So another week, another pile of things to do - and in 9 minutes I hope to be on my way to sleep - as it’s been a long day - a lot got done, some work on some sites that required some PHP tweaking, updating some scripts, and prepping for more to come, but also some nice downtime watching Heroes (lovely), and really unwinding before bed.
Tomorrow though brings the continued fun working to merge the old recovered Goldmine and the new changes folks have put in recently, ah the joys of work but work is getting smoother slowly but surely, hope to have more progress on the office, like many things they expect done “instantly” at work, this is one thing I did not want to rush, as there is a LOT of crap in there, some should of been thrown away in 1990, instead it was piled on bookshelves taking up space galore, but now I have a lot more open space, and more to come.
Anywhoo - that was more or less my quick update. Sleep becomes me in a few minutes and I still have a few more glasses of water to catch up on (long story) but needless to say, I am hoping for a good day tomorrow - I hope you all have a good one too!
This weekend I had plans to work on some things, and thus far… that has not happened. I had to hang out waiting for the Apartment’s AC guy to come by for some inspection, apparently I have a smooth running AC - so that took out most of the day 10-4, but everything else thus far has been sleep or relaxing, not a project to work on… some I should be, but I’ve been working for 6 days straight of PHP/Server/Design - and I needed a break.
I am thinking about getting a new iMac - haven’t really purchased anything for the business this year, so I am thinking it may be time to get a new desktop as it has been almost 2 years since I got this station, and the its a CoreDuo not Core2Duo so it would be nice to kick it up a notch - but we’ll see - Apple.com does have some re-furbished models for a good sized discount, so I may pull off that, and get the RAM upgrade from Newegg as well as a new storage drive for Time Machine - not 100% sure yet, but really really considering it.
Business is slow - been going over the logs, not many new sales, but then again the site needs a big refresh, and that’s nearly done - one of the projects I had hoped to work on this weekend, and I still may tomorrow, granting I am not still asleep - but a nice refresh to FH and TN would do wonders I’d imagine, and once that’s up and running maybe snag a few more sales and eek up revenues a bit, but eventually I’d love to see the ability to leave the day-job behind again and focus on the ol Self Employement Game
Anywhoo - nearly 11, going to go start sipping some water and watching some TV then hopefully pass out on the couch, but tomorrow could bring some fun stuff - have a blessed Sunday folks!
Well I finally made some progress at work, seemed like lately a lot of things were against me, the drive failure was bad, but I have really pushed forward that things need to change - and for this company as I told the President of the company is like cavemen, the moment something is different/wrong - they run back to the safety of the cave, but thankfully I have had some good luck with making him see the benefits of a few upgrades, the firewall was a great step forward, and now I have gotten him to allow me to move forward on a multi-megabit line!
We have picked up a 10Mbps/1.5Mbps - upstream isn’t what most would call “FAST” but since the bulk of our issue is mainly that of saturating a T1 connection (1.5/1.5) and having no where else to go but down, so with more room, we should handle the daily grind a bit better - or so I hope, if not, then there is a network device somewhere in the drop ceiling, and one weekend I am going to have a router/switch/hub hunt
Things are getting slowly better, less ALWAYS ON STRESS - a odd night of sleep last night which was more or less classic me, sleep early, wake up early, hit that 6:30am hour and the pillow calls again - but I made it thru the day, no worse for wear - and I got my first power bill, pretty much my only other “living” expense attached to the apartment… it was a big $110 - not bad, I had budgeted everything high, it was set at $200, so not bad a $90 extra into the budget, and I have adjusted my fridge/freezer settings, as well as setup a program in my thermostat.
So its all getting there, tonight is a web coding night, taking some casual fixes/work I have been doing in development, and some I haven’t and moving them to production servers to try and mend a customer’s customers - quite a bit of work, so should be a nice addition to the budget long-term, but since it is such a large amount and the customer is without additional help and he has a few people he is comping time for this blip, I am breaking it up, and also cutting a few hours out, more or less combining them into one big set of coding time.
Anywhoo - thanks to folks who have been checking in on me as always, I have a lot more to do this month, and this month is nearly over - so I am going to get to it, right after a bite to eat for dinner! Night folks!
So up and about after a good turkey induced nap - been a wild week or so with work, which all seemed to melt away when my little family of friends (and some who are family) came over on Friday night to share pizza with me, 4 pies - one was $1.99! We had a GREAT time, which is what I needed, a nice break in the constant bleh that has been work as of late, with the stress, disrespect etc. but such is the job on occasion, but it won’t be that way forever… at least I hope not
Having my good friends over it was an amazing time, my sister and her husband, my cousin - and all my close friends who’s houses I usually venture to on a Friday night to hang out with, all at my place, even Mr. Solomon came and joined in the fun, it was an amazing night, a great blessing (amazing food additions!) so just what I needed.
Today was mellow as well, slept in, then got a call about needing some help fixing up my parents TV, and that there was a Turkey being cooked (Test Turkey #1) so I left here a little after noon at about 2lbs of turkey, and then came home and worked a bit, only to loose out to the turkey and pass out into a lovely nap - the first Saturday in a while where I actually got to rest up a bit and not have to get a call asking for XYZ, or 3 emergencies waiting for MY attention, rest, plain and simple.
Starting to hopefully, finally get a bit of balance between the day job, my business, and personal - it takes time as always, but I have some amazing folks in my life who this week all told me they were praying for me, even one guy who I have known for a long time who also acts as a sales rep for a company I deal with @ the day job, called because he’s been concerned & praying for me - so good to know folks are watching out.
Anywhoo - I am going to go find a quick snack for dinner, maybe one of the 3 pieces of pizza left over from last night or maybe some scrambled eggs + toast, something simple for sure - but I really am craving cookies, so I may need to go buy some stuff from the store! Have a Good Sunday Folks! and thanks to everyone for their prayers and encouragement!
A odd weekend. So odd. What ended on Friday with a nice evening with Friends, Saturday started off with some drama, which ended okay I think, but still, wish that on my “days off” there wasn’t so much hooplah of bunk - Sunday was 100% fine until I read my work email - checking in to see if the boss man back east had replied, but basically it was mixed bits of what really seemed to be knocks at my performance, even at one point said “I’ll come out if I need to and make this right”… blargh.
I dunno what to do honestly, 3 days kicked out of my own office for construction that I literally got 1 day warning of, a server had a drive failure and it wasn’t being backed up because when I asked about the backup map they assured me it was being backed up between the two servers or I would of been backing it up like crazy! So I had a lot of angry people at me Thursday and Friday as I tried to get my office set back up and at the same time work on this problem.
I just sometimes miss the olden days of taking care of the rents, running my business, getting by - simple. easy. my terms, and I realize for me it’s probably a little harder as I am used to doing things on my own time/terms/way - but here if I only knew which way they wanted it, that’d be great, but I put forth an idea and it gets shot down. *sigh*
Anywhoo - just so frustrated right now, my buddy is chatting with me on IM about it, but honestly part of me wants to just go in and put in my 2 weeks notice, but that won’t fix anything at all, and will make more insanity for me here, freshly moved with suddenly no budget, need to cancel a few things - it’d be do-able, but I figure I am at this point for a reason, I just wish I knew what it was. So prayers are appreciated, as I am worried tomorrow might be crazy - or nothing at all. Who knows. So have a good Monday, and hopefully I will too!
So things are leveling out, things are getting better and changes are happening - one happened without much REAL planning, on the matter of “construction” my employers @ my day job are quick to move forward - thus today I did not have a office. They started work on taking out the wall between the old workout room, and my office, thus I had to re-locate. The issue was no one considered the servers - when dealing with Drywall there is a LOT of dust, so with the help of a friend from AR and my weak but workable arms, I relocated hardware to a cubicle down the way from my office.
The good news is this is all going to be DONE tomorrow, they nearly finished it today, but just not all the way, so things are going to wrap up tomorrow, and I’ll get a desk back, and after work I’ll re-locate servers back and in time get them racked up and off the floor and the silly stands.
But that leads to the big question on my heart lately, in a year, do I keep the day job? or do I go back to the joys of keeping my own hours, fighting for work, etc. - or do I stick around, or is there some other balance I can achieve? I just miss the ability to relax, heal up, this was the first time I recall being this sick for this long - granted I have healthcare now in which I can go get poked and prodded… but I think a lot of it is stress/exposure to sick folks on a more regular basis.
Feb 2009 is my big call time, unless something happens sooner than later to the job/position which doesn’t fit - but if nothing else I may see if we can wing a better hour setup come a year, something that gives me a lot more flexibility and reduction of stress from the politics and plain insanity of the office and I know in most jobs/positions that’ll never be gone 100% - but at this point my health, sanity, and budget are big factors in things, but who knows come 2009, I may have a new direction I never considered.
Anywhoo - that’s the random bits on my mind tonight, going to go and take the laptop and toy with a website or two (including FH/TN!) then some upgrades are on the books… so we’ll see what happens! Night all!
but work is getting smoother slowly but surely, hope to have more progress on the office, like many things they expect done “instantly” at work, this is one thing I did not want to rush, as there is a LOT of crap in there, some should of been thrown away in 1990, instead it was piled on bookshelves taking up space galore, but now I have a lot more open space, and more to come.
and moving them to production servers to try and mend a customer’s customers - quite a bit of work, so should be a nice addition to the budget long-term, but since it is such a large amount and the customer is without additional help and he has a few people he is comping time for this blip, I am breaking it up, and also cutting a few hours out, more or less combining them into one big set of coding time.
