The Elemental Geek...

Friday was to be my last day working on the harbor in Staten Island, so I got in about an hour early so I'd have time finishing up some projects...

Oh, silly me.

The Day, the first day of Spring you know, starts with driving up to SI in a blinding snowstorm.

I forget my cell phone at home.

Noonish I get an emergency email from my company to drop everything and truck up into mid-town.  Server Crash.  And I mean crash - it couldn't crash any harder if it was a spaceship traveling at .3 over light speed smacking into a nickle-iron DeathStar. A push-the-'on'-button-and-the-screen-says-'Wot?' type of crash.

You cannot get to mid-town from SI without pain.

I decided to get off the island to Jersey and take the train into the Port Authority, and then walk the few blocks to the site.  So basically I drove 45 minutes in the opposite direction to pick up a train that makes it into midtown (just 14 miles from where I started) in 45 minutes.  Believe me, if you were familiar with the area - this would make sense.

And what a site.

This is the type of industry that attracts pretty girls (every industry uses servers somewhere or the other). The place was gorgeous, the girls were hot, and the server should have been in a museum.

Which I fixed, sort of, probably temporarily.  I don't really trust old-old servers that start crashing if you look at them funny.  Its running but throwing errors.  I'm sure I'll be back to upgrade the hardware and software.

Then walk 6 blocks to the train (with 3 minutes to spare), train to the car, and car to home.

Happy Spring.