More geek-ware deadness

Today was WAAAAY too stressful. I have lots of actual paid work to be doing, and I’m behind, so today was a catchup day. Not if beefcake had anything to do with it, and it did. (beefcake is the server Geek-Ware runs on).

This morning something broke, so I went in to fix it, 1hr job I reckoned, until the Hard Disk also broke, losing half a day of geekware data, and about 2 weeks of configuration. “Why didn’t you backup?” I hear you chuckle, well that was this weeks task (for Rule). We had plans for a nice mirror system, where everything is backed up as its created. AND I had plans for weekly archive backups, but the hard disk decided to beat us to it. Its a new one too. We should sue Fujitsu.

I even tried a IDE controller transplant with an identical disk, and that didn;t help. While beefy was in bits I replaced the Motherboard and CPUs too, cos the other ones were shoddy too. So we’ll have backups in place by tomorrow, and coupled with the new hardware, will have NO PROBLEMS. Even tho beefcake is jinxed. I’ll write about it someday.

I apolise to anyone who lost any work (for example, Red, BobTheCactus, and Sporks 1 diary entry.) I do apologise, if our plans work out, we’ll NEVER lose anything again.

I exercised good stress management skillz today, with a little ego stroking from Little Elf, which was a nice gesture, shame nothing else got stroked.

14/11/2000 Add Comment

Geek-ware downage

Ok, yes, geek-ware has been down, but we trouble-shot the problem to death by compiling many a linux kernel and rebooting a lot. We’ve had to drop one of the CPUs as it seems faulty, but all is well now. Beefcake (the server geek-ware runs on) has been jinxed from the start (3 years ago) and one day I shall write a history on it, but not right now as I should be doing some work.

Lots of diary stuff happened on Sunday, I even cried about something, but since geek-ware was down you all miss out :P

Memo to self: have a smell of Spork before she changes body spray

13/11/2000 Add Comment

Coffee druggie

Love Apple is totally buzzed out now, dance music, mad drugged up people, but they still serve coffee, so I chilled and drank it all night, watching the pill poppers pop pills. Was quite amusing

In fact, one such girl chatted to me at the bar. She inquired what I was buying, and when I told her just coffee, she said “Coffee?? are you a druggie or something?” which was suitably ironic in itself, so suitably ironic in fact, it straightened out my collar. My response was “Well alcohol kills brain cells.”. She looked a little confused and stared into her red bull and vodka for a bit, then finally said “I only asked for one ice cube, theres two in here”. I don’t think she was in any danger of killing any brains at all.

Saw one big girl (who wasn’t SCARY big) but I was under the impression she had been ingesting something decidedly hallucinogenic so I left her alone.

I’ve been compiling kernels for 2 days for my laptop and my new gateway machine, and things are finally starting to go my way, even with the crappy AMD overheating and causing compile errors, such fun.

12/11/2000 Add Comment

Beefier girls

I’m tired, but I’m off out again, but for a much more chilled evening at the Love Apple cafe, should be nice. Need some caffeine actually

Last night I met a cool girl. She was tall and big and warm. So warm I grabbed a big hug off her to keep warm, it was lovely. She seemed amused and not concerned, but then she had to go. She had cool spikey neck gear tho.

It ocurred to me most of the women I’ve been out with have been either pretty short, or pretty slim, and I gotta be real careful around them as not to snap any part of them, or sit on them. I think it would be cool to go out with a beefier girl for a change, it would be easier to keep warm anyway.

Got a quick 2mins relationship counselling session from Little Elf which chipped away a little of the hard cynical crust I’ve built around that kind of stuff. Well done Little Elf :)

11/11/2000 Add Comment

Hangover

Boy do I got a headache. I also seem to have lost control of all gramatical skills.

11/11/2000 Add Comment

Lame rock club

Its pretty late, and I’m pretty drunk, so thats ok. Went to a lame “rock” venue tonight at the request of cottie, cos he enjoyed Biohazard there so much he assumed it would be a cool nite every weekend. Actually it was good fun.

My brother has been going out with a girl for 2 years and got pretty boring and never came out, sadly he split up with her the other month, but he’s turned back into the old Bruv we used to know, in a matter of 2 hours and a few alcoholically inclined beverages.

On the way home I met up with another person I lost touch with, Jane. She a funky metal chick (no she’s not metallic) who hangs around with Kev (who I also lost touch with) who hangs with Andy (who I previously mentioned). I gave her a big kiss, which was nice, cos I think she is a babe, but I was drunk and would never (and have never) do that kind of thing to her cos I don;t really know her. She thought it was pretty funny tho. Her mate with the cool red hair was also from my university course and she recognised me so I said hi. She was quite cool too. Shame. Ok, nite nite.

