this could be interesting….
Well in the last little bit, I have got a few weather bulletins from Weather Underground - basically I have the following in effect:
Ah the joys of living in the central valley 
What ever happened to things cooling off? 
Posted on 31 August '07 by Chuck Brown, under Uncategorized. Comments.
Well after a drive last night, to take my mom out to the coast for her vacation (dad to follow soon) - I headed back home this morning, I was considering going to the Apple store in SLO, but a busy busy day, trying to unwind a little from my drive (only nearly got hit by a big rig 3 times) - but I am back, getting project goodies together, re-writing a database layout now to adjust my sign-up form for a project, and pass it off to Mr. Poon for some love in the design dept.
Anywhoo - I’m alive. More later.
Posted on 31 August '07 by Chuck Brown, under work. Comments.
Well going to the coast today (surprise Bro!) - my mom is spending a week or so up there, and my dad wants some more time on his project car, so he’s working on it thru the weekend, and then coming up on Monday to vacation with her - but I really wish I had my iPod *tear* - and while I might have a check coming in today which would let me splurge, run to target and get one, there of course is the lingering Apple event on the 5th, now one of the few things rumored are new iPods, which if Apple keeps with it’s track record as of late, it has a 50/50 chance with me (love the iMac keyboard, didn’t like the new iMac - long story) - so part of me wants to wait, and another part says (4 hrs in the car over the next 2 days iPod = Good) - but another part says, suck it up. LoL.
The thing that sucks is waiting for something that could be “Wow” or “oh… cool” - there have been mockups of a new Nano-ish iPod offering, not for me, my dream would be a wider screen (aka iPhone-ish size) and Flash based storage (30gb in a flash… oh yes) - so we shall see, but then again, I may just jump the gun, and get a 80gb iPod sooner than later, if the check happens today, I can do it easy, but then again, patience? LOL.
So far the week has started to mellow out a bit, some code work to do this morning, I do need to get my car over to the car-wash (needs a good deep clean/vacuuming) and a oil change as well, and I am tempted to call my insurance company and say “Haha!” as they made me go up to 10k miles, and this past year of car insurance I only did my original estimate of 8k - nerds. But I only paid a month of them as I think once the funds balance out next month I’ll switch to Progressive who was one of the few companies to give me a very nice quote.
Anywhoo - been up since 3am, a slew of things to do today, oil change is my big list item, but just got the car all cleared out, and ready to go in, not sure what time they open, but I am guessing around 10am would be more than perfect to go swing by a check - and I need to run by the bank deposit some money, and break a $100 bill into some $20’s for the trip, life - busy busy. TTFN friends.
Posted on 30 August '07 by Chuck Brown, under my day. Comments.
Well I got the shot or two I had hoped for - you can see all of them here - it was a good night, got to get up the hill, nice breeze, amazing view of the sky, and got to spend a good bit of time chatting with the man upstairs, as I said in my last post, just a lot on the ol brain lately, change change change, but it was a wonderful morning going from 2->4AM.
Not a lot else to say at the moment, some things should be rolling out in the next few days, I need to get the money issues all sorted, and hopefully in the next 2 months it all balance out, between side work, new monthly revenue, and a few new clients - not to mention a few catching up over-due bills - so have a good week folks, I am going to finish off my day with some reading. Night.
Posted on 29 August '07 by Chuck Brown, under Uncategorized. Comments.
Busy busy - Today was just one of those days, wished a lot more had been done, wish some things had not taken up some of my time, but such is life I suppose - I have a lot on my mind, and with that sometimes my ability to reason and be rational about situations goes out the window, I sat down for a little over an hour to watch some recorded TV, let me relax a bit - but still just a temporary escape.
Some things happened good, server client paid today, so that’s a plus, no having to scrounge for funds or kill a server, got a check in the mail I wasn’t expecting… sure sure it’s for $15 but hey - that’s eat’n money I had hoped for another positive talk about business, but it never seemed to happen, it was one up’d by a site getting hacked that belongs to local government, and having to do some disabling of it and get it temporarily cleaned up, but even there, some more work to come.
I would ask of you all who read this to keep me in your prayers, as of late I feel like I am on the edge of a big step in life, big changes, big adjustments - some things like an apartment, job, etc. all are big parts, but I dunno, that is one thing in my mind lately I have been throwing around that whole “ah life” bit, trying to figure out what I’m here for as sometimes while I do love helping folks, I feel like a rag doll, just tossed around then left by the wayside - people who claim I am as I have said before “worth your weight in gold!” I sure sometimes that folks only say that to keep me happy and part of the team 
but its all part of this change I think, I dunno, just lately I feel different, aside from sleep deprived (that’s nothing new) I just feel like I just have to go a little further and it’ll be to a next step. I guess time will tell.
For now I will say my usual “Anywhoo…” and log off, I want to hit the bathroom, then head up the mountain, hoping to enjoy the calm, the breeze, and possibly the chance to see 2 moons in the sky during this lunar eclipse. So thanks in advance for the prayers, more later.
Posted on 28 August '07 by Chuck Brown, under The Real Me, deep thoughts, prayer requests. Comments.
Well my old old old old (insert additional old’s) keyboard was having some issues, just seemed to take more and more to get the thing to type, things like oh I don’t know “spacebar” decided on occasion not to work, or the E key would simply not work either - so after thinking about it and watching CompUSA (wanted to see it first) I decided to venture down and give the new Apple keyboard a demo, the feel is actually rather nice, I saw the new iMac’s and I must say - still not impressed, Apple makes nice stuff, but at the same time its the iMac, I had hoped for some innovation in the all-in-one design, but at least it had the keyboard attached for demo.
It is very nice, still haven’t done the apple keyboard update, requires me to reboot, and I have things running for a while, so I can’t really shut down just yet, but probably tomorrow - but all in all, it is a nice feel, sleek look, and things plug in really nicely. Now I just need a Mac Pro and 2 big monitors, and I am set!
Tomorrow flags a new day, some things on the todo include - some CSS, working to make a little “Client Preview” app to replace the ol static HTML, everything will run off a txt file and let me do updates a LOT faster vs. by hand editing some HTML code, all formatting will just work, once it’s done, its easy to update and then some - also the more pressing project is to finish the first run of the sign-up app, still fiddling with AJAX to do dynamic username lookups, but I may ditch that and do a secondary screen after failure that says “Your name was taken” and have them choose another, or simply pick the username first before they re-enter passwords and such 30 times.
So! I am going to wrap it up and call it a night, as much as I’d love to stay up I want to try and keep a semi-regular sleep schedule, granted it’ll be ruined tomorrow with the eclipse, and mars, but hey such is life but tomorrow I have a lot to get done, and more fun playing with the new billing system which I think will become the new backend for billing/support on FH - and soon will do the same for TN - joy joy
Anywhoo - have a good week folks, thanks for the prayers, im’s and kind donations - who hopefully this week will go well, and who knows, in time that ol iPod may be mine again. Night!
Posted on 26 August '07 by Chuck Brown, under basic goodness, my day, my toys, projects, random thoughts, work. Comments.
Well since yesterday I have been in a bit of a bad mood, things “seem” to be going good, got a new gig that’s getting me $500 a month in cash, and got the kMan on board for backups, so that’s good, things all seem to be coming about slowly, yet I found myself upon getting home, in a bad mood, and I know part of the reason, but I dunno - life is odd I suppose.
Been pondering where to go from here, things seem to be going in a direction I’d hoped, but at the same time, I really in some ways don’t like the new direction, means going against things I know are easier/better ways to do somethings in the hosting biz, but at the same time, it’s a job, it “pays the bills” as it were - but I find myself longing for more projects like the one I picked up with Dan, its fun, challenging, a hint of scary, and exciting to explore new areas not only of code in some regard, but a industry itself of horses. Very cool indeed - but work is work I suppose, just wish it’d been a bit more than $500 a month, but that will probably go up, I am just watching my hours as it is casual at some regard, I don’t want to come into this and be “helpful” to the point of being stupid.
I have still not moved folks to the friends server, it’s still sitting there, looking at me, asking me “Why haven’t you moved me?!” and also I need to still move one client out of servers in bako, so some work to do, but seeing as it is midnight nearly now, I am going to maybe do it Sunday night or Monday - just need to get my head on straight first.
Anywhoo - thats my ramble, I think I am going to go back to bed, safer there lol. Night folks.
Posted on 25 August '07 by Chuck Brown, under work. Comments.
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