Taking care of a little business tonight, not the least of which includes posting something on this freakin blog. It's been a considerable time since I've done so.
A big 'oops' today. I somehow missed a phone call from one of the techs on call this weekend. Turns out there was a DB corruption issue to deal with, and I missed the first call. It wasn't until a couple hours later when I could get to it. Luckily I was able to fix things without resorting to the feared REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS switch. A corrupt index made a certain table unreadable. So I did the following.
1. Restored to another DB from the last available backup.
2. Dropped the table in the existing DB.
3. Recreated the table and copied the data back in from the backup DB.
I'm going to keep an eye on this box to check for disk issues, but I think they should be good to go for now.
Listening to The Prodigy at the moment, and it makes me think about doing some writing / recording. Then again, I hear, see, or think about something cool, and it always makes me think, "Hey, I could do that." All I think I really need is a cheap USB MIDI interface cable... I think...
Yep, there I go again.
Anyway. I also have joined a couple of message boards lately, namely The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, and Lost Eye. I like to think those are for obvious reasons, for those who know me. :-)
Let's see, what else is new? I did finally get that microphone I wanted and have been working pretty solidly on the beatbox thing... The idea is that I want to go to the convention in London in 2010 and meet up with a few people. I'll need to get more community involvement if I wanna do that. Perhaps I should join the boards over at humanbeatbox.com as well?
The leaves mock me. More accurately my propensity for spending my time on the weekends in indoor pursuits rather than cleaning up the yard like I am supposed to, mocks me. I did manage to get them all together so that I can get them bagged in the morning. So, I should be able to get the lawn clear before the snow really hits.
Evelyn's birthday party is tomorrow, Henry's was a couple weekends ago. Time flies too damn fast around here. My kids are getting older, and I'm to blame. Isn't there a switch somewhere you can throw to keep them young? /nogrow.
Ah, well. All things go on. We must do so as well.
Evelyn asked a typical older sibling question tonight. "Why do people think Henry is cute, but they don't think I'm cute?" I think I handled it OK, based on the hug I got at the end of the discussion. I explained the concept of novelty, in the context of a new toy. And that Henry is a novelty to most people because he's new, and different from most other kids, and that given time, it will all equal out. She seemed to accept that, and I got a hug and an "I love you, daddy." at the end of that. I'm going to put that one in the win column.
Not bad for the day, eh?
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