Ooof, I’m sorry… I’ve been watching the pain in the sysadmin reddit board and I feel for all you guys.
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Thankfully, none of our production systems went down. Getting MFA to work so we could log into the Azure portal was hit or miss all day but the systems themselves stayed up for us. My wife got woken up and called in to a meeting at 4am our time over the Crowdstrike thing.
Used to be. It’s a lot less fun now than 25 years ago when we were computer wizards doing MacGuyver stuff to keep our servers running.
The foosball tables went away in the 90s
We had a PS3 and Rock Band in our office in 2008ish. Granted… this was deployed overseas to a war zone. We kept it back in a storage area and whoever wanted to could use it in their off time.
Lol welp bruising up today, looks like an actual bicep or connective tissue injury, not a cramp. Looks like I went too hard working out.
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Howard trying going beast mode 
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Howard paying for ignoring the fact he is getting old 
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I know that feeling all too well believe me.
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I do that all the time. Keep forgetting I’m no longer in my 20s (30s, 40s, 50s). Particularly when I’m out for the winter season in the Alps 
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well the good news is I don’t need surgery.
The bad news is it looks like an old injury inside my bicep ripped open, bleeding a lot and creating this big bag of blood in the muscle, which then became something like compartment syndrome (it wasn’t CS - just similar pain apparently), and then ruptured the muscle. This explains the intense pain when that happened.
So I am looking at ~4-8 weeks of conservative treatment with a sling and RICE. No bass for me for a bit. No upper body workouts for much longer.
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Well at least you know what it is and it appears to be treatable. But still a major drag. Hope all goes well!
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Wishing you a speedy recovery @howard !
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Ouch Sorry to hear that Howard. This getting old stuff sucks…
Hope it heals up quickly.
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Get well soon @howard - maybe check out some physio in your area?
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Yeah will probs need to to regain full motion.
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Get well soon howard!
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Also woke up to that… fortunately 99% of the systems I have under me are Linux / Solaris and I skimmed through the problem with only a couple of servers needing a kick.
Apart from that… eating popcorns and reading all day while in meetings(I had said multiple times that we(Internal Applicational teams) need to control application patching, not third party vendors… and this is why).
Yeah… r/sysadmin, has been painful to read… there are people still going through systems, also makes me cringe at the lack of ILOMs on certain systems… and little to no access to CLI in said systems.
Oooff…
What the hell man… just behave for a while and rest up. Even when you come back start slow. I decided to be an eedjt when I removed my cast, thinking I could come back to play very fast… yeah… hand swollen for two days. Rest up… physio and restart slowly!
Hope you have a nice recovery!
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I work in Healthcare and most of our systems are biomed systems in some fashion, so they are rarely current on OS (as that would require re-certification with the CDC) and we have little say in them. So it was hit or miss, and add in the fact that most are critical it was stressful. For example, the blood bank system was down for a bit. Just another day in paradise.
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