Not Photoshop’d, Not Gimp’d - 107 … this week perdicted high of 108! Yeehaw! I love Cali - good times, some blackouts already, my sister’s apartment went dark apparently 2 hours after my dad’s bday party, so she was reading book by flashlight.
Mission today - keep cool, granting on when I wake up (another odd late one) I think I am going to cruise down to the office, even if it’s just to goto sleep on the couch lol!
Anywhoo - big plans for the weekend… just not sure what they are yet lol. Rambling becomes me, thus I must sleep while 80 is still a cool evening.
Posted on 14 July '05 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
Gotta love the summer months, always nice and toasty, but throw in humidity, ick. No AC at my house, older style build, to setup vents, etc. would be costly in adding in a AC & on top of that, California energy costs, could add up quickly.
Trying to get where I can sleep, but it’s still rather warm, I have some things I can do here on the computer - but I dunno if I will - watched Sidways tonight - odd flick, why is it every indie film has to say the f-word 3029182 times? I just always find it interesting that one film can swear so many times in a 5 minute period - it’s un-needed, dialog could of easily be done differently and the same emphasis produced.
Pain wise new one added in today, muscle pain like I had when I was a kid during growing spurts, so maybe now I am 6ft 2in? vs. the previous 6ft 1in. - but it’s getting better - jaw didn’t hurt today as much, knee had a few spasms, but massaged them out and stretched em out, who knows maybe it ties into the who growing spurt concept.
Anywhoo so far this week has been shot as far as work as considered, have gotten things done, just not where I had planned to be, but it’s only Wed - my Dad’s b-day, having dinner at a new mexican food resteraunt tonight, then desert at my sister’s place (AC’d).
A good day today for business, granted I had zero sleep, but I had 3 orders! A good day indeed, need to get things moving on site revamps - at the very least a light brush up to update specials, package sizes, etc.
Well rambling has begun, so it’s time to hit publish and be done for the night… or so I hope… maybe a cold shower, then sleep. Night.
Posted on 13 July '05 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
Twas hot this afternoon, well scratch that - more humid than anything. Finally cooling off to a pleasent 82 - almost cool enough to sleep!
Spent the afternoon though with the niece and mom, played in the sprinklers, which I in turn decided to tune up (sprinkler repair, a favorite past time) tuned up one nicely and in the process got soaked, and the niece helped too - she tried to hold the sprinker for me, in turn soaked my face and she thought it was hilarious, so of course, why not - do it again. If I had a water proof camera, I’d of so taken shots lol.
Never heard anything back from the ISP - kinda doubted I would, but I have gotten caught up here pretty good after a semi-calm evening - found out one of my servers has a overly updated version of netstat now lol or something, something upgraded broken Netstat - in turn now and again services like POP3/APACHE restart, not that they need it - but because it’s one of the tools the server uses, it does a netstat to check for services running, however it gets a line that gives some line about TCP lines duplicating, thus at first I was worried, so I got the latest RK sniffers, and looked over the server, did a portscan of the box, came back clean, even applauded me for some changes I had made a month or so back, still more tweaks to do - and some new mod_security rules to put in to block some of the XMLRPC exploits.
All in all, a fair day, pain was manageable - even without drugs, have forgotten to take meds like 4 times today lol. Oh and pray for my Gym, they keep having some setbacks and have to push the grand opening of the new facility - so they have some pre-payers a little upset it seems, but they have me on board for the weekend before for doing the network - on that same angle of work, be praying for the Hands and Feet Project [linkage] we are working on the latest promo for earning some more funds for the Orphanage in Hati - have to tie in a few elements of code from PHP -> Perl - and thankfully they share a database, but just have to make sure it all talks the same database calls and do some tweaks to exsisting code. Easy! [falls over dead] thankfully lately my brain has been a tad clearer - maybe the pain is just a flu or something, as when I have BAD flu’s or allergies, I do have pain, but it has never been this bad … maybe in my old age my pain tolerance is becoming less 
Anywhoo - thats it, going to carry the pod over to the bed to charge on the end-table and then I am going to turn on the iBook and watch the Life Aquatic - hopefully it won’t suck. Night All.
