The Week of Heat!

So temps are forecasted for well well well over 100F this week – the LOW for the week looks to be 103F (low of the entire high temps) and I already have an office than is a raging inferno – so it should be a interesting week! :)

I am back to a point where I am trying to find a balance again – except where previously it was only 2 things (Personal life and Business) its now 3 things, Personal Life, Business, and Day-Job. There has been some growth on the hosting front,  not a ton, but I have also streamlined a few things, re-arranged some others, and upgrades galore – all pretty exciting really, more fun than the day job of insanity :) but I am trying to find a spot where there is balance, where I am not coming home exhausted, where I can pick up side work properly and not juggle it here and there – if I could wing the apartment properly without the need for the day job to pay off some debt, I’d be happy to do without it – but I dug a whole and thus I must deal with it.

This weekend do present with big heat in the area, thus a steady flow of sleeping! (yay) but even now I am approaching 1am, and I think its quickly nearing time to hit the sack and be ready for the day tomorrow – but just a lot on the ol brain at the moment – seems as old times everyone goes to sleep before me, leaving me with my thoughts, sadly that never was probably a good idea in the first place – but just my finances, my living situation, my faith, my family, etc. etc. etc. just the usual things that my brain ponders at 100mph each direction, but working to organize a few things, and just fit some others into the equation – all part of the balancing act I suppose.

Anywhoo – a big week ahead, and I think I am going to follow that with Friday heading towards the coast, if my brother isn’t able to accommodate room and board, may snag a hotel and venture up towards Amy, Nate, and Katie’s neck of the woods and share a meal out or something – who knows, being the wild man that I am ;) lol but prayers are appreciated, lot to do this week and a lot going on in my brain, so any and all are appreciated. For now I wish you a happy week, stay cool!

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June 29, 2009 by Chuck Brown in General
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So this is my life…. I think. Might be that guy’s ->

It has been a whirlwind of a week. Sinuses galore keeping me up all hours of the night, exhaustion kicking in finally, server work, client work, day job, and it all hit today with finding out my new wobble in my car’s steering was its front drivers side tire literally splitting apart, as my dad sad if I had kept driving on it not wondering where this new wobble came from, it may of blown out on me, crazy stuff! So I say 2x PTL for urging my heart to stay home today and rest, as in doing so I think I may of well saved my self and or car from some serious damage with a freeway breakdown.

But quite a fun life lately, granted from about Sunday Night -> last night I felt horrible, today I wasn’t that bad, got to hang out with my Dad some, then celebrate with my sister and her hubby my mom’s b-day, and I got to break the cycle of work lately which hasn’t been the most healthy of environments to be in, don’t get me wrong, there are times I do enjoy my day job, but as of late I find my passion and desire for my own business has just lit up like a Christmas Tree – got some new software installed, some hardware upgrades on parent nodes, adjustments, tweaks, the base plans re-designed for FH, some rough ideas in my head for TN, a new update to the billing system, not one but 2 total servers fully deployed (Titus and Solomon) its exciting stuff! I hope I can keep it up and not burn out or go crazy ;)

Budget is going to be tight though buying $483 worth of tires, granted I get what appears to be $71 back (1 tire free with mail-in rebate) – but my bonus was split between that and the laptop, so really balancing it out good, hoping to close up some gaps in hosting billing, and either clear/close accounts -or- get paid :) but Lord willing and Lord providing, I will have no issues with the budget, with the first coming up rapidly another check is already on its way to re-fill :)

Anywhoo – back to work tomorrow, and I am hoping this sleepy hangs on as I am wanting to crash out a little early, and maybe get in a wee-bit early too at the day job, some things I need to accomplish for year-end inventory this year (aka Friday) – I am pondering a trip to the coast sooner or later, would like to take the cameras and head out for some relaxing, plus need to see RB3 (not rockband Ronnie Brown III) and who knows maybe I’ll convince Katie and or Amy to join me for lunch… if not this weekend then next, but for now! Off I go to zone out.

