Life is funny sometimes, well if one is to be honest, life is plain funny all the time - things and life come and go, the whole song comes to mind “to every season… turn turn turn turn” - so what happens when life goes back-wards, where what you thought was the progress of things, was not the right path, and going back to the start of things, was the real going forward?
Over the last 6 months things have moved forward, then as of today, such as the old office downtown, is no longer - I am taking a truck downtown, to load up a table, some bits of furniture, and pack up - and I find myself back at the office I left to really buckle down and expand my business, and its not a bad thing. The world didn’t end when I stepped back into that building - because honestly, I am surrounded by friends (and Ryan) - I mean having a friend you have known since kindergarten, 2 new friends who are employees of my good friend, and the rest of his crazy staff, its a fun place to be, but at the same time it has it’s downsides, I don’t really have my own “space”.
But life moves forward, it’s funny, I spend so much time focusing on the 3,000 possiblities, and never have a real regret in a choice I have made, because I take one of those 3,000 roads, and I know, it may not end up perfect, but it takes me a step further on the journey - but here - this moment, this day, I am back where I was earlier in the journey, but its a little different, but still full of options.
Often I feel I don’t belong/fit/etc. here in Bakersfield - not really a bad thing, I suppose it’s natural for one to really examine life and step outside of one’s hometown and experience life around and about, but honestly - Bakersfield for the 10,000 faults folks could give me, is home - and that sense of not belonging is apparently only something I feel, more and more I find folks who tell me I was this super popular person in Highschool, I thought I was just the quiet nerd, and was content to my nerdiness and getting the classic response from females of “Your good guy, some girl is going to be very lucky someday!” aka the pat on the back condolence, or also the “hey your not a loser! cheer up!” - ah to be the nice guy.
So tomorrow in life, or today (depending on how you measure time… I just don’t sleep), I move forward with some things, I work on a job, make a living, and possibly move closer to getting a new place this year to call home - I work with companies who may not fully respect me, but know I am going to take care of them even if, and make sure they are online - I get to enjoy the company of friends where I work, and hopefully be a friend in the process not a “boss”, but life is a funny thing, just like the title of this blog (which is what my total dinner added up to) - life is quite simply that, funny, and if you can’t take a minute to stop and laugh at it, you probably just don’t understand it, because could I mope? could I complain? sure - but that leaves me in a hole, sad, alone, and trapped by regrets, but if you can laugh, and look up, who knows, that next road sign may say “Exit Left” and thats your next turn which may bring you a step closer back where you started, but its the road you were supposed to be on - and this time from that point, take a right vs. a left - who knows, you may fund that path your looking for, may of been there all along.
So Monday was, well a Monday - I had some fun, had some stress, had lunch, a meeting with my newest client an ol buddy Adam, had a nice chat with my bro in regards to the T1 - and suddenly realized I was exhausted and needed to sleep, so I crashed around 7pm, waking up 5 hours later and almost ready to go back to sleep now.
Things are good with me I suppose, lot of things in my head, lot of things floating around at “pending”, still waiting on Titus’s hardware, software, etc. but it should give all customers a boost, fresher hardware, software, and hopefully while they may seem like “tiny” things in comparison, some upgrades in how I am setting up servers now after testing tweaks various tweaks over 2 years and deploying them on some servers.
So much stuff just waiting to get going - and I think that’s where some of my stress is coming from, so much on the verge, and nothing going yet - but that leads to another thing I must deal with, non-payers, one of the to-do’s i have for this week is upgrade to ModernBill 5.0, which gives me a change of things, the ability to process all major credit cards, not just Visa/MasterCard and PayPal like currently, but Discover and American Express as well, which is very very nice to have, and should expand sales a bit as some folks are sticklers for the card they use.
Anywhoo - I think I am going to wrap up, and check a few last things, and put the head on the pillow, or there’s always staying up, getting some donuts and head to the office really really early. Who knows. Night folks.
Well another week is upon me, and a slew of things to-do. I am packing up the FlockHosting design with it’s CMS, and getting it ready to make the move, I am going to set it up on the Friends server at the office, and make some fine tuning adjustments, and bring it up to date as I have tried to deploy it not once, not twice, but 5 times over the last 3 months - so thats a big chore for this week.
Other side projects include (but are not limited to):
Deployment & Configuration of Titus.
Upgrade to ModernBill 5.x
Pay some bills.
Have a night out other than with work folk (movie anyone?)
A photo Friday (weather allowing)
Customer Migrations
New Thrust Networks Goodies (business cards, website, services listings, etc.)
But that’s just this week, it should be rather insane, which means sleep should be happening here soon, but I am still organizing things to go in the backpack and the laptop bag for the day tomorrow, but do keep me in your prayers, busy work tends to get me forgetting things like resting, eating, unwinding, so that’d be good thing to have folks prayin for me on, as well as some customer issues, some customers have really out-dated our incorrect data on file, which makes some things hard to do, one customer is trying to cancel, but can’t confirm all her info, so I look like the “mean company” by not letting her leave, but I can’t be 100% sure it’s her - so many things of that nature going on.
Other Prayer Requests Include:
My Health
My Finances
The Office
My Dad’s Health
I am sure there are more, but I am finally getting tired, so I should probably put head to pillow and call it good for now. Have a Great Week folks!
Well I am weighing my options for the evening, sadly the hardware for Titus is delayed, so it could be 10 days before its ready to deploy, so I am gonna pray on it some more, if I should hold out, wait for it and deploy quickly, or wait a month, and give it another whirl once expenses balance out from the monthly line fees.
I keep getting told I am “very nice” - today while talking to Amy (the sales rep) she kept apologizing for the delay in the hardware and thanking me for being so nice - I realize it wasn’t HER fault that my hardware is delayed, so me getting upset at her simply ends someone’s Friday poorly, heck any day with someone in your face explaining to you that your a incompetent noob is a hard day to end up on - but this stuff happens, life goes on, and she was awesome to go the extra mile to find out EXACTLY what was going on with my order and the reason I had heard nothing back.
So plans are set back a bit, which means currently, a relaxing weekend, I have so much waiting in the wings to go, so many exciting ideas to put into motion, some additional revenues from this move, just all sorts of goodies! Very very excited! So for now, I am looking at my options, sleep, awake early and work around the house/yard (tree pruning) or watch Crank or Grid Iron Gang and stay up, not playing WOW like many people have let me know they are doing, right now. LoL
An update on my dad for those who have asked, he is doing great, getting some rest, drinking plenty of water, tonight we watched The Sentinel, twas ‘alright’ but was hoping for something a little more edgy, but I drove the rents around traded in my 3 online rentals for 3 in store, got ice cream, and sour patch kids - so a wild evening Anywhoo, tomorrow I have some fun planned, still pondering a drive, but no one ever wants to go with me, come on folks, mini-road trips are cool! (well they are when you drag your camera around) - but I am officially rambling, so the blog accomplished its name. I am off, to do something I’m sure. Night folks - have a nice weekend!
Okay - I got a irk when I got home (actually had a few today - but thats another blog all-together) - but I got home and there’s this very important envelope from my credit card company, it’s padded, its big, its scary. So I open it, and what is it? A invite to get their BUSINESS CARD! Oi!
So to ALL credit card commpanies out there, save some bubble wrap, a tree, and your breath, look if someone is an exsisting customer, save money on mass mailing out exsisting customer pointless offers marked as IMPORTANT INFORMATION which has NOTHING to do with the one card they have with you - honestly I am considering canceling cards if they keep doing this, and only keep the 1 line of credit which DOES NOT send odd notices like that.
As my always effort to offer a suggestion to a company I am nocking on a practice they have, try this: Make the Offer via Your Web Banking. I login, make it a popup when I get in, or even better yet take REAL demographics on me, and I a business owner? am I looking for a line of credit? am I a home owner? do I have 8 toes on my right foot? You know the important stuff.
Anywhoo - day ended differently than I planned, might blog on it later, always on IM if your curious and I haven’t posted yet, but I think I need to draw more lines - again, vauge, and a long story. But I did have a nice lunch.
Well the new server was purchased, and to boot, I got the check I was hoping for, still need to check the office for any stragglers who haven’t adjusted their mailing address for me, but it is really going well today I am strangely alert and awake, which bugs me lol - but so far a good day, good lunch chat, nice rep with the server company, its all good! PTL!
I have a few prayer requests to post up tonight, so keep your eyes peeled, but happy Pre-Friday everybody!
Well @ the office Courtney scheduled fake Friday in for me yesterday after a long Monday with dad’s trip to ER, it was much needed, but sadly I did work some and get things done - however being now officially mid-week, it is the real-deal, my fake Friday, which really is just a mindset, but I think may also include a movie-night.
Got my check for the server work I did end of last year, was happy to get it, goes towards the server clean-up here, so waiting for it to clear, but should be 100% in by Friday, but other payments still coming in so possibly sooner! It’s very awesome to think of what is possible, this server configuration has me excited to re-do all of the servers, a lot of work, and probably a few nights without too much sleep, but what it brings to the table:
Fully Sync’d and Redundant DNS
Multi-Noded Spam Filtering Service
New Mail Format which loads email faster in Webmail, IMAP, and POP3
New Auto-Install Script System (farewell Fantastico)
Powerful new reseller options
New Webmail system added to replace Neomail -> Roundcube
New Ecommerce Packages for both FH and TN
YourServer product offering - fully customized server that grows with you.
Etc. etc. etc. etc.
So yes, very excited! And now that my dad is back home and doing well (Thanks for the prayers) one less worry on my brain, thankfully his heart is perfect, he was just majorly dehydrated from the new meds - so adjusted medication and he was doing good.
So it looks like Feb. is a good month, I get older, means a special deal on FH as usual, new servers, new billing, new support, new new new - so its all good! Just wish I had time to finish every little thing here on my to-do list, but it’s getting there, going to grind away on it a bit, hoping to get to the office and find a pile of checks, going to check the other office too and see if anyone addressed wrong, but hopefully a few hundred in checks, and I can push forward on a few things
- I mean having a friend you have known since kindergarten, 2 new friends who are employees of my good friend, and the rest of his crazy staff, its a fun place to be, but at the same time it has it’s downsides, I don’t really have my own “space”.
Who knows. Night folks.
