Well quite a week, can’t actually believe it is Friday already! Just seems like this week has flown by and yet it is still going strong - lot of things went down this week, haven’t had a chance to really blog all that much - but it has been yowza - quite a week, to re-cap some of this week’s happenings:
- Expanded my prayer & bible time by getting on Ed Young PodCast & Daily Email (linkage)
- Picked up the 80GB iPod Classic (lovely)
- Tried to be Sick (not so good at it)
- Got a call from a old friend
- Getting INC’d - thank the lord
- Coded on Projects Some
- Got the last of my stuff from the old office #2 (kMan’s place)
- Watched and Enjoyed You Kill Me
- Assorted other things
It was a fun week though, had some blips, some hiccups, but it worked, almost entirely into a “normal” sleep schedule, it’s odd going to sleep at a semi normal hour and waking up before 7am… not sure if it’ll stick - but I sort of hope it does!
I am sure there are other things I could go into detail on, the topic for one was something I had planned to talk about, but the short version is this week has been some good give and take, constantly I feel like all I do is give sometimes, but this week I got to give and take, it was nice, I have some awesome friends - now I just need to take a nap so I can hang out some more this evening, and this weekend! More Later!
Tomorrow night (originally got it mixed up on my calendar - as TONIGHT) - but starting tomorrow at 9pm is the meteor shower, and apparently according to Space.com it’s gonna be ‘a great show‘, so my plan is to head up probably towards Tehachapi as it is a bit higher than I am and gets me above the smog layer
So far, I’ve only told some folks about it, but really no takers thus far, and I imagine due to its “hour” I won’t get many takers mainly because it starts at sundown till dawn the next morning… so for most of my friends who are folks who work I imagine if invited would say “well I have work in the morning” which is a perfectly fine answer, I do too, but I’ll probably be working once I get home 
Anywhoo … good day of sleep for the most part, might just go back as I took a nap thinking today was the day, but when I went to lookup which way to look, it said great viewing started Sunday Night - soooo now to unwind, and dream of meteors tomorrow.
Tonight I had a nice gal at the drive thru, I wasn’t wanting anything special, just got a jumbo jack and a order of taco’s - but the gal at the window just seemed to be having a good day - she smiled, asked how I was, and got my order 100% correct, honestly it was the first person outside of my family who really asked me how I was - and I am doing pretty good. Tired, and possibly a touch a heat stroke (never stand on a roof mid-day in the summer) - but when you lay it all out, lay it all down, I am doing good.
Granted a few rough spots, my old 3yr old router (aka 2004 purchased) died today. May it rest in piece. Thus my new DIR-655 took it’s place, and only 1 device in the house takes advantage of it’s 802.11n-ness (the macbook pro) and that is pretty dang snappy - so I did have to snag the Pre-N enabler, but for $2 a small price to pay vs. buying a Apple based wireless router, now I need to get a gigabit switch for my linux server here in the house to keep things internally flowing snappy.
Got a few phone calls, took on a project I sort of half started the other day, and by 4pm I was done with it, had a call in the midst of it and other projects about a possible job, going to call on it tomorrow, would be possibly deploying a server, then another call of the possibility of a part-time job doing tech support and web stuff, so some job options piling up, who knows, might all work out, and life will smooth out with time, just don’t want to go back to work-a-holic mode sleeping at all odd hours, avoiding the rest of humanity, but time will tell.
One call I got was from a friend who got engaged over the weekend, she and her mr. man needed some advice on a brewing situation (not wallpaper choices) but do keep them in your prayers as they enter a crazy start to their life together, hopefully the situation at hand will resolve itself in the next 3-5 days, if not, I bring out the big guns….. more on that later maybe, but aside from the first little blip it does mean I have a new wedding to put on the calendar, who knows, maybe I’ll get the photographer deal, which would mean 2 things, #1 New Lenses, #2 E510? Oh yes. LoL.
