Ah the joys of Monday, lots to do, and only 24 hours to do it in I have already been up for 3 hours, played a little, read a little, little a littled - but some fun tasks today include:
Calling WAMU about 3 other accounts that never got merged. Yay.
Canceling ReplayTV for real.
Calling Brighthouse to ditch HDTV Package (cheesy 3 channels) and switch over to the Starz package for movies.
Follow up with 2 possible programming gigs.
Drink Water
Toy with billing systems (yay!)
Eat Cake
Dance…Dance…Dance..
So there it is, hopefully I can get the first 5 done for sure, the billing systems bit is on-going, and while I wish it was a easy conversion or upgrade, I have a few choices to look through, short of toying with the system again on my own, which at some level, may be my preferred choice, as the billing systems out there really have begun to irritate me in functionality, ease of order, ease of gateways, etc. and while Modernbill has been good to me, the upgrade path from 4.x -> 5.x looks annoying, not to mention 5.x really doesn’t “wow” me, it’s like Vista, lots of hype low on delivery
So there ya have it, got a email half drafted in gmail going out to Friends later today I hope about a move this weekend - I tried to get some photo time in last night with the meteor shower, only to find out “noise = bad” the level of noise on my camera at high ISO is bad, but trying to take pictures of mainly “black” came up with just TONS of noise, need a bigger magnification and a tripod.
Anywhoo - have a good Monday folks, I’ll be on IM, cell etc. if anyone needs me, send money
Tomorrow night (originally got it mixed up on my calendar - as TONIGHT) - but starting tomorrow at 9pm is the meteor shower, and apparently according to Space.com it’s gonna be ‘a great show‘, so my plan is to head up probably towards Tehachapi as it is a bit higher than I am and gets me above the smog layer
So far, I’ve only told some folks about it, but really no takers thus far, and I imagine due to its “hour” I won’t get many takers mainly because it starts at sundown till dawn the next morning… so for most of my friends who are folks who work I imagine if invited would say “well I have work in the morning” which is a perfectly fine answer, I do too, but I’ll probably be working once I get home
Anywhoo … good day of sleep for the most part, might just go back as I took a nap thinking today was the day, but when I went to lookup which way to look, it said great viewing started Sunday Night - soooo now to unwind, and dream of meteors tomorrow.
So I just got done watching 2 movies with my cousin, Children of Men & Ms. Potter - I enjoyed #2 but #1 - eh - so so, but both I have seen before, but it was a enjoyable re-watch on Ms. Potter, but Children of Men I simply said “..eh..” - still have Hot Fuzz left looking forward to that, hoping to get a good couple of laughs like I did with SotD.
Today was good, was woken up by the sound of my headset buzzing (it vibrates) I keep it near my head to buzz if I am getting a call, so I started my day off by waking up into a hour and a half conversation on the phone, and what a conversation. I went into my day after that, fixing up some things, playing a little, it’s friday for goodness sake! So I was trying to relax, however this evening - massive… network… outage. My upstream lost an entire subnet - were not talking just a Class C of IP’s but a entire subnet, granted this is RARE if ever, thankfully for over 6 months this line has been solid solid solid, but this drop was about 2hrs! Thankfully the servers were online, operational, just needed to get their internet back - so once the issue was resolved (my guess is a core router died on the edge of their network) - I was back.
So quite a day quite a day, kind of want to just goto sleep, but another part of me just wants to go and relax and enjoy the movie, then pass out So we shall see what happens - hope everyone has a good weekend, this next weekend I hope to migrate friend accounts from their various server homes -> friends server, so lots to plan, lots of things to set in motion.
Anywhoo - again I’ll say it, have a good weekend folks!
My playing with CakePHP has ended for now, I like some of the interface, not as elegant as Ruby, but PHP is a more accessible language at the moment and some of the basics are looking pretty nice - but a break was needed to step back from the joys of toying with it, and decided to work on my blog a little and get some client details done, all in all a productive morning
Well back to it for another hour or so, then a good long nap. Another day of trying to track down some money (yay)
Today was a good day, started at 2am, got a nap in the afternoon after a meeting fell thru, and here I am working this evening toying with CakePHP, seeing what it can do for me, so far I rather enjoy it - but it was a good day.
Lunch was fun got to hang out and enjoy a meal with Adam, Dan and Jake @ my favorite downtown lunch spot Kosmos - good pastrami, good service, good Mr. Pibb was a fun lunch, good catching up, good laughs, good good good.
Money is still a tad tight, seems like each time I get funds back in the bank, the bill I was worried about coming in, processes lol. so thankfully God is good, and is keeping it flowing smoothly, I have a PayPal transfer coming into it tomorrow I hope, which will help greatly, and if I can get the $450 I have floating between migration payment & a backup client, then I’ll be all fixed up - plus a project, I may get to pick up on Friday could get me a good bit of cash to put into the pot, so pretty happy about that.
