Starting on Monday my new schedule will officially kick in: from 3pm to 11:30pm. Well really that last half hour can vary depending on the length of my lunch. If I could skip lunch I would but it’s some kind of labor requirement.
Anyway I probably already went on about this but I am hoping to be able to go to bed as soon as I get home around 12:30am so I can get a semi-normal amount of sleep and have a semi normal day leading up to being at work at 3pm. I don’t know how my sleep and eating schedules are really going to react to this bizarreness. But that’s the theory. So I’m kind of looking forward to it. I guess I’ll get up at 9:30 or whatever in the morning, have a normal breakfast, have lunch at 12 or 1:00 or whatever, go to work, have dinner at a normal 7pm and then when I get home go straight to bed having already had dinner. Right? I don’t know why I’m fretting over this so much it just seems like I am. I just have to wait and see that’s all. Just have to wait and see.
I’m hoping it does work out because at least I can, again in theory, do things like go on jogs or walks or whatever every day or nearly every day. I can study. I can do lots of stuff since all my outside work time will be weighted on the before work on end instead of the after work end like now.
Okay. Moving on. I still haven’t set up any kind of new server with a virtual WHS or anything. Part of me wants to some how transition all my current data on the WHS to the storage oft he virtual WHS but in a VM on the WHS. I doubt that made sense. Lemme try again.
Create a new virtualbox VM, install WHS, get everything patched up and whatever. Okay.
On the real WHS do a removal of one of the hard drives from the storage pool, I happen to have a 1TB drive with only 1% taken up apparently so it won’t be too hard, and start creating virtual hard drives for this new virtual WHS on that 1TB drive. Once several virtual drives are created and stored on the 1TB go back into the virtual WHS.
Create a storage pool out of these several virtual hard drives. So one big volume of virtual hard drives. Then start transferring some data over to the virtual WHS from the real WHS.
Now for some reason I’m kind of paranoid about one of these virtual disks getting corrupted some how in which case there goes all that data. It’s probably not really anything to be worried about. But anyway I was going to figure out some way of duplicating those files or whatever to try and make that less of an issue. Or I’ll just copy the data so it’s not so much an issue.
I also started to put together another project for my OS installs. It’s rather extensive and I think I’ve obsessed over it before but this time I’m going to try and go out of my way to take it one step at a time. For instance I was going to use “VistaPE” to do the OS installing. And I would write a batch file and script the DISKPART utility to auto-partition the drive then restore a WIM for the prep of the OS install. Something like that. So instead of getting distracted with the details of step 20 I’m going to just concentrate on VistaPE, figure out how to make it auto-launch a specific batch file, scripting DISKPART, restoring a WIM, etc.
This way, keeping focused on one task at a time, maybe I can make gradual progress toward finishing which is always better than no progress at all.