The Music Blog of the Infonistacrat!

Alright, as the title suggests, this post is made of songs that, having read my blog and seen my tastes in music, you might be surprised to find I like. Crazy as it may seem, everything here, at one time or another, was a song I really liked a lot. Some because they remind me of special places, people and things in my life. Some, just because I like the songs. So, you can see what I listen to when I don’t listen to my normal playlists.

Now, as far as what I have been up to this week. As a profession, I’m an infrastructure architect, which means I design and build the environments that companies run their IT systems on. The infrastructure I build is a lot more complex that normal environments…in fact, this one I am here to build now is extremly complex. I have an older mainframe, a 3745 front end process, which I have to integrate with an HP Tandem, and several start of the art Power 6 AIX servers. Add on the storage systems, the tape systems for back up and recovery. Plus, I am building a pretty world class VMWare environment, complete with a separate VMotion infrastructure. Simply put, I have about 10 million dollars in cutting edge servers I am building and integrating. Well, i don’t do the work…I am the lead architect for the project.

So, this week, I’m here to make sure that everything gets put in the proper racks, all my cables get run like I designed it, as well as all mir fiber optics. Long story short, I am slowly going insane, managing things to a detail that kinda freaks me out a little bit. Complicating things even more is that I originally had 5 weeks to build and test everything…but the customer changed their minds, and decided that two works would be more than enough time, and the powers to be agreed. So here I sit, busting my ass for 2 weeks, working 16 - 18 hour days. And believe it or not, we are going to be very close to getting it all done! Go figure. So enjoy the tunes…and if I miss another post, please know that it’s because I am slowly going insane! Enjoy!

1. ELO - Strange Magic
2. Boston - More Than A Feeling
3. Steve Miller Band - The Joker
4. The Allman Brothers Band - Melissa
5. Led Zepplin - That’s The Way
6. Dr. Hook - The Cover Of The Rolling Stones
7. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
8. Lynard Skynard - Simple Man
9. Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
10. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone