What did you do this week (and weekend)?

I own a first generation Toyota Tacoma, 2004 model. These are rugged little trucks, known for their durability, but they have two flaws that need to be addressed by their owners. The first is that they are vulnerable to road salt and the frames will rust out. I live in Texas, so this isn't an issue for me. The second issue is the design of the lower ball joints. They are prone to catastrophic failure when they reach a certain amount of wear, and most people recommend changing them when the truck hits 200,000 miles.
My truck has 219,000, so it was time to get to work. By the way, never, ever use anything but genuine Toyota parts for this particular job.

I bought a couple of tools, the parts and set to work on Wednesday morning. I've changed lower ball joints before, in a Chevy, and it was hell on earth. Working on the Toyota was so simple, it doesn't even compare. No rust anywhere, so the job went smoothly. It still took three hours, but time well spent.

Not sure how much I saved doing it myself, but probably $800 to $1000.

I've been chasing my newfound goals. It's been so long since I have had the chance to chase something that I'm going overboard with it, though I've slowed it a bit down after my therapist told me I'll burn out at this rate.

I'm making good progress on saving up money, handling adminstrative tasks, doing good at work, going to the gym regularly. But I am very mentally exhausted, and I can't seem to find a way to relax. And that's going to bite me soon. But I can't complain, I've not felt so alive in a while.

As for hobbies, unless they're progress, I've not been able to commit to them. But I did manage to set up a Bluetooth bathroom scale to work with my Home Assistant server to track my weight easier. It... was a bad idea as it tracks EVERY measurement and the scale's first few readings are always wrong, so I'm still tracking it manually. I did buy a 200mm lens for my old DSLR I want to use, and also bought a gift for my best friend... whose birthday I forgot is actually next month, not this month. Whoops.

Our MS SQL server fell over and became unrecoverable yesterday morning. This server has the databases that support the ERP for a several millions of dollars company (we're part of a much larger corporate entity, but we operate mostly on our own with minor corporate IT support) and I'm the main resource responsible for the server.

I've gone through several stages of panic the past 48 hours, especially because it happened when I did a completely routine restart on the server. I did everything by the book - it's a procedure I've done a dozen times over the past two years and it's never given us a problem. Until yesterday. When the machine restarted, half of the DBs on the server (including our production DB) were marked as Suspect. If you don't know anything about MS SQL server, that basically means it's corrupted and was locked automatically to prevent further loss of data.

Naturally, we have backups. But for some insane reason we were only generating nightly backups, which means we lost nearly 5 hours of transactional data. Sales orders, POs, Invoices, inventory receipts, all up in smoke.

It's been a stressful two days. Fortunately, my boss is an absolute fucking rockstar and he immediately jumped in to support. He coordinated half hour updates with all the stakeholders, took point in every meeting, and built an awesome slide deck for the post mortem. At the end of the day we mitigated 90% of the impact, and the rest will be recovered by Monday. Finally I can decompress, just in time to enjoy the weekend. Looking forward to catching up on lost sleep.