...But it's still not over. We had a very brief power outage yesterday morning. I suspect that it was actually a brownout more than anything, but my logging isn't that verbose. The UPS fell to battery 06:20:40 and power was back by 06:20:43. One of the machines here isn't on the UPS (the webserver cum other-bits-and-bobs box, router, AP and switch is, the file server wasn't), so I took the opportunity to move that machine over to the UPS (I can't think why I'd not done so before). I've also took a lot of time to generally tidy stuff up on the two servers here, and the one in Leicester. I've upgraded the kernel on the fileserver. It didn't need it from a security point of view as it was only one minor revision out from the current Debian stable version, but I needed to add a few things that had been bugging me for a while. I've also tidied some of the startup scripts up on the machines, as well.
ntpdate has been checked and installed on all of the machines, as well as normalising the MRTG output from them. All in all, cleaning up and making things a bit nicer.
The same kernel upgrade as I did to the fileserver will need to be done to the other box here at some point soon - although I'm not in any great rush to do that at the moment. Whilst the reasons I performed the upgrade on the fileserver would be useful on the other machine, they're certainly not essential. They're merely performance enhancement, which, being as that box is far more powerful than the fileserver, isn't a requirement at the moment.

Sioned has spent a lot of time at the hospital over the weekend visiting her Mum, hence me having so much time to do the above. This has been useful in some ways, as it's meant I can work in the office unhindered for as long as I've needed to.

This morning I was woken up early by the phone ringing. I vaguely remember it being before 0800. On a Sunday morning. That time shouldn't exist unless it involves lots of money. One of Sioned's friends had a baby at some ridiculous time this morning. Sioned - being a woman, was overjoyed with this. I, being a man, managed to get back to sleep pretty quickly and stayed in this state until just before 11, before getting up and watching the Chinese Grand Prix which I'd Sky+'d from the live output earlier in the morning.
Crickey. What a race. What a changing track. MSchu really is going to go out in style if he pulls banzai runs like that in the next two races. It's going to be close.

I'm hoping that the week ahead is going to pretty quiet. I've still got a lot of stuff on my plate which I need to get out of the way quickly. I reckon I should be able to clear a lot of that by the middle of Tuesday, with perhaps a couple of small bits falling into later-on-Tuesday. Beyond that, I think things will start to get back to normal and my head will be back above water.