Posts Tagged ‘Mondays’

Monday morning dullness.

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Monday morning once again. I’m looking over my task list for the week, and discovering that some of the things I needed to get done last week have sort of bled over into this one. I can’t seem to find my 06 tax returns, I’ve forgotten to mail my GST remittances, and so on.

I feel rather disorganized.

I suppose it’s not the end of the world. I’m far more organized these days than I was 6 months ago. I sorta feel like I’ve been slowly climbing out of a big giant hole.

Still, Monday mornings suck. I always end up feeling like Sysyphus looking up at that boulder, realizing that I’ve gotta start pushing it up that hill again.

I suppose that I rather like painting and working on tunes, because at the end of the day I can look back and actually see something I did. Unlike tech work, which pretty much means that I look back and see pretty much what I saw at the start of the day.

I guess I gotta find some time tonight to look for tax returns, and get some mail out the door after work. Also, now that they gym is paid off, I think I’ll get my butt out there tonight. ‘s been a while.

Oh, reminds me…. I gotta charge the iPod.

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Another monday morning hacker attack

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Goddamn monday mornings suck lately.

Couldn’t get to sleep until 5:30 am – tossing and turning. 6 am I get a call for emergency. Same as last fucking monday, and the monday before, and the monday before… DDOS attack on apache. Of course, it’s still running, and the CPU usage is trivial, and all other services are running, and it returns requests eventually… So the crap monitoring service didn’t detect anything wrong…. So on a 1/2 hour of sleep, I’m trying to trace down the fucking origin IPs and block all of them, their ISPs and their friends ISPs… all the while customers are phoning me and yelling… God I hate mondays.

I have no idea why we’ve become a weekly target. The pattern suggests that someone is trying to fuck with one of our customers, but to what end I have no fucking idea. All I know for sure is that once or twice a week some fucker floods port 80 with junk from a few dozen new IPs, which I have to track down and block, and then spend the rest of my day doing due dilligence and filing complaints with unresponsive ISPs overseas who frankly just don’t give a fuck.

Now if I was just able to block all traffic from certain countries… Sadly, we have customers who work with reps in those countries, and thanks to DHCP and the universal presence of poorly secured windo$e computers…

There really is fuck all I can do but take the punch inna nuts first, block it and wait until it starts up again.

*sigh*

Explaining this stuff to a customer and how there is no magic bullet you can use to solve the problem is pointless. They just don’t get it, and even if they did, they just don’t care.

Not a lotta fun on an 1/2 hour of sleep lemme tell ya.

Man, I gotta find a way to get more sleep on Sunday nights. Nothing seems to work though. Sleeping pills, warm milk, regulated bed times, health supplements…. Maybe eating a whole turkey every Sunday….

Blarg. Maybe I can play hookey for an hour this afternoon and get a nap.

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