Pasta Exhaustion

It has been a rough week. I won't go too much into detail about the funeral — Smacky has covered that well enough already — but suffice to say it was sad yet amazing. Smacky's friends are good people, and I feel honored they would allow me to mourn with them. It's unfortunate we don't see them often enough.

Work has been about the same. Projects never lighten up, and I feel like the kid drinking from the Stanley Spadowski fire-hose. But I'm doing some really cool work with storage networks, high-availability clusters, and more. In fact I spent nine hours straight today building a cluster in Budapest. Despite a few typos (and having had only four hours of sleep the night before), it went swimmingly, even with the new NFS share clustering I had to come up with the day before the build. Good stuff.

Last night was the 3RD for February. Several of the Clan Geek regulars made it, as well as a great number of Smacky's friends who were still in town after the funeral. We had an over-flowing house, the weather was lovely, and the food was amazing. I did over-spice the sausage for the normals in the crowd. Apparently the red sauce with meat was brutal, but it was pretty mild to me. The red sauce was great, the wine was lovely, and the company was divine. It was probably the best 3RD yet. If you are family or a friend of ours, we'd love to have you out for a 3RD...check out the link for details.