Fitness – End of Week 4 Report
by Travis on Jun.23, 2008, under Fitness
Well, this is a little late since (as I stated in my previous post) I shunned technology for a few days.
Word to the wise. DO NOT SKIP DAYS OF EXERCISING.
I haven’t gained a boatload of weight or anything. I haven’t really changed stats much other than I gained a couple pounds over where I was at the end of week three… But what hurts was how I felt this morning. I haven’t felt this way since the morning after Andy’s birthday party two years ago. In fact, I think I felt better then than I do now.
So last week was one of those weeks where it was just too busy to get time in. Monday was a Yoga day so me being crappy at it only got in half the workout. *shrug* *sticks tounge out* Tuesday I skipped because, well I was lame. Wednesday we had a wedding rehearsal to go to which took up 4:45pm (right after work) until 9:30pm and included dinner, so naturally that got left out. Thursday morning I tried to be good… I did one of the sessions and figured that made up for Wednesday. Only problem is, I missed Thursday night as well due to a dinner out that night which followed up a busy day and I never got a chance to do my Thursday session. Friday… well we had a wedding to go to so the morning was crammed with stuff to get done and Friday night was the wedding so we didn’t get home until almost 11 from that. SO that leaves me with Saturday… I promised Arwen I’d finish the porch and the roof to her playhouse so that’s what I did… I was way too tired to workout Saturday night, especially it being another Yoga night… ugh… And then only having Sunday left, I wasn’t about to break the losing streak and workout then! 🙂
Now, granted this was a cool-down week so most of it was all stretching but holy crap I feel horrible today. I promise, I will never slack off this bad again. I somehow think I’ll just be repeating this workout routine over and over every three months as it rotates out. I’m terrified to stop again. LOL
SO, all in all this report is a failure report on my part but a huge learning experience none the less. I have also made a pact with myself to suck it up and complete the Yoga sessions in their entirety… even if I have to cry through it like a little girl.
preparing to launch…
by Travis on Jun.23, 2008, under Tech Stuff
So I shunned technology for a few days… I needed it. Tech-Post warning – skip it if your brain hurts from reading these.
Well, we’re definitely into the week of pushing out the hardware/software combinations to our remaining sites and the first full week or two results are amazing in Denver and Tulsa. We cannot wait to roll out the rest of our CommVault installations.
It was incredible to come in this morning though and see that the Exagrid was working great. Unit 1 which has been holding all of our SQL and server backups is rocking and rollin. With a de-dupe ratio of 5.81:1 it’s holding ~4.4TB of backup data in 760GB of space. That’s two weeks of data crammed in there… CRAZY! As for our Unit 2 that backs up our NAS which has the highest rate of changed files I think, it’s holding at a de-dupe ratio of 3.17:1 holding ~8.03TB of backup data in ~2.5TB of space. While that’s only a week of data there, that’s two fulls and several incrementals. It may actually get better since at the moment it’s in the process of doing some deduplication. Scary! I’m just amazed at what this technology is doing. It’s even better in practice than it looks on paper. LOL
Another lesson learned from this last couple of weeks in addition to not using single instancing with Exagrid… DO NOT USE SYNTHETIC FULLS. 🙂 It’s quite honestly best to do a weekly full and daily incrementals if you have too much data to do daily fulls.
With our backup jobs being a bit more stable now that I’ve got a good grip on using CommVault Galaxy, we’re seeing some much needed improvement on the backup speeds. We’re able to secure much more data in a much more shorter window than before which is absolutely amazing. I’m not making exact calculations yet but I’d say we’ve reduced it below 30 hours. Less tapes, less hard drive space… I’m loving it.
LOL – Complaint Letter – Seat 29E
by Travis on Jun.18, 2008, under Humor
ROFL…. So a co-worker sent this email today that had an actual complaint letter in it from a passenger on Flight# 888/500 to Houston back in 2004. While this is old it merits the humor section. I don’t know how I’d feel in this same position, maybe I would send in something similar… who knows. Poor guy.
