Archive for April, 2008

Hello Weekend!

After a interesting week of work, here I am at the start of my weekend, the goals for today on the “non-work” side of things are taxes and bedroom cleaning - tonight later on I have a wild party to goto, and by wild I mean good friends, food, and possibly a flick.

Overall the week was good, I just find it really interesting how folks react to me at work, this past week alone I got several compliments about how I am very polite, easy to talk to, and quick to work on problems. Just part of how I work I suppose after the years (thus far) of running my own service based business, but it is something I’ve always preferred in service based business too - steady customers so to speak, that gives you more time to work with someone, get the plan down for what they want to do, and really dig in to helping make their project a wonderful thing.

This next 2 weeks though should be a tad crazy, taxes to be finished (should be done by Monday is my goal), start of packing up my room to move - not to mention throwing out a lot of stuff I don’t need anymore, preparing for the boss man’s presentation in NY (I don’t get to go, I am just setting up the powerpoint), and I am trying to finish up a write up of the new email options for customers, I think I have the pricing figured out in my head, and while I had hoped to get it online this past week, that just never happened - but lots to do, a server to setup, etc. etc. busy busy.

Anywhoo - going to go check on my YouTube upload, and get to work on the room a bit for a while - should be fun? :) Have a wonderful weekend all.

Posted on 5 April '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. Comments.

Always Running…

Man anymore it seems like I am always running, tonight I took a break for Earl and Eli - aka “My Name is Earl” and “Eli Stone” - both great shows, and I love Eli Stone, just well written, good message, fun cast, etc. a nice break, a nice distraction, but even here at midnight, life goes on, work continues.

Job Update - things are going well enough, so well this week I got a well done from 3 of the admin team, a hug from one of the gals from OE, and a bunch of candy from gals in sales (which I think were a bribe to fix computers, but tasty none the less) - it’s going good. Even finding a fair balance between work and my business, not great still, but it’s something I am sure for a LONG time I’ll be working to find a friendly balance in, but all in due time.

Still no update on the speeding ticket, going to call on the ticket Monday if nothing has come in, see what the fee is, and decide if I want to go before a judge, or just pay it, do traffic school, and move on. I really just want it, and taxes to be done and over with, and have the finances climbing back up and up preparing for an apartment - but even that is one thing in life I an wondering about, time tables.. nothing ever seems to be the right timing with me - I try to move out, I get a ticket, I try to leave early for work, I am nearly 20 minutes late, but like being 20 minutes late, I hope there is a good side, I was held up this morning as traffic on the freeway slowed to a crawl, had I left 20 minutes earlier, I may of been part of a 6 car accident on the freeway, so I am hoping this delay in an apartment is a good thing as well.

Last thing on my list of distractions, Windows Vista, I am considering ditching it, going to MythTV and Linux, as much as I like Media Center in Vista, the index issue with windows shares are annoying! With linux I would get native NFS support, and it’d be simple, easy, and I could always SSH from work and do what I needed to do ;) but again, a distraction and then some.

Anywhoo - busy, busy, and I just feel like talking - so I guess the blog is the next best thing, just so much on my mind right now, it get’s dulled down a little at work, as I try my best to focus on the problems at hand, but it’s like once the noise of the day-job quiet’s down, everything else comes up front and center - prayer are greatly appreciated, but for now I’ll say farewell, going to go clear a spot on the couch and try to get some things on paper, or pass out trying. Night.

Posted on 3 April '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. Comments.