Personal Before Work!

Ah I have finally done it! They said it couldn’t be done, but I have done it! Last night I was working on yet another server trying to get the mail conversion done (larger use of WEBMAIL on this box) and knowing that my Saturday could have some personal activities (going to the movies) I finally just said “Thats it! To Bed!” and closed up shop, and went to sleep.

Granted my sleep was interrupted by some minor glitches caused by a NOC monkey’s RHN script, but it took about 3m to fix entirely, and then I crashed again till 3pm, which was indeed nice, then I checked in on the Movies playing at the dollar theatre (yes were cheap!) - some decent films (March of the Penguins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Four Brothers, etc. etc.) well while we didn’t goto the movies, I did pickup a movie “Napoleon Dynamite” to cheer up a friend, and hung out for a while and just talked. Was good fun, but for once I wasn’t dead from a Friday Night of work, I actually was able to stay awake and have real conversations was a nice change from my usual half alive on saturday feeling.

Anywhoo - things are going good here, finally getting caught up all the way, some minor run-ins with “The Man” aka the FBI, a customer’s site got hacked, their Calendar or Guestbook script allowed someone full access to write files, run commands, grab files - kinda scary really, but their primary goal was to create a fake PayPal site - so my upstream and the FBI asked it to be taken down, and keep a backup of logs and such for evidence if needed - so a minor stress of the week, but a lot of projects on the fire right now, but some good headway on all of them (I think) but still working to keep that balance of work and personal, still not a master of it, but that choice I talked about a while back is on my mind again, still not sure entirely what to do, but again, time will tell.

Something is changing in me though, I do know that, things that were once important to me, aren’t so much, time away from the PC is more enjoyable, my anxiety while still present, is not as “in your face” as it had been, and I am doing a tad more living, versus exsisting - so who knows, maybe Gov. of California

Thanks for peekin in, watch the Flickr/TextAmerica for more random photos, re-wrote my TextAmerica Grabber, now works on ANY format of RSS feed from TA, had some issues converting it to mine as I tag all my photo’s coming in with the Treo, but I may release the code if someone wants it, only requires GD2 so it can do image re-sizing on the fly, and I have to re-map some variables so their easier to manage for average users.

That’s it, I am off.