<< June 8, 2005 >>
hey man, slow down

i fell back asleep after my alarm went off for another 40 minutes. in my rush out the door, i left my prized map of paris in my hotel room. no time to go back to get it.

then, the metro was so crowded it wasn't possible to walk down the stairs. fortunately trains came by like every 2 minutes so i was on my way shortly. luckily i got the fast RER train and wasn't late.

also, i wasn't the only one who slept in. one of the guys here strolled in an hour or so after me. he uses some gtk mp3 player as an alarm clock, and it had crashed overnight. good times.

today we were going to test a lustre patch on a configuration that wasn't normally supported by lustre. we started a benchmark test on it, and within a minute or two all the machines involved were unresponsive to proddings over the network. i assumed the patch broke things and all the nodes crashed terribly, but it turns out my pessimism was unfounded. perhaps unfounded is a bit too strong here, but in any case we went to the data center only to find that the power went out for the 4 racks we were using.

i was supposed to leave today, but on tuesday it became quite apparent that i would need another day. it was cheap to change the flights, and the hotel had room, so it wasn't much of an issue. due to some miscommunication (my fault), nobody had extended the reservation as of last night, but i was assured it would be taken care of. except that this evening, five hours after checkout time (with all my stuff still in the room), i was told that they were unsuccessful at extending the reservation the night prior.

but apparently it didn't occur to anyone to email me this last night, while i was still at the hotel. unfortunately, i can't get too mad, since it's all fixed up now. at least i think it is, because it's 8 pm and i'm still at the office. i guess going up to sacré cœur is out for this trip, but i might still try to get to place d'italie because it sounds familiar from one of my previous trips.