoping some moving around here at 6:30pm tonight will help wake me up a bit - but the move seems like it should be pretty straight forward, just have to move data, upgrade DNS, and only thing I can see as a “bad” thing is having to re-compile PHP4 on some servers, as I am sure there are some issues I’d rather simply not deal with right now, so I’d be going PHP4 on maybe 2 servers tops.
Got some more work today it seems, still waiting to hear back from EE on the final bits of it, I need to get RM up and online this weekend too - had hoped to get it last Monday, but I just have been so beat from these moves, thankfully this is the last weekend, then I may have a standard 9-5 so a semi-normal sleep schedule steady pay checks, rebuild my savings, get an apartment, build a time-machine, etc. etc. - so preparing for some big changes.
Just got in from a fun evening with the guys, it was pretty fun, had a good meal, some painful GH3, some ice cream from ColdStone - a good relaxing fun to lead into server migrations - so thus I am sitting here with the iPod crankin my car playlist, going to code some between packaging accounts - maybe sneak in a nap later… time will tell Prayers are appreciated! Oh and on my Grandma, they put a shunt in one valve and the meds had helped the other - so she’s going to get to go home on Sunday it looks like! Thanks for the prayers!
More later! Off I go to get this migration rolling!
So today wasn’t exactly the way I planned it - anymore days rarely are, but I got some more rest, still not 100% yet, but come Friday the whole ordeal starts again, with one final weekend to get things rolled over to the new hardware, and so far over 10 days online, the hardware has performed wonderfully! Some small blips with the new anti-spam, for instance one customer’s IP was listed in a blacklist, thus the server rejected them sending email! Got that fixed up quickly.
Overall I am pretty happy with the move, things are looking good, and I have actually had a steady flow of small packages sign-up since the start of 2008, granted it’s not enough thus far to really push towards avoiding a job, but the job front looks good, and I may be able to get myself setup with this new job within the next 2 weeks, which if it works out, would mean a good infusion of funds into the monthly budget, get some bills paid off, get ahead on my car payments, and of course the big jump — the apartment. Soon I’ll be all grow’d up.
I want to get out though before I take this job and get one big photo day in, as I know in the course of many days that won’t be a random option I can simply pick up and do anymore once I get the day-to-day job, but I am hoping for fun Saturdays, evenings, etc. so I really want to pick up a nice point and shoot camera soon, as lugging the E-500 around isn’t very compact, but all in all things look like they are all coming along, now granted there’s that chance this job won’t stick, but then that just means I must keep pushing forward.
Anywhoo - still have a code to work on, then I need to migrate it from here to the server for review, all in all it should be pretty straight forward move, none the less I am keeping a active copy of MySQL4 running just in case I have issues in MySQL5 that arise - so a busy weekend to come, but one of which that will eliminate a server bill coming in on the 2nd, so pretty jazzed about that! So if your on Thrust Networks servers, check your email, a move is coming Friday!
An update on Grandma, she’s stable, they got in and did tests to find her heard has a 96% blockage, so they are going in Friday to effect repairs, so thanks for the prayers, just a little more please she’s doing well, there’s still a random chance I’ll go up with dad, but if I pick up this job, then it’ll probably mean no-go for a while.
Which leads to the job, gotten some details about it - shorts may be okay! But who knows, I may grow up sooner or later and just find a pair of pants that fit okay on my beefy legs, but from the sounds of it, as the IT guy it’s expected to get dirty and need to move around, thus shorts are currently “ok” - so far the job seems like a good thing, going to try and get in and see the operation, but could mean a decent wage thrown into the budget, which would be nice, and within 2 months if not shorter, I’d be able to snag an apartment, but weighing all that as well.
Code has slowed some project wise, with all the Grandma stuff I got majorly distracted so still some code to work out which is mainly the plan for today. Code, Code and Code some more to meet my deadline of “Wednesday”, but all in all its just a lot of routines I have to write that I know the basics of in my head, just a matter of making the final move from brain -> file.
Anywhoo - there’s the update, I am alive… mostly. I feel like taking a nap, still not 100% after the moves this past weekend, but I do need to send an email out today for sure on the moves this coming weekend. Busy busy, next week things should amp down some, but then I may also be starting on path to normal hours working a standard job…. time will tell. Happy Fake Friday!
So I would of posted this update earlier, but sleep beckoned quickly, and I may still yet go back and visit with it some more, but apparently when I sleep - the world still moves forward. So some updates - Grandma is resting comfortably at the hospital, they have her on a Nitro Drip if memory serves, she wants to have a cardio specialist see he before anyone starts poking at her heart, so me and dad are still prepared to head that way if needs be.
Other news, a job. Things went left, swerved right, then back on course it seems, my brother left me a note that I was still a possibility and things were leveling out a bit, so I may have a standard 9-5 job here soon, which would indeed be nice and more or less seal the deal on an apartment, so pretty jazzed, if it doesn’t pan out (which is possible), I have a little under 2 months to rev up things with FH/TN to make it towards that end or I more aggressively push for a job locally.
Anywhoo - a busy day ahead it seems, some programming to wrap up, things with the migration seem to of gone smoother than smooth, only 1 note on Monday, and even then never got a note back, so hoping it’s cleared up, if not I am sure I’ll hear something in the next 2-3 hours and we’ll get it squared away ASAP - but for now, some quick rounds, then a hot shower, followed by some iPod + Code - should be a interesting code-a-thon day! More later! Thanks for the prayers for Grandma, more updates on her as I get em!
for some reason offices don’t operate from 12-7am! Silly companies. 
