Monday, 17 September 2007

In other news, it seems that two out of the four drives in the RAID-10 array for the SAN that provides all of the storage for my MythTV installation have decided to fail. I noticed that the array was acting a bit weird and there were a pile of errors reading from one drive yesterday, so I booted it out of the array.

This afternoon, I unplugged it, and was going through Seagate's online RMA procedure, when I noticed another drive had failed as well. Miraculously, it seems to have been the one drive that could fail without any data loss.

So I'm hoping the two remaining drives were in a different batch or something, otherwise I'm going to have a really bad time really soon.

Today was the day that Sarah was supposed to have an amniocentesis to determine if it was viable to deliver Joshua via caesarian section. Most probably he would have been born today. I should have become a father today.

Instead, last night we stayed at a lovely Bed and Breakfast near Half Moon Bay, and this morning on the clifftops near the Ritz, we released a balloon with a photo of him, and cried a little.

It's been a surreal couple of weeks. In some ways, it feels like it has dragged on forever, in other ways, it's hard to believe it has only been two weeks.

I'm going to go back to work tomorrow. Sarah's healing from the surgery well, and her Mum's here, so there's no real need for me to be at home, and I think work will provide a welcome distraction.

The support of all of our friends has been nothing short of amazing. We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful network of friends over here, which helps make up for the fact that our family is so far away.