This weekend I hope to move friend accounts smoothly from the various servers -> friends server, it has been running smooth with my test domain, so going to make the move for this site and a few others over the weekend, should be smooth, most aren’t huge, just simple blogs, personal website - so going to get that all ironed out and good to go - going to start a monthly donation drive for Friends if they want to contribute to the monthly costs as some have wanted to do, going to make some options to let folks donate whatever they like to help me out (payment in iPod’s is accepted)
Anywhoo - a good day, things are moving, get a few days to myself here starting tomorrow, so may be out partying non-stop (lol yeah.. me.) but its good stuff, thanks to those of you who have checked in on me, though you were few in number, none the less I appreciate it! So have a good Thursday folks.
Welcome to Friday! Hurray! Very happy that the weekend is nearly upon me, hoping some checks come in tomorrow and I can do the happy dance on my way to the bank, pretty happy though on how this rough week has all panned out - got the new server up and running, even accomplished the task of quite possibly making Mailcleaner work under OpenVZ - which took the help of another product from Swsoft, namely Parallels, was able to migrate ‘mostly’ things over, some blips with the SNMP bit, but this should help make folks have several redundant nodes for the anti-spam service.
So Friday should be almost restful, possibly more of a Saturday day off - but tonight’s break was lovely, got to hang out with my ol pal, ol chum, ol chohart in crime, mr. poon (and Val made us cookies!), it was a nice visit, and in our classic fashion, talking up a storm about everything until midnight, just barely got home! But a awesome visit, got to chat it up, talk movies, talk work, talk life, a wonderful evening.
Picked up the “Bourne Files” from Costco, basically Bourne Identity and Supremacy in a single pack for $15! Not too shabby, so going to lean back and enjoy that a little, also started drafting the notes for the full run of the “friends” server, so far so good, also looking at a media component for Churches, Fan Sites, Photographers, sort of like the Amazon S3 storage services at some level, but a chunk of space on the server, with a sizeable amount of bandwidth, talking in the realm of say 100GB of transfer, which REALLY should be more than enough for any size site, but it’ll have sizes, just something to allow churches to still afford the $5 a month hosting, but not have their sermons take up all their space & all their bandwidth.
I am sure there is something I am missing, granting it’s SysAdmin day, I guess really I should get the day off…. right? But thats never the case usually Pray for a easy day folks! But anywhoo, I am going to sign-off, and go find a snack (pudding?) and sit here and enjoy everyone’s favorite memory missing action hero (at least mine) Have a Good One Folks!
Well instead of running out a buying an iPod, or a headset, what did I do? You guessed it, I ran out and got a server. There was a promotion on bandwidth that came across my desk, and I couldn’t pass it up, so I put in an order, and now I am just waiting to get the thing online, which means some folks who are on “friend” style accounts will be moved to a new server, also has room for backups, which is nice, and will actually make backups quicker and easier to get to - so very excited, in offering backups to other clients I cover a good chunk of the monthly bill, but there is more to cover, about $150 a month, which ain’t bad for server and connection.
Going to go pickup a headset tomorrow, as much as I’d like to get the Plantronics 665, the issue is not only cost, but sadly I can’t find a steady flow of positive reviews, granted some I read reference they are using the headset with a Bluetooth 1.2 phone which could accommodate for the static/drops they were having, and the Dash is a Bluetooth 2.0 - but I want to get something sooner than later, and as much as I’d love to wait for Newegg, I think I am going to go snag the same headset again, it is comfy, and about the same price range as the on sale ones around town.
I finished up the Photography client, she’s busy uploading photos to her gallery, going to experiment and make her some drafts of a logo, this way she’ll have something hi-res for print/clothing should she need it, and it’ll make her site look even better (already looks good as is) - but I may have another job doing some design, which is nice, granted not my usual type of work, but it’ll be cool to do, really customizing a template, but some other things as we roll into August will help bring in some more money monthly, plus I want to focus on getting the TN page revived, and possibly another hosting venue, making Thrust Network the mama homepage with core service offerings and such, and a Hosting Front to offer basic hosting for things not just “A website” so offer “Blog Hosting” or “Gallery Hosting” type of setups.
Sysadmin day is coming up on the 27th, and while some know about it, they have asked me what I want lol - and I feel like a kid at Christmas, never really thought about it, and I appreciate the thought - at this point really, donations for an iPod, WoW Gift Card, A Book, or a DVD, I suppose I could freshen up the Amazon/ThinkGeek wishlists, but honestly - I am just happy that folks thought of me, some I of course hinted at it (aka the chatroom) and others knew about it, and asked me beforehand so very cool - but if ya want to send some love, PayPal tips are welcome, gift cards to food, whatever really - but the ultimate would be a iPod 80gb (no pressure)
Anywhoo - thats things in a nutshell, a few other things I may get to discuss in the coming weeks, some deals I am trying to work out, also need to snag a post office box too, as the office building I use as a maildrop is getting completely re-modeled, which means 3 months without it, but the plans look good for afterwards and the owner made me an office - very fancy indeed… wonder if I get wood floors, always wanted wood floors…. ah good times. Thanks for stopping by folks, more later this week I’m sure.
I have already been up for 3 hours, played a little, read a little, little a littled - but some fun tasks today include:
