We'll be closing on the house on October 6th. I just got notification that the mortgage is complete too. We're almost there. Here are some photos from last Saturday (September 24): [caption id="attachment_605" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Some new landscaping, including a Bird of Paradise.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_607" align="aligncenter" width="640"] More bushes, plants and a palm tree.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_606" align="aligncenter" width="640"] A wider view of the front yard.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_608" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Timer for the sprinkler system.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_609" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Hot water heater is in![/caption] [caption id="attachment_610" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Kitchen counter tops are in![/caption] [caption id="attachment_611" align="aligncenter" width="640"] A closer look at the granite.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_612" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The kitchen sink in the island.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_613" align="aligncenter" width="640"] And the granite in the bathrooms.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_614" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Carpeting in the Loft.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_615" align="aligncenter" width="640"] ...and the front bedroom upstairs.[/caption] [caption...
Month: September 2016
2010 L.A. Trip
I happened to stumble across my old Tumblr page today. Apparently, I created it around the time I went to L.A. in May 2010 for a short, 4-day trip. I was seriously considering moving out there, and Zeke (Eman) had set me up with a interview at the Ski Channel. The interview didn't go so well, but I had an opportunity to see what L.A. was like and it was a large basis of why I went back out there again in December 2010. Anyway, I pulled all of those Tumblr posts into this blog and deleted the Tumblr account. If you go back to around May 2010, you'll see the posts.
Network Re-engineering Complete
Soon after I got this site back up, I decided to re-engineer the internals of the network at the studio. This, ultimately, took this site down again (along with others). The biggest change was the refactoring of the hypervisors' datastores. I have two hypervisors running VMware ESXi. Each hypervisor had a series of internal hard drives that stored all of the data (datastores). When I first implemented the hypervisors, I thought I was clever by having these disks internal, as I was using the OSes of the VMs to mirror across multiple physical disks for redundancy, as well as JBOD the disks for greater storage. The problem was that this wasn't conducive to having the hypervisors redundant, only the hard disks. The only way to fix that was to get a NAS or SAN that supported iSCSI. So, l got an enclosure, populated it, and began the process of building...
