The only downside to sleeping thru the heat of the day, is an upside, working thru the cool of the night - right now it’s finally cooling off, below 80F and humidity is lower now too, plus a mild breeze it’s down quite a bit from the 102F it was earlier.
I enjoy the summer time, heat doesn’t bother me so much - it’s the back and forth really, thus why I am happy with work that I have AC in the car finally, so that I can stay close to the same temp in and out, but now I just need to get a greater pull of AC to my office, or the OK on the upcoming quotes which will get me a quarter rack to mount the servers in, and vent the heat up thru the intake vs. into the room, at that point I imagine the AC would do fine.
Tonight I went over my accounts, then suddenly one account spiked with funds, literally between clicks - it’s the 15th (duh!) apparently it skipped my mind that it was billing day, and in a matter of minutes transactions galore from payments pouring in from the billing system, quite a big month, few yearly renewals etc. so got plenty of funds for the rise in the price of gas
Anywhoo - I am going to try to sleep thru the cool of the evening as well, though I lay down then I am wide awake again, so we’ll see what happens, maybe some brainless time with Hulu and Netflix to pass the evening in hopes the morning will come and I’ll be rested! A guy can hope! Happy Father’s day to all the dad’s out there! Night!
Today I got a note from the IRS, it was announcing to me that my stimulus check would be in by 6/20! So this month I get $300 of unexpected, tax-free funds from ol uncle sam - so what to get, what to get… if other outstanding invoices come in too, I’ll have a good chunk of money, but no where near getting myself a Mac Pro - but maybe enough for a camera lens, or a big chunk of a new camera body…. oh so many choices.
Just woke up from a nap with the cat, it’s still nearly 100F, but thankfully the humidity has come down since I laid down for a nap, so it’s liveable, but the big question is… what’s for dinner? Maybe get a nice $300 dinner? lol
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.
So today I was excited about quotes, however when I checked in on the status, he was a tad tied up, but is going to come in tomorrow morning and go over things with me, in the end to sell this I think we’ll REALLY need to do a off-site demo with the boss-man as well as something onsite to demonstrate the speed of things.
In other news while I was eating lunch I had 2 visitors come in, one was the head of personal/accounting the other is her friend who does filing around the office - so we chatted for a little bit about things, laptops, etc. then she asked her friend to leave and shut the door - so knowing that my 90 days was here, I wondered what it would bring - she started off with the good news a 7% raise, and another review in Feb. so now making $34,240 a year - not too shabby on top of hosting, also since I am 90 in I can now get health insurance, hopefully vision too as I’d like to get a new pair of glasses! One negative point did come up in my review which was I spent too much time on sales, which I had recognized myself, I do have some on-going projects on that side, and some of the print work I do, does require me over there, but I let her know I have been working on doing rounds during the day and it was a work in progress - that seemed to make her happy. And that was that.
So I have about $100 roughly more per paycheck, which is nice - every little bit helps, not sure if they are doing bonuses this year, but if so that’d rock to get that as well (fiscal year is done in the end of June) but none the less it’s something, and the fact that I don’t have to wait for a year before another review, that’s handy - so some major big cool deals today! Just had to get on and post about it, who knows may go out and celebrate tonight!
Anywhoo - back to the grind of it all, going to work some of a PHP project or two, been working on converting these DOS based exports to MySQL, so who knows if I can work that I can probably bring back a lot of reports they wanted - time will tell!
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!
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 yes, it’s 2am. I finished the last bits of my final number crunching, and I have come to a conclusion, it is so time for accounting software and taking the time to learn it. TN has been growing slowly, nearly 10k more in this past year, and about another 1k in actual profit made, and of course, this year is going to be no different, with costs lowered on my end, and in turn also offering more to customers, I see some growth, but then also this calendar year I have a W2 coming, fun fun. In the end I paid more than last year (which I expected) the total was $282 (about $100~ more than last year), and as usual, state is no refund, nothing due. PTL.
Lots of prayer during taxes, TurboTax always scares the crap out of me every year, as it keeps a running tally of Tax owed, then after areas adds in the new deductions - so at one point I had $1,925 in taxes, and just started praying as I went over numbers again and again, (I need sleep) - only to run thru things, and finally say the classic “Your will be done” as over the last week funds have been coming in very steady, so I figured God was preparing me for taxes, well after hitting next to go into the new area, it re-calculated and it was less, then I got EIC and we arrived, lots of prayer tonight, and really a lot over the last few days, stress at work, taxes looming, and the upcoming court fun of my ticket, going to call the courts today from work and see what they say, if I can just pay it and do traffic school, so game.
Sleep is nearing, just HAD to get taxes done, and with the e-File it’s already post marked today, but again as I say every year, I want to do next year better, and I may form a LLC for ThrustNet and go from there, not 100% sure, but it may be time for an accountant as well - but with work in under 6 hours, I should probably wrap it up.
Anyhwoo - I’ll hit up the blog tomorrow from work, just been busy, tad crazy, and in this job I feel like I am re-living my first year of businesses as I am once again having hassles with what used to be Arrival, but at some level it’s not their fault, and yet they aren’t working with us either, long story, more later I am sure, but for now — thanks for all the prayers, thanks to folks who IM’d me tips on dealing with my court date if I indeed have to go, good stuff, much appreciated - but I must sleep, winds finally lived up to their purpose and brought the temp from 80F->52F lovely. Night folks. More later. Wheeeee!
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