Too Much Like Work

For the second time since I started this new job, I have had to use muscles I haven't had to use in quite some time. The first time was cleaning out a data center that basically looked like my teenager's room. The term storage room I believe was associated to the same location as the heartbeat of the company's business.

So, the first Sunday on the job, I went in with a dolly, some large cable cutters, and some small hand tools and gutted the data center of everything that wasn't suppose to be there. Add to this moving the boxes of crap and the miles of cable, and I had a better workout than Chuck Norris does in his infomercial. I moved everything to the new conference room storage room.

After leaving, I had a nice clean data center. I was so proud and tired.

The following day was when I actually realized that the servers were a tad bit heavy. My legs were like Popeye's arms. I felt like I had been riding bareback on a horse for a 1000 miles and my legs were stuck...apart.

Today, it happened again. One of my antique servers failed and important spam email telling me how to increase my metabolism was backing up by the minute. After minutes of troubleshooting, I grabbed the other antique server and headed to the other data center. Of course it wasn't the data center I had cleaned, it had to be the other teenager's room.

Arriving at the data center, we figured it was simply pulling out bad memory and replacing it with good. So after lifting the 150 pound server up and down from the rack about eight times replacing parts and pieces, I ended up swapping the entire box out for another.

As I sit here in my new office with my comfy chair, I am realizing that walking may be an issue. The thought of going out to my truck is actually not even appealing to me. I am sure the pizza delivery guy would be glad to bring me pizza...the bathroom may be an issue. No toilet paper here. Mental note: bring toilet paper to the office.

This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). If you want to get your strength training in, clean your teenager's room. You may want to put on full radiation suit first though.

Did you know...

A compact fluorescent bulb has electromagnetic field strength within one inch of the bulb is 100mW/cm2. The safe exposure limit for ELF AC from high tension power lines has been set at 100mW/cm2 by IEEE for thermally induced cell damage. Exposure to AC fields much below this limit may cause non-thermal cell damage or immune disfunction.

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