I think I am going to wrap up my night by sitting in the front-yard, the wind has been blowing off and on, the moon is nice a full, the breeze is a very inviting sound, helps clear the brain - or if I don’t get that motiviated, I’ll simply head to my bed and pass out… time will tell. Night folks. Have a Good Fake Friday.
Some would say to keep my mouth shut on this, and not “stir things up” and that the risk of a lawsuit is a bad thing for “slander” or “defiling someone’s character” but in this instance, I can safely say:
“Suck it.” (going to love hearing that one in court!)
Over the last few days some things have transpired at a place I used to work, let’s call the place something out there so no one can figure it out, let’s call it CMCentral or CMC for short (see how clever I am) - but before one can go into that arena and say “Why do you care?” lets rewind a bit to when I worked for CMC - like several other “Christian” businesses your job was more “ministry” than “work”, when you were asked to do something more, it was for “the ministry” not the “job”, the site owner, and again being clever here - we’ll call him Sean or “Sean.v.T” for short (seems longer, but it just looks that way.) is a nice enough guy you’d want to help him, and you feel part of something, you want to see it do well, so you go above and beyond.
In my own history for CMC I helped out sometimes getting wrapped up in things and missed a wedding setting up a chat for Mercy Me, wrote software that a YEAR after the fact was nit-picked to death, and in the end due to extreme difference in opinions on the “best” way to do something, we parted ways and my time suddenly freed up greatly, allowing me to swing back into full tilt on my own business and workings - so not a bad end for me, and after a few months Sean.v.T and I worked on some projects as by the great advice of at the time senior editor let’s call him BdG (Simple, clean, its short enough), I picked up some side jobs here and there doing software updates, and server moves etc. so a good end to the story for the most part, right?
Well fastfwd back to the the happenings of late, BdG is outed as editor of CMC, to me a position that was really more of a burden to him vs. a blessing, granted CMC can open some doors to media contacts, but at what price? Some of you can say “Sean is a ________” you can say he’s wrong, and in a lot of ways you’d be right, and in some you’d be wrong - don’t get me wrong, I think here Sean has a lot of splainin to do - goes without saying, it was handled poorly, and a post not to JUST the forum, but on the main site, needs to be done - I don’t care how “un-professional” that might look, were human, companies are run by humans and humans make mistakes, and in good faith I think the new editor should make an apology as well, I don’t know her, but I highly doubt she meant this on purpose, but a simple apology is not too much to ask.
I would say to those of you who are truly though wasting your breath on the forums @ CMC spend your energies elsewhere, while I wish I could say “keep up the posts, Sean will break soon!” bottom line is Sean see’s CMC as a fore front in Christian music, and I don’t deny the site has a big following, and does a lot of things, and with a presence in TN it has a closer hook up to many Christian artists compared to other websites of a similar nature - but prove that the site is powered by the people, support BdG’s site and help promote it, heck if it needs its own server due to growth, I’m happy to stand behind it and make it happen, I’m that Crazy.
Brenton is not only a client of mine, but I do consider him a friend - we have done business, worked side by side @ CMC during my final time there - but while my leaving was one of a quiet breeze (I was the man behind the curtain), BdG’s will be felt for a while, but I applaud those of you who have really put out a real sense of caring here for BdG, threads like:
- Here’s My Feedback
- Sean, Step Up Or Step Aside
- The Changes At Cmcentral
While some of those are actually deleted, I read through them before I de-admin’d myself (people started to think I worked there again), you guys are awesome - but I encourage each of you, link to TRuDatMusic on MySpace, your blogs, your websites, add it to your signature, put the word out, and help it truly become a “web power” that commands the same if not more level of respect like that of CMC.
Life goes on in the end, and I’d encourage any of you who have media contacts or know someone in a Christian group, set them setup with BdG @ GMA Week, I know some of you who read this know folks, heck I know a few, and I’ll be sending out an email or two, maybe even a phone call or two if I can be awake at a normal hour but there it is, support TRuDat - and with that, I am going to call it a night - but above and beyond anything else, keep both sides in prayer. Night!
