guinness_duck's Journal: The Day After

14 hour work days are just painful. Especially when they were preceeded by a 14 hour work day and followed by another 14 hour work day. But I suppose such is the price of having your big first launch and all of that blah blah stuff. The back half of last night I thought was going to kill me as it was essentially baby-sitting servers and making sure that only the proper lights were blinking and none of those bad ones. Things went smoothly, the T's never saw over 50% utilization. Which since our product is much more specialized is pretty much around where we expected. We're never going to be some huge million hits a second market. Couple hundred a day makes us estatic. But someone had to baby sit the stuff just the same. And that someone was me. Sure we have other people in IT, but this has been my week to be shafted. Fortunately someone else gets to deal with the weekend and I get to bury myself in much sleep, my Shrek DVD and copious amounts of scotch.

Today has been a brain drain though. It's been a long week, it's a Friday, my motivation to do actual work is almost nil. And let me tell you, if it got to nil that would be more work than I've done thus far.

My copy of Yellow Dog Linux came today which makes me happy. It'll give me something to do when I should be sleeping tonight. I have a couple of old Mac's sitting around at home that I'd like to actually turn in to something useful. Right now they are mostly nifty paper weights. I know I could have downloaded the .iso and all that, but I was having and impulse buy kind of moment.

Right, one more hour here then I have to go to the other office to actually answer phones. I hate phones.