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June 24, 2009 by Chuck Brown in General
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Father’s Day

It was a good one I think, spent Sunday with the rents @ Niles Street – ended up BBQ’n for the church’s little Father’s Day BBQ – nice time, got to meet some folks my Dad has been wanting me to meet, and my uncle actually showed up too – it was a fun Sunday morning/afternoon, which led to me going home and sleeping and waking up to a bright red neck ;)

My sinuses have been “eh” for about a week now, not horrible, but this weekend they seemed to decide to go all out and be horrible, so I called mom and asked if she wanted to goto Target as I wanted to snag a few things and occasionally she needs to too – so she wanted to go and I got some Tylenol Quick Release Sinus – its not working super yet, but I have high hopes, also snagged some cream for the neck/face sunburn from Mom, plus she had some meds for acid reflux which has been mixed lately, so currently doped up quite well.

Anywhoo – a good day, not too comfortable at the moment, but going to go setup the couch to sleep on (as I can sleep inclined) and try to doze off as I watch Shawshank Redepmtion on Netflix Instant View – this week at somepoint I plan to ditch Cable TV all together, going to get Boxee/Hulu Desktop/Roku as the primary source to entertainment – which saves me roughly $120 a month between my apartment and the rents place as it’ll simply go down to cable internet only. Good stuff. Till next time – have a lovely week!

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June 21, 2009 by Chuck Brown in General
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Welcome to ShinyThing

So I got the new MBP – probably the most expensive lunch I have ever had :) I went to BestBuy and snagged the new 2.66ghz MBP, got it partially setup at work, but sadly had some assorted things to finish at work and couldn’t play too much.

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Now of course at home it has been setup-extravaganza! Got most apps I use and only those – trying to keep it really clean, but it is running very smoothly – I ditched Apple Mail for PostBox – I enjoy Thunderbird, and I like Apple Mail, but PostBox seems to have alot ot good GTD options, smooth view, easy search, it’s pretty nice. I enjoy it quite well.

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Anywhoo – a lot is in the works, this is a big step towards a few more multi-threaded projects so hopefully now with my entire workforce of systems updated, I’ll accomplish a bit more and more, and hopefully it’ll remain snappy! More later – have a good Monday Night!

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June 15, 2009 by Chuck Brown in General
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MacBook Pro buying @ 65% sure…

So I have been going back and forth about getting the MBP – it’s a great looking rig, and would help out on a few things incredibly, but my budget is just finally bouncing back from expenses on the vacation/roadtrip/week of rest – I have it but I have been thinking if I wait a few weeks its not like they’ll be gone (heck BestBuy will probably have them for real) – and it’ll be easier to get, plus I’ll have a bonus at work – so that’ll be nice – plus the bonus, my cash, and a $1000 donation towards a new one – it would be a lot less stress on the budget, for sure.

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But it is the weekend now, and I wish I could say I had only resting up in mind, a cleaning weekend, not just because my sister and her hubby + maybe cousin are coming over, but because I have been lagging a bit, mixed up sleep makes it hard to vacuum @ 4am, as apparently my vacuum is loud and people would appreciate getting to sleep. :)

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Anywhoo – I hope everyone had a good Friday, and has a great weekend! I am off to the wonderful world of couch, where I will continue to watch The Lost Room on DVD. :)

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June 12, 2009 by Chuck Brown in General
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A good day at work…

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A phrase I thought I would honestly never say that often when in regard to my day job. If you have read my blog, you know I like to solve puzzles/problems/issues – one of the reason I like hosting I think, users come with issues, script problems, server incompatiblities, etc. and it needs to be fixed, gives my overactive brain something to do than think about the strange things it thinks about – so when this problem came about at work, I was happy – we have been trying to upgrade our backend software (OLD OLD OLD DOS app) to the new snazzy Windows build that uses things like SQL, Windows, did I mention Windows and SQL yet? Yeah two things which would make a lot of the old DOS bottle necks go away.