(Typed version for easier reading, pictures are from a scan of the original hand-written document)
(if you’re one of those who needs to know it’s True from snopes here ya go: http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/seat29e.asp)
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12-21-04
Flt#888/500 -> Houston
Seat #29E (RECEIVED APR 13 2005 Customer Care)
Dear Continental Airlines,
I am disgusted as I write this note to you about the miserable experience I am having sitting in seat _29E_ on one of your aircrafts. As you may know, this seat is situated directly across from the lavatory, so close that I can reach out my left arm and touch the door.
All my senses are being tortured simultaneously. Its difficult to say what the worst part about sitting in 29E really is? Is it the stentch of the sanitation fluid that’s blown all over my body every 60 seconds when the door opens? Is it the woosh of the constant flushing? Or is it the passengers asses that seem to fit into my personal spase like a p0rn0graphic jig-saw puzzel?
I constucted a stink – shield by shoving one end of a blanket into the overhead compartment – while effective in blocking at least some of the smell, and offering a small bit of privacy, the ass-on- my-body factor has increased, as without my evil glare, passengers feel free to lean up against what they think is some kind of blanketed wall. The next ass that touches my shoulder will be the last!
I am picturing a board room full of executives giving props to the young promising engineer that figured out how to squeeze an additional row of seats onto this plane by putting them next to the LAV.
I would like to flush his head in the toilet that I am close enough to touch and taste from my seat. Putting a seat here was a very bad idea. I just heard a man GROAN in there! This sucks!
Worse yet, is I’ve paid over $400.00 for the honor of sitting in this seat! Does your company give refunds? I’d like to go back where I came from and start over. Seat 29E could only be worse if it was located inside the bathroom.
I wonder if my clothing will retain the sanitizing odor …. hat about my hair! I feel like I’m bathing in a toilet bowl of blue liquid, and there is no man in a little boat to save me. I am filled with a deep hatred for you plane designer. And a general dis-ease that may last for hours.
We are finally decending, and soon I will be able to tear down the stink-shield, but the scars will remain.
I suggest that you initiate immediate removal of this seat from all of your crafts. Just remove it, and leave the smouldering brown hole empty, a place for sturdy/non-absorbing luggage maybe, but not human cargo.
want to scare yourself? (fitness related)
by Travis on Jun.16, 2008, under Fitness
So in this endeavor to get more fit and eat/live healthier I’ve come across many tools to help in the cause. Most of these have been sites which contain information about how to calculate various things from body fat percentages to calories in meals. The scariest? The calorie information sites.
If you want some terrifying information, take a trip out to a site like The Daily Plate or Calorie King and take a look at some of your favorite foods, especially those you eat when you dine out. You’ll scare yourself, I promise.
The first time I found out that one of my favorite sandwiches from Quiznos lands me a whopping 1220 calories with 71g of carbs and 78g of fat I almost cried. In taking a look at some other items I enjoy it was interesting to see what items were actually somewhat healthy and what was not. You’d be surprised what some of your favorite foods ring in at.
This and the obvious hit to the wallet dining out incurs, I have to say, is one of the biggest contributors to deciding to prepare meals at home rather than head out. Sure it’s easier, but you’re paying more to fatten yourself up. You know that sampler plate you love so much from Old Chicago’s? Try 4,000+ calories for that yummy treat. Sure you don’t eat the whole thing, but even 1/4 of it is still 1,000 calories on top of your meal.
Now, I’m not saying you have to cut out some of that food you love so much to lose weight… I’d be the world’s biggest hypocrit for saying such a thing. I still love my Prime Rib Cheesesteak and my Fettucini Alfredo but I don’t eat it all the time either.
Again, if you’re looking at changing the way you eat, I highly recommend checking out sites such as the ones I listed above. You might just be shocked at what you find could be the culprit to slow results.
