I really don’t know how I got to the a-typical boring guy level of things I have lived a pretty wild bit now and again - I mean how many people have been investigated by the FBI twice, and the Canadian mounties? (Okay it wasn’t the mounties, but it sounds cooler than the Canadian version of the FBI)
A lot lately people keep telling me that I am far too nice - when did becoming nice almost become a put down? LoL I love the folks who tell me these things, tonight it was my little sister, she said it in reference to something that happened to me a while back, and I jokingly said I was going to hire her to come do collections for me! She’d have me tons of owed money ASAP.
Honestly I do see it sometimes that I let things go that I should be upset about, but I suppose it is true that nice guy’s finish last - and sometimes as of late aside from heat stroke, flu, and bordum @ work, I do feel like I am finishing last. My vision of where I would be by now is a lot different than how it turned out - I am not a chef cooking for people, I don’t have 2 kids and a beautiful wife, no 3 bedroom house, but instead - I have a lot of things folks don’t have - and more and more I see that even in my every day interaction with folks at work.
My office has some folks that look at life a lot different than I do, they see the negative and hang on to it, “being nice” isn’t something they practice on a regular basis - I mean the fact that I keep a stash of goodies that I hand out for free still to this day boggles the minds of folks there - both young and old. I mean who would go out, buy some candy bars, and some snack cakes and hand them out for free? I mean come on what’s the catch?
I dunno, this past 2 years a lot of learning has gone down for me, and adding this 9-to-5 style job is a big change for me, no more running out on a Friday to Kosmos with Matt for 2-3 hours to chat, no more snagging lunch for Rosie and running it over to her at B&N, no helping friends decipher taxes and applications for loans, granted I still get to help folks at work, even got to help a old friend today, and she offered to take me to lunch as a thanks - I dunno, things like today where I should be billing $75 just for doing something, I am going to let it fall by the wayside.
Grace. As Google defines it:
“a disposition to kindness and compassion”
I have always been a big supporter that if grace is given to you, if that kindness and compassion is shared - you should share it in return, because grace is something you don’t deserve - it’s a gift. A gift which I have received in my life time and time again - so who am I not to extend it to others?
I mean if I have no other role in life than to spread a little bit of grace, compassion, and kindness - that seems like a noble enough of a life - may not be the vision you come up with a kid of being a fireman, of being the president of the USA, but I think for this day in age - it is something needed.
My life is going to be taking some changes soon, probably a new place to live, changes in how I eat, exercise, interact, etc. and thru it all I pray I don’t loose that sense of grace - as even when folks are short with me, or fall short of what I expected from them, grace can still be given, that gift that costs nothing but issues such a rich reward to another - the best gift one can give and the same for someone who receives it.
Anywhoo - that’s my bit for now - going to run the budget numbers again, and pray about ditching work tomorrow to rest up for Friday’s big inventory day - but knowing me I’ll probably just end up going and be grumpy on Friday from lack of sleep and even more fun heatstroke Keep me in your thoughts and prayers - hopefully going into July some things things will be underway. Night folks.
So the niece came back today, 3 wild fun filled days with my rents @ Disneyland so they came back from hot, to hotter as it was reported 105F in some areas of town, yowza!
I am still not back to full internet status, I dunno, being a tad unpluged helps - lot on my mind as of late, things like finances, apartments, relationships, etc. etc. etc. - just been a crazy 2 weeks with really bad sleep, hoping tonight to get some sleep in, but I am also thinking about calling in at work in the AM and let them know I’ll be in around 10, or not at all, but knowing me I’ll probably just give in and goto work and drag thru the day - I miss Foto Fridays.
Anywhoo - that’s all I have this evening, going to crash out now - hope everyone has a wonderful Friday!
Just wrapping up the last bits of a very lovely lazy Friday, just a day that did seem to drag, but I made it thru, zoned out watching movies with Dad, and snagging pizza as Mom is out for the weekend @ a baby shower for Harmony, so twas just the guys.
The week has been week-like Got a new customer, lost 2 sadly on the FH side, which happens now and again, especially with the lower end hosting, but I picked up a new customer that covers those lost, amazing how things sometimes appear to balance each other out.
Monday I am getting the new mailservers online, looking forward to offering the enhanced service as part of FH’s offerings, and in time the business class packages on TN - but spent some time today re-working the possiblities of TN’s logo, I really need to get some outside help as I created the original TN logo, so I am a tad close to it, but I may ask Dan and Adam both to take a peek at what I have currently and see if they can bring it up to 2008.
But this weekend brings some fun I hope, I may tag along with Scott and buy myself a Costco card, be nice to goto Costco as needed, especially for Yakitory! But I may also just sleep away the weekend and call it good, but should be a relaxing one (I hope) might even get my AC installed in my bedroom since 100F+ days are coming soon.
