Friday started off slow but I started getting plans for getting the paging system setup. Lunch was Eddington's which is always good, at least for the people who will actually take advantage of the bottomless bowl. I managed to somehow eat for just over $5, which I'm a little confused about. Somehow I managed a dollar off and a free drink, but I'm not gonna complain there. During the afternoon /var filled up on the server which handles a bunch of internal ITS stuff, but apparently wasn't monitored. Managed to corrupt 5 database tables, but luckily they were all either transient or non-critical data, and it seemed to rebuild all the data anyways. After work went over to Ross' place and hung out for a bit. He's on the 26th floor in the middle of St Paul so I got some good pictures, a few of which I picked out and posted last night. In the morning I was awakened by my phone ringing at 6:50. Upon seeing it was from Bethel my first thought is "great, what could be bad enough that they're calling me now" and given my mostly incoherent state let it go to VM. Turns out it was the alarm in one of the server rooms going off which security would pretty much have to deal with anyways, so I set my phone to silent until 9am knowing they wouldn't ack and it'd call a few more times, and went back to sleep. Sometime around 10am I woke up and couldn't really get back to sleep but layed in bed until around 1. In the mean time dealt with non-work (thankfully) phone calls and stuff. Upon actually getting up I found my laptop's hard drive was making an abnormal amount of noise, but nothing it hadn't done for short times before. Sometime in the afternoon I watched Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I think that is one of my favorite of the original series at least. After that my laptop's hard drive was making lots of noise that sounded vaguely similar to something like metal scraping against metal. Not my favorite thing to have happening to the drive in my laptop. I finished up final arrangements for the night at Mike J's and by that time writes were very slow and almost not occuring, so figured I'd shut it down and hopefully it'd recover enough to pull the data off later. Turns out it never shut down properly, sorta freezing at some weird mangled screen, so I just shut it off. Went and dealt with the aformentioned alarm incident, and while I was there printed directions and a couple of the pictures from Friday night (2-4). They look very nice, but the color laser puts a little bit of a line pattern in them. For the evening a bunch of us went over to Mike J's place to party a bit since he was dogsitting and his wife was out of town. Ended up playing Risk which was described by JoeBuck already. Afterwards I ended up playing with a bowling demo game on the phone as well as sending text messages. Eventually ordered a 60GB hard drive to replace the 30GB one which was making noise, since I won't trust it much even if it does come back at this point. Then there was SNL, which had probably one of the funniest things about Chicken of the Sea and stuff like that. Combined with the previous comment of "Chicken and Tuna are people!", that whole spin was probably the best SNL thing I've seen in quite a while. Throughout the night the dogs were a bit excited and crazy at times, so got a few good pictures. Maybe I'll post them tomorrow or something. As for the computer, after I got home I booted it up and it seems to be working and made noises for a few seconds after booting which went away. Of course if you've ever dealt with computers in a techy way, you know at this point that drive is considered dangerous and not to be trusted with any important data. So I think I'm gonna post this and shut it down for the night.