My brain hurts - been a crazy start to a week, I think I may be sick. Weather change usually gives me a good run for my money - but all in all things aren’t too shabby around here, budget seems stable, customers are making an effort to get things squared away, and it looks like December 1 I will be canceling a number of services like Stamps.com, Old CC Processor, Old Billing Software, Old Support System - over $150 in monthly costs, so be nice to have them off the books, and hopefully before years end a few more new clients / projects to start the upswing into 2008.
Servers are still on my horizon, 8-Core’s is part of my nightly dreams lol - no but seriously, getting some new hardware is a big priority on my to-do list, I am going to try and keep hardware fresh each year, while a migration each year is a big deal, my hope is that this new provider will prove it’s ratings and customer reviews and give me a new more affordable, stable, and rock-solid support to rely on, not to say that my experience over the last 6 years has been bad with the current provider, they have had some changes which effect the business, so the new company will be the new home unless I hear horrible things before the move.
Code projects have been a big thing this week - and so far so good, got some headway on RM it’s really done, just trying to help out with the templates a bit since I know a bit more as I use Wordpress for CMS deployment a bit more than the site owner, so trying to get that nailed down and functional, pretty can come later since he mainly wants to get it online - so I think by Friday I’ll be good to go, 3 days before the due date, but at least they’ll be back up. EE is coming along, possibly some new functionality being added, which will score me $300 extra into the budget, so that’s a plus - but we’ll see.
Anywhoo - the day continues, I want to take a nap, sleep hasn’t been very restful lately, but I want to try and stay awake most of the day and only pass out towards the end of the afternoon if at all possible - so I’ll be getting off to work - I hope you all have a great Turkey Day here this Thursday! Take care all!
So - another day down this week, drawing close to Turkey Day, needing to purchase AppleCare for the MBP soon, budget getting a little pick me up from all the extra work (ptl!) just now of course I get myself run down a bit, still feeling tired all day, plus stomach has been killing me, so swapping out a few food meals with protein shakes (aka Atkins Shakes) - as odd as it may seem, it helps to lighten the load on my ol gut.
Anywhoo - not a lot to say, heading to bed here shortly, going to try and get a solid night’s rest, not sure that’s possible, but hey I can try can’t I? Also very excited about tomorrow night, first full billing night on the new billing system (giggle) should be good! The joys of work, excited, happy, but tired - hopefully that’ll end soon. Night folks.
So for starters, my bank finally fixed up the missing feature I enjoyed Pending Transactions - it was always nice to see what was flowing in, specially if I ordered something and they over-billed, nice to know and start the ball rolling on a refund. Well WAMU recently re-vamped their website (which sucks even more with mobile browsing) - and they ditched the feature. I complained. LOL and low and behold, they finished more of their upgrade, and as they promised from my complaining “it’s a feature being configured.” so today I logged in and saw:
So there it is, still not like it used to be, but it’s something (no “Expected Clearing” date - but I’m hopeful) - but all in all a nice thing to have back.
Busy week ahead, and of course, I am already tired, worked on some chatroom stuff, working to bring support chat to customers via IRC, so getting that setup, the ground work to EE is continuing, not as fast as I’d like, but none the less, I hope to have a good demo skeleton by end of Monday and off to the owner, if all goes as planned, I hope to get him deployed within the next 15 days (if not sooner), and in-between the code blocks, I’ll be working on RM some, getting its final bits configured, I am ahead on it, and I am also waiting on a call, apparently the site I laid out last week and everyone loved, was only half loved by its owners lol - so waiting for word back on that.
Anywhoo - lots on my brain, lots going on behind the scenes, trying to sort some things out like always, and it seems I may be setup again soon with someone, who knows - time will tell lol. Have a Great Week folks, hopefully I’ll get a good night’s rest here soon, and get a good start on my Monday.
So it’s true, what goes around, comes around. I lost a customer to another hosting company, no real reason given, they just requested a cancel, said a few happy words about my services, but then left, well then the company goofed, and I gained one of their customers lol. Funny how life works, but client is all setup and happy now, apparently I have features hostX doesn’t! Very nice.
Today was Test Turkey Day - the dry run for my dad before the official bird for turkey day, and already, I am trying to fight the desire to take a nap lol - but it was a good lunch - tasty, some good mashed potatoes, some good dressing, definitely going to make some homemade biscuits this year - have to dig out my old recipe.