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Today I had a GREAT call with one of their Tech’s named Ben, we sorted thru some things, he got our data they WERE able to convert into the system, and discussed options – well apparently one of the main contacts with have and myself came up with more or less the same crazy idea on how to import the old data straight from the source, but Ben also had some ideas, and tomorrow we get to try them out – because while we have data converted into the system – there is a BIG BIG BIG part of the company in which we use Purchase Orders to do business, and as such that’s crucial data – sadly that is new and has no conversion process yet – but with this discussion we have a plan on how to make it happen!

So it was a fun day, discussing out ideas, getting some good back and forth, and we have a promising plan, so tomorrow I play with MSSQL a bit, taking DBF files into the magical world of SQL, should be interesting indeed – I have used MS SQL only on a few occasions, and this is a newer build than I have used before – since I deal with Linux most of the time its MySQL – which I am fairly well versed (could be better) but none the less I am prepared for the challenge and if not I have Ben & Kristine who are both prepared to help me out and get things up and running.

While it’s probably not the end of the drama with this software conversion, it at least is a step in the right direction, and hopefully – Lord willing we can get things up and running, people finding bugs/inconsistancies and get it ready to go by Jan 1 2010.

Anywhoo that was my day at work, glad to see this progressing so well,  and 30% less screaming about it (based upon volume) lol. So looking forward to Friday, going to play with Wordpress 2.8 (now installed) and see what new fun it can provide me, already quite snappy – but have an amazing Friday! Take Care!

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June 11, 2009 by Chuck Brown in General
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NAS on a Brief Hold…

So I settled I believe on the ReadyNAS – few functions which I think are a better fit for me, but going to make it on the list towards the later half of Summer – the reason for the delay? MacBook Pro Upgrade. About 3 years ago

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I upgraded from the iBook to the MacBook Pro, a great system which even today serves me well, but will most likely as always make the move to a family member as it still works great (minus the dwindling battery which is replaceable) – I have been looking at the new MBP’s as a option for a while now, but today really wiped away most of the “wait” I was feeling, mainly price. The price dropped and specs got a update.

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So looking forward to maybe in a week or so snagging one locally – BestBuy wasn’t sure when they would get them, but the primary Apple Stores said they should get them in Tomorrow, and by Thursday have display models up and running – but I am walking forward cautiously as with all new releases from Apple, you get that bit of wait to see what minor blips come up, from driver adjustments for trackpads, firmware for Wifi, etc. etc. – granted I am not too afraid of being a early adopter, just if I am going to make this jump, and utilize a system for work with Graphics, Web, Publishing, etc. I need to have something rock solid, but a week or so and most problems that’ll be found I imagine will be minor (I hope).

There is more information to this purchase too – I will probably tell about it more later, but I am getting a great deal on the laptop, so I am pretty happy, and there are a lot of things I could say about the level excitement about getting a upgrade on the laptop, but getting it, plus a cheaper than the already cheap Snow Leopard upgrade – not too shabby at all.

On another front, I am going to be most likely ditching Cable TV finally, my sister and brother-in-law recent did just that, for me it’s going to be a savings of at least $120 – the “TURBO” internet will remain, but most of the shows I watch are easily on Hulu, Broadcaster Websites, Amazon – plus the ever-useful Roku, it will of course be an adjustment as some shows don’t show up on Hulu the same time as the broadcast, so I may not get to join the average watercooler discussions btu none the less I’ll be $120 ahead ;)

Anywhoo – thats the bits I have on my mind here at 230am-ish – sleep is still upside-down as always, but such seems to be my usual :) for now though I am going to wrap it up and reboot with a slew of iMac updates needing to update, and being bored with the iPhone part of the WWDC Video now online – so happy Tuesday to you all, more later this week I’m sure!

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June 9, 2009 by Chuck Brown in General
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