One thing I have had holding me back in the realm of Mac as a full-on workstation is Spreadsheets, I use spreadsheets from everything from budgets, quotes, server management, etc. etc. Well Google spreadsheets is quite simply perfect. Granted I can’t “print” yet, as my printers are not “Mac Friendly” yet (R340 fund is now open, send money!) - but its awesome, had to run some numbers this morning, hit the bookmark in Firefox, and whammo, started laying out formuals, and such - works wonderful.
It also exports to XLS so on my Treo I can easily open, edit more - and take with me on the go, granted I’d love the system to have a “Mail XLS File” so I could email my phone (yes my phone has its own email addy) and have it with me vs. sync’ing - so I requested it as a feature, but for a limited “test” it’s very nice, good features, good speed, and good rendering. Enjoying it very much!
Well I got about 2 hours in, then I woke up, probably crash again here in a few hours - but going to work on Titus here a bit more in a bit, but one thing I found funny, is while sitting here at the PC reading over emails, checking RSS feeds in Vienna, I heard someone washing dishes. My dad can’t sleep either, so I said hello to him, and am now going back to my stuff - I gots a great family
Well got some things sorted out, and also took myself past the point of exhaustion to sheer insanity or passing out (depends on how you want to look at it) crashed finally at around 9am or so after crusing downtown to the office at 6am, cleaned up of the office a bit, re-arranged some stuff, threw out a lot of paper trash, and then came home, worked on some plans for AudioA’s message boards (which I host) - and then went to sleep - woke up to my phone ringing, a ringtone I enjoy hearing and also a person I enjoy talking to - felt wide awake thinking “Wow a good nap” so I talked with Rosie a bit, found out about her trip, discussed a few things briefly and then after wishing her a good day, moved my mouse to check my email - it was 45 minutes since I fell asleep LoL - hardly any time at all, but it was a good powernap, gave me another hour up and about, then tried again, so around 11am crashed out again, only to wake up at 5:30pm!
Not the day I planned at all, that’s safe to say - but a good day none the less, and when your finally this tired, the brain has no juice to overthink, so its good stuff, and to top it off, its midnight, and I am ready to crash out again, so instead of typing out everything in even greater detail, I am going to crash out, and hope to wake up bright and early and get a good start on things. Thanks for the continued prayers! More soon.
Well I have come to this screen, left, came back, wrote something, then left again, so much on my mind but yet can’t seem to get things to level out in the ol brain - I have gotten most of the work stuff into to-do’s on my project management, lot of server work, lot of updates to do - and dealing with the ocasional random question from CMC about how I did XYZ - but work is only half the stuff on the brain, still trying to find the balance of Work/Personal - and failing miserably - mainly because I am desiring the personal end more and more lately (avoiding work? me? never!)
Had to deal with the ocasional server blip with clients, outdated scripts once again the culprits, thankfully no server damage beyond that client’s website, in which things are removed entirely, and the client re-sets things up, but such is the way of the hosting craziness - but doing some more in-depth updates, getting Titus finished up hopefully later today - titus will allow me to give some customers higher bandwidth, higher space limits, but a touch less performance at the same time, but for folks needing sheer storage, and bandwidth this should be more than fine.
In the realm of trying to figure it all out my bible time has been reading Esther and Ruth - and in the whole “life application” of both books, you have Esther who is where she would rather not be, but is purposefully put there to help her people in time of need, and by her actions her people are saved, and avegened - then you have Ruth who left her homeland to stay with her mother-in-law till the bitter end if needs be, but in turn was redeemed by Boaz who made sure she and her mother-in-law were taken care of, and eventually married Ruth and carried on the family name - so how does that apply to me? Still working on that entirely, but I have been contemplating my business as of late in reflection of having a personal life, but that could easily be where I tie in Esther, while here and now hosting feels like its holding me back from having a life, maybe this is where I should be and something is coming that my hosting will empower? One possiblitiy, as for the Ruth end, I think it may go back to my road-trip, a journey of my own to the ends of the earth so to speak, to get out there, and escape from the place in which I am comfortable in? Both just prayerful ideas.
