Apparently I've been busy or something. In the past week or so I've finished Alias Season 3, watched The Faculty, done a lot of coding and documentation review, ordered some servers, had a birthday, been dragged into too many meetings, set up software distribution plans, ordered more servers, fixed stupid appletalk stuff that broke, attempted to track down other broken stuff, planned more infrastructure, worked around comcast breaking their DNS, set up mailing lists, evaluated another semi-federated distributed authentication system, attempted to implement some dynamic windows lockdown systems, investigated quota systems, patched utilities from Windows Server 2003 into Windows 2000 Server, attempted to convince people that greylisting is not the cause of all lost email, speculated at site bandwidth requirements for very loosely defined groups of people, investigated Windows policy application, attempted to work around weird network glitches, investigated disk IO problems, lost a bunch of data, drank way too much Mountain Dew, and tried to forget about work when I get home. Yea, other than the first two, that data stuff and that one other thing, that's been work for the past couple weeks. Actually that seems like not enough explanation now that I look at it. Going home has involved sitting around doing nothing and reading random stuff to try and relax. It's been made easier by horrible network latency to work, but harder by the phone beeping with random pages. Right now I'm sitting on the couch at home, every couple minutes resisting the natural urge every couple minutes to move so the lights will turn back on. Mainly that's because the lights here don't turn on if I move (well, unless I walk over to the switch), so it's pointless. I think that means I either need to move more at work so the lights stay on there, or I need to tweak the motion detector timing. I'm thinking it's probably approaching time to find something to do and take a week off. Of course at work I sorta work time off around 3 people. One of those took a bit over two weeks coming back Monday (but sick the last two days). Another is gone this week. The third is gone next week. Maybe I should claim the week after before it's gone? :) If only I wasn't in the middle of so much I could actually take vacation without having to find something to continously occupy my time and distract me.

So today I walked by as someone was unpacking a new toy. This toy was a nice new fast multi-CPU Sun box. I asked the question "what OS are you going to run on that?" with the two obvious choices the only thing in my mind. He looked at me and somewhat hesitantly said "actually, it'll probably be Windows 2000". What has this world come to? I guess I should have realized. It seems lately we've been buying Sun stuff to run linux on, and other gear to run Solaris on. It just never really hit me before...