Anywhere but here

After a rough day in which I inadvertently set off a chain of events that ground our systems to a halt and generally brought everything to it's knees, I could use the holiday someone suggested I should take. Alas, I neither have any holiday time left to take from work, nor do I really have the financial means to take the holiday I want (I really want to go snorkeling in Hawaii again, having actually learned to swim since the last time). The "financial means" bit is a bit of a white lie, since I could theoretically afford it (that's what credit cards are for, after all), but a series of flat related events has put an unforeseen stress on my bank account and I'm trying to regain my fiscal balance again. Fun stuff will have to take a back seat to discipline for a while yet. Bleh. Feel free to make helpful comments involving the phrases "all work," "no play" and "dull boy".

Still, I'm going to be spending the next few days down in London for work, which counts as a break of sorts, though I'd almost really rather not after today's hullabaloo. It was all a bit unfortunate, I started something running that if I'd given any thought to I knew would cause trouble, but all I saw was an immediate need without considering the bigger picture. On the other hand, it shouldn't have been nearly as big a problem as it was, but it looks like I managed to expose a serious problem with our database cluster. Fortunately it's not my responsibility to clean that mess up, but I'm certain our database administrators won't be singing my praises. On the plus side I get to spend the weekend doing some fun stuff (tbc).

I'll be absent until Monday evening, so if things seem unusually quiet around here for the next few days it's not a bad sign, honest.