Well there are so many interesting things going on in my life, it's difficult to choose what to talk about, lol.
Lets just start with the weeks leading up to my Birthday. My parents have spoiled me and have puchased me a server of my choice to replace that stoneage thing that was lying in the corner of my room. I decided to go with the HP Proliant ML150 G6. As you know it has excellent features such as hot swappable hard drives and integrated lights out. One thing they didn't include though were the drive caddies to house the hard drives. Long story short, it's no longer hot swappable for now. I put in an extra 6gig of RAM to make 8gig. The physical server itself is running Server 2008 Standard with Hyper-V and it is virtualizing two other servers, one running Server 2008 Small Business Edition and another Server 2008 standard 32 bit.
I won't bore you with any more detail on that, because you need an unheathly interest like mine to find it interesting.
Now for my actual birthday, or the day before rather. I wanted to go to the Hungry Horse, not just because of their large portions but because of their Candymainia Ice Cream Sundea. I wanted to finish it. But alas, as usual people are too busy at university and what not during March so this was not possible. I did however, get a couple of the guys together for bowling. Which was good fun, although the cheeky waitress tried to overcharge me for my food and drink. We retired to my house to watch Harry Brown, an excellent dramatic film which accurately reflects todays society.
I took a week off work, just to get away from all the stress there. I really like my job but sometimes I just get too involved and try to do too much etc. Just lying around for a week can do a world of good. Then I got a nasty letter from the Thames Valley Police, accusing me of speeding. I am not amused, I slammed on my breaks when I saw that mobile speed camera van. Typical that they go after a respected tax payer like myself instead of those kids having death races on the motorway. I ask where was the old bill when Paul Isaac's father was mugged. Although I don't blame the constables themselves for the most part, it's a broken system.
