So here we are, Friday. A day of things it seems, a migration of email, that has some folks worried, no no not TN/FH related, but rather MLS - my 8 to 5 job has been having issues with the local ISP when it comes to email thus we looked at options and are going to Google Apps, so tonight the MX rolls out, and we switch over and online - a piece of cake really, tomorrow I’ll come in for maybe an hour or two and setup a secondary email account for them to check. Should keep things rolling smoothly, then in a week we can clear the old one and use only the new one.
Now of course what Friday wouldn’t be complete without a baby! Dan and Val are having their first, and the plan was to induce today so I hope to hear something more on baby status here soon, but I may call the Gavin and see if he can give me the skinny here in an hour or so since he has a cell phone, and like any good teenager it’s always on but I am looking forward to meeting the latest member of the Poon family!
So far this week though has been good, some fun challenges, but I get tired around Wed. and can’t sleep well, thursday drags on and on, then here I am whammo - Friday, only 3 hours under my belt, but strangely I am operating pretty fair (at least I think so) - but things are moving forward, I’ll probably post something more complete later tonight or tomorrow, but for now I am going to get back to it, reading Postini docs to see the best way to deploy.
Have a great Friday folks, thanks for the continued prayers and the occasional check up - I appreciate it!
I have a amazing core group of friends, they are more like family to me, they are supportive, good company, and always a open ear, tonight we tried to get as many of us together, granted I know some folks Monday is not a good night, but the Foster’s were in town but leaving at 5, the Poon’s had a due date for baby, and yet somehow from a lunch with Matt we got ourselves together at Cindy’s for some grub, good company, and Uncle Chuck the Human Jungle Gym.
It was a good day overall, got some more stuff cleaned up in the office, organized a bit, got a laptop finalized and ready to go, all in all it was pretty nice - throw in the lunch and the dinner - a great time, and while I am exhausted and then some I would do it again in a heart beat - we sat, we ate, we talked, I played with Ethan, Evan and Carlie - even Jake had some fun with Evan, it was a good day that just had some really great high points to it, I hope the rest of the week has good stuff in it like this! If only everyone could of made it, Scott had plans already, and some folks have class on Monday’s so just not possible, but were going to setup something big and fun soon.
Anywhoo - busy week, got a copy of EE on the laptop, so I can work on it on the mac during the dead time, also have a few assorted things I am working on with FH/TN, and of course MLS has the Google Apps migration this week, I need to get the corp. card and get it paid for, as well as a few other purchases I need to make for building a small server to test a backup system, so lots to do! But for now I am going to zone a little to some TV, and then probably try to crash out early. Sleep will soon become my friend… I hope. Night folks! Thanks for the continued prayers!
So tonight is it. The big move (just started). Granted it’s not 100% done, but the last move is mainly of FH/TN websites, so that’ll go Tuesday at the latest - mainly want to keep it in one place till after a day or two of tickets is taken care of, but Thursday I’ll be requesting the other servers be shut down - which still leaves me with a bill, but something manageable, until I can relocate that final server - then I can be completely off the old provider.
It’s busy lately it seems, we met up at 9pm last night to see a old friend, however we never heard back that’d he was coming, but we figured - never hurts to try - so instead we had a fun dinner, and I had a nice chat with Jacob, it was a fun evening, I finished it up with some more relaxing - almost too relaxed for tonight, but I am hoping some moving around here at 6:30pm tonight will help wake me up a bit - but the move seems like it should be pretty straight forward, just have to move data, upgrade DNS, and only thing I can see as a “bad” thing is having to re-compile PHP4 on some servers, as I am sure there are some issues I’d rather simply not deal with right now, so I’d be going PHP4 on maybe 2 servers tops.
Got some more work today it seems, still waiting to hear back from EE on the final bits of it, I need to get RM up and online this weekend too - had hoped to get it last Monday, but I just have been so beat from these moves, thankfully this is the last weekend, then I may have a standard 9-5 so a semi-normal sleep schedule steady pay checks, rebuild my savings, get an apartment, build a time-machine, etc. etc. - so preparing for some big changes.
