Working in the data center with trance playing through headphones is like not being in the data center at all.

After dropping Suzy off at Red Emma's for her 11:00 shift, I spent a few minutes on their couch checking for any forgotten data on the server I was about to wipe.

I arrived at the datacenter a little before 12:00, negotiated with the friendly security guard to keep my parking space behind the facility instead of moving out to the street, and headed up.

Everything went off without a hitch. The KVM worked great, my laptop was pumping out the streaming tunes the whole time.

I only had a single false start when I clicked upgrade instead of clean install, the installer mounted the existing filesystem on the drive and then refused to let me back out of that process without a full reboot. Probably the safest thing to do in that situation, but it set me back about four minutes.

After that it was just a matter of selecting nearly everything that could possibly be used in application development in the next 3 years and watching them fly by as I read e-mail and swapped discs.

Finished up around 13:30. It was about 45 minutes longer than I had hoped, but not nearly as long as it could have been, and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening reading up on Subversion, playing around with various repositories, and moving my code from a few other machines to the central location.

Things are really starting to come together nicely.

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