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So is Richard Lyons. Strangely enough at the same age.
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Are you fucking kidding me? I can’t even…Why does the universe hate us today?
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The universe does indeed hate me today…
have some emoji.
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Aren’t I almost there, too?
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Fuck. But what a wonderful and loving way to go. (The story in link)
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(cross-post)
I have a fully-registered-in-the-state-of-Connecticut automobile, black, with no air conditioning!
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Seriously.
In my mid-30’s, I started getting brutal migraines- I’d always had them once every other year or so, but it swapped around to a couple times a week. I couldn’t work, and it was brutal.
Fixed a couple of things, but the one that made the most difference? Getting glasses. I stare at a computer screen for a lot of any given day, and as it turns out, my vision wasn’t what it once was. Got a pair of shiny new glasses and I’m good to go. SO. MUCH. BETTER.
Hope your kid continues to feel better. Nothing worse than seeing your child in pain.
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This morning, um, seven hours ago, some knuckleheads who were performing a routine, legally required check on the fire alarm systems shorted out our big computer room UPS.
The UPS did not explode and burn, which was nice, since we had that happen once a couple years ago and didn’t enjoy it. It’s about the size of a Volkswagen. Well, OK, not really, call it a Cooper mini. Anyway, this time it just spiked the output lines and went into emergency power off.
Soooooo… all our servers, switches, routers, firewalls, SAN, hypervisors, &etc. got dropped without warning. Which is what we have an UPS to prevent. And suddenly several hundred people at two sites could not work. Did I mention that the sysadmin of the telephony systems is at his mother’s funeral today? My boss, the CIO, is there too. And a large delegation of big shots from New York City arrived a few moments after the incident, to get a look at our operation before committing to some large investments, did I mention that yet?
But only a little hardware got fried by the spike. Just our backup and restore infrastructure, that’s all. The rest of the damage was to filesystems… you know, like the lib64 subfolder on our Intranet server, and the 1.2 terabyte primary database on the primary application server, and stuff like that. And one of the EMC SAN containers. Sure would have been nice to have that bare-metal backup subsystem working.
Anyway, I just got the last system back on line a few minutes ago. Thank you, shootsnap, you are always there for my linux hosts, and thank you, Andrew Tridgell, for the -I and --link-dest switches on rsync. Could have been worse, I guess.
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Shit man, your day was well and truly fucked. There is no worse feeling than seeing your backup systems fail after a spectacular fuck up. My heart goes out to you and your team.
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Urrgh. That certainly qualifies.
This reminds me of the time back in dial-up days that our main server room UPS, supposed to be very top-of-the-line, suddenly decided for reasons known only to itself that it should start feeding 240V onto most of the 120VAC outputs. I was in the room at the time, and remember commenting “Does something smell funny?” just before fuses and circuit breakers started popping like firecrackers.
It was a long haul getting everything back up again after that.
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So.
Kid #2’s daycare has recently declared that peanut butter is no longer allowed- this is in addition to pineapple and banana (which were already banned). I understand that nut allergies are difficult things, but the new rule is still a pain in my ass. But I understand.
So out I go to get something to replace peanut butter- which kid #2 loves. Sunbutter it is. Seems to be the choice for this sort of thing.
Guess what?
Kid #2 is allergic to sunbutter.
Jesus Christ on a cross and all the fucking apostles.
So I’ve been up since yesterday taking care of her and now I’m at work and my boss scheduled this meeting to go super late and I won’t get home (as a result) until MUCH later than normal and fuck all this shit.
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Ugh. I have a child with peanut allergies, and for a while we had this substitute called “No Nuts”* that was made from golden peas Then we got onto Wowbutter which is soy. I’m allergic to wowbutter, but I just accept that there is no peanut butter like substance for me now. Allergic reactions are shiiiiitty.
* I childishly laughed at this name regularly
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You can also make ‘butter’ from pumpkin seeds or sésame seeds, but peeps can also be allergic to one of these. But especially for on toast/bread I can recommend the pumpkin seed variant. The sésame seed I use for other things.
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As a followup on the sad post about my daughter not getting into her Ivy choices, my daughter just visited the state school that is giving her close to a full ride on tuition and has admitted her to their elite honors program, and she is so excited about it!!! It’s gonna be a GO.
I am so happy to hear the thrill in her voice as she talks about her college and the opportunities she will have as “top dog” at this school…a chance to go to Oxford, or the Sorbonne, or similar schools abroad…meeting the speakers who come to campus…grilling out with the Dean and Professors…a special study room for the honors kids…staying in the honors dorm with the honors kids and the international students. I just feel that she will get more out of being in this position at a great state school than she would of out of being one of a sea of similar kids at a fancy private school.
And she walks out DEBT FREE!!!
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It couldn’t possibly be better!! I’m so thrilled for her. And how mature, to recognize it.
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Thank you. I agree; it is all that we had dreamed of for her. She worked so hard and I feel like her work is being recognized by a school that appreciates her.
A friend of mine had given me a spreadsheet he used to compare his children’s college choices financially. As the acceptances rolled in, she was finding all the financial aid confusing and wanted to just rank the colleges on her personal feelings about them, which was a nice thought but not where she needed to be.
I put all the information about the aid into the spreadsheet so she could see the differences in tuition and aid. That made a huge difference to her. She saw the value of her parents having money when she graduated, and of being out of debt, and saw what was in our reach and what was out. I’m glad my friend passed his spreadsheet on because it helped her so much with visualizing the finances of it.
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If you have more like this spreadsheet it might be a good idea to chuck it and any other such tools in a new thread ready for people due to go next year.
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I also have a couple of good websites I discovered too late in the game but wish I’d found in her Junior year. If anyone has kids starting college search process, let me know. I’ll look at the spreadsheet and post it up. It has some particular factors for our own situation money-wise and I think everyone will have that - in our case I’m divorced plus my mom has a fund for her; in my friend’s case there was money from a grandmother. That’s where a spreadsheet was useful to us, because we could modify it for our situation. There is a website that has a program that will compare college offers but I have a feeling it may not factor in all the nuances of, say, a divorce settlement.
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