48 hrs

It’s been one of those past couple days where not a whole lot has gone right.  Monday our primary webservers at work decided to start flipping out.  They’ve been heavily loaded for quite awhile and pushing max on memory and the day finally came where they started bogging down.  The mod_perl processes are getting way to big and we don’t have enough servers to effectively spread the load out so we’re really toeing the edge there. On top of that the MySQL Server and XML RPC Server decided to be pissy and not talk to each other nicely.  Once I got all of that sorted out the perlbal instance that was running on the XML RPC Server which just so happens to balance about 30M of traffic flipped out and couldn’t open enough file descriptors and once that was fixed it then would die mysteriously.  Some more work and I’ve got all that figured out finally and running decently last night, 48 hours of work ARGH.  So I go to put a light fixture in the room we’re using for our computers and slash my left index finger with a box knife trying to remove a little bit of drywall around the fixture hole. Since I type for a living it is a very annoying thing to have a big cut right on the tip of your finger. Once the light fixture is in and it’s about 10:00 last night I figure it’s time to kick back and little and go downstairs to hop on my PC, I just start hoping around and the processor fan bites it and I can’t turn my desktop on until I get a new fan, that of course is assuming the fan going out didn’t cause my processor to overheat enough that it fried itself. So it’s just the work laptop for me today, I suppose it could be worse.
Today has to be a better day, it’s Valentine’s day.  Kate and I are putting any V. Day festivities off until this weekend when hopefully we can take the kids over to Nana’s and manage to get a few free hours. It had better offically be Wednesday today and not another Monday that decided to revist the week like it did on Tuesday.