prince_eric | At last our long national nightmare is over

At last, the week is over. The internal audit is over, and now all that's left is for the auditors to write up their findings, hash things out with management, and then depart at the end of next week. Fitting, then, that the first leg of the death march that is the buildout of our Oracle environment ended this week as well, and is ended with handing over three clusters of systems to our DBA team.

I'd love it if it meant and end to the pace of the last month, but unfortunately I've got the second leg of the death march ahead next week (five more stand-alone servers), and then the leg after that (four more RAC clusters). Plus the continued integration with our Bay Area counterparts ("You're going out the week of the 9th. No, make it the week of the 16th. No, maybe the first week of July...."), plus the various other things that have piled up in the mad scramble to get servers racked and built out, documentation in order and remediation of various hot spots that auditors love to jump on over the past month. And that's not counting the fun projects that need to be done here, like putting in new covers for septic tank and finishing installation of storm door.

At least it should be an end to the 8-PM-to-11:30-PM nights (on average probably two or three a week). I hope. And the rocky working relationship with the new co-worker (really an old member of the group that left before I joined) seems headed for a relatively sane and stable detente.

But for now, I'll just sit back with a six-pack of this, the 80s New Wave music channel on cable, and play nethack or something.