Time is on my side

I don’t go back to work until January 4th. Then, the following week I fly out to Colorado for a week (also work but who’s counting that one). I’m rather excited to see how much stuff I can get done around the house. Weather folks are predicting a dumping of snow on Minnesota over the Christmas week (through Friday) and ice in Iowa (where we’re going for Holly’s folks). Should be interesting. Glad we have life/health/car insurance either way.

Four-Eight

So we got our real measurable snowfall last night of 4-8″. It’s hard to tell exactly how much as we’ve been getting high winds which has been causing drifting. Lily’s rebounding nicely but still, not being very ginger on her foot. After pulling out her stitches, we’ve pretty much been fighting daily battles with trying to get her to not be a dog and run around like crazy.

Application Servers w/Services

So I have some really old application servers. Six in production and the same number in test. Each server has a unique service that must be stopped in a specific order and then the IIS default website stopped before bringing down the servers (for patching, maintenance or whatnot.) Rather than going through the servers one at a time, I decided to create a little script to automate the shutdown, reboot and starting of services for me. Seeing as these are Windows 2000 servers, and the services are non-Microsoft services, they tend to be picky. So I added in a do-while loop to keep attempting to start the services until the service.status equals running. It was a fun Thanksgiving self made project that I’m sure no one will use but was a lot of fun to get working.