So for a few days I keep trying to blog, but nothing ever comes of it - but today I had to - so much going on, had to get some of it down out of the ol brain, but just also a lot of busy busy coming up - for instance the title, Tuesday I get my quotes, for virtualizing the entire office - all desktops to virtual setups, rather clever idea, and work-able too… so we’ll see what the final price point is, and go from there, who knows may work, or my fear will come true and my boss/admin board will go “Huh? No.” as they sometimes fear things that are new / different.
Sorting out some projects, been one of those weeks where a pile of projects seemed to all take various twists and turns, one ended - never got to production, but now sorting out the final bits, should go smoothly though I hope - but more are on the horizon, thankfully not as involved, and with folks who want simplicity vs. complexity, not as fun, but easier to complete
Weather is heating up, was 104F coming home from work today, of course it’s still mighty toasty out, but welcome to summer! Need to work on my bedroom a bit, or look at apartments - basically something with more advanced cooling than the swamp cooler - but as usual I’m sure I’ll survive, already loosing some weight from the lovely shift in weather, but that’ll go away with Winter.
Anywhoo - just rambling now so I think I’ve reached my goal, and I am going to call it a night, nearly midnight and I feel ready for sleep, just don’t wanna wake up for work tomorrow - but I’ll do my best. 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!
Well it’s nearly Friday, this week has flown by, one minute were starting Tuesday, and BAM! Hello Friday. I am going to keep this brief as my brain is sleepy, and my hands keep forgetting to hit keys in the proper order, so this post is taking more work than it should!
Things, Friday night is the official posting of the FH newsletter it will unveil some things in testing, some things coming online this next week, and explain some upcoming options for hosting customers - rather exciting, I am looking forward to some exciting changes, and hopefully… prayerfully… restfully… they will all come about and really help to enhance services and give a good summer drive in new accounts.
Coming up rapidly on the 90 day mark for work, at which point I get health insurance again for the first time in a long time, also vision which means YAY! new glasses as these are bent and nearly broken, I want new frames… something mildly hip… but not too hip, but not the same as I have now, that’s for sure (as they have never fit my head right) - plus I want them to be transition lenses so I don’t have to carry several pairs of glasses.
Anywhoo - more news on things soon, some things not even being made public to my closest friends, but things are in motion, expansion, growth, new territory etc. should be fun, good crazy etc. For now I will say “Good Night!” - Happy Friday Folks!
So what a week, sick one day, feeling slowly but surely better again after my brush with heat stroke from Friday, after 28+ power blinks aka power goes on, power goes off, power goes on, etc. you get the idea - the week was going great, got in on Friday and the day started with something coming up right away - Cougar had some locked files and RT errors, so we needed a reboot, not a HUGE deal, happens now and again with strange files held open for no reason. So rebooted, and no issues for most of the morning.
The day went on as any other day, worked on code, looked at stuff, talked to Tiger Direct who wants business, and may get some - but just looked things over then blink 1, around 11:30am the power went out, nothing long-term, but a good minute or so and just as I was getting ready to head towards the server for a clean shutdown (it’s on battery backup) the power came back up - well I think it was a grid issue, with the heat already growing past 100F in some areas, it was getting hot, and my thought is restaurants were cooling things off for hungry folks coming in for lunch, so the power continued to blink from about 11:30am->1:30pm - and it got hot, and I didn’t get to have lunch till about 2:30pm - so a hard long day, but after fixing some issues with the server (for some reason it was setup by the last guy on DHCP! had to re-code IP’s in places) - I finally had the sales gals snag me some grub, and I got to sit, relax, eat - but I think the heat damage was already done.
The day ended nice though, got to share a lovely dinner @ the poon’s and hang out for a while, then it was to home to pass out, I was woken up early 6:59am on a Saturday… to find myself dead tired, but being txt’d which could be any number of things - however it was Rosie sending me a reminder of her Wedding today, but I felt like crap, so I passed back out again, and woke up around 11ish feeling bad, and the reason I think was my sinuses were completely dried out - thus I had a nose bleed or two, so I snagged some food, cleaned up, and took the day easy, including some sleep, some light chatting, and some more sleep, thus missing Rosie’s wedding.
What a day what a day. I have been drinking fluids like a madman, I just got out of a cold bath dropping my core temp down quite a bit, but I am about to go for my 3rd big glass of water, and find some food, the joys of life, makes me want to take another nap for now I’ll just go find some grub and veg a bit. Night folks.
