journaling: enabled

I’ve finally gotten serious about doing backups on my server. I bought a portable 40GB FireWire hard drive to hook to my server and am using rsync to back up my data off the server. I even lock the drive in a fire- & water-proof safe when I’m not backing up. There some more tweaking to be done to the backup script, but it’s *really* fast. I backed up on Thursday night … and just did another sync backup … it took less than 30 seconds. I’m planning on giving my old HP SureStore 12000e (6 x DDS-2) to beldurnik, assuming he still wants one.
Wedding planning is slowly getting under way. We have pretty much decided on a reception venue… but we need to nail down the date. We should be able to do that tomorrow. I have two groomsmen lined up (including best man). Liz has her bridesmaids lined up, so I need to confirm with my 3rd groomsman.
This past week was the start of classes at work. It didn’t go as smoothly as we would have liked. I don’t think we really had anything go wrong that qualified as a catastrophe, but one or two of the problems came very close to that. I’ve decided that I *have* to get new shoes soon. I did a whole lot of walking around this week fixing problems and my feet have been sore by days end. I don’t think it’s been quite as depressingly stressful as last fall was though. I’m still pretty up-beat.
Friday night liz4jc4ever and I went out with flutterbyefred and her boyfriend, as well as two others to San Pedro’s in Hudson. It was fun, but I should have actually eaten something … or not drunk so much. I ordered a strawberry margarita … Liz and I were poking each other and my drink got spilled … the waitress was nice enough to get me another one. I guess I’m a bit of a light-weight, since I was quite tipsy by the time we were done. This was confirmed this morning when I woke up with a bit of a hangover. Not as bad as the first one I had, but I still felt like poo and spent a significant chunk of the day in bed, much to Liz’s dismay. I did feel better after taking an Aleve and later getting out of bed to help with housework (hmm … feeling better by helping with housework … what’s wrong with that picture?).
The folks doing the road construction were nice enough to seed grass this week, so I got to try out my sprinkler. It’s one of the variety that have a stake and do an arc (or full circle) of water. Nicely constructed, but I figured out that I really do need to shut it off before moving it if I don’t want to get wet. I didn’t get too terribly wet while adjusting it to make sure it covered the right area and didn’t water the street though.
Liz is having fun doing homework right now, but I should fold some laundry before we head to bed… so, ta-ta for now!