Just got in from a fun evening with the guys, it was pretty fun, had a good meal, some painful GH3, some ice cream from ColdStone - a good relaxing fun to lead into server migrations - so thus I am sitting here with the iPod crankin my car playlist, going to code some between packaging accounts - maybe sneak in a nap later… time will tell Prayers are appreciated! Oh and on my Grandma, they put a shunt in one valve and the meds had helped the other - so she’s going to get to go home on Sunday it looks like! Thanks for the prayers!
More later! Off I go to get this migration rolling!
An update on Grandma, she’s stable, they got in and did tests to find her heard has a 96% blockage, so they are going in Friday to effect repairs, so thanks for the prayers, just a little more please she’s doing well, there’s still a random chance I’ll go up with dad, but if I pick up this job, then it’ll probably mean no-go for a while.
Which leads to the job, gotten some details about it - shorts may be okay! But who knows, I may grow up sooner or later and just find a pair of pants that fit okay on my beefy legs, but from the sounds of it, as the IT guy it’s expected to get dirty and need to move around, thus shorts are currently “ok” - so far the job seems like a good thing, going to try and get in and see the operation, but could mean a decent wage thrown into the budget, which would be nice, and within 2 months if not shorter, I’d be able to snag an apartment, but weighing all that as well.
Code has slowed some project wise, with all the Grandma stuff I got majorly distracted so still some code to work out which is mainly the plan for today. Code, Code and Code some more to meet my deadline of “Wednesday”, but all in all its just a lot of routines I have to write that I know the basics of in my head, just a matter of making the final move from brain -> file.
Anywhoo - there’s the update, I am alive… mostly. I feel like taking a nap, still not 100% after the moves this past weekend, but I do need to send an email out today for sure on the moves this coming weekend. Busy busy, next week things should amp down some, but then I may also be starting on path to normal hours working a standard job…. time will tell. Happy Fake Friday!
Well I might be driving towards Washington State soon, my grandma was taken to the hospital via Ambulance tonight, still no updates on things, but were waiting to see what’s up. Prayers are appreciated, I’ll update more hopefully later tonight, but I’ve already offered to fly or drive with my Dad so I may be traveling here soon. More soon.
So things are leveling out in my mind, I think I have a solid plan for a server move which may take place sooner than later - the upgrades would give customers some nice upgrades to servers things like Raid 10 Drive configurations, 8 Cores, 2GB of Ram Per-Server, and in time some mini-upgrades in bandwidth and storage - and in time, some easy upgrade paths as well as ease of getting additional hardware for future deployments, and I actually get some assistance on server management in the deal too - so other set of eyes monitoring, doing upgrades, etc. Very nice indeed (aka more sleep!)
In other news, last night my sister called to tell me the police had called and found some of their gift cards, that they were still going thru things, but they’d call when they knew more - well apparently the hardworking folk couldn’t stop and excited about finding a laptop with all the other stolen goods, saw it on their list and they just had to call! So at 1:30am my brother-in-law got to chat with an officer about the laptop, and when XP asked him to login they asked over the phone “Are you talking to Michael Z?” sooo my sister will get her photos back! Hooray! Time for a upload party on Flickr so very excited about that!
So there is some good news updates for things, hoping today will provide me with a few checks to put in the bank, still a few stragglers, but today also brings the final push from moving folks from QB -> WHMCS on the TN side, so far so good, just going to empty out the final stragglers from ModernBill as well, and setup customers with outstanding bills to WHMCS as a final move thus I can get paid by some stragglers (college students mainly) - but just trying to stay positive about all things going on right now, who knows maybe I’ll get a call for a interview today and that’ll seal the deal for my job lol. So much to do, so little time.
Anywhoo - have a good Thursday folks, I am back to work here at the desk, going to make some calls, find some food, take a shower, then head back out into the wild world in search of Checks!
So, while I could sum up bits and bit of the last two days, again, I am sticking to a picture, and a short story - I was laying down after breakfast (sleep is still messed up) - and just before the alarms went off about a customer’s server being down (another story for another time), I heard a noise and had to investigate things - when I got up, I saw this:
The cat climbed into a box in my room which was way too small for her, but she enjoyed it. LoL. More later, going to do a little work on servers, then try to go back to sleep after a 7hr nap. Hope Everyone had a good Christmas.
but I am looking forward to meeting the latest member of the Poon family!
so very excited about that!
