And On This Farm He Had A Blog

@c I can't believe it is only Wednesday.

Insert post primal scream deep breath here

Insert primal scream here

Final, Hail Mary attempt at retrieving MYSQL data from a failing hard drive has failed. Them's the breaks.

@literary It has driven me away from Twitter entirety. Just too much. People need to reexamine their priorities.

// @matigo

@larand Never thought you were one to be into cannibal monkeys.

@kdfrawg Lloyd Bridges is my spirit animal.

@kdfrawg I hope it isn't like one in Alabama.

"Our, office manager makes backups before storms. We should be okay"

She did. The storm had a name. Hurricane Katrina. This made the backup two years old.

Guess who talked a first generation Cuban-American through a dmesg dump to identify a network adaptor, disabling a croaked NetworkManager that could no longer detect the card, re-enabling the legacy networking, manually creating a configuration, getting online, opening a reverse SSH tunnel so I could log in remotely and clean up the carnage?

Dear GOD I need a vacation.

PS: This is why I do not keep alcohol in my office at work.

One hard, unrecoverable spot on hard drive.
Contains data for /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1

Game over.

Hope their backup is good.