July 27, 2008

• Server Moving Day, A/C trouble, and Church at our House

  Today, me, my son, and my best friend Shae moved my business servers to my new Baytown office (part of my new Baytown house). That’s 11 servers, 6 firewalls, 8 battery backup UPS’s, a laser printer/scanner, and a huge mound of cables. I’m so tired I don’t even want to think about how much work I’d still have left to do without their help. Especially Shae’s. He moved fast and just kept going. He even put up with my overly uptight personality-of-the-day. Sometimes I lose my sense of humor under pressure. J

   

  Just to spice things up a bit, yesterday the supplemental office air conditioner at Baytown decided to stop cooling adequately in anticipation of the arrival of the servers. (It’s generating less than a 5 degree difference between incoming and outgoing air, and considering it ran much better the first week it was in, this symptom almost certainly indicates a freon leak). It was not enough of a justification to cancel the move – I’d already notified customers and vendors of the move date over a week in advance.

   

  So I set up 3 box fans, to redirect cool floor air from an adjoining room through the office and onto the servers. We’ve also turned the house thermostat down to 68. Between that and the fans, the server area has gone down from 90 to 80 degrees. (Yes, 11 servers generate a lot of heat). Hopefully the air conditioning warranty repair people will come soon. Keeping the whole house at 68 degrees in August is not going to be cheap. At least I got to turn off the big unit at the Houston office.

   

  Our church community, the Refinery (Vineyard Church of Baytown) has decided to start meeting at our house. I mean, for actual Sunday morning services. No really! You should come see it – it actually works really well. Thankfully the den and living room are joined by a large opening, and between the two of them probably about 50 of us can fit in. I guess we’ll probably find out soon since summer will be over and everyone will be back from vacations and such.

   

  You know, it feels real now. It feels like we’ve really moved here now, and I’m starting to understand at least some of the most immediate obvious parts of what we’re doing here, even if I’m still more than a little confused and uncertain of how it’s all going to turn out.

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