Teeth, Power Supplies, and Cranky Zombies

Looks like the problem with the server is the power supply on the RAID. Now we just have to make arrangements to swap it out, and it only has to last long enough to get the data off of it, put the data on the new machine, and get the new machine online. Ta da.

Yesterday, I got my front two top incisors removed (gum disease). I expected it to be uncomfortable, but I woke up today feeling like my upper jaw and head had been bashed in with a sledge hammer. It was BAD. I'm extremely irritable, and that's putting it mildly. Owww. Dentist says the headache is not uncommon with top teeth extractions...

I also took out my new partial plate to have a look at what I look like with the teeth gone. As I already have a big gap on the bottom (all four lower incisors were extracted some time ago), when I've got no dentures in it's quite the look. If I ever want to go to a Halloween party, I'd make a splendid zombie, let me tell you...

Frustrated

I'm trying hard not to stress about the fact that our server is pretty much dead in the water (we're having a really hard time organising a way to access it and see what's actually wrong and possibly fixing the one we have while we build the new one).

I've had sites deleted unceremoniously from two webrings, one without even a prior suspension and only a week after the site went MIA. Gee, impatient much? I'll tell you, it's certainly made me want to be more patient with my own ring members, and in the future I will. But the thing is, every time I got a notice that a site had been deleted, it just reminds me of the situation and upsets me all over. So I've left ALL webrings of which I was a member. When and if I want to rejoin some of them I will, but for now, it's all gone.

I also have decided to get rid of some of my websites. I've already done that with a couple of my domains. I'm going to pare down the individual sites, as well (such as some of the sub-sites of my personal domain). I can't really say why I feel like doing this. It just seems like the appropriate thing to do, cutting ties, all that.

I'll keep my personal blog, because I enjoy that, and my personal pages, probably the unicorn pages, our wedding website, my photo gallery, Missycat's site. The rest is up for consideration and evaluation, including my digital art domains (which I've been thinking of redesigning for a while, but I'm not adverse to getting rid of them entirely at this point).

I'm just kind of fed up with pretty much everything at the moment. Maybe when our server is back online and alive I might feel differently, but somehow I think at least some of this is going to stick and have a visible effect...

Gratitude for Today

Well, I may as well blog something other than the boring stuff about the server.

Here's a gratitude list for today:

Adorable mice
Nice landlords
Magpies
Fresh, cold water
My little garden
The worms that turn kitchen green waste into plant food
Pleasant weather
Coffee
Clarity
Good quality hand cream

Where to Find Me

I hardly ever post to this blog these days, mostly because I have had to log in with an older Gmail address, and it's a pain to log out and in and so forth. Happily, you can now transfer blogs, so I've done that. Yay.

I am reasonably active on Twitter and Facebook, so you can check there and see what I'm on about:

Bonni's Twitter Feed

Bonni's Facebook Profile.

By the way, I'm okay with adding friends on Facebook who are blog readers but whom I don't know personally, but please add a personal note saying that you read my blog or whatever, so I know. I'm not the sort of Facebook user who just adds anyone and everyone. Just let me know who/why and I'll be happy to friend you.

This isn't good

Well, server's gone for a while. No power at all to the RAID. May be a power supply issue, which is easy to fix, but it's a pain to get to the hosting location, unfortunately, and that makes things tricky. I'm sure we'll sort it out soon. We have a new server that can be set up and configured, but we need to get the content off the old one, so that's what the hold-up is. Bleah.

Rolling Blackouts

Another record heat day in Melbourne. Apparently, this is something that happens in fifty-year cycles or so. The last time there were this many days in a row with such high temperatures was 1952, apparently.

Anyway, the system can't cope. Trains were being cancelled all over the place, the city is experiencing widespread rolling blackouts, and things are generally not very nice in Melbourne, weather-wise or electricity-wise.

Hence, the server is still offline. Usually, I get quite agitated when this happens, but this time, I'm more okay with it. It's unfortunate and regrettable, but I'd rather have it totally shut down than risk cooking parts of it in the extraordinary heat (the server room normally has a good air conditioner in it that does the job well, but it can't cope in this heat, so better to shut down and save the system(s) than force the issue, IMHO).

Power outage

Server's offline due to a combination of power outages in and around Melbourne and extraordinary heat (43 C, that is 109.4 F). Yeah I know that's normal heat for places like, say, Phoenix or Tucson, Arizona, much of Texas, parts of Africa, and anywhere in the tropics, but for Melbourne, that's really, really out of character, and it's apparently causing all manner of problems.

No word on when the server will be back. Much depends on the electricity and on the weather, it would seem.

Twitter

I set up this blog some time ago, when I was using a different Gmail address. I have since switched and all of my Google-related stuff uses a different one. That means my mail, rss reader, various site analytics, and on and on. I cannot find any way to transfer this blog to that address, and it's a major pain in the neck to sign out (which kicks me out of Gmail and Google Reader, etc.) to blog here. So I think I may have to stop blogging here, or at least blog here only if I have something lengthy to say and I can't say it anywhere else. That seems like a fairly unusual event.

In the meantime, look for me here: http://twitter.com/bonniherself

Upgraded

Okay, the server has been upgraded. It seems to be going okay so far. We shall see...