Most of my workdays are rather frustrating. I’m usually juggling three or four “urgent” problems from as many clients while flinging email messages hither and yon and trying to manage the ticket board and make note of system alerts from the managed services platform and, you know, try not to tear my hair out on account of any or all of the aforementioned tasks. The fact that I don’t like having to switch mental gears frequently, something I’m usually required to do all day, does not help one bit.

Thanks, most likely, to the impending holiday weekend, the pace has been nicely quiet and I’ve been engaged in an unusual activity: getting things done. I deployed new monitoring configurations to our clients’ servers. I performed cleanup on our main virtual machine system in anticipation of a demo install on Tuesday. I configured backups on a client’s server which hasn’t enjoyed reliable backups in… well, let’s call it “far too long” and leave it at that, shall we? During all of this I also reconfigured the offsite backup replication for this server, and checked a few of the anti-spam configurations.

All that, and my new laptop is almost ready for use. Today is indeed one of the better workdays I’ve enjoyed in a long time. That doesn’t stop me from looking forward to a few days off, of course…