{"id":2088,"date":"2008-12-13T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T03:55:00","slug":"home-again-home-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"Home again home again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m briefly home again, before flying out on Sunday night. I was the victim of my own success last week, and killed off enough of the four work items that I was supposed to do that I earned a fifth bullet on the “tasks for fdmts<\/a>” section of the big boss’s whiteboard. In the interest of discretion, let’s leave it at the fact that it’s gonna be a challenge, and I wanted to be there next week to get started as soon as possible. Plus, hey – in a recession it’s always wise to line up the next gig before you leave.<\/p>\n

Technically, last week ended with a bit of a whimper. I screwed up right at the end, and left myself locked out of a nearly fully configured server. Apparently I fat-fingered the root password twice in a row. It’s entirely possible to reset it, but that involves booting from DVD – the server doesn’t have a DVD drive – blah blah and it was the last day and I was low on time. I’ll be back on Monday and stick take my penalty hour then.<\/p>\n

Similarly, in trying to build my 50TB cheap-o scratch space out of off warrantee and older disks (frankenSAN), I learned a lot about the limitations of OS X, software RAID, HFS+, and 32 bit chips. I did not have the triumphant end of the week that I would have liked. I need to take a lesson from cariaso<\/a> in quitting while I’m ahead rather than expanding the scope of the work to fill the available time. <\/p>\n

Got off the plane at 4pm yesterday and went straight to meet redmed<\/a> at work. From there, we had a pleasant evening listening to the Boston Baroque do Handel’s Messiah. While it’s a mighty cultural touchstone and one of the Signs of the Season, I don’t think I’ll be signing up for a full performance of that piece again any time soon. Three hours of good music – but it was far from the raw genius that was the Creation<\/em> last year. Don’t get me wrong: I think that the ensemble did as well as anyone could with it. I had the impression of “flashes of brilliance” rather than a sustained glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m briefly home again, before flying out on Sunday night. I was the victim of my own success last week, and killed off enough of the four work items that I was supposed to do that I earned a fifth bullet on the “tasks for fdmts” section of the big boss’s whiteboard. In the interest . . . → Read More: Home again home again<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}