So tomorrow I hope to hear from the apartment people, I left a message in hopes of finding a time that I can get down there and get the final bits sorted - but if it is a no-go again, I think 3 times is a good try, but thru all of it trying to remain open to this change, as much as I may try to fight it
A long day, but a lot done I think, still can’t seem to shake this exhaustion, and if I didn’t have a newsletter to work on tomorrow, I’d so call in sick and just rest up - but apparently I am semi-reliable - a pile of things to do tomorrow though, after a crazy day - more to follow
Anywhoo - I appreciate the prayers, folks checking in and seeing what’s up - hopefully tomorrow will bring a conclusion to the Apartment situation but it may be the start of a journey, time will tell. Night Folks.
It has been a while since I picked up a good book. I had a favorite author Jefferson Scott - who I was nice enough to email back and forth with once - his first books that caught my eye were the Ethan Hamilton stories, namely the progression from Virtually Eliminated (going to read it again soon) - but the stories are wonderfully written, and not just some “magical computer terms” like the movie Hackers “let’s hack a gibson!” and no spray painted Apple laptops, simple, true, accurate goodies - but the stories tied in Faith to the whole story, tied it into the job, the walk, the day-to-day of the character’s life. Amazing Stories.
Then yet again, he wrote the Operation Firebrand series - yowza! I could put those down, as I heard one was released, I was at Barnes and Noble or CBD placing and order to get it to me, sadly I found myself done in a night. LoL - Re-Read them again this past year in under 3 days - the stories are about a miltary unit that uses non-lethal weapons to carry out, how should I put it, Extreme Missionary Field Work but again very accurate, visual books, that in some cases even with just the people you meet in the story, brought tears to my eyes.
Sadly, no other books of the Fiction variety have come from him lately, and who knows maybe one day they will, but I have said all this for two reasons:
Mr. Scott - I love your books, today as much as I did when I bought them, a massive blessing to me!
I need more books!
I find myself constantly in front of the computer anymore, with a day-job and a business of my own which keep me busy, a book to burry my head in would be good for a change. I have found some other Christian writers who do decent fiction, but I want fiction, I deal with Real Life enough as is, a blip off the radar from PHP/dBase/MySQL/How-to books, would be a great relief.
So if you have a thought or two, post your suggestions in the comments either here or on Xanga, and let me know if you have ANY sort of suggestion, even Non-Fiction suggestions are allowed, but again a little escape from reality would do me good
That’s it for tonight, I am off to see what these 24 emails are then hopefully passout! Have a blessed Sunday!
So this was a big weekend, for sleeping I think I may be fighting a cold, and hoping to be feeling at least 80% by Monday morning, but as it stands I am happy with my weekend, and excited about a trip soon!
Things kicked off Friday when I got word my Sister in Law had gone into labor, while they are only 2hrs away, I was tired, and a trip didn’t really sound like a good idea, but I recall last birth of my niece and while that was in town - it was busy busy, lots of people, so I didn’t want to crowd as my sister and her husband had gone up, mom and dad were already there, and not to mention they have family living/stayin in the area - so I stayed home to relax and celebrate my cousin’s birthday by going to see WALL*E (Cute Movie).
During the movie I got an update, and since we were the only two people in the theatre, I took it and chatted, was about 930 or so - still no baby, one nurse had said it’d be morning before my nephew would come forth, but he proved them wrong and around 11:30 or so he was born.
This weekend though has been productive and relaxing, granted I missed The Hub tonight and didn’t get to take pictures, but life will go on (I think!) but I am going to crash out here soon and really get some good sleep as I know this week has the option to be insanely busy, or simple and calm. So we’ll see what happens! Prayers are appreciated, as I am truly wondering my future at this job, as much as I enjoy it - I am also not liking the fact that I am being dumped on and disrespected - but who knows maybe new doors are being prepared to open, time will tell.
Anywhoo - sleep well people, hope your Monday is mellow!
Lately it just seems there is not enough time in the day. I get side tracked, phone called, spammed, heck even at work I have different department heads asking for different things, and I have a pile of my own personal business to catch up and get active.
Just seems to be my norm now, I really just want 2 days of sleep, lol a guy can dream can’t he? Still waiting to hear back from the nice folks @ Newegg, going on 4 days with no word back on a laptop, and a co-worker getting anxious as he is out a pile of cash and has no laptop to show for it, so going to give a ring tomorrow if the status isn’t updapted tomorrow.
For now though, I am going to call it a night. I hope tomorrow will be a bit more level, I can hopefully get some things done on various projects (got DBF -> MySQL.. so that’s a good thing) but lots of work yet to be done, if all works as planned, I can skip toying with Visaul Fox Pro and write a bash script to nightly re-generate MySQL tables and have some simple PHP handle generation of scripts and get folks a web interface they can easily use to generate reports instead of calls to me for various things.
Anywhoo - Night all, keep me in your prayers, busy busy, tired tired, sleepy sleepy.
So a long week, a day sick in there, which I think I need a LOT more sleep, and a lot less stress. I am trying the juggling act of work and business, and it’s not horrible, but I feel sometimes like I am letting one side or the other down, but then again the sucky part @ work right now is there is literally nothing to do, until they give me money.
The big problem right now is over the last few months I have worked on quotes, new hardware game plans, and a company locally has pitched in to help, a guy I knew from long back works there, and he and I have worked out a fair plan, but the catch is - they are used to spending $79 on consumer grade products - so when someone say oh I don’t know…. Me, lays down a quote for $3000+ it raises and eye brow or two, but I have a battle, one person is for it, 2 against it, 1 unsure, and me playing the waiting game.
On top of everything else I think I am going to have a talk with my direct boss back east. I am tired of the games I am playing lately, of home repair man to the new house fixing Xbox360’s etc. for kids, and when I say kids I mean 18+ it’s just one of those things I didn’t really sign up for in my mind, I thought maybe the ocasional tune up on the bosses “WORK” station @ home, but not the Geeksquad routine to setup stuff that is honestly not business related - so I may be opening a can of worms, but at the same time I just am tired - tired of being pulled 30 ways, being hired for one thing, and disrespected when my judgement on hardware is questioned by someone who has been using Netscape 7.2 for years now. Yeah.
I dunno, venting aside, I do like the job, most of the time it’s mellow, granted my office is a heat trap, and I may die in there tomorrow (was 115F today!) but fun people, good crew, just wish I could truly do my job, have a budget, and get things setup and working smoother, more efficient, and all this consumer grade stuff meant for 5-10 users out of the network map.
In other news - comments are back, trying out Disqus, looks like it could be fun, give it a look, who knows! May be worth while and handle spam much better, but time will tell.
Anywhoo - that’s my rant, it’s friday now, so I am hoping a relaxing day is ahead, and looking forward to some fun things I’ll blog about later that are happening this weekend. So I will say good night folks, thanks for the prayers for my health, still not 100% - but if I can eliminate some of this stress, and get the weather cooled down, I may be right as rain Night.
Well stayed home from work today, slept a lot - had a meeting in the afternoon, it was canceled for the second day in a row - which was probably for the best, but for now I am hoping that I stop feeling like crap before morning - the headache alone is horrible.
Things have been busy though, thats why my mom is now convinced that my sickness is from stress, heck she could be right - that and the heat are two things lately which have been in abudance, heck in most of btown it’s still +90F and slowly coming down - which means sleep will happen soon.
Anywhoo - just checking in, lots to do this week, meeting tomorrow at lunch possibly, but I may need to cancel and head downtown, not 100% sure yet, just need to turn in my Traffic School cert, but time will tell - in the mean time, I’ll say “Good Night!” to all, and more blog to come.
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!