Well as usual, I am down to the wire on taxes, 2 companies who requested W9’s filled out from me, never sent in 1099’s (yay?) so this week starts the final run down, should take 2 days tops to get things organized and setup, but hopefully - this year will be the last for doing a 1099, hopefully I can inc. and W2 myself, and the corp. books should be fairly easy to handle with something like QuickBooks mainly just some in’s and out’s.
Lately just a lot of work out and about, side projects and such to get some extra cash on hand for taxes, upcoming expenses, the usual but one can wait no longer - must get the ball rolling, going to send out 2 final notes to the companies in question, that if they have a 1099 for me it MUST be submitted to me no later than Wednesday - but this week should be interesting, we have the kid this week, granted she’ll probably head back on Friday with the rents, but should be fun, already had a fun day yesterday (Sunday) playing some Wii Bowling (kids love the bowling), so some fun, but knowing my schedule, I think I’ll be taking this weekend alone to do any last minute tax stuff.
All in all taxes this year should be fairly simple, just looking very much towards next year and hopefully ease and a refund - I am also going to try and get another company to hire me as an employee as well vs. paying me as a contractor - just really want my finances to become simple again! I remember old jobs working for the state, and working for other web jobs when I got a W2 and filled out a 1040EZ short form… ah memories.
Anywhoo - so if you don’t see a blog from me this week (I imagine you will though) just say a prayer that the math in taxes hasn’t exploded my brain!
Have a Good Monday Folks!
Well I just got back from my Sister’s house, went over with my cousin to play some Wii, and followed it up with Starwars Risk (Go Rebel Alliance!) - and then headed back to my Cousin’s car so she could drive home to her parents house - but a relaxing evening!
Today was.. well short really. I really had a “relaxing” Friday, aka I slept, and slept good. Worked on projects between naps, but everything I had planned, went out the window and I just was tired and slept - when I woke up this afternoon for the final time, I took mom and dad out to dinner, then more or less went to beth’s - but all in all a good day, which means someone’s birthday present (which isn’t anything too special ($10,000,000 dollars in cash and prizes)) will hafta wait till Monday or tomorrow at some point, time will tell.
But keep praying for my friend, things with him are pretty much a rock bottom, and he could really use your prayers, as could his wife & kids, wish I could say more, but thats not something thats “public” knowledge and I do know some folks read this who know him, so not much to put out there, but God knows the needs there!
Anywhoo - good week overall, hopefully a relaxing weekend, a good easter Sunday, and then some time with the kiddo! Woohoo! but for now, I think I am going to curl up on the couch, and take a nap, or shower, couch, then nap - so many choices so little time
Well another week is upon me, and a slew of things to-do. I am packing up the FlockHosting design with it’s CMS, and getting it ready to make the move, I am going to set it up on the Friends server at the office, and make some fine tuning adjustments, and bring it up to date as I have tried to deploy it not once, not twice, but 5 times over the last 3 months - so thats a big chore for this week.
Other side projects include (but are not limited to):
- Deployment & Configuration of Titus.
- Upgrade to ModernBill 5.x
- Pay some bills.
- Have a night out other than with work folk (movie anyone?)
- A photo Friday (weather allowing)
- Customer Migrations
- New Thrust Networks Goodies (business cards, website, services listings, etc.)
But that’s just this week, it should be rather insane, which means sleep should be happening here soon, but I am still organizing things to go in the backpack and the laptop bag for the day tomorrow, but do keep me in your prayers, busy work tends to get me forgetting things like resting, eating, unwinding, so that’d be good thing to have folks prayin for me on, as well as some customer issues, some customers have really out-dated our incorrect data on file, which makes some things hard to do, one customer is trying to cancel, but can’t confirm all her info, so I look like the “mean company” by not letting her leave, but I can’t be 100% sure it’s her - so many things of that nature going on.
Other Prayer Requests Include:
- My Health
- My Finances
- The Office
- My Dad’s Health
I am sure there are more, but I am finally getting tired, so I should probably put head to pillow and call it good for now. Have a Great Week folks!
