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@mawr It was definitely fun with some nice twists and interesting questions!

Book recommendations 

@mawr Definitely enjoyed 3 of these... haven't read the 4th.

The Bobiverse is very clever and gets into some interesting, amusing thoughts about forks and digital immortality.

guns 

@mawr @IrisKalmia

It should eat up low recoil buckshot now but that stuff is $$

The late kobold attendant has shown up!
Time to work those wings!

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Storm dragoness refuelling complete. Eager to get home and bathe then flop in my nest...
Just waiting on departure clearance then it is time to get flapping....

This storm dragon has made it through all safety and security checkpoints. Queued for departure. Weather is cool, cloudy and wet. Perfect morning for flying. Even if this is a short 300 mile climb and lazy glide.

work grumble 

So I just found out that our plans for new B site in Oregon are on hold and probably getting Axed... instead new management would like to continue piling more stuff into our already massively full... with no room for expansion current B site.

Which means my plans for relocation to our portland site are probably axed too...

Google's offer for Senior Ops Engineer/Operations Manager at the Dales, OR site is now looking a lot more appealing..

Work 

@mawr I know those feels...

My new friday starts like this! Sammy the sleepy storm dragoness wakes up at 11am.. work starts at 12pm because there is no DST in India..

OpsWeekly 12-1pm
NOCWeekly 12:30-1:30pm
Oncall Second shift hotseat 2pm-7pm
OpsOtherBullshit: 1:30p-2:30pm
3pm Everyone in MI office goes home..

Like... arguments can be... go buy a laptop with a 1060 GTX and an actual SURFACE with the keyboard cover... etc..

Help.. someone please talk me out of buying a 15" Surface Book Pro 2..

off to LA next week... I was going to try to get travel plans made more in advance but nope... management kinda dwadled and fucked about and now wants site survey 3 weeks earlier than planned....
Which means they are now grumpy that it's 230 bucks to fly out of SJC... when I could fly out of SFO at 6am and redeye back at midnight for less than a hundred..
You know.. assuming I want to work a 22 hour day =/

@KinkyKobolds Depends on the disposition of the kobold!

It might be delicious coffee...

But can you really trust kobold alchemists?

I f I needed further proof of my storm dragon-yness!

Saw tri-tip onsale at safeway while getting gas, head to datacenter in the pouring rain. Finish up work there 2 hours later... still pouring rain . Get to safeway (impulse trip, no reusuable bags).

Get tri-tip walk out still raining hard, as I step out the door storm edge pushes forward and no rain from the front door to 3 spaces past my car.. Head home.. still no rain, moments after getting inside with paper bags, starts raining again!

Be the tyrannical reptilian brood-queen you want to see in the world

OMFG... why would you do this... I'm pretty sure this box has a software raid.... and a bunch of hardware raid partitions... WHAT THE FUCK...

@IrisKalmia it does... especially since this box was inches away from making me drive to Rancho Cordova because nobody could get to place nice with a kvm... and I noticed it had ipmi that was not documented anywhere....

If you don't want me to explode your super special 1 off box with fucking 45 partitions... because the root partition is fucked up and I'm trying to fix it... you should answer my fucking questions about what partition is actually the root filesystem before I fsck the fuck out of one of the xfs partitions for FUN!

Any folks around here know anyone that works in Operations or Data Center Ops at Google?

Looking for information on what the work/life balance is like, ease of relocation (aka I want out of the SF Bay Area)

Wanting a not recruiter opinion on that stuff.

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