Back

I guess I’m back—after the prep for the trip, the catchup afterwords, and the inevitable recharge of my metaphoric batteries, I’m kind of getting back into my groove (or have been in a new one long enough that I’m beginning to etch a trail).

This week is officially slated to be hardware hell, with a server back from our colo for a retread, and a new server for a client to be built, configured, and tested, then shipped out to the left coast for service.  You can probably expect the occasional bitching and moaning article as a result.

I actually prefer doing hardware work in batches—if I’m going to be working on machines, I’d rather get into that headspace and do a bunch at once rather than shifting back and forth from coding to assembling and configuring.  Fortunately, I have teenagers, so there’s seldom a shortage of machines that need to be burned down and rebuilt the occasional minor repair and cleaning.