Posted 9:51 AM by Unknown

The Making of the American Sense. By Daniel Howe. I would like to find and read this book.

Posted 9:40 AM by Unknown

Experiencing Chicago for the very first time. "The Taste" as my friend Chris Tooley puts it. The Taste of Chicago. It was a perfect opportunity to enjoy foods from a large group of medium quality restaurants. Now I did have a nice piece of Cheesecake goodness from Eli's Cheesecake that was memorable. A fine piece of chocolate-dipped, chocolate cheesecake.

The next step was Equinix. We spent four hours unloading servers and parts. We found ourselves without several small, but key elements of racking the servers. Of course, the workers at the data facility made it impossible to get anything done due to their requirement of a service ticket for each step in the process.

Equinix required one service ticket to run a cross-connect between us and a service provider. But connecting the cross-connect to the known port on the provider net required a separate ticket.

Now, the service provider instigated the ticket., gave the port number and all of the information necessary to establish the cross-connect. That just isn't enough. So now we are waiting for that to be completed.

We spent four hours in the data center. From 10:30PM to 2:30AM. We didn't return to the hotel until 3:00 AM. I didn't wake up until 8:30 this morning. Now I am twiddling my thumbs waiting for the moment at which we are prepared to leave. Chris is busy typing a discussion with work colleagues and filing an expense report. After that, I hope we are going to find some breakfast.