One of the downsides of course to going for weeks with little sleep is your health, and in my case, I know my limits on sleep, well one side effect is of course pain as the body is exhausted, another is for me a family favorite - throwing up. Thus this morning as I was getting ready for church I urp’d and urp’d good - of course I felt better afterwards, cleaned up and was only 10m late for church.
Church was fun, and I am glad I didn’t just wimp out and go back to sleep (Faith is Done now, all accounts over) - got to sit next to Scott and His Dad, got to see Dan and Val, and a good portion of the Poon family, the nephews were there and I scared members of the church as I gave Gavin a big hug, and then I proceeded to share the secret of shirt.woot.com as he enjoyed my sugar rush t-shirt.
So a fun morning, and more things this afternoon, but for now, I can get at least 3 hours of sleep in before the Foster’s shin-dig, so going to try and nap a bit, then load up, and head towards the ice-creamery, I am thinking of a shake with Chocolate, Malt, and maybe Carmel, or PB - not sure so many choices, so little time - anywhoo, thanks to everyone for the prayers, don’t worry, tonight’s move is really just 3 sites, it’s a low-profile smaller server, all the BIG stuff for this weekend is done, next weekend is the move of 2 other smaller systems, but by no means the collective GB’s of data this one had this weekend, so sleep is coming, promise.
Anywhoo - I am off, one more day of the house to myself, tonight aside from sleep I hope to get some headway on my bedroom. Okay, processing a ‘break;’ on random rambling, more later I am sure. Good Sunday to All!
Sooo… it’s Sunday, and been in prayer this morning a lot, basically tonight is the deadline for getting in on my servers deal, and as it stands - I am going with it. I have been looking at the facts, and so far nothing seems bad. Staff has been friendly, nerdy, and willing to help/look into things to be a help, and that seems to be the common response in reviews - the hardware itself is performing nicely, no slowdowns, memory is stable, and even some of the upcoming “bonuses” I am throwing at customers here soon are working very nicely.
3 more servers will be ordered to handle the bulk of the big servers, Trogdor will devour friends and 2 other servers I do for folks on the cheap, as well as eat up all the friend sites from each server, into this next week I’ll snag probably 2-3 more smaller boxes to finish up the remainder of the servers out there, so it’s looking good.
Lots to do though, and not just with the business, lot on my plate that I want to fix up in the personal life as well, and who knows this week may bring me some more direction as to a job - so I am hopeful, and prayerful going into this as it’s a big leap with the servers, but it ties into the personal side trusting other’s with my business, not to say I will be relaxing my grip a ton, but this company has been great thus far and reviews show (as does the interaction I’ve had this far) they care about their customers, hardware, and aren’t afraid to help - which is how I like to run my business as well.
Good stuff ahead, I can feel it. Now the big choice before deployment, do I keep MySQL4… or move everyone to MySQL5 when I migrate them over… so many choices… so little time Keep me in your prayers, and keep posted here for more updates coming down the line!
So here I am - alive after another day - another day of no word from kMan on money, no checks in, so another day running very tight funds - I admit, it’s getting very old, but as always I like to try to find solutions, and so I ran some numbers on things, trying to tweak configurations for servers, look at various providers, see where I could cut some costs - and my plan was to do that before dinner.
I came up with a savings of $250, while actually improving services, and even some room for giving customers some extra love for their patience in the move! I still have to check on 2 things with one customer, but it may line up just peachy with their idea to upgrade their website’s resources so all in all, if all things are agreed upon like it is currently, then I could be looking at $250 less towards servers, and I can start to really pay off bills, and push forward to an Apartment, even if the job at the coast doesn’t happen.
The blog got some touch ups today, really just needed to focus on a web project that wasn’t customer related for a bit, and it was fun, threw in some random code tweaks, changed out the background on the theme I found, and I think it looks good - granted there are no edit buttons per article when I am logged in, but I can probably get em added without issue, just some simple bits of code, and I’ll be good to go.
All in all, not the best week I’ve had to start off a new year, but none the less I am still breathing, and I am pushing forward, hoping for the best, and looking forward to some changes in my personal and business lives very soon.
Anywhoo - I am hungry! Had lunch at 11 with Dan, and now I am hungry here at what is now 6pm, so going to go find something tasty to eat, and sit down and enjoy some random TV! Night folks, keep me in your prayers!
