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GasBandit
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Apparently some point at this morning the ISP tech came out, and somebody let him in the back into our engineering room where all the routers and fiber and stuff is. Reportedly, he stood there scratching his head looking at the equipment for a minute, said "I don't wanna touch anything until I talk to my boss" and left.
Odds on us never seeing him again?
Odds on us never seeing him again?
GasBandit
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Nevermind, it's fixed and back to operating. Apparently a power supply blew. At least now the company realizes they have a contract with us, and are documenting all the sites they have equipment on our towers, and they've put monitors on them so they'll be notified if they go down again.
-Getting off early enough to get home and play a little Diablo. Sure would like to blow things up.
-Literally while punching out from work only a few minutes later than usual, get a phone call from a friend who is panicking about the SBS2008 machine he is responsible for. Seems he accidentally formatted the backup drive and is having trouble making a new one due to various systems issues (2TB limit, new 4k sectors, etc).
-Look over stuff for him online while he drives to the store and picks out a new drive.
-Finally get him squared away an hour and a half after I get home and plug my phone in to charge.
-Still an hour to play. Ok, then!
-Do a rift (about 20min)
-20% into my next rift, our kid unexpectedly wakes up and pukes easily a quart of milk and pancakes w/ syrup mush onto himself, the bed, the wall, the floor, the stuffed animals, etc.
-Quit game and turn off computer. No more gaming tonight!
-Compile laundry
-Scrub walls
-Scrub floor
-Chase cat away repeatedly (yuck!)
-Sleep on couch
Sure hope tonight goes better.
--Patrick
-Literally while punching out from work only a few minutes later than usual, get a phone call from a friend who is panicking about the SBS2008 machine he is responsible for. Seems he accidentally formatted the backup drive and is having trouble making a new one due to various systems issues (2TB limit, new 4k sectors, etc).
-Look over stuff for him online while he drives to the store and picks out a new drive.
-Finally get him squared away an hour and a half after I get home and plug my phone in to charge.
-Still an hour to play. Ok, then!
-Do a rift (about 20min)
-20% into my next rift, our kid unexpectedly wakes up and pukes easily a quart of milk and pancakes w/ syrup mush onto himself, the bed, the wall, the floor, the stuffed animals, etc.
-Quit game and turn off computer. No more gaming tonight!
-Compile laundry
-Scrub walls
-Scrub floor
-Chase cat away repeatedly (yuck!)
-Sleep on couch
Sure hope tonight goes better.
--Patrick
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My in-laws are in town. I shouldn't complain b/c that seems a little petty and cliched, but what the hell.
-Please quit using paper towels to dry dishes. Use a dang cloth towel.
-Tap water is perfectly acceptable to drink. No, we're not buying a brita pitcher. This isn't Flint.
-Stop making so much noise when the kids are taking a nap. You don't have to wake with them when their schedule gets jacked up.
-Don't say a damn word when I am disciplining my child. Time out is not harsh. It's harsh to let them throw food on the floor when you're home with them, and laugh. Then, I have to be the bad guy and come down hard for that learned behavior. Thanks for that.
-Stop asking if I ate enough or tell me to sit or suggest that I eat this or that. I am a damn adult.
-I don't like fish. I am sorry, but I don't. I don't care if you cook it and eat it. Please do, but don't give me shit about it if I don't want any.
-It's okay if my kid runs around in a diaper at home. There's nothing wrong or weird about it. No, they will not catch pneumonia. What century were you born in?!
-No, they do not NEED candy, soda, chocolate, gummy bears, ice cream, juice, or whatever sugar-laden thing you want to inflict on them. They don't need it, and I don't want them eating it. That's why there is none in the house until you came.
-Trying to reason with my spouse about me will only piss me off more. My house, my kids, my rules. Deal with it.
I feel like a bit of jerk for ranting all of that, b/c they do a lot of good too. But some of that stuff irks me.
-Please quit using paper towels to dry dishes. Use a dang cloth towel.
-Tap water is perfectly acceptable to drink. No, we're not buying a brita pitcher. This isn't Flint.
-Stop making so much noise when the kids are taking a nap. You don't have to wake with them when their schedule gets jacked up.
-Don't say a damn word when I am disciplining my child. Time out is not harsh. It's harsh to let them throw food on the floor when you're home with them, and laugh. Then, I have to be the bad guy and come down hard for that learned behavior. Thanks for that.
-Stop asking if I ate enough or tell me to sit or suggest that I eat this or that. I am a damn adult.
-I don't like fish. I am sorry, but I don't. I don't care if you cook it and eat it. Please do, but don't give me shit about it if I don't want any.
-It's okay if my kid runs around in a diaper at home. There's nothing wrong or weird about it. No, they will not catch pneumonia. What century were you born in?!
-No, they do not NEED candy, soda, chocolate, gummy bears, ice cream, juice, or whatever sugar-laden thing you want to inflict on them. They don't need it, and I don't want them eating it. That's why there is none in the house until you came.
-Trying to reason with my spouse about me will only piss me off more. My house, my kids, my rules. Deal with it.
I feel like a bit of jerk for ranting all of that, b/c they do a lot of good too. But some of that stuff irks me.
I feel your pain.
How long is the visit?
How long is the visit?
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Oh man I know this so much. Not the first two bullets, but the rest. Our daughter has a fairly severe dairy allergy and the exorcist ain't got nothing on her. Thankfully we've really gotten our act together about ingredients and labels and not exposing her to any dairy proteins. Also, thank goodness we're renting b/c that carpet in her room. Has had more puke on it than a frat house.
That special moment when your wife's working late, so you make BLTs for dinner. While your son is washing up, because he's autistic and takes forever, you eat one of your sandwiches and are halfway into the other one when he sits down, looks at his sandwiches, and says "my bread has mold on it."
(Our) national politics are beyond borked. International politics are beyond fucked in many different ways at once. My facebook feed is more and more becoming a toxic cesspit overflowing with bile being thrown left and right. My work situation is going nowhere. I'm having doubts about my relationship, and I'm torn between "ask her to marry" or "break up with her", which in the end translates to "just keep going the way it's going now". My apartment's falling apart around me, and I have neither the skills, nor the time, nor the money, to fix it or have it fixed. My friends have all moved on to marriage and kids, leaving conversation dry and rare, and only about kids. My cluster headaches are only getting worse. My back pain's flaring up all over again. I can't sleep, and when I do, I have nightmares. When I wake up, I'm still tired, but in the evening, I don't want to go to sleep because that just means tomorrow's closer by, and I already know tomorrow's going to suck just as much as today.
I'm physically, emotionally, mentally, completely empty. Every single different part of my life, in whatever way I look at it, is either just staying the same and a boring rut, or is actually slowly getting worse all the time, with no means of improving them except by letting other things slide even faster down the drain. Bleh. There's nothing left I really take pleasure in, there's nothing left I enjoy ding, there's nothing I take pride in or that makes me feel useful, there's nothing that makes my life meaningful or worth it and I'm frankly getting fed up with trying. I have an upcoming vacation and while I really do need a break, even that is something I'm not at all enthusiastic about - all I can look at is the different arguments I'll have packing and getting ready, the pressure of trying to think of what I've forgotten, the annoyances and pressure of trying to be where I need to be when I need to be there, having to rely on others I can't actually trust to come through, the frustrations and burden of having to be the one my girlfriend relies on to "know" everything about stuff she's unfamiliar with (like I know where the restroom are! I've never even been to this continent, let alone airport! How should I know?! Oh, and the arrows are pointing that-a-way, honey)...
A few days ago I spent some 8 or 10 hours playing computer games -the first time in months I got to do that - and even that just felt hollow and useless, replaying an old game for comfort's sake because I can't invest myself in something new.
I need to change things, I need to work on fixing some parts to maybe go forward in others, slowly, and I need to just not look at everything as all that horrible all the time, because there's plenty of good things in the world. They just either seem insignificant, not for me, or bittersweet at best, at the moment.
I may not be feeling great at the moment.
I'm physically, emotionally, mentally, completely empty. Every single different part of my life, in whatever way I look at it, is either just staying the same and a boring rut, or is actually slowly getting worse all the time, with no means of improving them except by letting other things slide even faster down the drain. Bleh. There's nothing left I really take pleasure in, there's nothing left I enjoy ding, there's nothing I take pride in or that makes me feel useful, there's nothing that makes my life meaningful or worth it and I'm frankly getting fed up with trying. I have an upcoming vacation and while I really do need a break, even that is something I'm not at all enthusiastic about - all I can look at is the different arguments I'll have packing and getting ready, the pressure of trying to think of what I've forgotten, the annoyances and pressure of trying to be where I need to be when I need to be there, having to rely on others I can't actually trust to come through, the frustrations and burden of having to be the one my girlfriend relies on to "know" everything about stuff she's unfamiliar with (like I know where the restroom are! I've never even been to this continent, let alone airport! How should I know?! Oh, and the arrows are pointing that-a-way, honey)...
A few days ago I spent some 8 or 10 hours playing computer games -the first time in months I got to do that - and even that just felt hollow and useless, replaying an old game for comfort's sake because I can't invest myself in something new.
I need to change things, I need to work on fixing some parts to maybe go forward in others, slowly, and I need to just not look at everything as all that horrible all the time, because there's plenty of good things in the world. They just either seem insignificant, not for me, or bittersweet at best, at the moment.
I may not be feeling great at the moment.
"Minor" rant? Yeesh I hope you don't need to post anything in the other thread.
--Patrick
My new next door neighbor is a dick. I have very, very little parking in front of my house (there's a fire hydrant in front that prevents more than a small car from legally parking there) and the house next door is the corner lot, so they have space for about 8 vehicles. It's not unusual for someone visiting me to park in front of his house. It is the street after all, and anyone can park anywhere on the road wherever they want. He's given me hell about people parking in front of his house since that's where his wife parks (they have a fucking driveway). All I could do is shrug and tell him I would mention it next time. Next time someone parks in front of his house and before they even get inside, he's outside yelling at them to move their vehicle. They do and tell me about it. I just wave it off that he's a possessive prick. Next time it happens and it's not even someone visiting me, he's pounding on my door in a huff furious. I tell him to call bylaw if it bothers him so much.
Now, the piece of shit has installed what is basically a floodlight by the side door to his house that illuminates the side of my house like it's daylight. Luckily for me right into my bedroom and he leaves it on ALL THE TIME, day or night.
Now, the piece of shit has installed what is basically a floodlight by the side door to his house that illuminates the side of my house like it's daylight. Luckily for me right into my bedroom and he leaves it on ALL THE TIME, day or night.
im with DA, dont hesitate to use your connections to take him for a ride.
How about politely pointing out he doesn't have any rights to his own curb, but that you do have a legal right to a good night's sleep. Advise as to how and where he can go with a demand to get a private parking spot allocated (as if that's going to work), then get friends of yours in city planning to move the fire hydrant over to be in front of his driveway 
Next time he comes over to complain about people parking at his house, maybe meet him at the door in uniform?
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Oh right. My Little Pony.
Neighbors are the worst. Some people are such insufferable pricks. I need to live out in the sticks. I cannot stand living so close to other people. There's always a dick that has to screw up everything for everyone else.
GasBandit
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So I'm pretty sure there's a switch somewhere in my network I don't know about, causing problems. I know this because the basic topography of the building goes...
The vast majority of the building is fed off a switch in the server room (the one that died today). In the process of installing the new switch, I started having all kinds of problems, mostly to the tune of nothing being able to ping the router.
In the process of figuring out what cable went where, I noticed that the cable that was supposed to go from the server room to Engineering (blue) never went dead. I unplug it, go back to engineering, there's still activity on the line. I unplug that end, plug it back in in the server room, activity is still there. But still can't ping the routers from any computer with a "red" connection illustrated above.
Now, the blue cables all go into the ceiling. In most places in the building, it's not a drop ceiling, either, it's a solid ceiling. So that makes doing anything in the ceiling a SUPER FUCKING PAIN.
So, not wanting to go looking for whateverthefuck is at "???" in the above map, which could literally be anywhere in the building, including anywhere in any room's ceiling, I decide instead to reactivate a dead ethernet port (designation D-22) next to engineering (by plugging it into the server room switch) and just run a patch cable in there to the routers. I do so, and bada bing, bada boom, internet's back.
I sit there grousing at the blue uplink cable that supposedly connects the server room to engineering for a while, as it CLEARLY has some other device in the middle which is being fucky today, and I have no idea how I'm going to find it. I unplug the blue cable, internet keeps going. I plug it back in, it's still got activity. I unplug D-22, INTERNET KEEPS GOING. WHAT THE FUCK.
I quietly decommission D-22 again, tuck everything back into the rack, and tell the Engineer I'm done fiddling with the network today. So done. 150% done. I can't even.
Only thing I can think of is either there's a switch or some other device in the blue cable as I said, or somewhere else over on the left on those other blue cables, something's bridging blue and red that doesn't want to play nice when it sees too much traffic.
I don't know, I'm just... BLEH. Fuckity fuck fuck BLEH.
The vast majority of the building is fed off a switch in the server room (the one that died today). In the process of installing the new switch, I started having all kinds of problems, mostly to the tune of nothing being able to ping the router.
In the process of figuring out what cable went where, I noticed that the cable that was supposed to go from the server room to Engineering (blue) never went dead. I unplug it, go back to engineering, there's still activity on the line. I unplug that end, plug it back in in the server room, activity is still there. But still can't ping the routers from any computer with a "red" connection illustrated above.
Now, the blue cables all go into the ceiling. In most places in the building, it's not a drop ceiling, either, it's a solid ceiling. So that makes doing anything in the ceiling a SUPER FUCKING PAIN.
So, not wanting to go looking for whateverthefuck is at "???" in the above map, which could literally be anywhere in the building, including anywhere in any room's ceiling, I decide instead to reactivate a dead ethernet port (designation D-22) next to engineering (by plugging it into the server room switch) and just run a patch cable in there to the routers. I do so, and bada bing, bada boom, internet's back.
I sit there grousing at the blue uplink cable that supposedly connects the server room to engineering for a while, as it CLEARLY has some other device in the middle which is being fucky today, and I have no idea how I'm going to find it. I unplug the blue cable, internet keeps going. I plug it back in, it's still got activity. I unplug D-22, INTERNET KEEPS GOING. WHAT THE FUCK.
I quietly decommission D-22 again, tuck everything back into the rack, and tell the Engineer I'm done fiddling with the network today. So done. 150% done. I can't even.
Only thing I can think of is either there's a switch or some other device in the blue cable as I said, or somewhere else over on the left on those other blue cables, something's bridging blue and red that doesn't want to play nice when it sees too much traffic.
I don't know, I'm just... BLEH. Fuckity fuck fuck BLEH.
Man, that's terrible. I have a wire tracer you can use on live Ethernet lines, but you'd have to touch every jack and wire in the building to find the other end.
Of course we the tracer tells you to disconnect the wire, but it turns out it works anyway.
Also, you could just plug the one end into an AC outlet with an etherkiller, and then find the room that smells like smoked transformer.
Of course we the tracer tells you to disconnect the wire, but it turns out it works anyway.
Also, you could just plug the one end into an AC outlet with an etherkiller, and then find the room that smells like smoked transformer.
GasBandit
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I'd rather not run the risk of frying something important. I mean, god knows what the engineer (or the engineer before him, or the engineer before HIM) wired up and forgot to tell anybody about.
You have sparked my curiosity.
Also, the soccer ball doesn't give you any useful info? Might be time to start making a MAC inventory of what's talking to what (or at least looking up the vendor codes to see if someone has been MITMing you all this time).
--Patrick
Also, the soccer ball doesn't give you any useful info? Might be time to start making a MAC inventory of what's talking to what (or at least looking up the vendor codes to see if someone has been MITMing you all this time).
--Patrick
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My mother says contradictory things all the time that enrage the fuck out of me. The offender of this visit is her bitching about how kids these days are coddled and 20 year olds can't even take care of themselves. Then this morning, she gives me shit because I expect my 13 year old to get himself ready for school without help and because I wouldn't pour the tea kettle for my daughter's oatmeal (because she has been pouring her own water for quite a while now). I am thankful this is a short trip and that we will be in the mountains for most of it...
I don't recall hitting anonymous, but w/e.
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