T O T K a t

I drew up a timetable of stuff that needed to be done to finish the house. OK, so I missed a few things, but we're on target so far. This last weekend we emptied the study, filtered through the stuff and took a buttload of stuff to the tip, and prepared the window frame and skirting boards in the study for glossing.

Next weekend is a painty weekend. And the cool thing is that I think I'll get away with only having had to buy white paint for the ceiling. There is a load of magnolia left from a while ago that can go on the walls and there's gloss still and most likely enough radiator paint.

This whole selling the house thing... it's starting to become real. It's scary and exciting.

J started off and did most of the work for me, but I've now got loads of up-to-date channel logos on TiVo. They do look rather good. (Assets and info on "how to" here.)

We're almost done!

I painted the study at the weekend while J (the sweetie) did mostly the really really horrid, unpleasant, hard graft jobs like getting the paint and plaster off the extension floor. We finished a couple of other things like painting the porch window frame and a couple of radiators and we're practically done now. There are a couple of phone points that need screwing into place and I need to get the hall, stairs and lounge re-carpeted (but all I have to do is pick a carpet and pay the people, no actual work required). Once that's done, it's done!

Hopefully a few people will be coming around for dinner to see the place who remember what it was like before all of the work was done. I could do with a little bit of "crikey, it's so much nicer now!" from
someone other than J.

We're a little bit closer to getting a house together now. Woo!

Everything is pretty much done now. J fixed phone points to walls while I moved furniture and computers back into the study. We then had great fun fighting with the Airport Express and getting it onto my slightly changed wireless network since it was last working. Apple hardware is supposed to "Just Work", but in this case... it took a lot of swearing and resetting and a bit more swearing for good measure.

And the carpet man is coming to measure up soon, so the house will be totally transformed compared with just over a year ago.

Now we have a tiny bit of touching up to do on J's flat...

Yesterday afternoon, the carpet man came, measured, took my money and went. Carpet is ordered and should arrive in a couple of weeks, install date to be set when it arrives. *bounce* 3-4 weeks to go to new carpet and finished house! (Though I realise that there's one bit of spare room I forgot about, the border. That's a quick job but it requires two people as it is up so high.)

Mmm, lovely weekend away. Lots of sloth and champagne.

Feeling warm, fuzzy and yummy. Not bad for a Monday morning.

I have graphs. OK, some of them are a little meaningless because of the axes, e.g. pgsql vs time, but most are useful. I'm really rather pleased this works without the need for PHP and/or rrdtool.

I installed perfparse for Nagios. It wasn't totally trivial, mostly due to the fact that developers of open source/free software rarely test on commercial unix. Often they just don't get the chance, but it can mean that there are annoyances which could be avoided had they been able to.

Tomorrow there will be graphs, now that the perf data is piping to the database. Shame that the CSS isn't awfully pretty under Firefox. Background images not re-sizing properly etc., but I'm not that bothered by that. And tomorrow, I get to build the whole lot from bare, unpartitioned disks with no OS, upgrade the existing Nagios from 1.3 to 2.0 and make the pair redundant. Sheer bliss.

Again, I say I must update my documentation. It isn't great and it's a bit out of date. I need to extend it for Nagios 2.0 even though it's still in beta. Adding info on perfparse may not be a bad idea either.