I'm tired. I think part of that has to do with getting done working a 14 hour day, with very little of it sitting. In fact it was mostly standing, with large portions of bending over, squatting, kneeling, and lifting stuff. Tuesday wasn't too exciting. I slept in quite a bit, and read stuff online, followed by watching movies. I watched .com for Murder, which could have been better, but could have been worse. Sorta interesting in how other people probably see online stuff... Then Bethel's Internet provider apparently had issues, which also seemed to take out other schools and the Star Trib. It got resolved pretty quickly, I wonder which one they cared most about. :) I was impressed that my phone resynced within seconds of it coming back up. Pretty good... Then I watched The Bounce Supremacy, which is a good movie. I stayed up later than I should have watching extras.

Wednesday I overslept and woke up at 7. Nick did too though, so we didn't care too much. We both needed breakfast and caffeine to get us going though. We started work a bit before 8. The first server room was sorta annoying, since we had to work around boxes that needed to stay up. Of course this is in the process of repatching all the network stuff and putting in new power strips. The power strips are fancy, and measure volts, amps, va, watts, power factor, kilowatt hours, and power on time, and can alert when there is too much draw. Yea, they're geeky, but they will hopefully help power management so we can keep circuits evenly balanced. We managed to do it all though, and I only had all core services down for maybe 10-15 minutes. It took me around an hour to get blackboard back up and running though (after I discovered it didn't come back cleanly). That place is a ton cleaner though, and now we just need to label some stuff and clean up some serial console lines. We probably pulled out over half the length of patch cables in the room though. We ended up finishing that room at around 2, and since schdav arrived we dragged him along to lunch at Culvers.

We got back from lunch around 3, and moved to the other server room. This one was easier since there was one server in our racks that we needed to keep up as much as possible. So it got its cables moved to the side, and moved directly to the outlets on the wall. We then proceeded to rip out every patch cable and power cable in the room. They all went on the floor, later arranged into piles. It felt like walking on some really weird carpet... Then we pulled out switches, put them in new places, repatched serial lines, moved servers to make better use of space, and mounted new fancy power strips everywhere. That room looks like a new place. Then Nick and I spent a couple hours hooking up power cables, repatching network stuff, and routing lines to be as clean and manageable as possible. We went from a room full of mostly 16ft patch cables to mostly 5 and 7ft cables. Yea, the big ones really weren't needed for most things. Even though I'm sore and tired, I'm glad it's done. It has been needed for a long time. Now to go get some sleep...