Archive for February, 2007
So I had a birthday - and it was good.
The plan today was a boring one (aka one of my own design) which was originally to do nothing, but sister stepped in, offered her house, a cake, and a Nintedo Wii - for lunch the office took me to Kosmos where I shared a shot with Jimmy the Greek (non-alcoholic) was kind of silly 
but it all turned out pretty fun.
Lunch was a hoot, got the T1 in to boot, some minor glitches with one server which I need to go down and reboot, but not a HUGE deal, but heading out after this blog entry, but the birthday at my sister’s was fun, sadly a lot of my friends didn’t make it, school, church, other commitments, but The Fosters, and The Applewhites made it - and it was a fun little group, William is a mad-skillz bowler, Courtney did pretty well too - Matt and Marcie had fun, and well, I finally hit 100 on bowling 
we had pizza, cake & ice cream, and I got some funny cards which definitely put a smile on my face.
But a good birthday, possibly a birthday dinner coming up this weekend with the folks who didn’t get to come, so who knows, even more birthday extravaganza’s to come! But for now, quick bathroom break, then its off to the office to reboot the server and pray all IP’s re-bind. Night folks.
Posted on 28 February '07 by Chuck Brown, under basic goodness, my day. No Comments.
Well the age of 27 is officially upon me, so far no parades, no massive parties, no DDR extravaganza’s - just me, sitting here watching TV - trying not to think, if only my brain had a switch.
Life is funny, you know each year since I was 25 I tend to look back and try to take account of what I have done with my life, while I can’t say I have done these tremendous things that warrant a bit on the news, or a article in the paper, I have lived my life - up’s, down’s, and maybe a little side-to-side, but this is it, I’m breathing, I’m walking, and I even have a few folks who care about me.
So while I can’t figure out what to do for my birthday until the day before (heck last year I changed plans at the last minute) - today should be nice, quiet, simple, even a cake! My big plan was my usual haunts of relaxing things, of course that’d of meant sitting at the lake, in the rain - which honestly wouldn’t of been that bad, instead my sister offered her house, and her Nintendo Wii for a get together, now I wait to see who can attend since it is mid-week, may get things going and find out no one can make it - in which case I have myself a family birthday on my hands, and then I plan friend stuff maybe this weekend.
Hello Birthday!
Posted on 28 February '07 by Chuck Brown, under my day. 4 Comments.
Well it appears it’ll be raining for my birthday if all forecasters are right, I honestly haven’t even looked. Only 1 day till the cheery day (yay) and I have no idea what I am going to do, I had thought John’s Incredible, but thats too pricey, then there was Average Pizza Place, but couldn’t think of anywhere - so no idea. Plus my birthday is mid-week, which means it may be hard for some folks to squeeze in a party, so who knows.
Just too much on my brain lately, maybe I’ll just hit my birthday alone this year, and have a party later with friends - who knows, maybe today someone will have the brilliant idea, and it’ll all fall into place. For now, going to try to sleep.
Posted on 27 February '07 by Chuck Brown, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Well this week presents a few things to do. And why yes, there is a list:
- Plumbing Page Goes Online
- FH goes online.
- T1 Instal/Migration
- Call to gentleman about a website.
- Fix up a few more Frontpage websites
- Adjust Billing
- Finalize Some Trouble Tickets
Of course this week brings about one thing that happens only 1 time a year - that of course is my birthday. The wonderful 27. Even had Mr. Poon call tonight to see what the plan was - and honestly I don’t know. LoL - Last year I went to Lake Ming, that was nice (at least for me) I enjoy the outdoors, so even while folks were freezing I had a good time.
So things to do, things to catch-up, and hopefully some good news on a friends life - plus a birthday of fun? Sounds like a good week to me - but prayers are appreciated for my friend, again, can’t mention too much in the names of folks involved, but such is the joys of a blog, but I am going to call it a night shortly - so I’m gonna hit Publish, and call it good.
It’s been a couple of wild/crazy weeks - behind on some projects, behind on some billing, and I have a few letters to write to folks - things are catching up though, personal stuff lately more in the realm of helping friends has taken up some time, but time I don’t regret taking - just one of those things in life I enjoy to do with my life, to really just drop everything if needs be, and help - thankfully I have customers/friends who understand what I do.
There are some folks lately though that irk me. This whole fake bit when they need help, then this pushy irritating rudeness when I say “In a minute” or try to offer help and it’s not fast enough - but the bottom line is folks who don’t want help, usually won’t take it even if they have it thrust upon them - heck a IM just 2 seconds ago just was someone who I think was probably drunk, going off - followed up with me about to tell them anyway what to do to fix their problem, but then he logged off upset. Why do I give my IM out to some people?
My cousin was in town, so hit the movies, saw The Astronaut Farmer, a good movie I enjoyed it, a nice night out - but tonight I am sitting here alone, empty house, no noise, so I am working on the MBP in the living room with the TV on, and just playing whatever is on - noise in general is good - just too much on my mind right now to really just bad if I have all quiet, the brain goes off - doesn’t stop, so noise = good.
But the plans for this weekend have almost gone like planned, had a nice time at the party with the Fosters, it just seemed far to short - things were fun though, had some fun talkin, got to hold thug baby and good cake and burgers, it was a fun party - still need to figure out what the heck I am doing for mine. I never can seem to come up with anything till the last minute, and usually its something silly like oh I dunno, goto lake ming and freeze all my friends lol. but this year I am leaning towards something fun and kid friendly, though everything seems expensive - I dunno, just can’t decide - any suggestions?
Anywhoo - rambling, just trying to put down whats rolling around in my head that’s not too personal, or too private from things other folks are going through, the joys of my brain/life. Guess its time to stare at the wall - ah the wall. Night folks.
Posted on 24 February '07 by Chuck Brown, under deep thoughts, my day. No Comments.
Well I am sitting here on my brother’s couch in Grover Beach, just trying to get to sleep, I crashed earlier after dinner, and woke up and here I am.
Today was a interesting day, found out more on what’s going on with my buddy and his marriage, its a mixed thing right now, but I just hope things work out for the best - just right now I am unsure as to what is going to happen, so not going to really even put forth a guess or anything - just keep them in prayer.
The guys from AT&T came to the office today too to scout out things for the T1 install, they are having to bring in some extra tools, but think it should be a clear-cut install, I am hoping that I can get Arrival to get in there and get the line switched out because were having issues like crazy - some east coast locations can’t see the friend server and a few other applications we have running - so fixed is better than not fixed (crazy I know).
So the plan for tomorrow is to head home around 9am, which should put me back in bako around noon or so at the latest (granting there is no rain, possibly by 11am) - hopefully get the T1 squared away, spend some time at the office working on fine-tuning and possibly tweaking the config of the anti-spam filter, possibly build node #2 to help pick up some of the slack since we have a few domains with HIGH volumes of spam.
The evening is going to the movies, Cousin Sarah is in town and we are gonna hit the town (we so wild!) and enjoy a movie, possibly some friends joining in the fun - but the other bit of fun is the birthday party on Saturday! Woohoo! Good stuff.
Anywhoo - going to try and crash out here again, so if I don’t post again till Monday, have a good weekend folks!
Well it was just one of those days, one of those times you get to step in and try to do something to help, but at the same time you wonder if your helping, or hindering, or dancing the roomba - I hop’d in and helped on a computer build, while dealing with a internet issue, then fixed up 2 computers for this crazy lady (hi angel!) and followed that up with a slice of cheesecake (which I think I am still digesting… mmmm) and was going to have a night hanging out with the kMan, but sadly - he was nowhere to be found.
So my night picked up here at the house, got some real food in me finally, and proceeded to unwind, I dunno, just had a urgency on things today - at least it felt that way to me, but things got done - took in some supplies to the office, which I don’t think the guys understand are there for everyone, which is fine I guess, but at least a few folks seem to get the hint and enjoyed some of the munchies/drinks, at my office I always had snacks, drinks, things like popcorn and such - wanted things to be relaxed, and if you just needed a snack, no need to run to a store to buy something, it was there.
I feel like sometimes people take me trying to be nice as me trying to PUSH something on them, I realize, some folks don’t want a hand out, they don’t want you to have pity for them, or think they aren’t able to support/care/handle their family/business/etc. but I dunno, I guess everyone has the right to say “No thanks” and I respect that, I mean if someone doesn’t want my help - its quite simply a gift they can easily not accept - but today I did have someone get a little defensive when I was trying to lend a hand, was off the cuff, and maybe they realized how they sounded, and sort of stepped back, but I dunno - by no means am I trying to say my friends are incapable of getting something nice, taking care of business, etc. I just like doing nice things for folks. I dunno, maybe thats odd - but so be it, I have learned over the years, I’m a tad odd.
But anywhoo - coming up on 1am here, I am leaving tomorrow for Grover Beach for the day, I love the trip - and I am dropping off my mom who my sister will bring home over the weekend - so everybody wins - BUT also I get to take some photography of my niece playing soccer!!!!! WOOHOO!! Never have done sports photography, so I may actually go use my $50 gift card at CompUSA tomorrow and get a 2 or 4GB CF Card since I want to shoot half of the game in digital negative so I can do some color touchups and such - but tomorrow should be fun! Then it’s back on Friday for the Fluxar Dawgs in Da Alley fest, and Movies with Cousin Sarah and possibly a friend or two, then my weekend fun going to a 2yr old’s birthday (us redheads hafta stick together).
So night all, do keep my friends in your prayers, not sure what’s up 100% but things were mildly confirmed that there is indeed something up when I talked to him briefly today, so just hoping its all gonna work out one way or another - ah life. Thanks for stopping by and reading my insanity.