Code tonight is the plan, just unwind the evening working on textmate writing up some spicy code to get ready for a meeting at some point this next week with a client, it should be polished up by Monday enough for a demo display - then its onto phase two which wraps up a lot of the code for production, and Monday I “officially” start on the other project, which is really just code cleanup so code code code!
Had a fun dinner last night, got the call from Jake and joined him, Scott and his sister Sarah @ Denny’s for some grub and hanging out - it was nice, a fun evening, even a crazy waitress hitting on Jake (ooo la la) - but it was a fun evening, I’d really like to get a regular night a month or every other week or something for hanging out with friends and a meal.
Anywhoo - back to it, going to do some upgrades on software, also looking at Java based IRC clients for some customer support in a “Live” setting, so a full afternoon/evening setup, so now I must work, and fight the effects of turkey on the human body. Zzzzz.
So today has really just seemed to drag on and on, I can’t get going! There is a pile of things to do, and all I really have the desire to do is goto sleep, had a bad night of sleep, forgot to set notifications off on monitoring for 10PM as the upstream was doing a upgrade at 12AM CST, so I got woken up as server by server’s monitor went off, not my favorite kind of wake up call, but I got to sleep about 2 hours later, and had a rough night, couldn’t seem to get comfortable.
Project wise the PHP is coming along, even found a solution for the project for Josh, granted I wasn’t to begin working on it till Monday, but it just posed some fun challenges, and I actually got ahead on other things - though tonight is EE code night, 2 days off should give me a fresh look at the project, it seems pretty easy going for what I hope to have up soon, but the code should actually roll out pretty quick at this point as the requirements and such have really firmed up, so excited to have that moving forward.
Anywhoo - I hope I get some energy here soon, I may take a cat nap here in a bit and see if that takes the edge off my lack of energy, or I’ll just grind along here getting as much as I can done with only 1/2 a brain working Take Care all and enjoy your Thursday!
So the house thing seems to be a bust - little sad, but not too unexpected, apparently the property my rents looked at was in pretty bad shape, and would of cost a small fortune to as my mom put it “get the smell out” so their search continues, but I am not giving up hope of my own place soon.
Picked up a possible project, still working on the particulars for the quote, but I have been thumbing thru a SQL drop file here for a bit, and I think I have the project nearly laid out in my head, need to sleep on a few things, but I think it’s do-able, hope to make some headway on other projects over the next 2 days, both billing & programming, both are two key projects I really want to wrap up and have done and done right, so far so good, just need to really buckle down tomorrow, hopefully I can get some sleep tonight.
I looked in the mirror a minute ago, and I actually recognized myself - I dunno, just so much stress lately, and questioning why I do things in life, things I have taken for granted, things I am trying to change in my life, for a while there I didn’t seem like myself in some areas of my life, and I think I am getting there, still some changes down the road, still some rough patches ahead - but I think I am going to make it even got a good laugh tonight, and got to relax to some good TV (which is rare) but I dunno, I am just praying over a lot of things right now, jobs, opportunities, finances, everything, now if only God would add me to the share list on his Google Calendar for my life! Oh how much more simpler that’d make things.
Anywhoo - I appreciate all of you who keep track of me here, and those of you who keep me in your prayers - good to know I have friends out there who cover me in prayer! Take care all, have a good Tuesday!
So the day hasn’t really gone as planned, seems they rarely do, so this afternoon, and I am sure into the evening short of someone calling me to goto dinner somewhere else, I’ll be tinkering in PHP, two projects I am going to toy with, one is a paid projects I have gone slow on, I think I am just going to finish it and be done with it over the next few days, the other is a CMS, going to re-vamp the old system I wrote for a few clients, and tune it up for a larger-scale application.
I want to get out of the house tomorrow and do some photography weather willing, with the recent rains, some things are green, so might be nice to journey up the hill, was thinking of going to Lake Isabella - goto Ming all the time (easy drive) but the big lake is up the mountain on a 2 lane road, so its a little more of a stressful drive at some level, but who knows - it could be fun!
Anywhoo - just wanted to breathe for a moment why I was waiting for PHP to re-compile - take care all, remember My Name is Earl returns tonight, FREE EARL!
lol - no but seriously, getting some new hardware is a big priority on my to-do list, I am going to try and keep hardware fresh each year, while a migration each year is a big deal, my hope is that this new provider will prove it’s ratings and customer reviews and give me a new more affordable, stable, and rock-solid support to rely on, not to say that my experience over the last 6 years has been bad with the current provider, they have had some changes which effect the business, so the new company will be the new home unless I hear horrible things before the move.
Take Care all and enjoy your Thursday!