Anywhoo - going to go search thru NetFlix instant views, and see what I can find.. sadly missed BSG and Doctor Who - but I’ll catch em on the flip side I’m sure…. just sad BSG (which has been getting good) is going to disappear after this episode till 2009, but Stargate Atlantis is possibly around the corner, so I may live for now I’ll zone out and sleep.
So I got home roughly around 10pm tonight, quite a day, but a big chunk of it was hanging at Scott’s after work and enjoying a meal, some games, and good conversation so not much to complain about
I did meet with the insurance lady, it was nice, got some paper work, still going over the bulk of the details, but I didn’t know my employer covers ALL health insurance costs! Yowza! Very nice indeed, only things are optional bits which I am going to sign-up for, mainly Life Insurance ($8 a month), Vision ($8.50 a month), and Dental ($10), so not too shabby at all, going to be nice to have some steady insurance again, might even go in and have them check to make sure I have a brain, or on a serious note get a check up on my liver and see how it’s doing (previously it was over-working) - but nice to know the ability is there if I need it.
Got the bucket list on my Netflix, so I am going to wrap it up here and go zone out and watch it, nice end to a day, I enjoy Morgan Freeman, one of my favorite actors - not just his acting ability, but the man has an amazing voice! He could read the ingredients from a cereal box, and I’d be glued to his every word.
Anywhoo that’s it for me, oh and if this worked as it “should” this should cross-post to Xanga so folks who still for whatever reason follow me there will get to see what’s happening. Night folks!
Update: Looks like a no-go for Xanga… oh well, it was worth a try! Or it does, sadly looks like only if I post from the Wordpress Web End, no XML-RPC posting hrmm.. we’ll see folks.
Not a ton to say, just one of those days, things wrapping up - got a raise, get health insurance tomorrow, possibly dental & vision - almost a real grown up now… man what is this world coming to? lol.
Busy is just my middle name as of late, actually have a project I was supposed to run tonight, but I was too tired to think, all I have now is the things that always grind on my mind, life choices, emotions, projects, but no active thought to work with, just ideas - this constant flow … but it was nice to see Bones was on TNT a older episode I hadn’t seen, so I enjoyed watching it, like The Office and some other TV shows, it’s one of those shows I caught the later seasons, and now I am re-visiting the original stuff, and it’s a good show, I just like to work with a more mature character dev & story line than have the patience to see it built — and no I am not one of those read the last page of the book kind of people.
Just really sitting here tonight just taking it all in, this job, my business, my health, my projects, my emotions - it’s been a roller coaster of a year, from tight funds, to doing okay, to a raise which will help quite a bit re-build things like my savings, but also give me some extra room to play with Thrust Networks, things moving forward it seems - and heck the lady down the street even told me a relationship would happen for me soon - so I mean she has to be right - Ms. Right, come on down! But being a touch silly aside, things are going good, Matt is coming down the 21st, active in church again via the Hub, great friends, supportive family, fun jobs, just ready to let go of some things and just let it happen for once instead of finding all that could go wrong and really moving forward.
Anywhoo - that’s my random bit for the evening, going to hit the pillow, set my phone as a backup alarm as the weather is really really windy, and last thing I want is my alarm to NOT go off, so for now, farewell - sleep well, and enjoy your Fake Friday. 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!
So here we are at the start of a new week - busy, lots of planning ahead, I have appointments tomorrow afternoon as well as Friday, so I imagine the rest of the week will fill in soon - or at least it usually tends to - but I have a meeting on Friday about basically virtualizing all of the desktops which has me torn really, as I love the concept, but the single point of failure could mean a LOT of downtime in “theory” but if the sever is built properly, there should be no issue at all…. but I’ll find out more solid details Friday what these guys have in mind.
The billing issue seems to be getting there, I had hoped it’d resolve today, and I got the apologetic call, some explanation, but I think the payment idea I suggested is going to work, half in the first of the month, other half in the middle - so more or less the same as my work pay system, so not too shabby in the least, going to swing by there after work and pick up a check, and discuss some other things quickly, but hopefully it’s all good - and we can get a game plan going.
Lastly, I feel drained today, just really really tired, which is making me wonder should I go and rest, or goto pancakes & games @ Scott’s here after the meeting, but I am down for bringing OJ, but at the same time I think they’d understand …. if not I know they’ll come for me in the night and I’ll never be seen again…. all due to OJ…. sweet, tasty Florida Orange Juice.
Anywhoo - I am off, getting backups packed up, VM is lagging a bit, not unusual, I think that copy of XP has a leak in it somewhere - but going to get it offsite, shutdown, and off to downtown - so take care all, more later I’m sure!
I have lived a pretty wild bit now and again - I mean how many people have been investigated by the FBI twice, and the Canadian mounties? (Okay it wasn’t the mounties, but it sounds cooler than the Canadian version of the FBI) 
Keep me in your thoughts and prayers - hopefully going into July some things things will be underway. Night folks.
