Well, right now, I’m sitting in a very comfortable room in the Hampton Inn in Odessa. I’ll be spending the night here, and heading back to Houston tomorrow evening. I must say, though, that Midland/Odessa isn’t really as bad as I had thought it would be. Granted, it’s still more or less the middle of nowhere (especially at the location where I’m doing my work), but it’s definitely a bigger city than Rock Springs, WY is. It’s a good thing I scheduled to be out for two days, as well… granted, a week would have been better time, but I think I can get this location more or less functional by the time I leave tomorrow. About the worst that’s happened is that I ripped my shirt on a chain-link fence by accident. That in itself annoys the living hell out of me, as this shirt (my tan long-sleeved shirt with the company logo above the breast pocket) is one of my favorite shirts.

Frost’s hard drive had another seizure overnight, and I can’t log into it remotely again. It’s still operating its DNS services with no issues (likely because all the information its hosting is loaded into memory), but obviously I can’t manage the machine. I’ve not been able to snag a replacement hard drive for it yet, so what I’ve decided to do is replace it with a new machine this weekend. I have one machine available that I can spare as a DNS server; I’ll rebuild it this weekend and put it in Frost’s place, then retire Frost. Ah, well… such is life, really.

Anyway… should go get a drink and consider going to bed early. I’m tired and need sleep. Oh, well…