Thin provisioning is sought after by management to lower storage costs.

What's going to happen on that one bad day, that very, very bad day?

Just think about the possibilities............

Let's say you have a 80TB disk array, thin provisioned, de-duped, and allocated at 120TB out to your host systems, VMWare, VDI desktops, etc......

A new virus hits the network, that fills up hard drives with random data, that defeats the de-duping. At the same time your IDS databases start growing because the the increased traffic, log files expand, call center volume spikes.

At the same time something hits Active Directory, and pounds all of the userids through all of your hosts, which, because of your security policy, get locked out after three attempts, so no one can log in to see what's happening, let alone try to do anything about it, and using a standalone system won't help because all of your routers have ACL's and there are firewalls everywhere preventing you from using a non pre-determined paths an hosts into equipment.

That could never happen, could it?

Everything's always setup for the best day, instead of mitigating and planning for the worst.

What's the worst thing that could happen?

Yeah, that's what happens........

Today I had my six month checkup.

Healing has been great, my vision is great, everything is great.

I am not taking any ongoing medication or drops.

Occasional dryness is the only thing I have, but so do people that have not had surgery.

The lack of glasses has caused me to discover sunglasses and to use safety glasses more often than not.

I am now 20/15 at my last checkup.

I have minimal dryness, still taking the Restasis drops until my prescription runs out.

Besides the 'phantom' glasses that I still sometimes think I should have, there are no real issues post-surgery.

I can jump in the pool, walk through the rain, go into or out of a building where there is a temperature difference, get on my motorcycle and throw the helmet on, all without 'dealing' with glasses.

I have found no downside to the surgery, and based on my experience, recommend it and the office of Dr. Lance Kugler at Laservision Correction.

If you are thinking about PRK/Lasik, do the research, find a doctor that seems excited about what he/she is doing.

I wish I had done it sooner.

At the one month mark, I am down to two sets of drops per day, along with artificial tears for dryness.

Not too much to complain about, my vision is not as good as it should get, but I am fully functional in most settings.

It is very strange to look at something very close, and not be able to read the text. I have am in a state of not being nearsighted, nor having the distance vision I had with glasses.

I can read the text on signs in the distance, but they are not as clear yet as they used to be with glasses.

There is a point when I put in eyedrops, where everything is extremely clear, until they disippate.

At times I feel like I should pull down on my contacts to clear them, but I am not wearing contacts, so that would be a bad thing to do to my eye.

I also have a phantom limb feeling that I should be removing my glasses during certain activities, such as reaching up to take off my glasses to blow my nose, and they are not there.

All in all, things are going very well so far..............

Day 1 after surgery, extreme dizziness and nausea on the ride to the followup appointment.

It is hard to say what was the cause, or if it was a combination of a Percocet and my meniers-like affliction that I have, and sleeping on my back. The car ride was like a rollercoaster inside my head. Cold sweat, clammy skin. That was the last Percocet I ingested, and haven't felt that way again.

The appointment was quick, and the rest of the day went by without incident. Sleeping alot, but generally no pain.

Day 2-3 were progressively annoying from having the bandage contacts in, making my eyes feel irritated a little bit, and causing lights to have a 3-d effect with every one having a spider web effect projecting out from them. A few lights were interesting, but too many were disorienting.

Day 4 brought another follow up appointment, with the best part being the removal of the bandage contacts. A little bit of pain in my right eye, but nothing too bad.

Day 5-6 are mostly comfortable, following the regimen of drops, and seeing clearly when the drops are applied. Kind of like waxing your car to smooth out the surface and bring up the shine.