Awaken Launch Party

Times I wish I could have this filter to only Bako folk, but the rest of you are of course welcome to come you can camp out in my backyard or my office if needs be - just RSVP by the 29th

Will I be there? Highly possible I will stop in and show my mad dancing skillz, but I make no promises as to the lenght of time I will be there … plus I need to find $8.. off to the couch I go! (always money in there)

Frustration…

A long day, started around 6:45am, and here it’s finally ending at 3am(ish) - I can’t complain about the entire day, wasn’t all bad, just a lot of stress from a few people, 1 of which I understood why they were stressin on me, the other had an “ok” reason - but when I am “HELPING” do projects, normally folks don’t nag when I am working for free, apparently that’s not in this person’s vocab.

But all in all got a lot done, and a day tommorow of running downtown -> home (rinse, repeat) as our 3 T1’s may be installed, and if it all goes REALLY good possibly have it all running by day’s end, if not, praying at least the T1’s go in smooth, then its Tuesday at the latest for the new lines to be binded (1.5×3 = 4.5mbps up and down!) but I am going to try to be there as much as possible, though going to bed after 3am, not thinking I’ll be in there by 6am

Some snags on the FlickrAPP I have been writing, works great with standard layouts, (aka not a lot of crazy javascript) however CMC’s navigation is 2/3 DHTML 1/3 Insanity - so needless to say, it wasn’t pretty -though the app is lookin good, from a functionality standpoint, not pretty from a “wow, that looks awesome check, who taught you html?” - as it looks like I made the HTML in a 12 year old copy of Frontpage Express - but it flows, it works, and soon I’ll intergrate it here, as that is why the project was originally started, I didn’t like having to send people to flickr to view my galleries, however the old version I got from someone else had issues with Photo Sets, my version does not

Anywhoo - still a lot on my mind, part of my problem with sleep lately, so much going on, so much in the works, and some big question I need to ask sooner or later or run the risk of too little too late which would result in me being majorly bummed, but again if the answer to the question isn’t what I am expecting, then I’ll be bummed none-the less - so do continue to keep me in your prayers, I really do appriciate it. To the pillows I go!

Photos Done (Yay!)

Well I got the last of the photos for CMC uploaded, now the fun task begins making sure all of them bear proper tags, not something I desire to do, but I am sure I’ll help out some now and again when I am without something to do (which won’t be anytime soon) - but 3,201 photos later, it is done - used one of the servers at the office to remote in, and use the 2.3mbps upload speed, vs. chugging along here from home, was going to go to the office phsyically to work on it- but tired today, didn’t really feel like driving downtown - I should be asleep now, but soon it will come.

Had fun with Rosie, went to see Xavier at the Science Fair, walked up on the convention center stage looking for him, and in turn after wandering a bit, found a very upset man - apparently friends/family were not supposed to be on the stage, I apologized as we just got there and didn’t know there was procedure in place, but he made sure we got off the stage and had a rude look on his face… nerd. But we hung out with Xavier’s mom, and Rosie played bejeweled on my phone (beat her exsisting high score)Â and did some Googling on my phone too for a special project Adam is going to help me with if he can, followed up with lunch @ Tailgaters, was good food, couldn’t even finish! But I did manage with Xavier’s help to get a new Caller ID photo for Rosie (thanks X-Man)

Rosie then took me home after a brief stop for some grocery shoping and a quick look at a clothes place - twas a fun day, of course work followed shortly there after and my dad’s printer broke (really oddly too) and thus I went and picked them up a $50 printer, in which I had discounts on as I am a MaxPerks customer at OfficeMax - but still 2 emails I need to get out tonight if possible, and tomorrow I have some running around town for a last minute tweaks to a birthday gift for someone - came up with a better idea than my usual nerdy gifts - of course I’ll still probably get a kick in the butt, but, fair enough if thats how its played the plan was even approved by Cory© (all rights reserved) - granted I added 2 tweaks to it, but it works.

Anywhoo - I should get these emails out, then crash, its the 3rd time I have tired tonight, but after this hot shower I just got out of, I am loosened up some and I think sleep can finaly become me. So without further a-do, good night all.

Science Fair

Off at the science fair watching Xavier show his stuff and taking pictures galore!

Lie to me.. tell me it’s Friday.

Hard to believe it’s only Wednesday - but here at 3AM - my tired brain wants it to be Friday. Tonight’s project consists of using the office line (2.3mbps UPLOAD) to convert CMCentral’s current gallery (see link) to Flickr (another link) - reason for change? Simple, ease of management, storage, and additional features Flickr offers - this is coming at the heels of GMA Week/The Doves - so working to get it all uploaded, still won’t be cataloged as to Where the pictures were taken or really When on some of them, but over time we can add-in additional tags to accomidate.

