Fairly productive day so far -- with R at Grammy and Grampy's house, was able to have a bit of a leisurely morning. Out and mowing the lawn by 9 or so (after fertilizing and putting down lime, had a pretty good stretch of a couple of weeks of rain, so by now the lawn was starting to verge on "jungle"), until about 10:30 at which point I'd completed about half of the main lawn (and had the side lawn untouched). Headed off to run a handful of errands, including getting a HD/DVR cable box for the new HD TV, before coming home to finish mowing. Managed to finish the bulk of the outside chores (still have to bust out the weed whacker for a small patch), and managed to shower and get the new cable box connected and going before the thunderstorm that had been threatening hit. And figured out that the central air wasn't working because the breakers had been flipped a while ago and never turned back on.

Maybe get the Boy up, and think about dinner. Perhaps a lad's night out is in order....

Looks like David Eddings is dead.

I didn't really read too much of his after the Malloreon series -- I got through the first couple of Sparhawk books before giving up, but I remember loving the Belgariad and reading my copies of those books near to death.

Testing cross-posting from Dreamwidth.

The latest XCKD.....

Got my giftie yesterday. Only 15 quid, too.

(We'll not discuss the shipping charges, KTHXBAI.)

Apparently, part of how Oracle RAC does its magic is through a virtual IP address that it takes care of bringing up and down. This can be something of a problem (as the DBAs learned this morning), when you have nodes on seperate VLANs, and when one node goes down Oracle brings the VIP up on the other server.

"I'll take 'Things it would have been good to know a long time before now' for $500, Alex."

Now if I could just figure out why this one RAC can't seem to keep itself up and running for more then 5 - 10 hours before nodes just randomly eating themselves to the point where I need to powercycle them to bring them back online, I'd be a very happy person.

Note to self -- add chilies with adobo sauce to all future batches of chili.

Ashley pulling the Toon of the market.

Up until 2 or so this morning, playing Mass Effect. Damn, but that's an addictive game.

...before I teach the kids the alternate words to "Row Row Row Your Boat".