| September 30, 2007 | | | | | Feedback | | | Recipe Calendar | | | Archives |
Some scenes from the construction zone. The screen porch is almost framed out. I specified that we wanted screen doors that would slam good.  The leach field installation involved heavy equipment moving lots of dirt to install fancy plastic infiltrators covered with geotextile into which perforated pipe drained. First we got a licensed site inspector to design the system, then had two trees taken down, then found a well-recommended local contractor, got a plumbing permit from the Town Office, had the plumbing inspector out to check the siting. The level of inspection varies from town to town. With some towns it's a one shot deal. Our inspector came out at least 6 times. We had the contractor put aside some big rocks from the dig and I helped Melissa put them into the rock wall, which is why I'm writing this in bed on Tuesday waiting for a muscle pull to feel better.
I had to limp into work yesterday because the national survey I've been working on finally finished and we had to shut it down. It ran on a cluster of servers at a small server farm that has generator back up and multiple high bandwidth connections. We will be moving another application onto that cluster and it will be the external face (Apache/Tomcat/MySql) of a system that involves a set of independent servers (not a cluster) each running an Oracle database and each communicating independently with the external system and with a data warehouse. A fancy three part architecture with group to cluster chitchat.
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