I have already written a new interface so from CMC the photos will be able to be seen, been tweaking on it for about a month now, was originally a personal project, that sort of evolved when other clients needed a similar gallery solution, so this works - API is pretty easy to use, just started working on the tag search tonight, promising results, though I do want to look at caching results in the database so we can take some load off Flickr when folks search for common tags like “AudioA” (of which I need to re-apply to Audio’s photos) - but its going good - conversion is going smooth, other projects to finish before GMA week are underway, just waiting for some DNS changes to go into place to work on some other elements (of which I can’t speak of … yet).

Lastly Tuesday had a fun lunch with the boys from Awaken (well Mike and Matt - No Andy) - and Jake as well, twas a good lunch - then followed up with sneaking into the library with my camera taking pictures all around Some posted, can’t post all as new shirt line they are premiering on Friday @ The Gate - but after that I’ll add a few more up to my Flickr.

Anywhoo - crashing out now, can squeeze in about 6hrs of sleep (probably a little less) then must get ready for the Science Fair at the convention center Rosie’s Nephew is in @ the county level, so going to go cheer him on, take some photos etc. Need to find spare batteries for the A510 as I am going to take that as well so his Parents/Rosie can take their own choice pics above and beyond my randomness with the E-500. Sooo thats it - crashin out, thanks for all the prayers, last few weeks have been nuts, and I am sure the next few will be as well as I squeeze in taxes between projects - hours of endless fun but the server move is nearly planned, so stay tuned if your a “friend” type account, you may not have to move, praying about that - but I am shutting up now - or I’ll talk on that for hours. Sleep beckons.

Lunch with Awaken

Lunch with Matt and Mike from Awaken + Maybe Adam! Yay Adam!

What do I want?

No no, not going too deep into self discovery - but had a dream this afternoon as this weekened I was just exhausted, so much going on, but at the same time other things I’d rather really focus on - but such is the way of life - anywhoo - had this dream in which I was asked a question “What do you want?” it’s something I am asked off and on “What do you want for dinner?” and such, but in the dream this question was so huge, I woke up asking myself “What do I want?” - it’s something I have been asked, but rarely if ever have asked myself.

The honest answer was “I dunno” a lot of life I simply leave up to God, some would say that’s leaving life up to chance, but God hasn’t steer’d me wrong yet - has it always been easy? No. LoL - to say it’s always easy would be lying, but all in all God has been good - I think anyone who looks at my life in this blog for the past few years can easily say I have had some crazy things in my life, business, family, friends, work, etc. - but a lot of my life choices really focused on others, vs. my own sanity - never what I “wanted” to do per-say, but what I truly needed to do.

I have had good friends tell me I should charge for my knowledge, my expertiese but honestly I never saw a reason for it, always gave freely of myself, heck I probably always will, just part of who I am, part of what makes me, me. But lately the question has held a deeper meaning - what do I want? For the last 5+ years, it was to build a business, never had any specific goals of X number of clients, or X number of domains, or $X.XX in profit, just move forward, build sometihng, grow it, stick with it - and here we are, not a highly profitable business, not buying mini-coopers every Friday, or laptops every month, but I am living comfortably and have some nice toys and tools to make my work enjoyable and easier to manage - but even there, what do I want?

This upcoming change, still so much in flux, waiting on various elements to fall into place, working on getting my taxes finished up, working on planning a crazy road trip, planning a question to which I get a much desired answer, but prepared to find out the answer isnt what I thought, but so much on my mind - just always feel like talking lately - had some good chats online, a few offline, but I think the one thing I want right now, is this road trip - having the stress off me for these servers, having a skilled crew on hand to help take care of server issues if and as they happen allowing me a vacation, no rush to get back, just hoping the money in my wallet lasts a few more miles, gets me through a few more hotels and meals to get me to the next city, because it’s not going to be a day trip, this is going to be big! going through states, stopping in random towns, spending the night in a hotel room, resting up for the next day of driving - its exciting, its scary, its new, its change.

One thing I am considering is a Video/Audio blog, already looking at the options for making that happen - found one solution, not horribly priced, but would allow me to use the Treo and say “Hello!” with my own voice instead of just writing a blog entry each day (Which I imagine I’ll do anywhoo). But it truly has me excited, plus getting to drive up to my Grandparent’s place, visit my Uncle and Aunt as well - getting to see my dad’s side of the family, I haven’t seen them in years, so should be fun, and a nice suprise, as I have yet to tell them about it - if only I felt really wild, I’d drive to Colorado as well and visit my Aunt and Uncle there but one trip at a time have to let the bank account catch-up sooner or later

Anywhoo, thats my rant, really just felt the need to type it all out, so much in my brain right now, if only 1/3 of my friends kept the same hours I did so I had someone to talk to 24/7 I know many of them wouldn’t care if I called and HAD to talk, something serious, but just talking life out? They’d be on the phone with me for hours! So I am going to go shift around backups, push some hard backups of databases and files, then clear off my bed and goto sleep. Night All.