Quite a weekend, working on the last bits now - fixing up the Foster’s computer - wish I had got it done sooner, but the job, projects, etc. all just been all over in my brain - quite a change to go from no sleep schedule -> 645am wake up! Oi!
Saturday I finally went off and checked out the apartment:
That’s the floorplan I am looking at, its pretty open, which is what I was hoping for, and the spare bedroom is just big enough to setup a small photography studio - along with all my iMac and Server, the media rig will probably get a new “Media Center” case, and be in the living room with the TV - but all in all I think I am going to move towards that setup, the price is $750 monthly - 2 bedroom 1 bath - I really like it, but the time table is what I am looking at, I don’t get paid till the first from the new job, then again on the 16th, but if I had a few more invoices in and paid I’d have the $400 deposit + first month, no where have they requested first and last, but that used to be the standard.
Anywhoo - I am pretty jazzed, I hope I can really get that rolling before the end of March no later, but if some magical way comes about, I’d just as soon do it before my b-day as planned, but sometimes the time tables we make aren’t the ones were going to end up following - but a new week is nearly upon me, Monday I have lunch with Matt, give him his box, enjoy a hoagie (mmmm pastrami) and tomorrow I may get news of a new member of the Poon family arriving! So an exciting week ahead, plus I get to make the migration to Google Apps at work, so busy busy, but fun fun! More to come this week, I’ll post more in the days to come with all that’s going on! Have a good night folks.
And so it begins…. as of today around 2:45pm, I got the official word from the co-owner that I am officially on-board! So needless to say I was pretty excited - this means a lot for my monthly budget, my plans for my life, etc. this weekend I’ll probably even hit up the apartment complex and see what they have open right now - Lord Willing, I Hope they have the 2 bedroom + garage that I can come look at, that would be wonderful!
But a good first day on my own, only had 2 calls to the last guy for help, which meant calling my brother but all in all things went well - just wrapping up the afternoon, I have been on the phone here the last bit calling friends and family inviting them to come eat tomorrow night to celebrate, my sister made the good call and said El Pueblo, so needless to say my belly is excited! So tomorrow we will celebrate it up, and I imagine tomorrow I’ll get things going on my employed status, paperwork, etc.
So big thanks to everyone for their prayers! More news to follow I am sure, but I am just quick blogging this from Textmate here on the Mac - once I get home and settled in, I’ll probably post more thoughts, for now, PTL!
Hello from my first non-crazy weekend in nearly a month. Yowza - last month was a tad nutty, but this month may amp up to be just as cookoo - but hey I can’t complain too much, if I snag this job, a lot of things will be coming around, changing, adapting, etc. - so a relaxing weekend, that in the end turned into not too shabby time with the kMan (we had pizza & played with computers), but also getting partial payments and such - so nice there.
The way home the rain started, I love rain, I plan to go driving in it here shortly to get to the bank and ATM these checks, not the perfect way to get money in the bank, but as it’s that time of the month for bills, I’d rather get it rolling in now than fight later - hopefully Monday I’ll have other checks in and be able to get that going.
To finish up the night I just snagged a shirt from tonight’s Woot:
Pretty snazzy, my mom wanted one too, so I ordered 2 but 2 shirts for $20, not too shabby.
Anywhoo - Tomorrow brings Sunday, a day of rest, probably the one day I truly do take off, so I will bid you all a pleasant evening, have a Wonderful Sunday - for you Superbowler’s enjoy the big game, and here in Bako the new channel 46 on brighthouse for the game in HD. (yes I got the call 3 times too) - night folks!
So it’s that time again apparently, my two usual folks are now on their 3rd month of keeping me super tight on the budget, I guess that’s what you get for giving folks a deal *shrug* who knows, I am just tired of this game - thankfully the core servers are paid up, so I have some time to work, the only one I have to worry about is one of the ones the client didn’t pay on, and if I get overdraft because of either of them, Oh they’ll be charged.
In other news, the interview went good, not sure what’ll become of it, so just leaving it in God’s hands really, as I am too tired to really focus on it at all, but I went to dinner with friends, we hung out, got sang to, and then I watch a movie @ Jakes with some of his friends, it was … well a movie. LoL.
I’d take the time to explain the pug thing, but that requires more brain power than I have at the moment - my hope is to wake up tomorrow, have a credit card payment waiting, and a call saying “Come pickup checks” but if not - then I think I’ll be shutting off a server or two, tired of the games.
Anywhoo - sleep becomes me, or at the very least it’s time to zone out in front of the TV. Night all.
So I have the iMac set to wake me using Awaken - it’s pretty snazzy, though I need a new wakeup playlist - I have the alarm set for 6:45am, should give me plenty of time to shave, shower, get dressed (in pants! omw!), and get out the door not in a hurry by 8am, slowly drive over across town, find a parking spot, find the building, and be ready to chit-chat job wise. The plan seems to of changed, originally it was a casual look around, now it’s a full on interview it seems, so I need to print a copy of the resume.
