It’s not every day that one catches the 8:07 #9 Broadway bus downtown, twice in the same day.

This odd little musing is brought to you by the crashing of this very webserver, due to my completely failing to learn one particular lesson from the aforementioned “last year’s debacle.”

That’s right! Not only did I arrive at work at 9am, I also arrived there at 9pm. This time it was to set the webserver to boot with a uniprocessor kernel instead of the SMP kernel, which was the previous default, and which the hardware in question is dangerously unstable on. Ugh.

While I was there I fixed a few other things, then came home. Again.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to finish my long-delayed dinner and go to sleep. Bah.

Walking in the door, almost no sleep under my belt (for various reasons), I was immediately thrust into a tricky and delicate hard-drive swap operation as part of a swap of studios for Charlie and Kisn (AM). That came off remarkably well, but it did involve three very intense hours of work.

The middle part of my workday wasn’t so bad.

Almost at quitting time for the day, most of everything went dark. Yep, the UPS for the main part of the building went kerblooey. Again. (Long-time readers may be familiar with the troubles that damned piece of equipment has given us. Yes, indeed, I hate it a lot.) Cue a solid hour of running around, desperately trying to get things working again in the shortest possible time.

Luckily, I learned a lot of lessons from last year’s debacle. For one thing, I’ve upgraded a lot of the Linux servers so that services generally start on their own. I also know exactly which systems are troublesome, and how to get them back to life again. However, one new problem reared its head: Our main file-and-print server wouldn’t let most folks sign on until I thought to run a ‘DSREPAIR’ routine. Ugh.

I’ve already accumulated enough stress to last me the entire week. Powers that be, if you’re reading this, please take note. Thank you.