After finally replacing the crazy noisy drive in the mayor one of the drives in my primary system starts making noise. Although I suppose it could have been making a lot of noise before now, I just didn't notice it because of the extreme amount of noise from the other one. There was a lot of noise coming from the drive this morning, which has quieted down some while I've been typing this, so I'll have to keep an eye on it, make sure my backups are up to date and everything. I swear I could sell the movie rights to my network upgrade adventures...The Never Ending Upgrade.
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After many hours of getting one of my secondary systems to boot, and then boot from a CD, and then have the proper NIC, I finally got together a configuration that would allow me to rebuild The Mayor. After which I proceeded to remove the screaming loud 4gig drive and replace it with a brand new, incredibly quiet, 20gig drive. There were a few bumps with the restoring of the backups, but almost all services are up and running fairly normally. I'm still sorting a few issues out, so there may be a few ups and downs for the next week, but for the most part it's all good...and ever so quiet. I've added this upgrade to the queue of workbench posts I have to make, but it's about fifth or sixth down the line for site updates. I'll let you know when it's up, no worries.
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The Den Mod project on the Workbench is now officially dead. Having moved tends to mess up any plans you had for the place you were living in.
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I want Nails tickets damn it! Why won't TicketBastard let me have any? I, just like thousands of other internet geeks, was on the TicketBastard site and hitting reload, reload, reload right at five this afternoon to get in there quick and right away and get tickets. Did I get tickets? No! TicketBastards site keeps telling me that there's no tickets available. Bullshit!

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My left shift key is buggered. Oh...apparently both my shift keys are buggered. Or maybe it's just my hands that are buggered. You ever just want to keep saying the word buggered until [somebody] yells, "shut the fuck up with that buggered bullshit or I'll bugger you with this ergonomic keyboard!"? Sometimes I do, but fortunately the situation never escalates that far.

Now, on to the meat of the post! Mmmmm, steak. Damn I'm hungry.

The Mayor has been getting louder and louder as of late. I know it's the hard drive, I'm just not sure what to do with it. I should probably find out how to rebuild the system on another hard drive, but instead I try to find ways to quiet him up a bit. Yes, The Mayor is male, I don't know why. Lately I've been draping an old towel over him at night so he's not so loud as to disturb my beauty sleep. I've also ordered some Pax mate sound dampener stuff that I'll install inside the server box as soon as it gets here.
On a slightly related buy unrelated note, I've also purchased a new UPS as my previous one seems to have died. Honestly it was cheaper to by this new UPS than it was to replace the battery in my old one. Funny thing that. Along with the UPS came some RAM coolers/heat spreaders for my desktop system, and some power cable extensions with flat plug ends so they fit behind my furniture. I'm (damn shift key!) to give you more information on this stuff later....depends how sober I am I think.
So colour me obvious. I just want to be happy half the time, and blue, only when I have the time.

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March second. My birthday. It was 104 degrees...in the shade. Not a snowball in sight. Hmm, that doesn't sound right. I think that was somebody else'
s birthday...and certainly not during a Canadian March.

March second started out as any other morning except for one extra little detail...I've turned 29. Creeping closer and closer to 30. Should this have any effect on me? I'm not sure, it just seems odd. Although I don't remember exactly I've mostly likely felt the same way about every birthday after a certain point, just not sure where that point was.
Anyway, the day started out basically the same as any other day. Got up, drank some coffee, showered, dressed, went to work. Work ended at noon that day, but not because it was my birthday...well, kind of, my drivers license was expiring, so I took the afternoon off to go stand in line at the Ministry of Transportation office to renew my license, complete with new picture. Luckily the line wasn't very long and I only had to stand around about 20 minutes before an extremely flamboyant government employee had me sign a bunch of papers, took my picture, and took $75 of my hard earned credit. Could've been worse. Off I went with a temporary license and the rest of the afternoon off. What did I do with the rest of the afternoon? Well, I'm getting old, I took a nap.
After a couple hours asleep on the couch, or bed, whatever you feel like calling it, I was rudely awoken by somebody tap tap tapping on my apartment door. It was some guy apparently sent by Rogers Communications to ask me what type of magazines I liked. He also asked me if I was over 18. If I hadn't been half asleep I think I may have slapped him upside the head with my old license. So instead I just said that, yes, I was in fact, over the age of 18, surprising as it may be. He then asked me if I was still in school or if I was out in the working world yet. What is this, 20 questions to determine my age? Yes, I do in fact work to pay my rent. Contrary to popular belief I am capable of supporting myself!
I don't remember the rest of the day. I think I went back to sleep or maybe it was too traumatic and I just blocked it all out. Or maybe I really just don't care. That's probably the most likely reason right there.

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That is all.
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