The only downside to sleeping thru the heat of the day, is an upside, working thru the cool of the night - right now it’s finally cooling off, below 80F and humidity is lower now too, plus a mild breeze it’s down quite a bit from the 102F it was earlier.
I enjoy the summer time, heat doesn’t bother me so much - it’s the back and forth really, thus why I am happy with work that I have AC in the car finally, so that I can stay close to the same temp in and out, but now I just need to get a greater pull of AC to my office, or the OK on the upcoming quotes which will get me a quarter rack to mount the servers in, and vent the heat up thru the intake vs. into the room, at that point I imagine the AC would do fine.
Tonight I went over my accounts, then suddenly one account spiked with funds, literally between clicks - it’s the 15th (duh!) apparently it skipped my mind that it was billing day, and in a matter of minutes transactions galore from payments pouring in from the billing system, quite a big month, few yearly renewals etc. so got plenty of funds for the rise in the price of gas
Anywhoo - I am going to try to sleep thru the cool of the evening as well, though I lay down then I am wide awake again, so we’ll see what happens, maybe some brainless time with Hulu and Netflix to pass the evening in hopes the morning will come and I’ll be rested! A guy can hope! Happy Father’s day to all the dad’s out there! Night!
Last night I got some good sleep in finally, it’s my bed. I need a new one, this one is dead and then some, but I need to figure out my bedroom first, or figure out if I am getting an apartment or waiting to see if the rents find a new house again or not - so not sure, but I slept on the couch, and got a LOT of sleep, and woke up feeling good vs. dragging to the shower then getting to work even more sleepy.
Today was fun - got another foot in the door to virtualizing desktops, so we’ll see what happens there - but one funny thing is I handed out some Peppermint Patties I had from my snack drawer, and one person more or less questioned me if they were poisoned lol. She’s not always friendly to me, so I think she wondered if I was trying to get even lol - but in the end she ate it and said thanks.
Anywhoo - 10m left, the Windows Virtual is still chugging away at 7zip’n the MLS backup, my Linux workstation finished it a bit ago, and it’s already off-site, but it’s 100% scripted, but once that’s finished, I am off to home, possibly to see a kid and his Wii - but for now I’ll say “Have a Good Thursday!” and maybe a blog to follow tomorrow… more to talk about I’m sure…. lots going on, and after tomorrow’s meetings more stuff to talk about. Good times. ttfn!
What a day what a day. You know I have truly been blessed with amazing customers on the FH/TN side, patience, understanding, the occasionally “WHAT IS GOING ON?!” but usually after a brief “Here’s the situation” they breathe, it’s all good - today coming into a freshly migrated office, I got a pretty mellow response, nothing crazy, nothing bad, just a few questions, so things were sorted, problems dealt with, some people wanted their hand held, not a major issue, if it gets it taken care of, then by all means, hold a hand some - but then there was the trouble one… there is always at least one.
Nothing I could do could make it fixed it seemed, and most of it was an issue created by the crazy configurations of Netscape 7.2, so trying to explain that didn’t help. So the battle of not even a little tech savvy + high stress + 4 smokes later, they were still frustrated, but I tried to keep my cool because it had been a crazy morning of questions, calls, etc. so I was trying to keep my head on straight, stay patient, and really work towards getting things fixed, and to put their mind at ease, I opened a ticket with Google, they of course saw nothing wrong, it was just a slow email day, but it’s change.
So the day wrapped up at work, I got about 5 minutes into the projects I had planned, but I think email will be good to go tomorrow, of course I think the boss man is going to try and get me to goto his house to work on his desktop - but none the less, day was done, time to move towards home, but we had plans for dinner @ Scott’ so I called, he’s on the way home asked I could just show up early, he said it was cool - so I hung out there till about 45 minutes ago, we had dinner on his patio, played some Xbox, talked some, ate some brownies, it was pretty fun - but all good things must come to an end, thus I am home, working once again.
I have an order to fill on FH, some emails to sort thru, I have been pushing some cPanel upgrades, but nothing too serious, tomorrow I hope to get some time in on 2 ecommerce projects to wrap them up, there is a pesky software upgrade that is bugging me, more code on EE to see if I can’t meet a deadline of this weekend for Mr. Sean, but busy busy busy it seems, going to only go till about 11:30 tops, then flip the TV on, and just fade away to sleep - quite a day indeed, PLUS I still need to figure out a final plan for my birthday, Rollerama is still seeming like the “plan” but my birthday has some interesting things to it, more on that tomorrow.
Anywhoo - back to it, lots to do, little time Night folks!
Well it seems that Amazon has the Complete Series Box Set for Stargate SG-1 on sale today, if only I had a spare $180 to spare, oh wait I did, till I got AppleCare lol - oh well, I am sure it’ll come down again eventually, oh how the day goes by…. I need a nap.
I just found this when looking over the new trailer for Semi-Pro staring Will Ferrell - the man is a word smith, take a listen:
Enjoy. More at the website - oh and call the # on the back of his shirt, funny stuff. Okay that’s my short mindless break for the morning, back to code.
Things seem to be on the upswing - and as I sat here at nearly 3am starting to wind down I noticed that 5 years ago I started this blog - 1,182 posts later, I am still alive, still posting, still trying to sort out life as I know it but like all things, it just takes time.
It was a interesting day, late morning (bed by 7am) and as much as it was to be work, a lot of it was just sorting things out in my head, but the day turned out pretty good, got some money in the bank, new billing system seems to be working good, got another project possibility, might have me a dinner to enjoy here this week, but the day went pretty good, a few things I’d of liked to happen, but in the end, I don’t think the day could of gone any other way.
So what’s for the next 5 years of my blog? Who knows - I do want to get some time in to re-work the theme a bit, now that I have a little stronger grasp on CSS, but for now, it’ll hafta make due, as I am going to go lay down, switch the iPod to some TV, and crash out. Night folks.
Waiting for some friends who are in town to give a ring, were going to go out for some desert here in a bit (or such was the plan) - so I browsed around ol YouTube, and this video illustrates the current eagerness of my business, if only it’d go into the corner:
