back to work....

So, thanksgiving came and went, a very nice (but clearly not long enough) extended weekend came and went, and now it's back to work.

It's always kinda hard to pick up the threads after being away for so long (4 whole days without a thought or care about work), so I spent some time today just figuring out what's going on. Our monitoring program managed to generate ~ 35,000 messages over the last couple of days, so I wasn't even able to get to my regular list of stuff to do for several hours.

I also just found out that a group from Juarez, Mexico, has been added to our domain. fun fun fun! Now I have extra work queued up for the next 2-3 weeks...

On the happy side of things, CJ learned a couple of new tricks over the weekend... One is his new dance move: Whenever he hears a song he likes, he will bounce up and down *and* swing left and right! Now that's coordination! He's got more dancing skill on his pinky than I have in my whole body...

The case of the finger eating case (not for the feint of heart)

So, this morning I was attempting to open an external hard drive case (it's something you use to carry your computer hard drive outside of your computer) because I could replace the hard drive. It's a very nice enclosure, very solid, made of brushed aluminum, probably very expensive.

Anyway, it's so solidly built that the internal tray (which holds the hard drive inside the enclosure) got stuck when I was trying to pull it out from inside the case. Trying to unstuck it, I pushed the tray back into the enclosure, only to get the side of my middle finger caught between two very sharp pieces of metal (the tray and the case). Did I mention that the aluminum enclosure and the tray's edge have very sharp edges? Here's the moral of the story: Do not get your finger (or part of it) stuck between two sharp pieces of metal, because it'll hurt. A lot. Oh, yeah, and it'll bleed too.

In other news, it sounds like CJ has an ear ache. That probably explains why he had such a hard time falling sleep last night. Ginger is taking care of him, though, so I'm sure that he'll be ok.

ragin'

I have a great desire to rage right now.

I don't mean just shout, or just yell. I mean, grab the stack of external HD cases and cannon-ball them against the wall. Next I'd take the 17" laptop (the source of all my current problems) and similarly throw it against the wall, except that I'd follow it up by smashing it with a hammer. Hard. And then I'd do it all over again.

Whew. Venting feels good. Now back to work.