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This morning, I was not impressed with being woken at 10am. It turned out, that despite the laws of chance and probability, another HP-UNIX workstation had failed at the paper mill in Trail, BC. Yesterday their primary workstation failed. It was replaced with the backup system. This morning, at 6am, the backup station failed. Luckily they had another workstation to use that seems to be working presently.

Anyway, one of my father's sub-ordinates was tasked to put together a replacement workstation to ship them immediately, and he hit a major problem. There were no 2 gigabyte SCSI drives to be found anywhere. My father called me, to ask what SCSI hardware I had. Waking me up at 10am during the holidays is not really recommended, esp. as I am currently taking my vacation from employment. I was not impressed. I grudgingly dragged myself out of bed, had a shower, and dug in my piles of old hardware to see what could be put together. I located a number of SCSI drives: 2x 1GiB, 1x 780MiB, 3x 520MiB. And an ancient Panasonic external SCSI CD-ROM drive. I took the bus to MetroTown to get picked up by my father there. He works in the industrial complex at the bottom of Boundry, where no busses go, except for 2 of them at 5pm and 6pm. Thusly, I was stuck there all afternoon, behind the extreme firewall in place there. I couldn't get out of it to do any productive work. Not even web browsing is allowed from inside. They ended up using the 1GiB drives and the 780MiB drive together with LVM (Logical Volume Management) to get a single large space area. I'll have to see what I can get out of them for giving them SCSI hard drives and CD-ROM.

Around 5.30pm, I managed to get a lift home with one of the other guys that was leaving. Since I didn't want to wait for my father to come home. (He normally gets home 8-9pm, but this evening he came home at 11pm).

I didn't get to the bank like I wanted to, nor get to ordering some new computer hardware from Fly Computers. However, I have managed to find a motherboard that will be suitable to repair galaxychild's computer. The first one I found wasn't right as it did not support MMX, but this other one does.