I'm almost done with Thomas Covenant (well, the first chronicles, at any rate---I've rarely come across anyone who liked the second), and have a recommendation for Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, so I may try to pick that up soon.
Fileserver Upgrade
The upgrade over the weekend seems to have gone well---apart from restoring the wrong share to the new disks, and losing a few LDAP changes (no users lost! Whew!) everything appears to have gone well. There are only two hosts on the network that aren't Debian potato or woody installations now.