Yea, it's been a while, but asking about it doesn't get new posts up more often. :) I just haven't had too much to write about, and have been doing other things I guess. I don't remember what happened Wednesday at work, so it must have been pretty routine. Lunch was sorta a surprise trip to Chipotle. We were going to Noodles, and then that changed as we were in the parking lot driving out. Austin had mentioned to me that it was raining outside, but a few minutes earlier I had looked outside and saw people just standing around on the phone, which didn't seem like a likely combination. The trip to lunch turned up why though - it was alternating between no rain and pouring down so hard you couldn't see 50ft in front of you. Always interesting, but you have to time your trips between enclosed areas properly to stay dry. The whole weather thing also caused the air in one of our server rooms to be rather humid. Turns out they never set the new AC unit to control humidity, and the old one was mainly case fan exhaust so was showing an artificially low number. Spent some time tweaking that, and it seems to be keeping the room better overall temperature wise too. You'd think the HVAC people would do it right when they set it up, especially after they spent like a week figuring out how to stabilize the temperature variances. That night Ben and Josie came over to see my place and spend the night. They were passing through on their way to Rochester to look for a place there, and since they hadn't ever seen my place it made a great excuse to stay. Ben and I watched Matrix Revolutions which is an OK movie. The soundtrack is a little messed up (weird distortions on fades on the surrounds especially - sounds like bad compression artifacts), but it could be the disc is just scratched as it's Netflix. Thursday was another one of those uneventful days, although with some more HVAC checking (everything always looked good though). Friday we had someone from the HVAC crew turn off the older air conditioner since they thought it wasn't needed. Nevermind that we need all 8 tons to keep the room in the range it should be within. Friday was spent looking at Active Directory stuff, as well as Avalon. We had some problems with Word XP still, and think it may be a bug exposed due to Application Data being redirected. No other app has problems, which is annoying, since it points to Word but what are we gonna do. I vote for OpenOffice everywhere, but... I managed to get a policy set up so Application Data would go back in the roaming part of the profile. Hopefully that'll make things more stable, but now I'll probably have to deal with people complaining about how long it takes them to log in/out again... It was also a night to stay late working on Avalon. I spent some time planning a new layout for our entire AD structure, which can hopefully be implimented at least partially sometime this summer. Then I demoted Avalon as a domain controller since I have two other ones running right now due to some other things that came up. Hopefully that'll help the load out a lot. The history of the domains unfortunately has involved a lot of combining file servers with domain controllers (typical small environment stuff), but we've definitely grown to the point where that's a bad idea. That and the merging of two distinct computing communities and another goofy split meant most of the AD redesign. Of course a CS prof had an assignment due at midnight (two hours after the outage started), and a bunch of people decided to work on it at the last minute. I think they survided though - I was done before midnight and none of them were around anymore. Of course I ran into the fact that the account management stuff all broke because of the change, so had to get that up and running. Should be now though, and I haven't heard any complaints so I'm caling it good. Saturday morning was sleep in time, which was nice. I had been really tired for a good chunk of the week. I need to not stay up as late. Tonight is a bonfire, which should be fun. If you don't know about it you haven't been talking to the right people this week.