First things first. My apologies for the lack of a new post in the last couple of days. Things have been very busy. “All work and no play” you know how the rest goes. Paris was a whirlwind and we had to work our asses off here. Couldn’t find the data centers initially, couldn’t ask for directions because we don’t speak French and the cab driver who just dropped us off in the middle of a business park because he couldn’t fathom how his GPS could possible be wrong.
Regardless to say things did not go according to plan. Wrong types of reported servers onsite means we shipped the wrong parts which means we can’t really fix anything other than hard drive failures. Two locations means we have to split time between one data center open from 9-5 and another that’s open 24×7. Every mapping service we could get our hands on plotted the addresses wrong on a map. Also had to rack 8 servers and wire them for Ethernet and power – that was fun. We did the best we could with what we were given but we’ve been batting a thousand for so long that it feels pretty shitty when you fall below getting everything fixed.
We had no time to do anything really in France. We flew in Sunday night, slept, worked all day Monday, got back to the hotel at around 10pm, slept and now we’re getting ready to go to the airport. No Eiffel tower stops, no French berets, do not pass go, do not collect 200 Euros and when the shit do we come home.
Next stop Amsterdam. Maybe. We are flying Air France and according to their website right now their pilots are on strike. Perfect. I guess we’ll see what happens when we get to the airport. Until then good luck. We may not be in touch much while in Amsterdam because we have a lot of work to do and we’ll probably be “intoxicated” for the rest of it.
P.S. If you own Gears of War 2 let me know. I can’t wait to play this beast when I get home.
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I’ll totally go buy Gears of War II and it could be sitting on your desk, waiting to be borrowed for a few days……if you would only bring me my stupid beret back……its vital to my sex life.
Give me an hour with your Xbox…i’ll hack the shit outta it. I’ve totally got a copy of Gears of War 2 that i’ll let you have…all you have to do is never sign in to Xbox Live again ;D
Originally Posted By PaulI’ll totally go buy Gears of War II and it could be sitting on your desk, waiting to be borrowed for a few days……if you would only bring me my stupid beret back……its vital to my sex life.
Sorry broseph, couldn’t get you a beret. Mostly a time issue as we didn’t do anything other than work. They didn’t have any tourist shops that were open around our hotel to find one of these hats and the Paris airport sucks balls and had nothing there either.
Originally Posted By Jason AdamsGive me an hour with your Xbox…i’ll hack the shit outta it. I’ve totally got a copy of Gears of War 2 that i’ll let you have…all you have to do is never sign in to Xbox Live again ;D
I love you for this but my roommates and I do occasionally like to go online and get our asses kicked by German 4th graders in COD4 or Halo3. Access to XBox live is a deal breaker.