Plugged Up

Took this so I could remember what kind of plug I needed to buy for some new servers. Decided to share it for no reason at all. That's the kind of quality effort you can count on at Snicker Snack.

That Windswept Look

Spray painting your front railing on a windy day results in rust protected bushes.

Saturday Sharing

Snoozing sisters.

Small Victories

Another in the "Things Probably Only Interesting To Me" file. Thanks to DOW a wolf has been seen in California for the first time since they were exterminated in 1924. His scientific name is OR-7. I'll quote the article: "his story encompasses the struggle of wolves as they reclaim their place in their historic range across the American West."

Winning

IT work is like war, periods of boredom punctuated by moments of terror. Well, maybe not terror but definitely tension. The entire Exchange system went down today, scrambled to figure out why, researched, found the answer, fixed it. One of those really satisfying moments, like solving a difficult puzzle. The above e-mail is not mine, BTW. I'm firmly against the abuse of exclamation points, they never did anything to anybody.

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Occasionally over the weekend we run a special backup to an external drive. It has secret judicial type info on it so it has to be kept protected. The drive is encrypted and when we take it over to for storage we do it in these nifty double locked briefcases. I feel very James Bond walking the street with these, if only it had handcuffs attached to the handle to complete the appearance.

More Human Than Human

Finished this today, really good.

ASUSESE

This is cool on it's own, but doubly because ASU is involved. They are working with the Johnson Space Center to digitize and preserve all of the flights films related to the Apollo missions. Found here.

Nesting

Payton saw the old nests in the trees in the front yard and wanted to make his own. So, here it is. No takers yet but it's only a matter of time.

Christmas Finale

We finally got to have the last leg of Christmas with Lonnie, Amanda, and Payton. Much of it spent as it should be, gaming.

Snow Hint

Here's hoping it stays this way.

Forever Ago

Decent story, made better by the fact this was written something like 30 years ago. It's sometimes fun to see what an author's view from the past is, then see what things he got right or wrong. Faster than light travel by 2007? Nope. Class warfare? Yes.

Holmes Again

Our second so-so movie in a row, it's getting harder to justify the cost of going to the movies with so many alternatives out there. But hey, gets us out of the house. Mostly looking forward to the return of the BBC/Masterpiece Mystery in May I think it is.

Irony

There's a big pin up board over at the CJC that usually has all kinds of things on it. Someone cleared it off, then put up a bunch of those "inspirational" pictures. But right at the top, in the midst of all this inspiration, is the biggest poster of all talking about suicide. Well planned.

Firebird

This Pontiac decided to burst into flame on the 5th floor of the garage at work. I park on the sixth. In fact if you spy the white SUV above it, I park just to the right on the other side of that pole.

WOTNY

2012 and 12 more wolves.

Bonne Annee

The last hours, of the last day, of all the holiday vacationing. Back to five day weeks, workin' for the man. Good way to end it though, really excellent dinner at Mimi's.

Cruising Into 2012

My top three to see today, 1-Sherlock Holmes, 2-Mission Impossible, 3-The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo American Style. Mari's list was the exact opposite. So we decided to go with where our tastes intersected, and watched MI: Ghost Protocol. Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg after all. It was alright, worth the time, not the ticket. Stream it later.