And the reason I'm happy?
Mar. 11th, 2005 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trixtahI've had a horrible week, with the PMT from hell. Which for me, isn't really too bad - a low stress-tolerance and a shorter fuse is it. However, I've been struggling for over 2 weeks to construct a test environment for our Exchange 2003 rollout. I couldn't get the existing data from our backups onto our test server, and we had ONE server that had enough space to copy the DBs onto disk, which meant taking the mail server offline for 4 hours (not a trivial exercise - I'm not fond of working till 3am), and then finding, once I copied them from the staging server to our test server, that the databases would not mount. I realise this makes very little sense to anyone normal, but this has been my week. With the hormones.
So. I fixed the databases - eventually - and now my test environment is working!! Yay! Which means we can go on with testing and roll out Exchange 2003 in the next month or so. Which means I keep my job for a while longer (being a contracter and all). I started my period yesterday, so my mood is much improved (typical - why did the dbs start working after that? The two things are not related!).
And my car is all happy and healthy, having now been tuned by someone who knew what he was doing. I had a reconditioned carb fitted as well, since the one that was there had a base that belonged to the smaller engine for this model car (thus less of a bore for the petrol to get in - whoever did that was a tosser). I took her for a nice 50k drive after work, and we were cruising nicely at 65-70mph along the Federal Highway (105-112kph)... I realised how much I missed driving.
Hah, yes, I had someone ask me why someone like me, who's very much into the joys of public transport and riding my bike, got a car. One is I simply like driving. But I haven't had a car for 7 years and that's always been true. Public transport in Canberra is dire. The buses go to most places, but they go infrequently (except along a couple of main routes). I can understand why. This town is horribly spread out. Virtually all of the housing is single-storey. Each suburb is in its own little "pod", with highways between that take a minimum of 15 minutes to drive along, and often more. The population is low (less than Wellington, about 320,000 people, in a land area of 2431km^2), so it's no wonder buses are so few, especially if they're run as a profit-making entity. Similarly too with bike-riding, if I want to ride somewhere and be in a reasonable state when I arrive (ie. not totally covered with sweat and puffing), 30 minutes is about it. So, to go to the beach (2 hours away, on the coast) and/or visit my not-exactly-ex girlfriend and the fandamily, a car is the way to go. I have no problems with having a "weekend car". I haven't yet commuted to work driving, and I'm not about to start...
Getting back to the point... oh yes - work is fixed, car is fixed, I'm no longer hormonal, I've found a cool new game to play, it's the weekend, so I can sleep in tomorrow... Life is pretty good right now.
So. I fixed the databases - eventually - and now my test environment is working!! Yay! Which means we can go on with testing and roll out Exchange 2003 in the next month or so. Which means I keep my job for a while longer (being a contracter and all). I started my period yesterday, so my mood is much improved (typical - why did the dbs start working after that? The two things are not related!).
And my car is all happy and healthy, having now been tuned by someone who knew what he was doing. I had a reconditioned carb fitted as well, since the one that was there had a base that belonged to the smaller engine for this model car (thus less of a bore for the petrol to get in - whoever did that was a tosser). I took her for a nice 50k drive after work, and we were cruising nicely at 65-70mph along the Federal Highway (105-112kph)... I realised how much I missed driving.
Hah, yes, I had someone ask me why someone like me, who's very much into the joys of public transport and riding my bike, got a car. One is I simply like driving. But I haven't had a car for 7 years and that's always been true. Public transport in Canberra is dire. The buses go to most places, but they go infrequently (except along a couple of main routes). I can understand why. This town is horribly spread out. Virtually all of the housing is single-storey. Each suburb is in its own little "pod", with highways between that take a minimum of 15 minutes to drive along, and often more. The population is low (less than Wellington, about 320,000 people, in a land area of 2431km^2), so it's no wonder buses are so few, especially if they're run as a profit-making entity. Similarly too with bike-riding, if I want to ride somewhere and be in a reasonable state when I arrive (ie. not totally covered with sweat and puffing), 30 minutes is about it. So, to go to the beach (2 hours away, on the coast) and/or visit my not-exactly-ex girlfriend and the fandamily, a car is the way to go. I have no problems with having a "weekend car". I haven't yet commuted to work driving, and I'm not about to start...
Getting back to the point... oh yes - work is fixed, car is fixed, I'm no longer hormonal, I've found a cool new game to play, it's the weekend, so I can sleep in tomorrow... Life is pretty good right now.
