sometimes things take a bit longer, like create a raid6 system over 16 harddrives 1TB with software raid...

Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md2 : active raid6 sdp[12](S) sdo[13](S) sdn[11] sdm[10] sdl[9] sdk[8] sdj[7] sdi[6] sdh[5] sdg[4] sdf[3] sde[2] sdd[1] sdc[0]
9765518720 blocks level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [12/12] [UUUUUUUUUUUU]
[>....................] resync = 0.1% (1393856/976551872) finish=25232.3min speed=643K/sec

25k minutes? I really hope the estimate is a bit off. Cause I'm not going to wait for 17 days after each test of the raid system...

getting up at 5.30 -> arg!
waiting for 30 minutes in the cold -> arg!
spending an awesome day in nappa -> awesome!

basically we had a wonderful winetasting event, thx to the metacancer team, in nappa. The wineries were sterling (Oh I love there pinot grigo and sauvignon blanc) and rubicon (to much red wines for my taste and the chadonay was to sour) Short I'm a white wine person, but it was interresting to taste the different kind of red wines.

And we finished the day with a nice dinner a buckhorn.

Now If I just had a reflector with me, I could had really make some stunning pictures. There was so beautiful light!

well today we went kayaking in sacramento river and had a nice bbq afterward. Short it was fun and fixie performed without any problems. It looks like the car is finally happy and running as it's supposed to.

Well if I get a visa, I guess it's time to get a roof rack for the snowboards and bikes...

after working for more than 10 years with sql based languages I discovered something new again. The case statement, which is pretty damn slow (table of a couple of million entries) but it saves me the time to work with some statistical software.

dinner for tonight?

cedar smoked lemon salmon with arugula salad.

short I love the wood planks I got for my BBQ and going to cook more often like this!

it's been quiete lately, which is mostly related to the fact that I discovered that Alexandre Dumas wrote a complete series about the adventures of D'Artangan.

And so I'm slowly fighting my way throw his books and love my ebook reader more and more and can't understand how I could live without it. I mean it's so great to lay at the pool and read gigantic novels in the sun, in such a tiny device.

done:

• the three musketeers

togo:

• 20 years later
• the man in the iron mask
• the vicomte de bragelonne
• 10 years later
  
• Loiuse de la Valliere

and that's just one author...

so all i can say if you like to read and like to read classic novel, get your self an ebook reader, but be prepared to go missing...

I just created a new blog, just to keep track to the stuff my passat does to me

It starts to get annoying. Now 'fixie' is leaking transmission oil.

Another 150$ for parts and 150$ for labor, cause there is no way I can do this my self. I actually have the tools by now and the procedure is not that complicated. But there is no way I can get the car of ground and it's going to be level.

So far this month:

300$ tools and power steering fluid
230$ parts for transmission and PCV system

Well I wanted to flush the transmission anyway.

while reading at the beach in montery and getting a nice sunburn I discovered a bird of prey. Most likely a buzzard or hawk. 60 Minutes later I finally captured it on chip...

a week now I was thinking about the perfect name for my car...

it was between jasmine and fixie.

Fixie it is! Since it developed a power steering fluid leak now and another leak, which leaks very very slowly a fluid I just can't diagnose....

Work done in the last two days:

• changed the light bulb
• stripped a screw, found a way to get it off and bought a new screw
• flushed the power steering fluid

it really starts to get expensive...

But at least now I can reset the check engine light my self and diagnose it my self. Yes I bought a code reader...

sure a week after I finally bought an eBook reader amazon announces the new kindle DX, which has the large display I wanted...

...but 500$? are you kidding me...

while browsing a toy store I found something which would be perfect for fabs...

Well the last 3 days were spent with ashley at her grand mothers house in carmel and now she is out for a conference and I'm driving down the highway 1 and chasing surfers in the hope to get a nice surf picture.

Current problem, they are all way to far out and I don't have enough reach and it's raining nonstop.

Well at least some pictures of waves and the beach we took...