Just when thing’s cant get any worse - I offically am sick. I have been fighting it off for weeks now, always just catching up on enough rest to get my body half winning, just today, I am flushed & dead.
But the good news, got a lot of quality clean up on a project I hope to have done ASAP when I wake up, then I figure I am going to goto the office, lay on the couch and sleep for a few hours and see if my body can rest up, catch up, and fight off this silly flu before it gets worse.
Anywho - thats all I have, not too exciting, but something. Thanks to Mima for the comment on the last entry, I appriciate it!
I love wind. Something about a windy night that is peaceful especialy after a ‘odd’ weekend. Odd feelings, odd dreams, odd life I have here for myself.
Just really considering a lot of things in life right now - seems to happen a lot more lately than ever before in my life. Just a lot of things to consider - choices, both those made already, and ones coming up. What to think/do about dreams I have had - as in one recently a person I really don’t know to well aside from reading their blog ocasionally and the ocasional email, in the dream they were crying, really upset about something, and I was in a house I had never seen before, and a lot of peopel there who had no idea who I was, only people who seemed to be okay with me were the person and kids staying there. Oddness to say the least.
Life - just so much on the plate, I don’t want to end up like my old boss, just burning out over silly things, trying to wrap up projects, but due to some mis-scheduling I am behind as one client I thought I was done with, has a pile of work they keep re-shoveling on me, while I am trying to get some of the projects I had picked up thinking I was done with client A - but I don’t want to let either slip - nor can I afford to hire additional help yet - soon, but I think first thing’s first, I need a break, I need a long weekend, I need to get away from the ‘norm’ and really just get away - but funding is tight (as always) so it may be a while, just feel really tired, like I am running a marathon, and the finish line is no where in sight.
Personal life is still a work in progress, the office definately helps me get out of the house, have seen a lot of old friends from High School, heck some have tracked me down online through MySpace, but its just one of those things, just going to take work to eventually find a group of people to hang with, most people are dealing with the ’summer push’ teacher friends are wrapping up the school year, friends who work similar fields as me are having family things - but tottally understandable, I have a wedding next week I am invited to, thought it was this weekend, but just another example how life is getting away from me.
I just really need a break, probably not going to pick up any projects for a while, means no extra money in the pocket, but I just need to get settled in the office, settled in a new patter of getting work done, and get the finances stable, and a little more ‘tax prep’ friendly - just crazy times, and I appriciate the prayers, and those who have given me encouragement online I do appriciate it, heck those in general who IM just to say hi - nice to actually chat about life/happenings.
Well I need to get some things done before I crash in a bit, just a long weekend, and I feel sick so once wrapped up I am definately going to goto bed and get some good sleep. Night folks.
Man oh man, what a odd day - met with a client, who I felt I was just re-capping the last meeting we had - creature of habbit, like many of us, he can’t go with the concept of change in business, because he knows how to do things XYZ, and the concept of doing things ABC?! Dear Lord, what is this world coming to!
A lot of changes on the horizon, lots on the plate, I wish I had gotten more done today, but I have one final swing to do of tests/tweaks for HaF - which is more or less done, just had some minor issues with CC Gateway having a burp after they did a server move, but the code seems fine, it’s doing what it’s supposed to do on an error - just need to get some ‘tweaked’ requirements checking back in place as my Javascript won’t work under SSL for some odd reason, non-SSL, works peachy! But when it goes to SSL mode, the script takes a dive. So instead of trying to debug someone elses work, or write my own, or search for a new one, I’ll just put some routines into the step following to say "WHA?! WHERES YOUR PHONE NUMBER?! PUT IT IN OR DIE!" but in a nicer, gentler kinder sort of way 
But other than being mildly insane this evening, and crazy tired (been a rollercoaster week for stress) I am doing well - I really want to spend some time on personal projects this weekend, so close to a solution to replace out the FH/TN homepages - using of all solutions that I have researched, tested, and filled my /dev/hda2 with - Wordpress. Going to use a blog system as a site CMS for the two sites, just working on some misc. tweaks to the layout & working with 2 new favorite plugins (Folding Pages & WYSIWYG Editor Replacement) - I should be able to create/manage/tweak using the new Pages features in WP1.5 - should make managing, updating, tweaking FH a lot easier & Less cluttered in my public_html folder 
I am also writing a hack for things that will make a page "Hidden" - aka not displayed in the pages listing, but can be linked to directly - mainly for things like special packages that are a custom job for someone - but not a HUGE priority.
Anywhoo, off to it - hopefully I don’t fall asleep here at the desk - and that for the second night in a row the police out there get their man - as for the second night in a row sierns galore - durn kids getting out of school
ps. happy birthday lizbiz 
As I am always posting, I am crazy busy. Don’t think that’s ever gonna change, but its a good kind of busy I suppose, keeps me outta trouble - thus why when I do get to take 30min out of my day to sit, relax here at the computer now, not being at the ‘office/home’ but being ‘home’ nothing more, nothing less - feels good. Unwind read a blog or two, play a game, maybe watch a DVD (or season 1 of Scrubs on DVD) - fun stuff.
I am planning to try tomorrow to actually wake up at a decent hour, goto the gym, work out, come home shower, then out to the office. Such is the plan at least, I have been lacking in the gym with all the prep to get the office online/stable/operational. If all goes well and the internet gets ironed out, I will be making an address change for the business mailing address and have mail coming to … dare I say it… My office! (yay!)
But things are good here - been working on some projects of a personal nature, as well as revamps of the hosting sites to something more manageable, which my bro said he didn’t understand when I could use any number of server technologies out there to do what I wanted to do, but I want something quick and easy to post pages with, no more 3 programs to do xyz, just one system, one template, good times. But it does require me to learn some CSS (how I dread that) but I figure it’s time, and at the office I seem to focus a bit more than the distractions of the home office.
Anywhoo - things are good, folks are in good health, friends locally seem good, friends on the net are stressed, perplexed, examinig their lives, getting settled back in to life at home, etc. the joys of life
Well my brain has had enough computer for the evening, not really a lot to say other than I am doing well, maybe something more indepth soon, but keep checking my Flickr, going to try and take some shots of downtown both morning and evening - as we have some restored old skool buildings that lightup awesome at night, and I have been wanting to take some night photography. So a perfect opertunity!
Posted on 1 June '05 by Chuck Brown, under basic goodness. 1 Comment.
Been staring at everyone elses code all day - so figured why not take a lunch break and spruce up the blog a bit. Changed out the template to one from Wordpress.org, it’s green! A nice change, but I am hoping to customize it a bit more down the line - probably once I get back out to the office - out most of the morning from the office today as they are working on the vents and power was gonna be iffy as well as AC - reason? Fire in the building next door, all the smoke was makin the place smell smoky. So it’s a perfectly fine reason to miss a few hours at the office.
I do plan to have a small grand opening of the office - a few resellers have already come in and enjoyed the cofrense room with me, which is a awesome feature of the office - being able to meet with someone at a round table, and to top it off, my laptop will get just enough wifi to browse
But all in all its going well, finishing up one project today, which means a paycheck soon - extra money will definately go half towards paying off the new laptop, other half to general fund of the business (trying to rebuild that after taxes) - but I am working on the sidelines of a slight revamp of FH/TN - I had pen’d them for Friday, but time will tell, just trying to get this CMS to work for me
Anywho, I am off, must get back to code, then shower, and head down to the office to see if its done, or at the very least if my office is cool and happy again - more later I am sure.
