Friday Lulz: LJ downtime

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

So LJ was down for most of this week. You sit at the PC and you try to log on to your favestest blog hosting website. But -BAM!- that goat keeps staring at you from the screen.

But since you're already seated at the PC, you've got to do something anyway.

So how did you use that off-time? Do share with us. But try to tell us in pictures.



 
   
   

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I was just chillin...

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

Basically, this:

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Well, I've brought my alternate history timeline yea far:

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

er, pictures of what I did would be NSFW. But that first one with the cat is a close enough representation.

Prrrrrrety much this

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

Followed closely by

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

Also, I was almost 4 days without even being able to log in to LJ and I missed you all so much. *hugs everyone*

[paedraggaidin.livejournal.com]

One word: finals.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

I drowned my sorrow from the dead LJ...

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

I STILL can't cross-post my latest blog entry onto here. It keeps on giving me errors. :(

[rasilio.livejournal.com]

Given that right now is one of the busiest times of the year for me here at work, as we performance test our servers to make sure they can handle the load of Open Enrollment season**, so I didn't really miss the downtime so much because I spent most of it generating test data, writing automated test scripts, and arguing with out infratructure team about why their idiotic security rules weren't securing anything (I have enough access to the right systems already to be able to steal any data I wanted pretty much any time I wanted) but were preventing me from doing my job the right way.


**= for those not in the states, here with most health insurance provided by employers there is a time in every year that is set aside to make your choices for which health care plans offered by your employer that you will enroll in (as well as make other benefits choices), typically that time lasts for 2 weeks somewhere between September and November. My company manages that process for other companies and so we get a huge boost in traffic to our servers during those 3 months (like from less than 300 concurrent users at peak to possibly as many as 4500 concurrent)

Videos count too, right? I mean. They're pictures. Just... moving pictures.

[superhyattbeam.livejournal.com]

(http://tinypic.com?ref=or1frp)

This.



Also beating this!

Marin called me into her bosom.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

I also spent some time researching the art, life and death of musician I never heard of before:

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

I should have gotten caught up on my [technically illegal] downloading, but instead I went to the gym and played lasertag and played Stars!.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

This only took up last night tho :P Other than that:



Business as usual, just had to go back to some of my old stomping grounds/find some new ones.