One of my friends from church is an instructor at a local technical college and had asked about bringing a few students to our datacenter so they could see our rack and I could explain to them about our business and the technology we use.  I told him that wouldn't be a problem and took it a step futher and arranged a full fledged tour of the entire datacenter.  Hosted Solutions, where we house our servers, was kind enough to take us behind the scenes to see everything.   I have to admit...since I worked for Penn State in the server room, I'd already pretty much seen everything before, but it was fun none-the-less.  What I enjoyed the most was seeing the interface left behind by the three OC-3 providers.  This datacenter has nearly 455Mbit worth of bandwidth...which is nearly 130 times your average cable modem...it's really impressive.  Not to mention thier NetApp (Network appliance, est. $250,000) that we'll be plugging into soon enough.  Anyway, it's was quite fun and I even learned a bit. 

On the homefront, we started packing yesterday.  I know it's a little early, but we've got a ton of stuff and we're just boxing up the things that we NEVER use.  Like books, bills from years past, clothes that are no longer in season, we'll start emptying out the kitchen cabinets of the stuff we use the least.  Just trying to get it all down to a manageable amount of clutter I don't know where we'll put it all though as we have so much...it seems like we do nothing more then move a pile from one place to the next and don't actually open up any room. 

I hope Joni doesn't read this until tonight sometime...  We normally go to see the house on Monday's and Thursday's now, but Joni has a "girls night out" tomorrow so she won't be able to see it.  I'm gonna surprise her tonight by taking her to the house to see if the drywall is in!  wouldn't that be great!  So darling, DON'T READ THS!!