Soooo what a week thus far, 1 more day to go, but it’s been quite a ride. Apparently the cat is out of the bag finally, with the co-owner of the company coming in for a week, and an investor showing up, folks got the hint that the company may be up for sale - though from what I am gathering from long-timers, this has been attempted once before, and nothing happened, so time will tell - maybe they’ll give me an IT budget but hopefully tomorrow I can work out something for my hope of a firewall and 15 computers.
I have been considering my DVD renting practices, as it stands I am doing Netflix, but I am getting bored of it, the online watching is cool, but limited to Windows, not a HUGE deal, as currently my media rig is Vista, but Netflix seems to of slowed, I recall getting DVD’s quickly, but last took about 4 days to get, and when I did get it, snapped in two. I realize this happens, BUT with Blockbuster, I could take in the envelope and tada, new DVD, cost is the only thing that I am weary about when it comes to price, as it stands with Netflix, I am on the lowest plan with live watching, but even at unlimited 1 out, and unlimited in-store exchange, it’s $22 a month, BUT that does mean instant change, not wait 4 days for a new movie - so I am considering it after I get the last of these bills paid.
iPhone is doing well, T-Mobile’s data speeds seem very nice as of late, and since I got off the 2Wire DSL at work, much more stable wireless across the board, it hops between the Linksys’s just fine, and allows me access to my mail in a quick pinch, plus SSH, just need to get my key on there so I can easily get onto servers vs ssh -> home -> server.
Sleep has been better lately, for a week or so it was out of order, as it can become with me, and yet again someone suggesting that I may suffer from insomnia - again I suppose it’s possible, I just think I have a very different way of sleeping… yeah that’s it! But so far so good, some good rest and I woke up only a little groggy not flat out exhausted.
Anywhoo - more tomorrow as it has become my weekly blogging day it seems sometimes, but for now I am going to go and stare at some code… yay.
So Friday is now upon us. The week hasn’t been horrible, got to hang out with friends last night, till about midnight, and till about 11 tonight enjoying Iron Man opening night, some friends opt’d not to come, been a busy week, but I really wanted to go, so did Dan and Cam, so we loaded up in ol Red (Dan’s Truck) and went to east hills for the movie… like 12 people total in the theatre - as always fun. Hint hint - stay after the credits.
Tonight ended mixed I think, found out what the rock I heard hit me hit tonight while washing my windows and getting my car washed, my windshield looks like it smashed about 5 inches from the mirror mount, cracking a L shape into the windshield, haven’t noticed because it’s behind the mirror, thus invisible to me as I am driving, but it does need to be dealt with before it grows, breaks, other - but PTL it didn’t break on impact, a good windshield for sure, now it just needs some love, maybe while I’m in there get some tint on it! The joys of cars.
Lot on my mind tonight, lot been on my mind lately, I dunno, part of me really just wants a vacation, a break, I’ve done my own schedule so long, and I could fit in breaks, a breath, but today at work was just bam bam bam, one thing after another, and most of it was dump’d on me things someone else was given to do, but since they were busy, I got it, things which should simply be copied and handed out, are re-written by me, and placed in boxes, things which to me in my mind are “basics” of computers, folks either don’t know how to do it, or a frightened to do so in fear of the PTB coming down on them! I guess I am just blessed more than I truly realize - I have customers who learn, read, experiment, roll back a version if needs be, who handle some things on their own, but sometimes I think my old Drafting teacher is out to get me, he said I should be a teacher lol.
Anywhoo - I know part of my problem is I am still amp’ing down, but already way too tired to probably be up and be getting up in about 6 hours to goto work for 30m or so, then drive north to the accountant’s house and do some computer work…. so I will say Goodnight, and for the short end of my Iron Man review, here it is: Go See It. Night.
but hopefully tomorrow I can work out something for my hope of a firewall and 15 computers.
looks like it smashed about 5 inches from the mirror mount, cracking a L shape into the windshield, haven’t noticed because it’s behind the mirror, thus invisible to me as I am driving, but it does need to be dealt with before it grows, breaks, other - but PTL it didn’t break on impact, a good windshield for sure, now it just needs some love, maybe while I’m in there get some tint on it! The joys of cars.