All in all I am more tired than excited or nervous, this past two weeks of migrations and moves has worn me out pretty good, but we’ll see how it goes, and I am sure I’ll post an update here or via twitter tomorrow - but once this is figured out, then a lot of things are going to fall into place, finances, new schedule, projects, etc. etc. etc. so change in general - but good things I think.
Anywhoo - I’d ramble on for hours, but for now I am going to drop a DVD in the player, turn it on and drift off into a dream world - more tomorrow, prayers appreciated!
So I think I have a plan. With one day left, I think I am going to sleep off Thursday, the last few days of fine-tuning things and getting them good to go, if I fiddle anymore, I’ll go crazy! So I think Thursday will be some simply running around town doing things like bits of banking, or even just loafing for the day - but lots of sleep as this move will be the biggest thing for a while.
Day-Job wise, a few various things, might be picking up another job from a friend if he get’s another job elsewhere, so I may have some work here in a few weeks, not sure. Time will tell though, a nice paycheck + current income = Apartment! Woot!
I think I am going to start my Thursday Loafing now with a nice shower. So I will say farewell for now, and I’ll be back sooner or later (probably sooner).
So today I gathered $585 dollars in total, $580 in checks, and $5 for installing MacBook ram for a guy, so quite a complete day, but it’s nice to have funds fixing up nicely, and getting back on track, and not only that, being blessed to get a buffer back, which I figured would take some time, some php, and strange side jobs.
I also got the last of the smaller servers setup, while smaller, still 8cores, less ram, less storage, but mainly for some side projects and smaller customers, so pretty happy that in servers alone I am saving some decent coinage, but still getting great hardware, performance on my blog alone has been wonderful, tonight after Denny’s (yes 3rd night in a row) I plan to migrate friend websites over, so friends, be-ware!
Okay - so Apple, while I may use a iMac day in / day out - and have a MacBook Pro, at heart I am a PC user, not a “WINDOWS” user, but a Personal Computer user, so anything that runs on a PC, be it Windows, Mac, Linux, BeOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, whateva! I am there, in the house alone I have XP, Vista, 10.4, 10.5, Ubuntu, and a small appliance running Gentoo - but that’s a secret - so when MacWorld comes around, the Stevenote while cool sometimes comes off a little “high and mighty”, and this year really was a bit much for my tastes.
The new stuff “eh” - while I will admit out of EVERYTHING shown today, the only thing which really makes half my eyebrow perk up is the 2nd Gen AppleTV - while it’s not the first time it’s been done, and nor is it something I couldn’t do with a off the shelf unit with some Linux magic, the idea I no longer need a system tied to it, a nice thought, but the price still keeps me away for now, maybe when I am rich and famous.
I kept hoping Air would have more redeeming qualities than a multi-touch trackpad, for me that was it, that was the only feature I found cool, the form factor to me seemed more like someone who needed a ultra portable word processor / email rig - something like Palm tried to make with the Foleo but in the end even it ultimately died before it began - but the unit didn’t preach to me and say “Covert unbeliever!!!” it screamed “I AM OVERPRICED, BUT THIN!” I could see it coming in at around $1,000, but knowing Apple’s pricing structure the idea of $1,200 was what came to mind, but nearly 2k, no thanks, I’ll just share my CD-ROM to my MBP and feel like I’m getting the same thing, but play WOW.
Watch the keynote, and once Steve starts talking about the iPhone, note the level of applause, then lead into the iPod Touch, did you hear the crickets? $20 for early adopters? Did we learn nothing after changing the price on the iPhone? Come on Steve, launch it if anything as a $0.99-$2 fee, something small, simple, get your customer base on board, because lord knows at the end of the day these new “adjustments” are going to lead to more Apple buying options for add-on software, iWork for Touch etc. so give the loyal subjects a break.
Other than Rentals which might be nice (but rumor is HD only on the AppleTV) - nothing that said “Chuck Save the Money!” so I doubt other than my hopeful Mac Pro to replace the iMac, nothing jumped out and grabbed me - nothing was “NEW and EXCITING”, a iPhone for non-ATT without jailbreak and such would of been nice, but nope, apparently AT&T still has a while longer.
Anywhoo - there it is, my day goes forward, coming up at 9pm for my evening hang-out with the guys, we are going to brave Denny’s another time, and I pray we walk away alive. Till next time, have a Good Tuesday, a Great Wednesday! Take Care!
but all in all things went well - just wrapping up the afternoon, I have been on the phone here the last bit calling friends and family inviting them to come eat tomorrow night to celebrate, my sister made the good call and said El Pueblo, so needless to say my belly is excited! So tomorrow we will celebrate it up, and I imagine tomorrow I’ll get things going on my employed status, paperwork, etc.
(yes I got the call 3 times too) - night folks!
