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sergebroomToday I watered every plant that should be watered, including the bushes up the hill that I often find excuses not to take care of. I then spent two hours weeding, and I should be done with the remaining patch tomorrow. Good thing too. I got pricked a few times by cactus debris, and a few expletives were uttered when I found myself with a bit of cactus hanging from my index.
After that, I got involved in the company's business continuation of the mainframe. That's when we prove that, if the mainframe crashed, we could quickly shift its functionality to the backup mainframe. Most of our team's processing now happens on unix servers, but we still have one single process on the mainframe. Since I'm the team's only person with any mainframe skills, it was my responsibility to prove we are ready. I spent two hours on this. I logged in to make sure all our input and output files were there. The mainframe's job scheduler wasn't ready though so I waited. And waited. And waited. After those two hours of buildup, it took me a 5-minute spurt of activity to unleash our team's process and to validate it.
About time too because there was going to be a BBQ in a city park to celebrate the birthday of local fan Dawn Barela and I didn't want to miss that. Back home I did some gardening, then I spent a few hours on fixing a problem with our unix processes.
It's getting late, but I want to relax a bit. I just bought Book View Café's 2010 e*anthology "Breaking Waves" because it has a story by Vonda McIntyre. I'll now read a bit more of Madeleine Robins's Regency mystery "Point of Honour" then I'll turn in.
After that, I got involved in the company's business continuation of the mainframe. That's when we prove that, if the mainframe crashed, we could quickly shift its functionality to the backup mainframe. Most of our team's processing now happens on unix servers, but we still have one single process on the mainframe. Since I'm the team's only person with any mainframe skills, it was my responsibility to prove we are ready. I spent two hours on this. I logged in to make sure all our input and output files were there. The mainframe's job scheduler wasn't ready though so I waited. And waited. And waited. After those two hours of buildup, it took me a 5-minute spurt of activity to unleash our team's process and to validate it.
About time too because there was going to be a BBQ in a city park to celebrate the birthday of local fan Dawn Barela and I didn't want to miss that. Back home I did some gardening, then I spent a few hours on fixing a problem with our unix processes.
It's getting late, but I want to relax a bit. I just bought Book View Café's 2010 e*anthology "Breaking Waves" because it has a story by Vonda McIntyre. I'll now read a bit more of Madeleine Robins's Regency mystery "Point of Honour" then I'll turn in.