Posted on 12 July '05 by Chuck Brown, under basic goodness. No Comments.
Trying to decide if I want to stay here at the office, line is horrible right now, I think my GPRS connection is mildly faster lol but I need a working cellphone for that, and mine keeps cutting out, and bluetooth keeps resetting… so I am stuck with the line, but enjoy the cool -OR- go home, and enjoy high-speed access, but a touch of heat…. what to do, what to do.
The line is @ a unknown state, after talking to two support reps they basically don’t know what’s wrong, they are having some issues reported in SLO, but unless the local loop routes through SLO (havent done a trace route recently) I shouldn’t be having issues - but having a 2.3Mbit line, and suddenly drop to under 1Mbit, oi. My head is spinning, even took loading my blog a while! But browsing it via the home PC this morning, speedy and happy.
Anywhoo - Probably stay another 30 then head home, or an hour and thirty and bypass traffic… but I am thinking 5ish range, as that is when the tech support staff goes home for the line, thus they won’t be doing anything else, here that they need me for, so I am going to be free to run an frolic through the fields… or a cold bathtub
Posted on 11 July '05 by Chuck Brown, under General, work. No Comments.
If I were to buy a stand-up arcade unit, hands down, this is it. Why? Starwars at it’s greatest. Okay - now I need to go find food.
A few years back I went with a company for my backbone connection for servers, and had lets say… mixed results lol - I am sure Jon can recall some of my insanely late nights and early mornings - well for the new office we needed to deploy sooner than later, and since the company had undergone some re-structure, my brother and I looked at cost, speeds, deploy time, and well the old company came up first. Well some issues, not sure as to what they are yet have come up.
Basically downstream gets hoppy. Basically one minute it’s getting everything, data flowing in fine, fast, friendly, then nothing. Services like FTP/IM still show us as online (because the upstream connection is still there sending commands) but we get no replies - it comes and goes, and in recent days has gotten worse - so Monday morning we are going to go item by item on the network, make sure beyond a shadow of a doubt it’s not us, then call them and see whats going on.
Had similar issues when I had a line, however it was vice versa, Up vs Down - but we can hope it can be ironed out soon since we can’t get Metro Ethernet just yet… but hopefully soon - I am willing to bet it’s the device they gave us, as 2 tech’s on previous speed issues said they are a TOTTALLY new device to them, so I am guessing hardware is dead/dying, or still misconfigured - gotta love DSL - what I wouldn’t do for a OC-192 in office
Anywhoo so for anyone searching for me on IM tomorrow, I imagine I will be in-and-out, unless I get out to the office late, in which case I will be on part of the morning, but most of the day will be in and out as we test, and explore.
Trying to decide what to do with my afternoon/evening - no one is ever on AIM anymore, or maybe I’m not lol - one of the two, but gonna find something I’d imagine… if anyone has any ideas feel free to contribute.
Got some sleep today, actually pretty much all I did today, thus why I am awake right now - but ate some dinner (yes at 1am) but already feeling a little sleepy right now, so hopefully sleep will soon come.
Pain is still looming, been told I should go see a doctor by a few friends online, however - I don’t have insurance - so it can be costly, but never fear, insurance is on one of my many to-do lists - between the pain from my wisdom teeth shooting from my jaw down my neck - to my knee spasms of pain - its bearable most of the time - but the worst of the pain is my knee, apparently according to Bill (owner of the gym I goto) it’s a inflamed nerve, it only acts up sometimes, but he does think it probably hurts a lot of the time, just my body has devloped a tolerance to it.
The ‘eh’ ness continues though, but tonight it isn’t as bad, thoughstill a hint here and there - just probably means I need yet another nap So I am going to wander off to give it a try, and hopefully this week my head will be clear and I’ll be ready to get some things done.
Night.
Posted on 10 July '05 by Chuck Brown, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
