On another note, my oldest son texted me today and told me that he is now fully converted to wet shaving using a brush and a safety razor. Good news for this old guy!
Dude! My condolences at your loss, it is a member of your family, and as such you will mourn for the dog. Remember the good times together. Prayers and regards Eric
Thanks everyone. It's really strange not having my little buddy here. He was really suffering with the seizures, the meds did nothing.
His name, if I made it a sentence, would be Heir of the Shadow Valley Through the river. My name means Guardian On the hill Through the River
A little dialogue from Pulp Fiction... Esmeralda: What is your name? Butch: Butch. Esmeralda: What does it mean? Butch: I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean s@#t.
Severe weather heading this way...only a tornado watch at the moment, but 100 mph winds will be here soon
Sorry to hear, condolences to you and your family. Had the same thing happen a little over two years ago, our mini Schnauzer was having seizures and eventually died at the vet 4 days before his 12th birthday.
Today has been...interesting. Morning was normal, fairly uneventful. Around lunchtime had follow-up dr appt., for blood pressure. Everything is excellent there. Then after that was a bit less uneventful...several things starting popping up on the work order system. I left at 2:30 to make it to my daughter's final track meet of the year, I wasn't 10 minutes down the road when the phone started going off the hook with network problems at the primary school campus. Boss is out of town, other networking guy out of town, and me heading out of town...couldn't exactly turn around, wife doesn't know how to get to the meet without me, and with the threat of weather getting bad, wanted daughter riding back with us early. Got back home 3 hours later, spent 2 hours with the other guy that had to come in to help work on issue. (Boss at tech conference in Vegas, other guy was out getting ready to go to Dallas hospital with wife to see father in law....the three of us are the only networking people out of the six of us in the tech dept. Not a good scenario, LOL) And now the weather.... Oh, in hospital news, my great aunt is back home as of last night! Thank you everyone that sent up prayers and/or positive thoughts.
If it makes you feel any better... I came into the office with no network - complete failure. Our Catalyst was continuously power cycling (never seen that happen ever) - probably was doing it all night. Come to discover someone had plugged $10k worth of network gear into a $2 power strip (at least it was plugged into UPS power). The rocker switch failed with a short causing the power in the rack to flicker. Hope none of that equipment suffered any brown out damage. Not my responsibility (but was my problem since I had to work on an external service all day), and our network architect is stuck in a snow storm 2 states away and all 3 managers were out for various reasons - and our central IT support desk is located at HQ 4 hours away... Left me (the newest guy who knows nothing about the office network) as pretty much the only person onsite with NOC experience who had a clue on how to deal with it. A good start to a Lemony Snicketts story... At least now HQ had mentioned they are going to send some failover hardware for any future failure (which could be soon)... Not sure how many are affected by your down PDC - hopefully everything is working with cached credentials in the meantime (esp if you don't have a BDC) and your RAID rebuilds - I've lost one once - it sucks. And as far as the ignorant bean counters you describe... Been there, done that. Often the only solution is to have a catastrophic failure that effects their productivity. Sounds like you need to put a fan or some dry ice near a thermostat to see how hot you can get the place.
