I put in my order for a new wheelset for my fixie. Nerded out and got pink deep v rims on their house brand pink anodized 4 star track hubs… from Milwaukee Bicycle Co. They’ll look kinda like these:
I am officially giddy. Now I have to find a set of these in stock somewhere:
…is roughly about how much I worked this weekend. I got to see what happens when all of our production, dev, test, etc servers go down hard. Here’s what NAU said happened to the power on campus Saturday of move in weekend:
Construction equipment working on the University Union dining hall expansion struck a main power line on Saturday morning, causing a power outage on central campus and disrupting Internet and e-mail service campuswide.
The Fieldhouse opened for food service, and other locations are expanding their hours to accommodate students.
Buildings affected by the power outage were: Allen, Cowden , Gateway Student Success Center, Raymond, McDonald, Tinsley, Wilson, Information Technology Services and the University Union (the Union Fieldhouse has and will continue to have power).
These same buildings will lose power again sometime between 6 and 7 p.m. today while permanent power is restored. Expect Internet and e-mail disruption. The Fieldhouse will remain open for dining.
Some construction dude took a 2ft auger and blasted through the tunnel containing power and fiber to the Union. Even though there were hand dug holes showing where the pipe was. This power hit took out all of central campus, including my work, ITS. People weren’t called in enough time, so the server room lasted roughly 50 min on battery backup. We got in just in time to watch all the machines go down. Then we waited for an emergency power splice to be put into effect. From there we got critical machines back up, made sure DB’s and disks weren’t corrupt, and shut down all non critical machines. Then the power was taken down around 7:20pm Sat to put in a real fix for power. When power came back up, it blew a circut, thus putting power back down for another hour or so. When power came back up, we made sure all critical services were running, and were told to wait since a real fix would be put into place on Sunday.
Sunday, power wend down at the scheduled time, for roughly an hour. Once back up, we got all services, including dev and test instances up by 11:30.
Since many departments depend on our LDAP servers being up (everything from peoplesoft, to resnet) alot of commotion was raised. Maybe we’ll get some headway made on a real generator now.
Even though it was draining, it was good to see what/and how things break, etc. I’m surprised at how graceful a lot of machines and services came back up. Looks like I’ll have some days off in the near future. Whoo! 
Biked out to Bellemont this weekend to go shooting with some buddies… here’s the default pic of a dude with his bike and a huge gun: 
Oh, here’s what happens with that gun:
…and here’s some video of Matt’s AR50:
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Well let’s see now… Friday I went to Guy’s housewarming party. Him and his lady moved in just next door to me. Now we can hand each other neighborly things over the fence; like flour, milk, and eggs (more like Wii games and beer.) Later I went to see Joe Myers @ Charly’s… and I was sad to not see too many people there. Joe’s an amazing artist, and I truly enjoy his music when he’s playing up here.
Saturday morning I totally layed about and finally went on my ride around 10. I was almost hoping for it to rain during the ride, but alas overcast weather would have to do. Looks like alot of people ride the east side of the route, and continue up north to the Schultz Pass area. I liked riding down it alot more, especially with all of the banked turns and such. 
I think the ride, including the trip from my house was ~20mi… which reminds me that I need to get a computer on the bike to track that kinda stuffs.
Sunday was nice and mellow, as it drizzled most of the day, I went biking around to do chores, spending more time wandering around stores due to the rain. Shannon is hella awesome as a roomate and I am stoked for living arrangements. It’s chill, it’s clean!
I kinda like all the time off from not doing band stuff… but I’m sure I’ll get the itch to play music soon enough, so I’ll enjoy what’s goin on right now.