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2004/02/02
 01:20:19
So I didn't notice that the date on yesterday's entry got parsed wrong, so the system sorted it down to the date 0000-00-00 (at the end of my archives). Fixed that now, and double checked that no others like that exist. I'll have to watch in the future more since it's supposed to detect invalid dates and fix them. Woke up this morning and had a bit of extra time before church so went in and swapped tapes on the system. Restore wasn't finished, but looked hopeful for early afternoon. Arrived at church with about a minute to spare before the service started, and found way more people from ITS than normal. Church was a bit interesting since it was more church planning and ideas, and I'm not really a part of the church yet. Sorta scary since a lot of it is almost identical to what my former church was talking about before we closed, but Salem isn't already on a downward slide so hopefully won't go that way. After church the crew went to Subway for lunch. Surprisingly there was a decent line there, but it was good to hang out with everyone again. After that I took JoeBuck and Dave home, and had a bit of fun driving around since the roads were slick. Really easy to fishtail around corners and just drive sideways and stuff. Got home and started the snowblower, which I knew was low on gas, but it promptly reminded me by stopping after a couple times down the driveway. Called and requested a gas can be delivered (great to have family coming over anyways), and went off getting the stuff together for the superbowl party. Downstairs got the Comcast CBS HD feed, and upstairs got the OTA CBS HD feed. Had to run a coax temporarily up the wall to upstairs for the OTA feed (needed the attic antenna - the rabbit ears didn't cut it), but otherwise everything went smooth. They stayed perfectly in sync which was nice, although the in sync also meant the glitches on receiving must have been part of the CBS link or at the station. Lots of people across the country reported the audio glitches, so probably the CBS uplink. Overall the game quality was really good though technically, the playing was boring at first but got better. The halftime show just sucked, and this didn't help at all. Commercials were a bit lacking this year. Nothing too exciting, and the second half seemed to have almost none. A ton of people showed up for my party, so there are some pictures. People kept showing up after we ran out of seats, so had to make use of dining room chairs and pillows, but all was good. I'll have to plan better for next year i guess. As for that restore that I hoped would finish in the early afternoon, it finished just before midnight. Started the next ones now, but one blew up on a bad read and claimed the tape was bad and put the drive in service mode. Luckily I caught it right away and changed it back to online and started it up again. Thankfully the client also just rerequested what was left of the job rather than aborting too. Looks like it's reading OK this time, hopefully it was just a glitch. The drives probably need cleaning bad though... We'll see how that looks tomorrow morning.