Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Late Night Maintenance

When you work with servers, you'll have those day . . . er . . . I mean, nights, where you'll have to work into the wee hours of the morning.

On one hand, I enjoy it. I'm a night owl by nature. I love staying up until 4:00 AM -- just so long as you let me sleep in until noon.

No matter how sleepy I feel, I seem to get a high around 4:00 AM or so. I'm not sure why. I just like the night air, I guess.

But, I cannot go to bed at 9:00 PM and wake up at 4:00 AM a happy person.

I don't know why, exactly.

Nor can I stay up until 4:00 AM and wake up at 6:00 AM refreshed.
Nah, I'll wake up more like pissed.

So, I'm having one of those moments where I'm waiting on some data to copy over from one server to another at 4:32 AM. I've been up since 7:00 AM yesterday and I plan to catch up on some sleep once I'm done with this maintenance job. I have to do this at a bizarre time so that customers won't be impacted too much during the day.

I wish I could keep this sort of schedule all the time, but alas, I appear to be stuck in the 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM world-- the world of the dreaded "morning people".

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