It’s just me. There, um, is no more DH. He’s an ex-DH. Hence one of many reasons for a vacation.
No need for condolences. It was a long time coming, there were many issues, and we are both better off apart. As are the kids. I wish him happiness. Away from me. And I know he feels the same and I’m fine with it.
Being a McGregor-Stuart on my dad’s side, this is on my bucket list. 
Skål to that! 
Went to what amounted to a job interview for a Lego Master Builder position for the new Legoland that will be opening this September. It consisted of a one hour speed build on theme of ‘me’. I wasn’t competing, just helping out where I could. (Kids were allowed to help and I’m a 51 year old kid.). Amazing amount of variety the finalists displayed. LEGO people, a train set, a guitar, a movie projector with ‘3D glasses’, soda and popcorn, a quilt and more. The winner built a record player and some records to go with it.
Much fun.
I almost took the kids to that this weekend! Just had too many other things going on and ran out of time. DS9 has his 10th birthday this Wednesday and I’m taking him (and his siblings, of course) to the Lego store at Easton. Which he doesn’t know yet and won’t until after dinner. Because he doesn’t know the store exists. I cannot wait until Legoland opens this fall. The boys are going to go nuts!
I’d drink to that if I was still drinking… Thanks for the sentiments.
My manager sits in the cube next to mine and asked one of my cow-orkers to come over to his desk. He said “Hey, $Cow-Orker, come here for a second.”
But all I heard was Scorpion saying “Get over here!”
Good for a chuckle on this Monday morning.
Does… Does your manager wear ninja gear made from sports equipment in the office?
If so, what is his favorite color? That could be very important one day.
(BTW, in my head is now playing a sort of Office Space/Mortal Kombat mashup where a lazy Scorpion uses his spear-thingy to get coffee, Raiden is IT and has one trick that rarely works, and there are several printers destroyed in various ways.
Mmmm, yeah. If you could have a flawless victory, that’d be great.
I am visiting the real thing in June. After two or three days in London
Got two Powershell file monitoring scripts to work on Server2k16.
The first one uses .NET objects to track file changes. But it does not give you the usernames associated with deletes. Presents the info to you via a boring .txt file.
The second one parses your security event log for deletes and create events, parses the information, and present it to you in a nifty HTML sheet, you can filter by username etc.
The second one aborted processing when trying to connect to our email server and failed, hence I had no joy with it. Simply commenting the email server part out sees me haz success.
I will need to get the email part working. Did it before with a different powershell script (needs SMTP authentication).
So far so good, it’s cheaper than Netwrix’s utility (which they license per user).
It’s nice having a boss who actually enforces rules sometimes. Enforces rules on people asking for stuff no less.
All 5 drives in the RAID was replaced successfully.
I was prompted to do so once it became apparent that that specific batch of drives was prone to failure.
Better new drives than risking corporate data and downtime…
I replaced a drive per day.
Did you replace with a mix of manufacturers or at least mixed batches?
Mixed batches at least.
And, of course, backups. A RAID by itself is no surefire guarantee.
Luckily for us, a single 8Tb can hold all of our data. We are in the process of migrating over to a new server (new domain and server running server2k16), and our decision is to move only current data over to the new server, and leave the old data on the old server (which is, frankly, a nightmare to sort out).
Then the old server will be switched off for 3 months. After that, a new 8Tb will be procured, all data will be copied over and the old server be decommissioned (it’s running server2k3).
We most certainly don’t want old baggage data (domain controller included) to be copied over in the migration, plus it is to a new domain anyway.
Then the idea is to inspect the old server’s hardware, and if it is still good, repurpose it as a NAS running FreeNAS and use it as a fallback should our main NAS fail. This part will be interesting.
I have had a poseable Godzilla on my keys since … hell mid 90’s? Maybe 94, 95? He finally broke off. The rubber link on his neck broke after all these years. Luckily when it did, I noticed so I didn’t lose him in a parking lot. It’s not easy to find a replacement* and I bought some other Godzilla key chain that is frankly too big and his arms have already popped off. So I decided to resurrect my old one in a sense. I’d scan him in using photogrammetry and just print a new one with the 3D printer. Tonight, I fiddled around with my smart phone and a ‘figurine’ (yeah it’s another Godzilla toy. I sense a pattern.) and actually got a decent mesh to export. I need to take more pictures but cool. I can now scan and print almost anything as well as scanning in places for VR. Neat! I might scan in my truck…
*: Happened to look on eBay and found a replacement. $50 for something I originally paid like $2.50 for but I don’t care. I feel naked without it. Still going to try the print too.
Not if I buy it first!
Oh, maybe you want to take a look at this miniature instead …
http://www.hangar18miniatures.com/miniatures/54mm-65mm/hangar-18-pinups/kaiju-girl/
I was able to find every supply that j needed to complete several projects at the house. I did not wctuslly complete them yet, but I have all the supplies. Which includes the proper texture brush for the ceiling.
Also sold the snowblower to the neighbors… their sons do yardwork, etc, for extra cash and I really don’t need a snowblower. Besides, they said they’d plow my drive for free if we get more than 4 or 6 inches. Which rarely happens in central Ohio. I prefer to shovel, so the money and the room in my garage makes me doubly happy!
My dad has a snowblower for years (in Maryland) back in the 80s, and I think I can count the times he used it on a single hand. It’s obviously different in other states, but we needed the perfect storm (heh) of:
Admittedly, this was a 70s snowblower in the 80s, and a bit finicky… Modern ones are probably much better. But it made the whole idea seem pointless to me.
Oh, we also couldn’t use it on most of our long steep driveway because it was gravel, which the blower would chew up and possibly be damaged by. Or something.