So the tacobell boycott has ended. After a year and a half, and being tired of junk from the other fast food places nearby I gave in and had my classic, 3 Taco Supremes and a Mountain Dew, thus far I am still alive, but time will tell if this was a momentary lapse in judgement or a time for a change
Things are going fair, wouldn’t say perfect, but I plan to be doing some more cleaning this evening, have to do some more laundry here shortly - but the taco bell issue had to be blogged about, and now I will go, off to a magical world of laundry!
What a weekend thus far, Sunday should be fun too - a round table discussion @ The Hub which goes over the last few weeks of study we have done, it will be my first, missed last time, but I have been there for each lesson this time so should be interesting.
Had a very tasty dinner, after seeing Pizza Hut had added Pasta, I had to try their Alfredo - delish! I think I would definitely get that again, my mom helped and we at over half of it, very very filling - I’d recommend it to anyone, and to anyone who takes that recommendation, please invite me to join you
Taxes have gone well, probably be done by Monday no later, Sunday I am going to do even more number crunching, trying to dig up all of my purchases, most of the general figures are done, just trying to lower my total payout - as it stands more money came in this past year than the year previous, so pretty excited, this year should be even more funding as for 11 months out of 12 I will be employed thus a W2 & my Business, and if things go well with my review, and I get the raise after 90 days I’ll be even better, plus have health benefits.
Which leads to my other weekend favorite, sleep. Did a lot today, of course in 90F weather, so got some healthy sweating lol - but I have been re-fueling on fluids, but it’s a clear sign that summer is nearing very soon, as it’s 70F right now at it’s midnight - so may be time to get going on that AC for my room again this year or maybe it’s time to fill out the app and get my apartment rolling, of course I’ll know for sure on all of that after the 23rd, as that’s my court date for the ticket, never got a notice, just a court date on my ticket of 4/23 which is coming up very soon, so we’ll see what happens - once that and taxes are done, I’ll have a better picture of where I stand, if I have first and lasts month, I may make a go at it.
Anywhoo - thanks to everyone who has continually checked in on me over IM, nice to know folks are out there, if you don’t have me on IM, drop me a line, I’ll get you my screen names for stuff, but for now, I am going to go try to cool down a bit in the other room as my bedroom is still about 90F on it’s own (stupid computers!) so have a blessed Sunday!
Soooooooo… how you all doing? This is the “its late, so brief blog” version of things, so here we go….
Backup at work is up and running, in the end with fakeraid I went with dmraid + RAID0 - so no real failure option, but at the same time, going to archive per-user to bzip and such sans media (personal mp3 files) and it’ll all be good, but it’s a rockin system, doing well.
Bowling - we have made it a weekly thing it looks like, as we are going Thursday night, but none the less bowling, so I’ll get to see if I can improve my game any from last week’s cosmic bowling. Crazy Girls in the lane next to us… long story.
Stargate - Ark of Truth is out, loved it. Bought it @ Target watched half of it at work while working on the backup server, but finished it @ home, rip’d it to Xvid for watching on-demand on the TV as well as a copy for the iPod… yes I love Stargate, I have all 10 seasons of SG1, and all of Atlantis. Good stuff indeed.
Shirts - got a few new ones, one came today, mainly artsy, also got one of a pigeon that says “I’m from the streets” looks cool, but I do need to do some laundry this weekend and get things ready, plus I need to find some clothes for Church and singing in the choir, may need to venture out to the GAP as their shorts/pants tend to fit me good.
Anywhoo… there it is, I am sure there is something I am leaving out, still waiting on my ticket, got to meet Solomon Poon, etc. etc. BUT it is time to goto bed soon, so I must wrap up, set out clothes for the AM, and get to it - bi-weekly meeting tomorrow, and more folks to get setup on the backup server. Fun Fun. Night all! Thanks for reading!
Well I beat my last 2 years time in making a plan for my birthday! Hooray! This morning I sent out word of the gathering this evening - Denny’s is the place, may seem odd, but its last minute, mid-week, and I know many folks will be maybes at some point, but already we have 4 for sure, and some folks as maybes - the real-deal is Saturday at Ming, in what looks to be sunshine and lovely weather - so one step at a time.
Today I got pictures of Mr. Solomon Poon, good looking baby! So that brightened my morning after surviving a marketing meeting… I and about 3 other people nearly fell asleep at the meeting, it was hilarious, but all in all today has been a good day, I am hoping to squeeze in some private work here for a bit, I hate my auth scheme for EE - so I am going to do a quick swap and see if the new idea I have in mind works, I just backed up the code so going to give it a whirl.
All in all though for 4 days straight here at the new job, it’s going well, things are smoothing out, even got a few folks thanking me for my hard work, just a lot of little things I am trying to iron out, Charlie did some good work out here, but as he said I am a salesman, and a few things I have sold them on are taking hold, Google Apps vs. Arrival (hooray!) and I put in for a quote for on a entry level dell server with 1TB of storage/no-os/2gb ram/mid-range drives - so I may have a big dell order, who knows maybe they’ll hook me up with a dell XPS laptop ah a man can dream can’t he!
Anywhoo! Off to code, if anyone would like to come out to Denny’s to celebrate with us, 7:30pm @ Weedpatch, buzz my cell so I know how many seats to ask for, you know that place get’s packed out! More later!
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!
An amazing day thus far (oh it’s not over yet!) - so far it’s just been a major blessing, got to hang out with my pseudo daughter lol - aka the Foster’s daughter Carlie who’s a sweetie and since we both have red-hair were part of the redhead family, so we hung out today, same with Ethan and Evan occasionally coo’d at me - tasty ice cream, snagged a Chocolate Shake with Malt and PeanutButter! Delish!
After that, I went to dinner, mainly to sit and visit, not so much to eat, but it was fun, got to chat with Matt, his Dad, and play with Evan and help Carlie eat her fries (okay okay, I ate one of the pizza pieces too) - but it was fun, and sad to see them go, but I think my plan will be to fix up their computer and take it up to them one day, get out of dodge for a while, and get a good visit in
Well I got a curious email from a customer with a screen shot which told me this:
Failure on Email servers - so I explored it a bit more, the cause? Firewall. LOL - so many new anti-spam and backscatter spam RBL and Firewall rules in place, it fails that test on DNS Stuff, sure enough, anything on the new server reports this, but the awesome thing is how much spam this is blocking, so much stuff gets hits from RBL’s and such - RBL = Real Time Black List - I am still looking at the ASSP solutions for cPanel, I like the fact that customers can work to train things, so going to setup a cPanel box after everything is off the old servers and migrated over, once things are happy - then I am going to setup a dev box, set d4t on it, and do some email testing with ASSP.
Anywhoo - the night is young! Have to draft up a email to TN customers/friends and a few servers I am moving this next weekend, each has a separate line, so it shouldn’t be so bad one night should do it, but if not, I’ll have a secondary plan in place, going to move Business then too - this way I can test the PHP5/MySQL5 of their custom coding and ensure it works - but tonight, mindless fun awaits, maybe Denny’s? LOL time will tell. More later.
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!
ah a man can dream can’t he!
