I am a Geophysicist. That means absolutely nothing except for that I most closely resemble a project manager who gets to test their project in addition to manage their project. I generally enjoy my job. It's fun, to me, to keep track of where everything is. And it's also fun, to me, to test the parameters that give the best result. My "product" is a cross section of the planet. And it's especially fun, to me, to see cross sections of the Earth that are so far down in the ocean that "man" will probably never see it "for real". By 'cross section' I mean image. And by 'so far down' I mean 60,000 (yes, sixty thousand) FEET into the earth - at a water depth of 5000 feet or more. Sometimes the water depth is only 500 feet. Sometimes it's 8000 feet. But suffice it to say, it's a water depth deeper than we can dive to outside of a manned submersible. And manned submersibles are not cheap - nor will they get you INTO the Earth.

Anywho, that's a little bit about what I do.

I'm in the middle of a project right now that is fun stuff to me. And last Friday my project went from the testing stage to the production stage. Not a problem - production can run over the weekend and we should be in a good place on Monday morning.

Before I submitted production, I checked how much disk space I would require for my data. A mere 22.4 TERRA bytes. That's all.

This is a small-ish dataset.

Terra bytes. Funny to be calling something small that is in the realm of multiple terra bytes.

I have a profound respect for how far computers have come in the last twenty years...my job without disk space is impossible - and people used to do it.

I had 44.5 TERRA bytes available. So with what I had available and what I needed - I was golden.

I checked Friday morning. I submitted Friday afternoon.

I came in on Saturday to check the status of my production. All was fine.

I came in this morning and my disk space was gone.

The bad thing about disk space disappearing like this and me not knowing it because I checked a few hours before I submitted is that it shuts other people down, too. My jobs cannot finish because they cannot write out the datasets. And no one else's can, either.

So when people realized they were dead in the water, well, it turned into a bad morning pretty quickly.

And I was all excited about today. I have my psych consult testing stuff this afternoon. I don't know why a psych consult would have me excited but it feels like forward progress and I LIKE that!

The interesting thing to me is that days like this make me LESS likely to eat. Even more interesting - so long as the day turns out positive (which so far it seems to be), I LIKE days like this. Status quo day in and day out is BORING!

And to make it even funnier - because I did something "wrong", I get to file a report on myself. And that report turns into a bonus. ODD!

So yay for Mondays! (?)

LOL...Happy Monday! Fascinating work...my Geologist DH would appreciate it! It's good to be doing something that's not boring!! -BG

I'm an environmental consultant specialising in contaminant hydrogeology, or at least I'm trying to be, depends on how the day at work goes. I know well those data sets are memory hogs. I'm surprised your IT department doesn't have allotted space to run those pesky runs.

If it makes you feel any better, my product is toxic dirt. One away from syphillis on the list of things that people want.