Is that lightning?

We made a day trip to southeastern VA yesterday to visit my grandmother and some friends who live near by. The trip itself was uneventful, the visit was thoroughly enjoyable, and I'm glad we went. My grandmother is doing well, considering she's on her own now and my mother can't be bothered to call her, much less visit her on occasion (and she lives a whole fifteen minutes from her). I got to see an old friend who was a big encouragement when I needed it in my late teens and early twenties, and I'm always glad when we can get together.

The trip home? Was windy as hell. Coming around the Beltway from I95 to I66, I kept seeing the sky flash blue...it was like lightning, but it was only a small arc, instead of the whole sky, and it was usually in the distance and off to the side, which I'm not generally watching while driving, since the road immediately in front of me is kind of important. Then I saw one directly ahead and fairly close, and suddenly, I was enlightened. What was enlightening me was the explosion of a transformer, and if that 12 minutes on the Beltway was any indication, there are quite a few bits of northern Virginia (and likely DC and MD as well) that lost power due to wind damage over the course of the night.

I'm just glad the sleet and freezing rain they were originally calling for missed us. The wind was howling into the early morning, and in the process kept me awake till the early hours, but more importantly, if the trees and power lines in the area had been coated in ice when our 40+ mph gales were blowing through? It wouldn't have been random isolated bits without power, it would have been most of the area.

Is that lightning?

We made a day trip to southeastern VA yesterday to visit my grandmother and some friends who live near by. The trip itself was uneventful, the visit was thoroughly enjoyable, and I'm glad we went. My grandmother is doing well, considering she's on her own now and my mother can't be bothered to call her, much less visit her on occasion (and she lives a whole fifteen minutes from her). I got to see an old friend who was a big encouragement when I needed it in my late teens and early twenties, and I'm always glad when we can get together.

The trip home? Was windy as hell. Coming around the Beltway from I95 to I66, I kept seeing the sky flash blue...it was like lightning, but it was only a small arc, instead of the whole sky, and it was usually in the distance and off to the side, which I'm not generally watching while driving, since the road immediately in front of me is kind of important. Then I saw one directly ahead and fairly close, and suddenly, I was enlightened. What was enlightening me was the explosion of a transformer, and if that 12 minutes on the Beltway was any indication, there are quite a few bits of northern Virginia (and likely DC and MD as well) that lost power due to wind damage over the course of the night.

I'm just glad the sleet and freezing rain they were originally calling for missed us. The wind was howling into the early morning, and in the process kept me awake till the early hours, but more importantly, if the trees and power lines in the area had been coated in ice when our 40+ mph gales were blowing through? It wouldn't have been random isolated bits without power, it would have been most of the area.

Is that lightning?

We made a day trip to southeastern VA yesterday to visit my grandmother and some friends who live near by. The trip itself was uneventful, the visit was thoroughly enjoyable, and I'm glad we went. My grandmother is doing well, considering she's on her own now and my mother can't be bothered to call her, much less visit her on occasion (and she lives a whole fifteen minutes from her). I got to see an old friend who was a big encouragement when I needed it in my late teens and early twenties, and I'm always glad when we can get together.

The trip home? Was windy as hell. Coming around the Beltway from I95 to I66, I kept seeing the sky flash blue...it was like lightning, but it was only a small arc, instead of the whole sky, and it was usually in the distance and off to the side, which I'm not generally watching while driving, since the road immediately in front of me is kind of important. Then I saw one directly ahead and fairly close, and suddenly, I was enlightened. What was enlightening me was the explosion of a transformer, and if that 12 minutes on the Beltway was any indication, there are quite a few bits of northern Virginia (and likely DC and MD as well) that lost power due to wind damage over the course of the night.

I'm just glad the sleet and freezing rain they were originally calling for missed us. The wind was howling into the early morning, and in the process kept me awake till the early hours, but more importantly, if the trees and power lines in the area had been coated in ice when our 40+ mph gales were blowing through? It wouldn't have been random isolated bits without power, it would have been most of the area.

Come the Revolution...

The fuckheads at Symantec are going up against the god damned wall so fast they won't know what happened until after they've been shot.

I have this nifty little box from Network Appliance. It can haz lotz of dryve spayce! As of right now, I can't back it up. See, I bought a license for my Netbackup server for the Network Appliance module, right as Symantec was fucking Veritas up in every way they could manage.

My license key? Doesn't work with Symantec's system, since it doesn't recognize that Veritas existed prior to acquisition, and hey, why the fuck would existing customers matter? Just getting those fucks to get me a serial number that their web site would acknowledge was valid was a six month ordeal. Now, I just need the actual bits. You know, the software. The software that their serial number is invalid for, according to their fucking portal, so I can't download it (not that it would run, even if it would let me, since it claims my serial number doesn't do what it's supposed to apparently).

I fucking swear, as much as I despise Legato (me and Legato have had a hate hate relationship since their malicious excuse for a backup system ate its index at least once every tape cycle back when I was at NASA, and rebuilding that index took for fucking ever, thanks to the 4 tape libraries each holding several hundred tapes it was supposed to be managing), I'm so ready to call them and ask how much they'll charge to fuck me, since as of right now, it'll hurt less that what Symantec is doing.

I just got off the phone with yet another clueless fucking monkey who still doesn't understand what I want. Gee, Network Appliance and EMC are the two largest storage vendors on the whole fucking planet, and yet, it seems that no one at Symantec know who they are.

Come the Revolution...

The fuckheads at Symantec are going up against the god damned wall so fast they won't know what happened until after they've been shot.

I have this nifty little box from Network Appliance. It can haz lotz of dryve spayce! As of right now, I can't back it up. See, I bought a license for my Netbackup server for the Network Appliance module, right as Symantec was fucking Veritas up in every way they could manage.

My license key? Doesn't work with Symantec's system, since it doesn't recognize that Veritas existed prior to acquisition, and hey, why the fuck would existing customers matter? Just getting those fucks to get me a serial number that their web site would acknowledge was valid was a six month ordeal. Now, I just need the actual bits. You know, the software. The software that their serial number is invalid for, according to their fucking portal, so I can't download it (not that it would run, even if it would let me, since it claims my serial number doesn't do what it's supposed to apparently).

I fucking swear, as much as I despise Legato (me and Legato have had a hate hate relationship since their malicious excuse for a backup system ate its index at least once every tape cycle back when I was at NASA, and rebuilding that index took for fucking ever, thanks to the 4 tape libraries each holding several hundred tapes it was supposed to be managing), I'm so ready to call them and ask how much they'll charge to fuck me, since as of right now, it'll hurt less that what Symantec is doing.

I just got off the phone with yet another clueless fucking monkey who still doesn't understand what I want. Gee, Network Appliance and EMC are the two largest storage vendors on the whole fucking planet, and yet, it seems that no one at Symantec know who they are.

Come the Revolution...

The fuckheads at Symantec are going up against the god damned wall so fast they won't know what happened until after they've been shot.

I have this nifty little box from Network Appliance. It can haz lotz of dryve spayce! As of right now, I can't back it up. See, I bought a license for my Netbackup server for the Network Appliance module, right as Symantec was fucking Veritas up in every way they could manage.

My license key? Doesn't work with Symantec's system, since it doesn't recognize that Veritas existed prior to acquisition, and hey, why the fuck would existing customers matter? Just getting those fucks to get me a serial number that their web site would acknowledge was valid was a six month ordeal. Now, I just need the actual bits. You know, the software. The software that their serial number is invalid for, according to their fucking portal, so I can't download it (not that it would run, even if it would let me, since it claims my serial number doesn't do what it's supposed to apparently).

I fucking swear, as much as I despise Legato (me and Legato have had a hate hate relationship since their malicious excuse for a backup system ate its index at least once every tape cycle back when I was at NASA, and rebuilding that index took for fucking ever, thanks to the 4 tape libraries each holding several hundred tapes it was supposed to be managing), I'm so ready to call them and ask how much they'll charge to fuck me, since as of right now, it'll hurt less that what Symantec is doing.

I just got off the phone with yet another clueless fucking monkey who still doesn't understand what I want. Gee, Network Appliance and EMC are the two largest storage vendors on the whole fucking planet, and yet, it seems that no one at Symantec know who they are.