So a week done, some crazy stuff for a Friday, got a fraudulent order, they charged someone else’s card over $120 for hosting from me, first thing that was odd, the IP - a server in California - not a ISP, not a proxy, just a server with 1 website - second bit was the Colorado based phone number that didn’t work, and third, I found the person’s address to match - so I called their # in the white pages and left a message, sad folks steal information like that - but Today I got another order, still need to square it away - going to try and do so before I pass out tonight.
Got my short from Old Navy, perfect fit, oh-so-comfy, only thing they changed on this line of shorts (Painter Shorts) is the mysterious 3rd pocket, it’s super small. It made me cry - but then I realized how nice and comfy they are, ah to have good shorts again, hopefully these will last another year and a half like the last pair
Health wise, getting decent sleep, granted the UPS last night claims it detected like 3 outages, so I got in this morning and shut off the annoying alert buzz when it blinks off - I need to do some more checking on it this week probably do that Wednesday or so, do the full test on it and the power-loss test as well, its old, may be ready to be run down and brought back up to calibrate it, I think it’s been a year since it’s last calibration - but tonight, it won’t wake me every hour with 2 beeps.
Affiliate program is coming to FH & TN - the latest upgrade on the billing system allows me to make some cool rules, like client must be active 30 days before payout, so I can make some rules to ensure folks don’t just have friends sign-up to get some free hosting/cash out of me, as that’s the last thing I’d want to happen.
Work - been getting a decent amount of it here lately, not a major problem to keep up, just trying to line up more regular work so the monthly budget looks happier and get a step closer to an apartment, or rent for the house if my parents move out again, ah the joys of parents - but I am hoping with a new server client coming online this month towards the end (when I finish code) and some more coding projects here and there, I hope to get the budget up just enough to start savings for first and last month’s rent and find me a nice place to call my own, so I can move my house worth of stuff to my own house vs piled in my room.
Anywhoo - thats the run down I think, had fun with the McNutt’s and the Sherman at our 2nd weekly dinner @ Denny’s - maybe if we do it again this next week we’ll mix it up and try some place new, who knows - but this next time it’s my turn to pick up the bill, so cheap? LOL have a blessed Sunday folks, I am off to find dinner (yes at nearly 11pm) - I hope it’s tasty.
So needless to say this day turned out pretty good. Got a pile of mail I’ve been waiting for, the post office has officially be delivering all my old stuff to the old building, which is good, because I was tired of it in limbo, some was dated the 20th of last month, so silly, but my hope is to get the last few Check based folk over to Credit Card or PayPal by the new year, some I know won’t change, but at the very least I want to eliminate paper invoicing ASAP.
Money did come in today, picked up 2 projects one starts next week, and I picked up a HTML gig tonight, which I just wrapped up, came out pretty nice, more or less a splice job, but nothing I couldn’t handle, works well in IE, Firefox, Safari, and across OS’s as well, so pretty happy indeed, got it approved, and just put it online about 20 minutes ago, so all within my 5 hour time frame, so all in all, not bad for $200 worth of work, just need a few of those on a steady basis in a month, and I’ll be sitting pretty.
Servers are looking good for a migration, I have one probably going here sooner than later, sort of a test subject I am hopeful of it’s test run and if things go smooth for a while, then my long-term goal is to migrate folks from this current DC to this new one, but as it stands, looking like more in the realm of next year, unless funds and time suddenly change.
Anywhoo - thanks for the prayers, sorry I missed a few late-nighters last night on IM, I was dead tired and passed out, been trying to keep “normal” hours lol - which means in bed by midnight and up by 6am - not sure how it’s possible, or why - but I have been doing it for a few days now, it’s not so bad, but I do appreciate the prayers, and they are working and then some, nearly $700 in checks came in today, so pretty happy to see things bouncing back indeed, but now it’s that time, to wander away from the ol workstation, and read or watch a movie till I pass out. Night folks.
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 I just got back from Church, wasn’t too shabby, I stole a old lady’s pew, but she said it was okay, and in the end sat next to me and talked till service started (I know most of her life story) - it was fun though, I do enjoy talking to folk, but I don’t think the other ladies in the row liked me there lol - ah the joys of owning a pew.
Also saw some parents of friends, I believe I saw Dan’s folks, then I also saw Scott’s folks who invited me out to lunch, at the crazy chicken and to see their dog, but still a lot to do today, but none the less, taking the time out to make it to Church was nice, after a slow start to sleep last night, I kind of worried I wouldn’t make it, but in the end, I did! Not sure if it’s a new home, or just a place to visit, I think I’ll try the “Contemporary” version next week.
Anywhoo - a day is ahead, more laundry, more cleaning, but first… I need food!
Keep me in your prayers, and keep posted here for more updates coming down the line!
