I say more or less simply because how “good” can you be pain wise with 4 holes and a 2-3 inch incision in your shoulder! But as of last night he was still sleeping it all off, so it all seems to be leveling out - of course he will now have 6 months of re-coup/re-hab so a long road ahead, but hopefully less pain from his shoulder. Big thanks to all who kept him lifted up in prayer!
I finally got some sleep last night catching up after my whirlwind day - I got up for Dad’s surgery at 5:30am left the hospital with mom at around 8:15 or so and got to work, ended up leaving work at 11 - and stayed with them till about 3pm, at which point I was back at work for the remainder of the day (2 1/2 hours) so it was a busy busy day, one that ended fun getting to see my brother and his family, who I had not seen in months - which included my newphew! So pretty fun stuff!
Anywhoo - a busy day ahead, some work on FH, the apartment, bill paying, and I imagine a meal with family to see to Have a GREAT weekend folks!
ps. Just checked to see if my tracking for the G1 was active, looks like it’ll ship Monday, unless they have Saturday pickup! But maybe mid-week for the new phone! woot!
A new week, lots still to be done, but just barely feel like I am coming over a big chunk of stress, fatigue, etc. so much to do, but due to the mix of work, work, and lack of personal time things get crazy, so I am going to possibly figure out a new schedule with the day job, not sure 100% about that, but I am definately praying about it as I just don’t feel right working on customer projects @ the office - not that they “claim” to mind, but there is also that looming “EVERYTHING HERE IS TOP PRIORITY” even “the batteries died in my mouse.. oh wait, I have some here in my desk.”
The FH site has been slow going, I had hoped to have it up the 13th, but that has come and gone pretty quickly, thus really hampering the Crazy October Specials, but I think I may finally let that tradition go, 2 years and I haven’t really had a solid promo for it, but I think I may do the “Winter” specials as a trade off, not to mention the new packages setup for the hosting that all users will get a free upgrade to - so win-win for everyone!
I am having to re-learn a lot of things when it comes to the joy of relaxing, with FH/TN I had really found a balance of things, and worked to get some rest under my belt, to take a day and relax, this past Friday it took falling asleep in a massage chair to finally loosen me up some - one perk of work, thankfully Friday was a VERY slow day at the office, and it let me unwind a bit going into the weekend - but I am slowly finding things again, new printer I got for my home office does photo printing, so I am watching for deals on ink/paper again for the “Epson Artisan 800″ so I can get out with the new camera lens (35mm picked up 2-3 months ago) and really get some fun shots - and then print them for the office @ work.
Other things for relaxation was Rock Band 2 for 360, my former friend (Aka. Mr. Peer Pressure) egged me on (thanks Scott!) and I picked up the last copy for 360 tonight @ Target, thus I talked Scott to coming over for a bit and rockin out with me to some nerd songs like the “Still Alive” from Portal, and Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton - A lovely song then after he left I worked on my usual Band name “Potato” and got me a Van, so pretty sweet, but I do plan to lug the 360, drums, guitar, and mic over to the Poon place tonight (just became Monday a bit ago) and enjoy some fun with the gang - should be fun!
Do keep me in your prayers, I am trying to get a lot of things sorted - personal, faith, business, work, etc. just a lot on my plate lately and I don’t think I am giving a lot of quality time to any one, and I am really considering the possiblity of start of the year going a different route with the day job or finding some crazy way to hire someone to work FH/TN more agressively.
Anywhoo - nearly 12:30am - I need to eat something, and then get to bed, a full day tomorrow - but I have my new pencil, my moleskine, and I am going to get things sorted the old fashioned way on Paper then merge it up to various GTD like my favorite RTM - so hopefully I can line things up this next week and really get a priority of tasks, and narrow it all down into a lovely week of get’n it done! So have a lovely week, and I hope to post more soon!
