Interesting day. Mondays (or the appropriate first day of the week) have been rushed lately. At least they're not boring anymore. My little email run got quite a few responses. That's why we send them out though - much, much better than assuming the data is all valid and just disabling accounts, especially when it's large numbers so you can't check them over by hand. Lunch was cattle company on another coupon. Multiple Bethel departments ended up going, which was cool (although we didn't see them there). In the afternoon I started poking with the server room cooling again (get to call about that after seeing what the morning status is), and hopefully get some fans set up to eliminate some hot spots behind the racks. Just redirecting air pulling through one of them into the return pushes the return air temp up about 10 degrees. The unit should be able to handle it, just a matter of adjusting the airflow so we don't overheat our servers anymore. To top off the work day I started playing with iLO and setting up the NAS box. iLO is a really cool technology. Basically I can connect over HTTPS and get console on the windows box. There are issues with cursor tracking, but I got it up and running and firewalled with VNC installed so I could use that to get it patched and stuff (gotta love specialized OSes where windowsupdate doesn't work). Will be handy if we need in the BIOS or anything as we shouldn't need to use a KVM to connect to it or anything. That thing is loud though. It's weird sitting across the room hitting the "virtual power switch" and it suddenly sounds like a jet engine is running behind the chair. Yea, I think I'll wear headphones while finishing up the config there. After I got home I set about inspecting the couch. No easy way to wire it internally, so trying a slightly different approach. It's all wired up and levels tweaked now. Also got the room rearranged, although I think I should build a platform for the rear speakers. I'm liking this setup downstairs though. It's very nice down here (like upper 60s), so I've been relaxing and listening to music. I should probably figure out a better way to isolate the floors though - it's probably not the most economical to try to keep the upstairs cool while so much cold air is getting to the basement. Ugh. Just looking at line voltage graphs. The voltage during the day is dropping like 2%. Anything under 10% should be fine for pretty much anything (it's the standard tolerance), but the graph is sorta funny looking. You can tell the AC units really kicked in today too. The weekends are like nothing, Tuesday through Friday last week are pretty even, but then today we see a big dip. Oh well, such is life. The output voltage on the UPS looks fine...