Whoa, Did I Sleep!

So a 15 hour sleep used to be a usual thing for me back when I was a harried student and only got to really sleep on weekends. I'd go a week on 5 or 6 hours sleep and then crash for 15 or 20 on the weekend and I would be ready for more.  That ability went away sometime after my hair did, so now I just try to always get enough sleep. With my body clock though, that's never easy. Anyway, wen I went to bed at noon I expected to sleep between 8 and 12 hours, with 12 being optomistic. So here I am 15 hours later and by some miracle I don't even have a migraine.

I awoke to a firewall that was complaining of no service. This has been happening on-and-off since Bell upgraded our lines, but my ISP always says everything is fine at their end. Today they had a different notice on their status board. Bell has informed them that during the upgrade lines got switched around and if people are experiencing occasional service irregularities they should phone Bell's technical support hotline and have them run line tests. So, that sounds very plausible as a cause of my troubles, and I'll do that as soon as my day/night resynchs with the rest of the world. At the same time I'll probably finish the firewall upgrade today so that the new server is on its own isolated segment of the LAN and the firewall is able to automatically recover from these service-outages without requiring a reboot. After that I shouldn't ever have to reboot the firewall again, until the next time I upgrade it.

So, I'm actually looking forward to today! Isn't that a switch over my attitude for the last few months!

WTF OMG!

So, I guess this whole dang post isn't work safe. Its all about animal sex toys.
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Suddenly I feel very inadequate. I think I'm going to go lie down and wimper now, okay?

My Day to Date.

Livejournal seems to be acting up in a NEW™ way today. I've not been getting all of my e-mails telling me when someone has replied to something I've posted. Often I've only found out about it because I stumbled across the comment, or because I got mailed a reply to a comment that someone else posted and I was never told about. How am I supposed to concentrate on my various chores if I have to keep checking LJ for possible comments that I haven't been told about?

As to the chores themselves, they did not go as stupendously as yesterday. Its not like my brain actually went on vacation, but it did lock itself in the bedroom, turn the stereo up way too loud and refuse to answer my knocks. Today I only managed to get the prepwork done for the firewall upgrade, rather than actually doing the job. Its amazing how many complications can show up when all you're trying to do is make a backup of a running linux system when said system has no tools installed and those that HAVE been installed have had 'redundant' options (like make backups) removed. It was STILL possible to do the backup, but NO ONE should have to write a backup routine in sed. Eeek!

(At least one of the troubles I ran into has turned out to be a hithertofore unreported bug in dropbear, my SSH client. Its already been fixed in the sources, but I don't have a development environment to compile it in...)

I almost forgot...

The backup is done, the new version is downloaded and just needs to be installed and configured, and I'm not about to start that task at this late hour of the night. So, I'm gonna go watch a bit of TV, have a snack, and then go to bed.

I might check in once more before bed, but don't count on it. 

Night All!