So needless to say this day turned out pretty good. Got a pile of mail I’ve been waiting for, the post office has officially be delivering all my old stuff to the old building, which is good, because I was tired of it in limbo, some was dated the 20th of last month, so silly, but my hope is to get the last few Check based folk over to Credit Card or PayPal by the new year, some I know won’t change, but at the very least I want to eliminate paper invoicing ASAP.
Money did come in today, picked up 2 projects one starts next week, and I picked up a HTML gig tonight, which I just wrapped up, came out pretty nice, more or less a splice job, but nothing I couldn’t handle, works well in IE, Firefox, Safari, and across OS’s as well, so pretty happy indeed, got it approved, and just put it online about 20 minutes ago, so all within my 5 hour time frame, so all in all, not bad for $200 worth of work, just need a few of those on a steady basis in a month, and I’ll be sitting pretty.
Servers are looking good for a migration, I have one probably going here sooner than later, sort of a test subject I am hopeful of it’s test run and if things go smooth for a while, then my long-term goal is to migrate folks from this current DC to this new one, but as it stands, looking like more in the realm of next year, unless funds and time suddenly change.
Anywhoo - thanks for the prayers, sorry I missed a few late-nighters last night on IM, I was dead tired and passed out, been trying to keep “normal” hours lol - which means in bed by midnight and up by 6am - not sure how it’s possible, or why - but I have been doing it for a few days now, it’s not so bad, but I do appreciate the prayers, and they are working and then some, nearly $700 in checks came in today, so pretty happy to see things bouncing back indeed, but now it’s that time, to wander away from the ol workstation, and read or watch a movie till I pass out. Night folks.
So a new week, a new day - and I am still excited about things coming along, and wether or not I get a call back about a job, I still want to push forward with what I have, as that’s what I have to work with at the moment but some good things in the works, just hoping they’ll pan out over the next few days.
The budget is coming along, not perfect still, but soon I hope - I am hoping to pick up some checks here today if at all possible, my big desire is that a few of the “big ones” come in that I’ve been waiting for, if so, that should stabilize things for a while, I am hoping some other projects come in and really help replenish my reserves a bit - but as always, time will tell - I am also hoping a friend will be nice enough to kick down some $$$ for recent assistance in a server migration, but sadly that may not come, but a man can hope!
Server work wise, getting ready to lay out a firm plan for a PHP4/PHP5 hybrid system for customers, I still need to do a few more test runs and app tests of things, but it looks promising! Also looking at a long-term data center growth option, there are a few very very appealing options wither some prime bandwidth - but that comes with a cost, which I am not against paying, but making sure a quality plan is in place, and that this new DC and NOC are well staffed and qualified, as I don’t want to jump into bed with another company only to find that 12 other people are in the same bed, and my customers suffer.
So lots to do, lots to read up on, lots of bills to chance, bills to pay, and potatoes to eat (I really am craving potatoes), but the day is off to a good start, morning shower shortly, followed by some traveling I am thinking! Okay, off to it!
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.
Needless to say, I was excited to stay up past my “bedtime” so to speak, but I don’t really have a real bed time but I wanted to stay up as the first round of invoices ran tonight via the new system, and it went wonderfully! Only a single little glitch, but nothing that was a REAL show stopper, but it got things rolling good.
My long term plan is to phase out the old billing system overall, but I love the PDF option, great for printing, great for customers - so I am very excited and hope to have all customers migrated over by month’s end if at all possible - but for TN I hope to have it’s migration and activation setup and running by Friday, only a few customers migrated to Digital Billing, but with this I hope to make the push for all customers lingering on Check -> Credit Card.
All in all my hope is to get things all rolling sales wise again, I have been fighting burn out for a while - this job can be unforgiving, while I love to serve customers, not all respect it, and I think in the time fighting against burning out on this job, I have come to realize and respect that not all customers see my service as “above and beyond” and that’s fine, but I look at customers who have been with me for several years and know that it is customers like that who keep me sane!
I do hope that over the next few weeks money will level out, and I can get things going - I do hope that by the end of the year to be seriously looking at this nice 2 bedroom apartment, granted I could probably swing for a single, but honestly, I want 2 rooms so I can have a office and secondly a place to sleep - so I can really have a spot to simply “walk away” from and not have squish everything into one spot - so my hope is things continue to progress forward, and with the addition of Exchange Hosting here in the next few days, I hope to pick up some more clients, plus I am finishing up some tweaks to offer my DSPAM interface I wrote in PHP to manage users on the filter per-account holder who’d have access to all domains they have paid for, just a few more tweaks in the PHP and I’ll be good to go.
Anywhoo, thats all I have! Going to go find me a light snack, and then setup a plan for tomorrow, mainly the move to get folks ready to move on over to the new billing + continue writing content for TN. Good times. Have a Good Week folks!
I am hopeful of it’s test run and if things go smooth for a while, then my long-term goal is to migrate folks from this current DC to this new one, but as it stands, looking like more in the realm of next year, unless funds and time suddenly change.
but I wanted to stay up as the first round of invoices ran tonight via the new system, and it went wonderfully! Only a single little glitch, but nothing that was a REAL show stopper, but it got things rolling good.
