First normal day of work this year (pretty much the normal amount of people around) went well. This morning discovered that all the home directories under one letter never got the permissions reset so people couldn't access them. I fixed that but then figured out that the permissions were broken on the parent directory so they still couldn't see them, but all should be fixed now. Of course I learned about the second problem by being told a different letter was broken and trying to figure out why everything looked right and I could get to it fine but they couldn't. Oh well, such is life. Lunch was Eddington's with the crew which is always good. It would have been in-n-out, but we decided that lunch would probably be too long after the drive. The afternoon was more miscellaneous stuff. Tracking down permissions, changing other permissions, people wondering why stuff doesn't work (Exchange is a pain sometimes BTW), and setting up accounts. Installed a new version of mailman on the new list server, which was amazingly painless. Works better than most expensive software. Tomorrow is upgrade the kernel and recompile RAID drivers day. After work went over to brooke's place for dinner with the usual gang since she's leaving for 23 days in Europe tomorrow. After that went out to the car and it was cold enough that the mp3 player refused to start. Hard drives don't like cold. At least CD players generally fare better and I had the 28 Days Later Soundtrack along. I got my big box full of STP, wall jacks, wall plates, patch panels, splitters, and various other stuff. Maybe this weekend will be cabling time. While walking out to grab the mail noticed what looked like a CO2 cartridge on the driveway. Picked it up and turns out it's a coax negative trap for 65-78. Not sure why that was on the driveway, but it looks like it's been there for a day or two since it was partially buried in snow but it wasn't there Friday. Not sure why it'd be there since I haven't had any cable work done recently at all. Maybe I should turn on a TV and check what channels I get and see if anything changed. I wouldn't expect comcast to carry those traps normally though since there are 3 Basic 1 channels and no higher channels in that range. Wait, now that I look at their site none of those are in the Basic 1 listing anymore though. So maybe I have fewer channels. Oh well, cable modem still works which is all I care about (the cable is just because it's cheaper than paying the non-cable premium).