But life moves forward, good days and bad, some where the brain is in overdrive, or nights like tonight where I am simply still awake and the brain is too exhausted to even overthink (always good) but even then with the overthinking I have had a decent week, took a drive, still have pictures to post, nothing exciting, I really need to master low-light stuff - and get my breathing down for holding the camera still during photos, Rosie shared good news with me that her older sister is expecting! So good news there, Jake got his couch in, and TV stand, so soon enough the parties can begin at his place Cousin Sarah is coming into town, I have Chicken Little saved up here for her, and then Saturday lunch with Rosie and watching X3 (even though me and Rosie have both seen X3 we love sarah enough to go again) - so good things, amougst the bad, God is Good.
But tomorrow brings server work galore, I want to try and make sure things are setup, upgrade titus’s drive and bandwidth - and start maybe moving some folks to it by Monday, but a lot of tiny things like making sure the cron’s for Fantastico are in place for more constant updates as they come in of scripts so clients who install via Fantastico have no excuse but hopefully, prayerfully, it all goes smooth - then next week some billing clean up, and by weeks end of next week, possibly a new design, I need to touch base with designers in the AM one is still working on something, and one I have on my desk is awesome, and good price to boot - so might just go ahead and move forward with that - so busy busy - I seriously need a clone.
Well rambling will now cease, I may goto the gym, as I don’t feel like loading up the bike, but at the same time I may just kick off my shoes and goto bed, time shall tell - I do appriciate the IM’s from folks of hello’s, random tech questions, etc. much appriciated, and I do appriciate the prayers, glad to know folks care, even when my brain is upside down and backwards, but hopefully with more of this stuff done my brain can get over the last bits, durn over-active liver, and over-active brain… wish my body wasn’t so wild and crazy Night folks.
So much transition right now, some fun things on the plate, and as usual, my brain is in over-drive mode, doing what it does best, over thinking.
I really need to get my car fixedup, and off on my road trip for a week or so, just escape it all - fun stuff is always friend related lately, stopped by B&N to get some beverages on my way out of town for a photo wandering (traveled north) got me to ICB Cream Sodas, talked with Rosie a bit, and went for the next almost 2 hours northward - got some decent shots, wish I had left an hour earlier, but none the less, got some good stuff - probably post it to flickr in the morning.
But as much as I wish I could post on all thats ony my mind, its not quite ready for prime time yet, but prayers are appriciated, some odd situations I am in lately, both work and personal - but who knows, it’ll all even out I hope. For now, I am going to wait 10m to make sure backups get going, and then head over to bed to crash out before another day of the same… oi. Night.
While my offices downtown I share with my brother’s company are cool - I just love to look at the start-up companies which do their offices - they always are simple, clean, personal, and have wood floors (I think I just really want wood floors) it’s some cool stuff.
But as it is heating up here for the summer I am considering a workstation for the office - something with decent storage more or less - but I do have access to the servers - 3 of which run Windows, but I want to move around servers - re-vamp the layout of the office, and make it cooler…. I need a second couch - and to re-stock the fridge, and snacks again.. and someone to hang out with me there, Jake?
Well it was bound to happen sooner or later, the constant awake/alert/online nights, adding up to need for mass amounts of sleep, spent most of the weekend off and on snoozin, granted its gotten hot in here (+100F - side effect of computers) - but I just feel drained and then some, probably going to crawl over to the bed here shortly and crash out for once before 5am - and hopefully tomorrow I can finish up cleaning up the last bits of my room, have a pile of mail from the office & here to go through, and a burn/shred pile thats huge!
But this week looks to be a busy one, Monday I am going to finish up the last bits of K-Man’s server, then hit the office a bit to work on the servers there - plus I need to buy a fan or two, maybe get with my dad to fix up my car so I can get my good milage back and my brakes/seals fixed - but honestly I just want to sleep off this week if it were possible, but I must push forward - some fun stuff on the FH plate, and some other possible fun things, just a lot going on in all areas, brain is tired just thinking about most of it.
Anywhoo - thats all this tired brain has, it is now going to visit its friend the pillow. Night.
but even then with the overthinking I have had a decent week, took a drive, still have pictures to post, nothing exciting, I really need to master low-light stuff - and get my breathing down for holding the camera still during photos, Rosie shared good news with me that her older sister is expecting! So good news there, Jake got his couch in, and TV stand, so soon enough the parties can begin at his place 
