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House plans coming along just fine
September 7, 2006
House plans coming along just fine.
This last week we got the preliminary drawings from thearchitect, and they look good. A couple small changes from myoriginal drawings, but he is the professional, and I'm not. Sonow he's working up some minor changes for us, and looks likethings are progressing fine.
The job is good, quite busy. The auto auction is a fun andexciting place to work. For example - this week I ran a fullsystem save, which is done at the end of each month, and itappeared to not finish successfully. I had been at the office forthis save from 6:30pm till 10:30pm. When it finished and didn'tprompt for a second tape (as I expected it to), and the log fileshowed numerous errors, I was quite PO'd, of course. So I put thenormal daily backup tape in the drive and went home. The nextmorning about the same time my alarm woke me up, I got a callfrom the corporate help desk - "We can't access your AS/400",good morning! So it's off to work immediately to find out therehad been a power outage for 10 minutes or more a few hoursbefore. The AS/400, an appliance server, and the console PC allwere down (off), yet plugged into a UPS. The UPS wasn't providingpower. So then to get the servers back up I plug them into thewall and the company is working again. So now to get a UPS - Ifound one in storage, in an unopened box (the previous SysAdminordered it but never used it). That is sitting there charging upright now, so it's off to the office again tonight to shut downthe systems and plug them into the new UPS.
Then I find out the backup log that I read as showing thebackup failed, actually shows some subsystems didn't fire upproperly, ones we don't make use of anyway. The corporate AS/400admin told me about a differant log, which shows the backup didcomplete successfully. That left one more question - why only 1tape, the previous full system save required 2 tapes. Thereanswer - We don't know, that's just how it worked out thistime.
So things are going well, work is fun, life is good. Have agood one!
I used to teach English as a foreign language in Barranquilla, Colombia. Now I'm retired and traveling throughout South America.
I'm from Kennewick, Washington, USA. In my previous life, as I call it, I was an IT guy, systems administrator, computer tech, as well as a shipping/receiving guy and also worked as a merchandising guy in a RV/Camping store.