Well tonight I was “fun” - a customer hit me up via email saying their forums had been hacked, thankfully the subject line was one of frustration so reading the subject I didn’t wet my pants with the classic “THE SERVER IS HACKED!” which has been done before, but I do understand the feeling, frustration, fear, that comes from your site getting hit.
So the reason for doing it and wiping out her entire collection of posts, was because the software was old, and thus she needed a wake up call more or less - I just don’t understand why these guys can’t just drop a email, leave a comment, post a thread - let people know, give them a CHANCE to do something, I mean it’s summer, so lot of the youth owned sites are going to be neglected some, while others are going to get more attention than they do most of the year - it just boggles my mind.
Thankfully her backups were only a day old, and so the database restore took some tweaking, but it got back online - ho-hum, sad stuff, I know in my youth I had too much spare time with computers, heck I chatted weekly in my “art group” making software tweaks, chatting about servers, using ol IRC - but no one in our group was descrutive. But none the less, times change, so let this be a warning to everyone out there - update your scripts, its not a time consuming thing - just means 10-15 minutes out of your day to help keep your site running smooth - and helps me get some sleep (really tired lately).
But that’s it really, just a little un-winding post, these situations get me worked up a bit, always hafta check servers over afterwards - but its nights like this lately I want to say “Anyone want to buy a hosting company?” - I think I’d like being a traveling photographer / piano man 
Night folks.
Another workout, 3 days in a row! Woah! I feel… well tired and smelly - about to hit the shower - but today I started off my workouts by helping Michael move some of their stuff from their apartment (their = Beth and Michael, aka Sister and Bro-in-law) - followed up with a call en-route to lunch with Michael to go riding tonight at 6:30ish at the lake (so #3 ride this week) it was good stuff, got server stuff taken care of it seems, after battling to squeeze in time between moving, and other commitments I already had this week, but in the end, its all working, even helped as a favor to a friend where the servers are being moved sinch up a problem, if anyone else had asked, I’d of slapped em silly, but guy has my full support
But tonight was cool, even if my valve-stem broke on my bike 
I need a new tube, but even though its only a few month’s old I may take it into the local bike shop, have them tune it up, re-align the gears (as the chain keeps coming off) and get it back to working lovely - but Jake ventured back to make sure I was alive, then Rosie noticed we were no longer following and came back to make sure I was alive, but after trying to ride it I noticed it was flat, so we walked back the last leg of the ride - it was cool though, we followed up the ride with dropping off the bikes, grocery shopping, then nacho’s at Jakes with some good talkin, and ice cream, then after bidding Jake farewell (thanks for a fun evening mr. sherman) I got Rosie home safe and sound.
But this is my kinda day, good balance of family, friends, work. If only my entire life worked like that! All in good time I suppose… all in good time. Well shower beckons, good ride, a little pain in my knee, so maybe shower, then bath to relax the ol muscles. Okay - I am stopping for real this time, more updates tomorrow - lots of fun server stuff, new job developments, and possibly, a company I may be starting with Jake and Rosie (serious Jake - we so need to do it) good times, God is Good, Life is Good, even with rough spots like crazy ex-bosses and meetings Night Folks.
Today coming home from the office (server projects in progress here - so came back) I was at a stoplight and the gal next to me was stuck, her car wouldn’t move, no one was helping - just honking and swerving around here - so she flipped her hazard lights, got out of her car, and went to the side of the road on her cell phone to get help, so I pulled over (my side of town, so I know clever places to park) - and attempted to help push, but her engine was locked up and she couldnt shift down into Neutral — then another person pulled over (from a place I used to work, which will remain nameless…) and offered assistance as well, but even the key which should of released the shifter didn’t work, there wasn’t much we could do.
Amazing though how people will help if someone else just stops to help, like laughing, helping is contagious, I didn’t want to loom around, and couldn’t offer a cool car to sit in (no AC) so I said a prayer, and drove home, and puzzled mr. car guy himself (muh dad) he said the key should of worked, so either it was a re-keyed ignition, or something really bad happened that not even the power of the key could fix.
Well so much for my second work out of the day, nothing like pushing cars.
Man that was fun, good sunrise, good company, good fresh H2O - maybe again tomorrow - Jake? You game? Off to shower, then off to my insane day ahead!
One day - I hope to have a team/job where I can actually live up to this idea of independence day 
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/840c.html
Have a good day all, 4m till wake up call.
Well tomorrow morning I am going riding at lake ming, going to load up my A510, have the truck ready - gassed up, got water, should be a good way to start the morning, and head into a interesting week, 4th of July, followup on 2 jobs, one of which would be very nice for my roadtrip fund, and final prep work to get Titus and other servers moving forward for fun.
Tis good stuff indeed, so I am going forth to the bed, in hopes not to wake up before my iTunes alarm, but you know me Night folks.
Sometimes the concept of Church bothers Me - growing up in a highly involved church family, I served in church from the time I was old enough to carry the offering plate - range of serving, range of things I did by my choice, and the ocasional I did to stand in the gap, but today I got the call that just really kind of irked me about church.
A pastor who is a friend of the family, more or less told me my idea of learning about God, about sharing, about fellowshiping with people of like faith was more or less silly, he in turn then switched into “pitch” mode, not “pray about it” but - “you know….” telling me that I needed to be at HIS church - don’t get me wrong, I am sure I could find somewhere to serve there, but honestly I enjoy the quiet time in prayer/bible study, the good conversations of faith with Friends, and sharing with folks how God is Good. I realize from what I have heard from other members at his church is he wants me to stand in the gap to take load off him from playing the piano, possibly sing, and re-vamp their computer layout - which is fine, but ask me to help, don’t demand things of me, don’t tell me I MUST come to your church - I don’t mind helping, but I honestly don’t feel any connection there like I have at other churches growing up - so its not a prime choice for a home church.
Life in Christ is being Alive, a new birth, a new life, not shackling yourself to a pew, not sitting in the same butt groove you have made in the pew over the years — Life is about living — I have spent many years sitting in a pew, I loved listening to my Grandfather, My Father, Various other awesome ministers around town, but right now I don’t feel called to become a “MEMBER” anywhere, I am definately going to try to hop around more soon, but just like with my business, I don’t mind doing a task for someone if they ask, but beating around the bush is silly - plain and simple.
For years I haven’t really lived, I sat behind a PC, worked, slept, worked, slept, worked, slept - you get the idea, in the last 2 years God has really helped me with Good Friends, Good Fellowship, and Grace to get past many of my anxieties, many of my holdups, many things which have held me back from Truly living, so who knows, maybe that’s what this road trip is leading up to, maybe I am to travel around, help Churches revamp tech - you just never know! All in God’s Time, while I wish that was sooner sometimes, I can only rely on him for it all, like my relationships both Friendship and Romantic, both Business and Pleasure, everything in HIS time, HIS timetable for my life is the only way to Life, and thus Truly Living.
