About an hour after I got into work today, I found myself in the datacenter swapping out the hardware for one of the servers that belongs to a legendary rock singer/band. So, I apologize if you were trying to buy tickets and couldn’t for about an hour and a half. The power supply was dead, and it would have taken me longer to extract the old one and insert a new one, so I pulled the drives and put them in a new machine.

Then, a different server had the PCI bus die and needed a hardware swap. I left a co-worker take care of that while I went to cover monitoring. Which was crazy busy until about 8pm. Named (bind, DNS service) died randomly on one of our nameservers. I restarted it but there could be a problem with it. A couple vps instances suddenly became inaccessible even though they were running fine – the server they were on previously still contained routes for them. And server reboots, reboots, reboots. Yargh.

Just now I went to get some dinner at Wendy’s, and came back to find a JIANTSPIDEROMGWTFBBQ hanging over the front door. EEEEEEEEEEyaaaaaahhhhh *shudder convulse* bleagh…!

[21:21:58] <JayP> ill like run dmc?
[21:22:05] <jAREDlEWIS> thats what i was thinkin
[21:22:07] <JayP> look down, are your shoes tied?
[21:22:12] *** DrJHewitt is now known as PHPmesiah.
[21:22:31] <JayP> check, and huge gold and or platinum chains around your neck?
[21:22:42] <JayP> *any
[21:22:45] <russ> and a big plastic clock
[21:22:46] *** PHPmesiah is now known as PHPMessiah-JHew.
[21:22:55] <JayP> bless you
[21:22:58] <Sam> misread clock for a second there…
[21:23:01] <nagibenny> I definately did not read clock.
[21:23:03] <jAREDlEWIS> me too lol
[21:23:04] <PHPMessiah-JHew> lol
[21:23:06] <Erin> LOL
[21:23:24] <Sam> is it a, uh, battery powered.. clock?
[21:23:25] <JayP> russ , you broke irc again
[21:23:26] <PHPMessiah-JHew> Stop you guys are gonna make me get sick again.
[21:23:31] <russ> y’all get outta da gutter
[21:23:31] <Erin> we’re all going to hell.
[21:23:39] <Sam> I’ll drive!
[21:23:46] <JayP> I have dibs on the hand basket
[21:23:49] <tony> dude yeah
[21:24:06] <tony> the way to hell is via water

[13:52:07] <killerjetski_nagios> *servername* had wat looks like a KP on console… but the last line was “console shuts up …”
[13:52:26] <scollins> haha
[13:52:45] <killerjetski_nagios> I replied “server gets no power” and I think we came to an agreement