So things are moving along with projects, not as quickly as I had hoped, but I am alive - today was rough after I grinded away at code last night not feeling good already, and I think I got it done, but never heard back from the client, but after 5 hours looking at code/site straight I pass things off to the client for a fresh set of eyes to look at it, not just my cached browser and tired eyes.
The FH project should be up and online by noon tomorrow, a little late, but I wanted it to roll out right as it’s the first big redesign in over a year, so tonight I am going to do some more fine tuning and see what I can fix bug wise as I know there is a few, but I also need to run it thru a few more browsers than just my fine collection of Mac and Linux based browsers, so going to shift to the Vista rig later today to run some tests since the design is only local at the moment - but some exciting changes I am hoping to unleash!
New shirt, one I was very excited about as I am not a fan of this election (or really any thus far), I think it promotes the best cannidates we could ask for, and I think it will look stylish with my freshly washed clothes! As it is laundry night I am currently on the last 5-10 minutes of washing, so it is time to wrap it up.
Anywhoo - nice to write again, more I could chat about on the personal end of things, but I’ll cover that more this week as life calms a bit, but for now I’ll say have a lovely evening, a great Eli Stone Tuesday and thanks for the prayers!
What a week this has been, hard to believe that it is already Thursday! Wow! A lot has gotten done, a lot of fires put out before they got bad, some strange things worked out for the best, and progress on a lot of fronts - not all the fronts that I had hoped - but progress is slow going, and change takes time.
A odd day at work, our new office bandwidth cut out at noon, and the COO was obviously a tad frustrated, this move was supposed to improve performance (READ: Speed) and give us more pipe (10Mbps) compared to our old connection (1.5Mbps) but for the last 2 days we have had issues, so for the remainder of the week I have 2 monitors, and a smokeping on the line, watching for outages, and I am going to try to push it at the lunch hour and see if maybe they just are oversold/overloaded.
On my own end, a productive morning - some DNS issues for the kMan, minor firewall Q&A, a DCMA violation on some software which was a error, that went too far lol, but it too was taken care of, and things are all rolling good, I have the HTML for the new FH being re-worked 100% I like the look of it, but I am also wanting 100% compliance if at all possible, I want it to be compliant with CSS/HTML standards and viewable nice and pretty - so I am doing my best - HTML is a tad rusty as of late, but I am making due.
The way home was interesting, at my exit I found a LONG line to get off our exit, which is not normal, myself and the car in front of me pulled over to help push a lady’s car off the freeway, her car died (hybrid) so she neutral’d it and me and the other driver pushed her off the on-ramp to the side of the road - she had a phone and was calling for help, thanked us, and off we went back to our journey home!
So a wild ending to my day - loafed a lot tonight, did some HTML for the kMan and MySelf to fill in some time, enjoyed the new Starz content on Netflix INSTANT view - about an hour left on Deja Vu (go Denzel!) so it was a fun evening, got to chat with 2 friends online and reviewed some Flickr stats on my account - all in all, fun stuff.
Anywhoo - it is time for bed, already shaved, brushed the teeth, and I feel ready for a nap, stomach ache is still hangin around, not sure if it’s this new sinus meds I picked up from Target “All Day Allergy” claims to be similar to Zyrtec, but it’s cleared up my allergies for sure, just not sure if it’s the source of my stomach ache, but I am going to lay off it tomorrow and see as the dosage lasts 24 hours - so that’s it for me, off to bed, have a good Thursday Folks!
Body temp is still high - not feeling as bad, but then again I am on some crazy “RAPID RELEASE” Tylenol, it does indeed work quickly! The nice thing to not taking a lot of meds on a regular basis is that when you do take them - they seem to work a lot better.
Tomorrow the plan is to get to work early. I am not talking 5-10 minutes early, but see if I can’t wing an hour or so early - the reason being is that they are planning to tear out a wall in my office Monday, I got this in my work email:
“…. Monday morning to start work on the wall. I am going to put in boxes everything on your that book shelf. So……. dont’ be surprised when you come in Monday”
This idea wasn’t really thought out too well, unless this guy knows a trick with Drywall not to make it shoot dust everywhere, and on everything - thus I am either going to have 2-3 lbs of dust (okay that’s an exaggeration) but no real plans have been made other than fixing the cooling concept of the IT office by combining it with a stronger flow from the now Ex-Gym’s AC unit - I like the idea, cooling wise it works, but the prep time to get this going, wasn’t there in the least.