11/11/2000 Add Comment

Frying fan

Tired. Was gonna have an earlyish nite last nite, but shortly before retiring I discovered the source of the burning smell that up until that point I had been readily ignoring. My computer power supply fan had stopped going round and the supply was happily cooking the insides of my computer, and because I use it as an alarm clock I had to fix it. Bah

I’d love to go back to sleep but I’ve made the mistake of reading Sporks diary this morning and can’t stop thinking about the body she had when she was 18 and her bigger boobs. (and the laptop, *droool*).

10/11/2000 Add Comment

Woody Allen

Another cool nite of sarcasm and hilarity. Today started out a little Eerie tho, as things seemed to be going as planned, and very intricately planned it was too. Anyone who knows me and has ever organised anything with me will know full well planning isn’t my strong point, but today seemed to be going well which obviously meant the devil must have been involved, or something was going to explode and someone would die horribly.

I got a new film which I was going to review for Geek-Ware but I can’t write a full article as I couldn’t watch the whole film, as the second VCD was broken, but Woody Allen films, altho not predictable, aren’t the type of film you need to see all of to appreciate (if you can indeed apreciate any of it, as James couldn’t cos he hates Woody Allen).

It was quite amusing cos James was commenting how Woody Allen annoys him in the same way Hugh Grant does. I mentioned it would be unwise of anyone to put both Woody Allen AND Hugh Grant in the same film, especially in the same scene. The cross-stutter complications that would arise would probably generate some mad interference pattern of annoyance, and something would explode horribly, or Satan would make an appearance. Interestingly, to my knowledge, neither of these happened when Hugh Grant did appear.

10/11/2000 Add Comment

5 bottles

Went to the pub with Toasty (sorry dnr now), Scara + Greg. Hads a fricken riot of a time, hilarious. Scara has to be the funniest guy I know (even tho he is terribly ill with flu or malaria or something).

The only thing that spoilt it was the bar staffs insistence that we could have 5 bottles for only £4. Which was a strange thing to keep telling us as we only ever attempted to order 1 bottle, for only the price of 1 bottle, and I was drinking Guinness. In a pint glass. I didn’t want it in 5 bottles, I was quite content with the way it was.

9/11/2000 Add Comment

Ska

happy happy happy! joy joy joy! I so TOTALLY in a happy mood right now, feeling good, looking good (cept I need a shave), and I love it!. I’m quite sure I’ve discovered the answer to the worlds problems, its called Ska!

Ska and Ska-Punk really, I’m making a Compilation CD for Little Elf and LydiaBushGrrl, erm, for LittleElf to cheer her up (if it works this well then everything will be cool) and for Lydia because I’m sending her a book anyway, may as well spread some transatlantic joy too. Listening to the Blue Beats right now “Don’t get Crazy”, shoutz out to JudgeRuffNeck for sorting me out with this tune. I’m off to skank some more (maybe have a shave too, but not whilst skanking, that is dangerous and not advised).

8/11/2000 Add Comment

girls

Had a very strange dream last nite that I met a girl I used to know at school and we hit it off, made out and were gonna, you know, (*uh huh huh*) do it. Its weird, cos I remember fancying this girl when I first met her but she was a bit of a slag I think, so forgot all about her. Never really spoke to her, and hardly knew her, weird she got into my dream. The bitch.

ooh, and I found out the other nite a totally gorgeous girl I’ve known for years split with her loooong time boyfriend. I’m wondering wether to get back in contact (not chatted for a coupla month, surprised? I’m not) and see what I can see. Dunno tho, for years I’ve secretly liked her but now I might be able to ask her out, I dunno if I want to. Dunno why, I being weird ’bout girls right now. Want one but don’t.

8/11/2000 Add Comment

Break ups

The geek-ware server froze up. dunno what the hell that was all about, (probably a sabotage attempt by Scaramanga by dontaing shoddy hardware). So I had to drive out at 11.20pm to sort it out, had enough to deal with here at home.

Been chatting a lot today with Little Elf, she’s quite upset about splitting with her boyfriend, so I;ve been trying to distract her a little. I think its the season for break-ups, my bro and his gf, my sis and her bf, Little Elf’;s whole household is splitting up with each other. Good job I sussed all this relationship crap up a year or so ago and can avoid it all, altho, I’m kinda just helping everyone else out it seems, not avoiding it at all. Oh well, as long as someone is having fun!

8/11/2000 Add Comment