The lack of posts after the last sentence of my last post should pretty much explain what I've been doing the last 2 days. The whole NetWorker backup stuff is pretty bad, is slow, and likes to crash/freeze whenever there's a glitch talking to the server (usually caused by one end chewing CPU to the point the machine is effectively unusable). Currently we have resorted to maping a drive to the administrative share on Usonia2 from Avalon, and running the restore client doing a directed recover on Avalon. It shouldn't be so hard to restore from backups... So Mike and I have been watching it pretty much around the clock since Monday morning to get it moving again when it inevitably stops. Today felt like it was Friday for the 5th day in a row - not in the good "it's almost the weekend" way either, but the "do I get to go home yet" way. :( Even though I have had to wake up enough that I have been constantly tired, I have gotten to have a bit of fun. Monday night Dave and Ross and I went over to some of Ross' friends place to watch How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. A little different than my usual movie experience as there were 5 of us around a 9" TV, but was still good. The beginning of the movie was pretty funny, but then it ended like a typical chick-flick... Yesterday my new DVD player arrived, so had to play with that. Even though my projector doesn't have flicker since it's not a CRT, progressive scan for film sources is still really nice. Plus that player is very fast at seeking so skips and stuff are effectively instant. I had to test it out and watched lots of trailers (and saw just how bad the MPEG encoding on some is), and then watched Crimson Tide. It's a good movie - I'll have to watch it again some time when I can do more than just stay awake and actually enjoy it more. Hopefully the cables I ordered will arrive soon too. Right now I have the player sitting on my bed with the RCA bundle and the fiber running across the room to the equipment rack. Since it has DVD-A and SACD support I'm gonna end up with around 11 cables coming off the back of it, and that's without any control and if I skip the composite video (probably will since I don't have anything that takes that input anyways). After work today I got recruited to go pick up a trailer for hauling trees and brush since my dad was gone and nobody else was apparently able to drive with a trailer. Tonight should be much better, as I get to relax. I do have to get up early to move heavy exercise equipment around, but can hopefully get to bed early. No, the server isn't done yet, but since I'm on vacation the rest of the week (cousin gets married Friday, and the rehersal is tomorrow evening), I'm thankfully off babysitting duty as of 6pm today. I'm tired of typing now - I'm making too many mistakes... Now to figure out which movie to watch...