So tomorrow I want to arrive a bit early, see if I can’t get things save and sound, no way to run servers in a “Trash Bag” mode as the President of the company suggested, so I am going to probably be moving key hardware to another location while the work goes forward.
Anywhoo - still not feeling 100% great, but I have gotten some good sleep, a tea pot, and some fancy CFL bulbs for my office here at home Sooo I am going to hit this week running, and maybe setup an appointment with the doc to get checked out - I partially know what they will say about 1 thing, but not about the rest of it So have a great week folks. Night!
So a long day at work, left the office at 7:30, 2 hours later than my normal day, going to probably go in early as well, but the firewall is in place, so that’s a start towards good things - but a long day to say the least, been up over 12 hours, and I think I have a few more to go, but the pizza will be here soon!
But it is still weird coming home to my place. For over 20 years my home was the same place, even when I had my own place, it was the same place and the only difference was I was the only one in a 3bdr house but this is getting there, getting used to the idea of silence again, always one thing I found hard, but thanks to some book suggestions I hope to have some fun reading material soon, even though I have cable, it’d be nice to really unwind my brain into some paper pages.
In other news, security system comes in tomorrow, from there it’s getting the install done, and everything nice and happily secured. Going to hit T-Mobile tomorrow after work or at lunch and see about getting the T-Mobile @ Home, they’ll try to rope me into a 2 yr contract renewal, but I am going to of course manage to wiggle my way into a single year (or else!) - but hopefully it’ll be good.
Anywhoo - pizza should be here shortly, going to go get my glass of Dr. Pepper ready to enjoy the tasty Chicken Alfredo Pizza Have a GREAT night, and wonderful Fake Friday!
Okay okay - odd title, but it’s the Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog Soundtrack I just snagged from iTunes - a nice addition to the flick, I hope ol JW decides to make a few more episodes if not make it a regular thing - but a nice thing to listen to as I finish up the day off
A interesting “day-off” which for me included working around here on things - put up a few things, tried out my oven - I need to find the scissors though as I can’t cut the shelf paper without em, probably borrow my pair from work as I don’t use it there that often, but at least it’ll hold me off from going to Target again, and blowing a lot more money lol.
I think I have my security system sorted, probably be in this next Friday or so - but around here the nighborhood has been quiet and mellow, the ocasional group of kids yelling at the pool, but not a big deal, heck even my upstairs neighbors making a racket today didn’t even bother me, as they are moving out but its all coming together to be lovely, maybe week after next have folks over for a house/apartment warming (depending on what they want to call it).
Sent off my current logo to two of my buddies tonight, looking to have the Thrust Networks logo re-done, I made the one in use over 10 years ago, and it could use a fresh touch just like FlockHosting got a while back - but I’d really love to see what my friends can do as they are both insanely gifted artists - and I bet they can come up with something original/fresh/clean - but with that I think I’ll be able to get a fresh site ready for TN and I am going to start working this week on FH’s refresh to include some new packages/functions/features/etc.
Anywhoo - going to finish up my day and get a hearty 6 hours sleep before I start back to work, been a nice 4.5 days off, but sadly things must go back to the lovely grind, but hopefully a night’s rest helps me be fresh and ready for the challenges of day! Night all! Have a GREAT Tuesday!
Have a GREAT weekend folks!
things get crazy, so I am going to possibly figure out a new schedule with the day job, not sure 100% about that, but I am definately praying about it as I just don’t feel right working on customer projects @ the office - not that they “claim” to mind, but there is also that looming “EVERYTHING HERE IS TOP PRIORITY” even “the batteries died in my mouse.. oh wait, I have some here in my desk.”
