update
It's been way too long since I've written in my diary, my bad. it's also been way too long since I've updated my photo album, again my bad. My only excluse is that I've been busy the previous four weeks with work.. I'll get into that as well.

work
A little over four weeks ago we had an intrusion. I can't really go into too many details, but it was a physical intrusion into a locked room. Regardless, the police investigation pretty much kept me busy for that week.

The following week was the attack of the MS-Blaster worm. Although our machines at work were mostly immune because I had applied the appropriate patches back in July, the resultant network traffic wrecked our departmental network and created chaos and confusion.

Well, right on the heels of the MS-Blaster worm the entire world was hit with sobig.f which was an annoying Windows virus. Once again, the majority of our machines were immune to it, but the amount of mail traffic we received was ridiculous. The large number of bounces bogged our mail server and kept us all busy.

Last week my new eMac and Powerbook arrived. I'm using the eMac to test integrating OS-X into our NIS domain, and so far it seems to be going well. I'm going to write some scripts to generate a few key configuration files (filer, mail) for all of our users and then I'll integrate Ata's G4 into the NIS domain. In the interim I'm playing with the powerbook and using it for work, etc. I've figured out how to create an xml import file to import all of my mp3's into iTunes, and I'll probably write the actual code to do it for all of them tomorrow.

play
For the most part, my running has been going good. Last week I only ran 19 miles, but that's because I only ran 2 miles on Tuesday and Sunday, and took Thursday and Saturday off. Aside from that, I'm running 5-6 miles per run again, and that feels really good. We're all getting ready to gear up our mileage so we can do the Half-shell Half-Marathon on January 25th. It should be fun.

I also recently picked up a Kona Lava Dome mountain bike. I have only had it for two and a half weeks so far, but have put a little over 100 miles on it already. I would have done more, but this weekend I was out of town (I rode 12 miles today including 6 on trails).

Friday I had dinner with Geordan and Karen and their passel of chill'n. They were on their way back south after spending the week camping in Blue Ridge with Karens' parents. They camped out in O'Leno and we went up there to join them for dinner. Sandy invited Ayaka to go with us because she was at home by herself, and aside from the rain I think she had an OK time.

While having dinner a good rain storm came through. Geordan, Logan and I stayed under the canvas eavesment on the trailer, but unfortunately the weight of the water was too much for the eavesment and it collapsed. Logan, being all of about 3 years old, was quite shocked when a solid 10 gallons of water came crashing down on his head, but after he recovered from the shock, he laughed and asked for us to do it again.

This weekend we left town to go to Marissa's wedding, which was held in Jesup, Georgia. We left Saturday morning and arrived around 2pm. I spent the afternoon swimming in the pool and relaxing, and then we left at 6 to get to the wedding. It was literally held outside of a cow pasture. The minister was a fossil and kept mispronouncing the groom and bride's names, oops.

Sunday we left Jesup and headed back to Gainesville. On the way back I convinced Sandy to let us stop at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and we spent half of the day there. We hiked several of the trails, went up to the pioneer homes, and spent time in the visitors center. We finally left around 1:30pm to continue the trip home so we could feed the pets.

Today Thor (not the cat), Dallas, and I went biking at the San Felasco. We hit a little bit of the tung nut trail and did all of the first trail. We got a late start of it, and the florida sun cooked everyone pretty quickly, but it'll be there next time.

Posted at: 21:45 on 01/09/2003   [ /diary ] #