What a Friday! Okay first my Friday
started with me going to bed late after working on my freshly
installed system that had me manipulating the file system structure
as mentioned in a previous post (
http://www.dhoytt.com/mainblog/archives/2010/12/resize-switch-dynamicallyextended-logical-volume-successfully.html
). I worked on that anticipating a fairly easy day since I had gotten
a lot prepped the evening before for the IT project I was working on
downtown a relatively short drive from my house.

The first event happened in the
morning I have been working on redoing my loan on this house so in
the morning around 6am I had to make that call and try to get it out
of the way. This of course took forever and I had to rush to get
ready and get to work.

The short drive to downtown Sacramento
from the Northgate/South Natomas area in Sacramento turned rather
long as I got off on Q street they had that blocked off looking for a
gunman on a building with a rifle I was told as I took the detour
from a person getting out of a local news van. I know Sacramento very
well from my partying, hitting the old cruises on J street, Old Sac,
Broadway, Franklin, Bird Cage on Sunrise boulevard etc. and the fact
that I had jobs that took me all over the place in town and out of
town.

So I went around the blockade and
parked in another parking garage and walked to the building I was
performing the project at, and signed in with security. I noticed a
lot of people in the atrium and figured they were having another
holiday party or get together. I went up to the floor I was working
on and noticed not many people around and started my laptop and
remote logged into my servers I was using to scan the customers
network

I was doing my checks of processes
and getting into setting up the final process of scanning their
network when someone comes in and starts saying anyone left in this
side of the building has to leave this area because of the gunman
they were looking for was adjacent to the building I was working in!

Cool I started packing my stuff and
putting my coat and hat back on so I could leave go to the office and
come back when this was done and then was told I couldn’t leave the
building either since they didn’t want extra people out walking
around while they searched for this person. Now I’m wondering why
didn’t they stop me a few minutes ago from even coming in the
building! Now I’m stuck!

Well I went down to the cafeteria and
ate some breakfast drank coffee and tried to find out if there was
anyway to log in to the servers from anywhere in the building. After
a while I gave that up and started chatting with a former manager
from another place I worked previously and customers from another
floor I had worked with earlier this week and at another of their
sites in Sonoma, California a week ago.

Hours later when we can get back to
work of course a few other issues raise their heads that extends the
scan time even more and will take that into the evening. Well I had
to leave so I make arrangements to pick the equipment up later next
week since I will be out of town in the beginning of the week. This
also has the potential to impact the projects I have lined up later
this month.

I then get my mail when going home and
the court had screwed up the trial dates I had setup earlier in the
week and they sent the original screwed up date out. I’m still hoping
they correct that since on my initial paperwork I can prove that I
had said I was out of town on that date. Now I have to go online to
insure they have made the change as they said they would. They mailed
this notice out the day I went to correct the issue but I showed up
the last part of the day Tuesday and the notice was mailed that day
and the clerk correcting her friends mistake told me she would mail
the corrected date the next day which was Wednesday so I can only
hope that takes place!

The next issue I didn’t notice because
I was contemplating these other events which was that the power had
gone out in the area and rebooted my servers! I noticed when I looked
at my microwave and it had no time! I had been home for a while when
I noticed this and came upstairs right away! I knew all of my servers
would come up and start the web, blogs, gallery, E-commerce but not
the music stream. I came upstairs and got the music streaming and
corrected some database issues.

Oh yeah and I had to finalize my
traveling arrangements for the next two weeks that may get changed
because of some of the events I mentioned in this post!

Then I also spoke to my mother an she
informed me that some family friends had passed so there will be
consecutive memorials the next couple of weeks, danged!

In the days mail I had some other
paperwork come that I was asking for when starting the day @ 6am. I
still need to build a system really quick for a friend (I only do
this for one or two people) so the day isn’t even close to being
over!

May have even made some contacts
during the time they had us in the building today and they caught the
guy as well, I mean the guy was not close to where they were looking
or as menacing considering the effort but oh well! Check the
Sacramento news sites for this day to see the story.

Well there you have it the good and
bad of an eventful but productive day!