Dammit. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

[theweaselking]

Oh, sure, I schedule a quarterly server reboot for yesterday, run all the updates, bring it down, bring it back up, and confirm everything's working correctly! Great!

And then, last night, the fucking blizzard takes out the power for eight hours.
Why do I bother scheduling these things?

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[sebkha.livejournal.com]

To maintain the illusion of control!

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

Nature abhors a problem-free scheduled down-time.

The blizzard was just the inevitable Other Shoe Dropping.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Hey, it came back up with no problems when the power came back on at 4am for me, too!

So, really, the quarterly "make it work under controlled conditions" thing is still paying off for me. But, dammit, couldn't it let me get to 24 hours?

[zastrazzi.livejournal.com]

Nah, that might give you uptime bragging rights or something ;)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

ObVious: If I wanted uptime bragging rights, I wouldn't be rebooting quarterly.

[elffin.livejournal.com]

If you wanted uptime bragging rights, they'd be Sparcs scraping lab results in a hospital somewhere.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And, more importantly, I'd be finding those Sparcs belonging to other people and rebooting them.

[plantyhamchuk.livejournal.com]

So you can use your croc icon?

[luna-the-cat.livejournal.com]

"Why do I bother scheduling these things?"

Because the Lords Of Cosmic Jest have implanted the subconscious compulsion in you to schedule things, in order that they more easily know when and how to really fuck you up.

Duh.