Tag: 16. Juni 2014

Soccer Soccer and more Soccer

Hey everyone,

today was a beautiful day. After my worktime I bought a few things for dinner, because I promised Paul that me and Jonas will do the dinner for today…german dinner of course.For the dinner I bought spareribs, potatos and onions. After that we went home to watch the Wolrd Cup game Germany versus Portugal. What a nice game i thought..4:0 for Germany. A very good start.

After the game was finished Jonas and me prepared the dinner. Dillons friend was visited us so we were six people. Afterwards the guys and I played soccer in the garden. Unfortunately the ball flew two times over the wall in the neighbours garden, but that has not stopped us..replacement ball 😉

Tomorrow we will go to a restaurant and eat Dublins famous chickenwings and watch other World Cup games. I am looking forward to it.

Yours George

Treasure Hunt and BBQ

Friday was System Dynamic’s treasure hunt and BBQ. The BBQ was actually not on board of the Jeanie Johnston as I had wrongly assumed but on the Cill Airne. That is also where our hunt for boo… bounty ended. We were very fast and had no real problems with solving all the riddles but unfortunately, some idiot ran his car into the entrance of Trinity College recently and so we had to split up because the clue we needed for the final puzzle was on one and the clue for the next stage on the other side of it.

That was where we lost a lot of time because the other part of my group decided that it would be best to just go further around Trinity College while Eamonn and I waited at the entrance we all came in from. After waiting for a minute, we decided to go around the corner where the others should have gotten the next clue already. It wasn’t even that far but our team mates were just nowhere to be found. We collected the clue and went to the next stage as fast as we could when one of the others called Eamonn to ask where they had to go. We told them to meet us at the next stage and also where that was. When we got there, we collected the next clues and soon after, the others arrived.

It was very humid that day and I was drenched and so was everyone else. All that was left to do was to take a grelfie (group-selfie) with the Oscar Wilde Statue in the background and then head back to the boat. We arrived about 2 Minutes after the leading team and solved the riddle but unfortunately for us, it’s not enough when a member of your team just yells it out to the committee, it had to be reenacted. How do you reenact a scene from Titanic when your clue reads “I’m the king of the world”? Exactly, you go to the front of the freaking boat and take a picture of the whole thing. We were farthest from the door at that point and after the answer was out, the other team stormed of. The game had been lost and we felt cheated because it actually didn’t say anywhere that we had to take a photo. We consider the game won even though we weren’t awarded anything.

We were all given a captain’s hat, a black paper wristband and 3 golden doubloons. The hat was for fun, the wristband gave us access to the barbecue and the doubloons were to buy any kind of drink at the bar. I used my first doubloon to buy a pint of Heineken and stayed with that until I got more doubloons later that evening. It was but then that I saw the bottle of Captain Morgan behind the barkeep and ordered a Capt’n Coke right away. I had two of those before Eamonn and I made our way to Connolly Station to get the bus.

At the end of the night I had over 30k steps on my pedometer and didn’t think that I would be able to do anything on the Saturday. Stay tuned to learn what I did on said Saturday despite the growing pain in my legs.

Cheers,
Angelo

Not much to say about my weekend

My weekend was kinda horrible. I went to Belfast on Friday again and we watched the football game Spain vs Netherlands. After that I got really ill and could not leave the couch for the hole weekend. I’m still not in my best shape now but it got better. So again I don’t have that much to write about but hope the last two weeks are nice and a good finish to my great experience here.

spontaneous data center visit

Last week Amit and I had to spontaneously visit the data center because one of our racks wasn’t accessible anymore and some services went down. We feared that the switch we completely filled with LAN connections last week went down due to overload. But as we went there we saw that the switch was ok and fully functional. We searched in the switch log for the problem and found out that the uplink port disconnects sometimes. The problem is we don’t know where the uplink is actually going. Then we got help from a employee of the data center and found out that the uplink goes in the switch from our other rack and after making a new cable connection to the other rack everything worked fine. The employee renewed the plugs because the cable goes 10 meters over many racks so we can’t just get a new one and we went back. But we still don’t trust the cable with malfunctions and we let it unused from now.

Damn cupboards

Hello everyone!

You know those days where you have some tasks to do which you really don’t want to do? Yeah I had one of those days. Tim, Max and I had to move some cupboards from the Lanyon building to the Lesley Exchange building and it was just a terrible pain in the arse. because the where so many problems. It sounded easy at first but some kind of god was mad at us and throw us some major horses in our way to hen block our path. Because of safety issues we first had to empty the cupboards and their were all full and there were like 4 of them, but before that the keys were missing to open them. Then the transport which was hard to navigate and there were always that one woman constantly asking if we are already done with our task. It took us two days to move them and at the second day we had to wait like two hours for the van before we could get even started.

Stupid cupboards!