Time to do nothing...

It's been a busy summer so far, and it doesn't look like it's gonna get any better soon. The last week I've been poking with Exchange clustering and integration with our current system. It's been an interesting time, and I'm now at the point where there are two virtual servers that can move between buildings in about 30 seconds (it shuts down and restarts, not like vmotion or anything), but they can't really integrate with the current setup. That's requiring unlocking ACLs in places as needed so the new servers have access to the data, and enabling HTTP in places where we only want HTTPS (so it needs to stay restricted). Hopefully that won't take too long. Also been a lot of server room rearrangement, mounting new equipment, planning power, installing/updating other things, and fixing broken things.

For now though, it's time to ignore all that through the joy of vacation time. Last night I decided to finally fix the headphone jack in my mp3 player. Unfortunately in the process of removing the audio output board from the player I ended up pulling the jack off the board (surface mount is too week for that kind of use IMHO), and in preparing to solder that back on I pulled off a power wire from one of the battery packs. It's all back together as good as new now, although I wish had silver bearing solder for the jack connections. I wasn't planning on having to fix that, but at least I'm now listening to music portably again. Just got back from buying mostly junk food at the grocery store, so that part is covered. Also have the work email appropriately set up for ignore (so far the filters say 460 emails filed to ignore for now, and it's only been one weekend day so far - I dread what that will be in a week). BTW, those that still send non-work email to my work address should probably note this. :) I suppose I should probably do some stuff around the house during this time, but we'll see whether anything actually happens. Beginning of the week is booked already, but I'm up for movies or whatever else if people are interested in the latter half of the week.