Well I am moving forward with an apartment, big step - home has always been where I have lived, since I was 4 I think, it’s a good home, it’s served me well, but it’s time, and after a good talk with my Dad, some good prayer time on the matter - it’s a step forward I simply need to take - now if this is the time or not, I leave 100% up to God - as I am going down tonight to snag 2 checks totalling $425 - going to turn in the app, and we’ll see what happens!
Pretty excited, little nervous, just trying to remain positive no matter what happens, as who knows, may it is simply not the time, and I pray that if that be the case, the Lord would close this door, and we will see what happens, if it is, then I’ll get things all setup, maybe my bed, and take my laptop, but then slowly get things rolling, internet access/cable setup, phone, etc. etc.
So keep me in your prayers, I’ll post an update here in a little bit, hoping to sneak to the bank, then off to the complex here in a bit - maybe 10minutes early from work, but I know it’ll be made up this week most likely with the firewall install - so off I go!
Update (6:30pm) - Well the guy I spoke to was gone by the time I got there apparently I didn’t get across time quickly enough and his “working late” wasn’t as “late” as he imagined! So going to call in the AM, maybe call in to work that I am going to be late - we’ll see again, if this is a closed door, then so be it - just giving it 1 more try.
I had a fun weekend, and found some fun things, but might not of gotten all the sleep I needed - in the end though I think it was fun, good food - family, friends, a nice mix all around, missed Church tonight (Sorry Scott!) but it was for a family gather, in which we had some wonderful homemade Chinese food - quite delicious.
But this weekend posed the question “Apartment?” and I think the answer is quite simply “Yes” - I love my parents, and I love giving them fancy things like Cable, Internet, Cash, and Food, but they have both made it clear over the last month or two, that they don’t want to hold me back - to make me feel like I MUST be there to take care of them, so moving out isn’t so bad, plus I am more or less in the area still, as my apartment is only a mere 3 miles away (Bike Riding Distance!) so still nearby if needed, but my own place to relax, set rules, have wild parties (Note: Wild Parties = Food and Video Games lately) - but it could be fun.
The plan is to sleep on it tonight, pray it up real good, but unless someone comes to me with a $800/m house for rent, or some reason I SHOULD NOT move, I think I am going to push forward and have my move-in date be Friday, not a big rush, but I imagine it would give me time to slowly move in over the weekend, and maybe take Monday-Wednesday off to setup, and be around for things like PG&E, Cable Install, etc. and get all setup and fancy - but again, one step at a time, trying not to plan my life for this next week, as I know it’s gonna get busy.
Anywhoo - it’s getting close to that time, and morning is going to come early, tomorrow should be interesting, need to finish the newsletter for work, and I am sure a slew of other projects will follow, hopefully that of new firewall installed etc. but time will tell. I do appreciate all the prayers from you all, much appreciated indeed - I’ll keep you all posted, for now though I will say “Good Night!” and have a great week!
Well it’s been 6 months since I looked at apartments, I have also had 6 months of a job, and a minor raise since then (the raise @ 90 days) but I went again to my favorite Shadow Ridge, didn’t get any photos, thought about it, but I like it, they showed me the 2bed, 2bath 1 car garage ones, $895 a month, but nifty to have a garage, but on the flip side, they did show me the same 2bed 1 bath for $750 a month, and it’s nice, very roomy, upstaris - so a nice workout to and from the car
I like the idea of living on my own again, and I do realize that it also means that I’ll have a lot more in expenses each month, but the ULTRA cool thing with the place, they are having a special 1/2 off the first FULL month’s rent, so pro-rated first month, 1/2 off the next month - so some time for the budget to re-coup - and on top of that since it’s all part of the up-front, I’ll be paid up in rent till October, so very nice indeed.
A lot of perks, not as fun to live alone always, but I think lately I’ve been hiding out since I get home, not that I am bugged by my parents, but just a lot on the mind lately, so many odd things happening lately with work and such, I just find I come home, work a bit, then sleep.
Anywhoo - just posting to ask for folks to keep me lifted up in prayer, really looking at this option seriously, seems like it could be a good fit, but I am going to poke around Sunday’s paper, and see if maybe there are any other offers I should explore before jumping into this one quickly, nothing says I HAVE to move out, but I think it might be time. Thanks for the prayers and have a lovely Saturday!
Well the night has come, Unicron-Classic (lol) is being shutdown as I type. It was a good server, lasted longer than I thought it would, even if it did cause me great grief this past weekend locking up, running out of ram, etc. but the customers of that server (not mine) are now re-located to 2 masterful 8-Core systems - and doing great on lovely RAID10 drive setups, so a nice improvement for those folks, I am sure there are some little bugs waiting for me here and there, but all in all, very very happy!
In other news! My parts showed up today, as I have been working here, I have been trying out the new thumbdrive which is for a combo of personal and a combo of work, 16GB of thumbdrive wonderfulness - so very happy, and every little bit I have been putting together the system, and it’s going well - but I’ll post more later, a few things to sort out in here, and waiting on the final on the old server, etc. etc. but tonight I’ll have a few things to post about… more soon!
I have been cleaning my room, and when I say clean, I more or less mean cleaning what is the combo of my office, bedroom, and former house setup, so there is a LOT of things in here - and I am trying to sort thru things to get towards having an apartment, the media center and such are part of that, but I am working towards a bigger place, and to reduce some of the clutter.
