21 Feb 2016

It's been a busy week and weekend. Lots of fun stuff at work, including setup for production patching this weekend and a big physical-to-virtual migration of a production workload. Several of us worked on it for several hours today, but somehow most of the tasks on the spreadsheet had my name on it ... funny how that happens. So my work day today started at 0700 and wrapped up at about 1300, with a bit more email and ticket work late in the afternoon.

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Additionally, it was unseasonably warm this weekend, with temps in the mid-to-high 50's. Nice for walking the mutt. And it let me do some work in my spare time in the garage and shed - replacing 7 fluorescent fixtures holding a total of (11) 4o watt 4' tubes. All that has been replaced by two 4700 lumen, 40 watt LED fixtures. One each in the garage and shed. I may add one more in the garage, just to bump up the lighting over the back bench. Even so - cutting the load from 440 watts to 80 or 120 is a big win. And those fluorescent fixtures didn't much like being cold. When the temps are in the mid-30's or lower, it was a crapshoot whether I'd get light or not when the switch was flipped.

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Marcia spent much of the weekend baking, making beautiful things. More details there once they can be revealed.

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DoD announced no new casualties in the last week, for which we are grateful. Ciao!