Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Network Issues

"When a Fail-Safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe." - John Gall

I come into work today, and on the elevator someone from another department says to me that I will have a fun day today, all the computers are down. Okay, whatever. I get to my office, and yes the entire network is down. I cannot get to any internal sites nor to the internet! Then I find out that the shipment of COWs just showed up in receiving. Well, that at least gives me something to do. We bring the herd of 51 up to our area, and then I go to the computer room to see how things are going. They were still trying to figure out what had happened. It looked like all the servers and applications were running, but the was no communication. They have been trying to bring things back slowly and there has been stuff up and down throughout the system. I just got internet up and am still waiting on the internal stuff to be up. What happened to the redundant systems that are suppose to prevent this. 5-6 hours of downtime is a long time.

Update: It looks like the redundant system that was suppose to prevent this was the cause.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Saturday, April 10, 2010

On a Roll

She is starting to get the hang of this. It is a lot of work... She is now passed out on the floor.

Sunday, April 04, 2010

Lacrosse anyone?

Darren and Evan were outside with one of the kids from down the street playing lacrosse. Ben kept running to the door to watch them, and then I changed him into his pajamas and he escaped out the door when Maddy went out. He grabbed a stick and was right there trying to play with the boys.


Easter

Amy hide eggs for the kids, and Ben decided to readjust the location of them before Evan and Maddy got there. There ended up being a pile of them under his high chair.

Julies Baby Blanket from Grandma Payne

Mom finished Julie's blanket and brought it over today. Ben is trying to claim it as his.

Happy Easter