Sometimes I suppose we all take a stab at cleaning up things, reducing - I have far too much stuff as is, that is why I hope to reduce computers, old computer junk, piles of papers, old files from 10 years ago when the business started, and looking at a backup solution to backup my backup! So lots on my plate aside from two jobs! But while I feel exhausted, sick, and sad I can’t goto my niece’s birthday on Friday - must keep moving forward.
So thus far I have used my new shredder to go thru 3 piles, made 1 pile of “Scan” and then shred, or maybe shred/file cabinet (might need to get one again) but so far so good, making good progress, but sleep time is coming soon, as it was a long weekend, and I didn’t get all the sleep I wanted as each time I went to bed, I got a call lol - the joys of a migration.
Anywhoo - thanks to Scott, Brenten and Lara for their book suggestions on Xanga and here - going to do a check around and see what’s on Half.com and such - pick up something for sure soon as I want to unwind on the couch and just be separated from reality for a bit. One final bit though, prayer request again, going to look at an apartment on Friday since I can’t make it to the coast - so who knows, by this time next week - may have a new place! For now though, I am going to keep working on this place, and head to my bed for a good night’s rest. Night all!
It has been a while since I picked up a good book. I had a favorite author Jefferson Scott - who I was nice enough to email back and forth with once - his first books that caught my eye were the Ethan Hamilton stories, namely the progression from Virtually Eliminated (going to read it again soon) - but the stories are wonderfully written, and not just some “magical computer terms” like the movie Hackers “let’s hack a gibson!” and no spray painted Apple laptops, simple, true, accurate goodies - but the stories tied in Faith to the whole story, tied it into the job, the walk, the day-to-day of the character’s life. Amazing Stories.
Then yet again, he wrote the Operation Firebrand series - yowza! I could put those down, as I heard one was released, I was at Barnes and Noble or CBD placing and order to get it to me, sadly I found myself done in a night. LoL - Re-Read them again this past year in under 3 days - the stories are about a miltary unit that uses non-lethal weapons to carry out, how should I put it, Extreme Missionary Field Work but again very accurate, visual books, that in some cases even with just the people you meet in the story, brought tears to my eyes.
Sadly, no other books of the Fiction variety have come from him lately, and who knows maybe one day they will, but I have said all this for two reasons:
Mr. Scott - I love your books, today as much as I did when I bought them, a massive blessing to me!
I need more books!
I find myself constantly in front of the computer anymore, with a day-job and a business of my own which keep me busy, a book to burry my head in would be good for a change. I have found some other Christian writers who do decent fiction, but I want fiction, I deal with Real Life enough as is, a blip off the radar from PHP/dBase/MySQL/How-to books, would be a great relief.
So if you have a thought or two, post your suggestions in the comments either here or on Xanga, and let me know if you have ANY sort of suggestion, even Non-Fiction suggestions are allowed, but again a little escape from reality would do me good
That’s it for tonight, I am off to see what these 24 emails are then hopefully passout! Have a blessed Sunday!
What a week, a slew of changes, ups, downs, backwards, forwards, friends gained, friends lost, toaster strudel (mmm love that icing) and ideas for projects, but thru it all, I have seen several adults this week act VERY childishly in regards to issues at hand - just sometimes wonder if it was the alignment of the planets.. maybe China has a “10 yr old” ray-gun that reverts folks to dealing with things by comments like “Turd Head” (oh yes, they went there) - but lots of things were resolved by people this week in that manner, leaving myself and a few others going “HUH?” - but maybe once the moon is full… lol who knows.
Tonight is a server migration! (YAY!) new servers came online for a customer earlier today, and it all is falling into place, which is super cool, even a new feature in cPanel which wasn’t there the last migration, which will switch the IP for me on the current DNS servers, with the size of this move, and all sites currently living on 1 server, that was gonna get messy doing updates thru the night, but this way - DONE! So very excited, I may, dare I say it, knock on wood, clap that you believe in fairies, and of cour say a prayer - this could go even smoother than I imagined!
But the only thing that is holding me up tonight, is a overdose of fun! As you can see from flickr -> my good buddy Scott said “PHOTO FRIDAY!” (okay so maybe not exactly that, but his offer translated to that in my head, I miss the photo days, and just getting out, we hit Lake Ming which is nearby and I gave him some tips on using his camera, and we had fun (or at least I did, but I hope he did too!) but some fun shots, he has some up too - so it was neat, had dinner (which I wasn’t too hungry - I think my lunch was icky) - but I arrived home to get the call about the aforementioned migration above
So it has been a whirlwind week, the weekend should be fun, I have a show I am going to with my Cousin, a friend’s husband is playing at a Borders so it should be a fun weekend with the Cuz, and there is a Atlantis episode somewhere, hope the DVR didn’t freak this week too - last week it missed it! Silly Brighthouse DVR!
Anywhoo - so much on my mind still some not quite ready for prime time in the public spotlight, but one thing really on my heart is a bit from earlier this week, the one I can’t chat about - you know the one (well God does) it still just seems odd, brash, sudden, but no one is talking to me about it - so I am leaving it as is, and let folks cool/calm/sort it out etc. and I’ll be here when folks want to talk - but my hope is something works out for everyone (vague I know). Have a WONDERFUL weekend! I am already shooting for NEXT weekend, as I am going to see my buddy turn 8 (go goofball!) and meet my Nephew and give him his first Photo Shoot Night!
apparently I didn’t get across time quickly enough and his “working late” wasn’t as “late” as he imagined! So going to call in the AM, maybe call in to work that I am going to be late - we’ll see again, if this is a closed door, then so be it - just giving it 1 more try.
Night!
