So, the last week or two has been crazy. The rest of this quarter is going to be chock-full of goodness. Here are a few highlights – past and future – for those that care.
- Baby Hunter 3.0 is here – Andrew – he's awesome – My Three Sons
- We're finding a "new normal" – Jenny is officially a stay-at-home-mommy of three boys ages 4, 2 1/2 and 8 days – yowzaa!
- I'm learning to wake up early – I've got first-shift kiddo / breakfast duty every day 🙂
- Network ch-ch-ch-changes
- Our AT&T Gigaman (Gigabit MetroE) link between our Central Campus and OKC Campus has a nasty ghost in it.
- Our AT&T EaMIS (Internet) 100-meg circuit at OKC Campus is now, officially, online
- Our AT&T EaMIS (Internet) 100-meg circuit at the Central Campus is borked
- I'm flying in to OKC sometime soon for a few days to do Internet cutover from legacy SBC 30-meg to the new AT&T EaMIS 100-meg at Central – once it stops being borked up
- While in OKC, I'll continue fighting the ghost in the Gigaman circuit
- I'm prepping for a migration from Live Communications Server 2005 to Office Communications Server 2007 R2. This is our primary, internal, IM and Presence solution. We hope to expand upon it.
- I'm prepping for a migration from Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.x to BES 5.x – we had a large userbase – but have lost several (including me) to iPhone. It's important enough to keep, but it's hard to say how long we'll keep it (1 year? 2 years? forever?)
- Our Disaster Recovery solution – well – was a disaster. The rack full of gear fell off a liftgate and smashed one of our technicians – it broke his femur in 6 places and he cannot walk again for probably a year. That sucks.
- With the DR gear fall, we need to inspect it – piece by piece – to prove it doesn't work, or we cannot file insurance claims, and it's possible we'll just have to wait for capital budget money to open up again. It's quite a shame – moreso for the technician that was hurt – but yes, not having a DR solution is scary too.
Is that list complete? Surely not. But, it's a good start. I'm sure I will be distracted by random things and that circuits won't be perfect (after all, it's Mid-may and these EaMIS circuits were ordered in November and should ALREADY BE UP) – not that I'm bitter.
What are YOU working on?