Pug’s Place

Today was my final final final exam. So ends my Master’s degree. The exam this morning at 7:30 am was in Computer Architecture Principles and despite (and because of) my paranoia I feel I did very well. No trouble, no stumping questions. My other courses went similarly trouble-free when they wrapped up last week. I’ve no doubt that when I check my degree certification on Monday night that it will say, “Master of Liberal Science awarded.”

The schedule is set for United Van Lines to pack and pick up all of my things here Monday morning, then to have my car picked up the first week of January followed by me flying out to Phoenix on a one-way ticket to move. It’s really going to happen now.

I wrapped up things at the office and have deployed a high availability Asterisk cluster using a distributed RAID array (DRBD, the Distributed Replicated Block Device) and a nifty failover-management bash script I carefully designed. We decided not to use Heartbeat due to the extra complexity it causes in routine maintenance. I wrote up a bunch of documentation and gave a bunch of pointers to my replacement.

Tomorrow afternoon I put on my robe and wizard hat, errm, hood, and walk across a stage to get a roll of paper and say “I done graduated!” Oh, and as is shown on the right, I now have a Student Pilot Certificate, so you can bet I’ll be hopping into a cockpit in January!