What a month, what a crazy couple of months - not saying its bad, just taking a toll to say the least, mentally, physically, emotionally - and the newest, financially - but its all settling out, slowly but surely, but I’d really love a nap, a cold drink, and a swimming pool.
So why am I awake? Oh the usual old story with me, I took a nap trying to get a headache to stop, and woke up rested, but of course, way off schedule in the realm of normal hours and sleep, and of course with once again a almost fully functional brain that is doing what it likes to do - think (stoopid brain!) so here I sit, sipping a glass from the bottle, my poison of choice, Martinelli’s Sparkling Cider - oh yes, I know how to roll.
But today brings some possible good news I hope, get to see if a new company I am dealing with will be good to work with long term and are business people that are honorable - if not, probably time to find a alternative - just one of those things in business I suppose - probably not a major deal, but just one of those things.
Can’t decide now to goto sleep, go for a drive, go for a walk, or just sit here pondering what to do with my day - part of me wants to make it a day around the house, catch up on some laundry, maybe re-arrange the room a bit, and make it a tad more livable - who knows…. time shall tell. Have a Good Tuesday All.
Well I can’t say it was all bad, it was a rough patch or three, but I appear today to be alive and things are working good - but sadly this weekend left me exhausted (not just because of the server stuff) - but there were some positives after all things were said and done.
Got to goto the movies, which was nice, relaxed a bit, enjoyed a good flick, heck even had some nancho’s I mean that in itself should be a good day (they were tasty), but then it was bashed away by servers on Saturday night - but things got ironed out, and life was happy again in the early AM of Sunday so I crashed out, and slept fair.
Sunday I woke up was playing a bit when my sister called me to tell me about the Target Ad which had the Nintendo Wii on sale for CONSOLE ONLY (which is what I had wanted) for $250, I called my local target and they had “plenty” so I rushed over (only a 10m drive tops) and got there and picked up the Wii, and Wii Play - so I have 2 Wii motes! But its super fun, and was just sitting down to a game of pool with my dad when the phone got txt’d like crazy - all servers down. The previous night’s issue from upstream found its way to ALL the servers 
So Sunday evening I got it ironed out, got to talk with the right dept. and got tons of apologies for them not taking proper actions to inform me that a client was running a spoof’d banking site aka a Phishing site - so with the servers brought back up, and the bad site taken down, life was once again happy, I hit the Wii to take out some of the extra adrenaline in my system then crashed out - but none the less, I am exhausted - might be from the Wii, but I am leaning more towards it being from the frustration from the servers - that really tends to take a lot of out me.
Anywhoo - here we are in a new week, I am emailing the management team of my upstream, with recent changes, I want to be sure the upper-ups know what is going on, and see about getting some credits on my account - but time will tell, but I am already looking for another provider for backup, I want to be sure to keep folks clear/running smooth - and not have to have entire servers of folks suffer because one site’s scripts were out of date.
Prayers are appriciated, I am just ready to fall over and fall asleep here at this desk - but there are things to do! So I am off to do them. Have a Good Day Folks!
Well it was just one of those days, one of those times you get to step in and try to do something to help, but at the same time you wonder if your helping, or hindering, or dancing the roomba - I hop’d in and helped on a computer build, while dealing with a internet issue, then fixed up 2 computers for this crazy lady (hi angel!) and followed that up with a slice of cheesecake (which I think I am still digesting… mmmm) and was going to have a night hanging out with the kMan, but sadly - he was nowhere to be found.
So my night picked up here at the house, got some real food in me finally, and proceeded to unwind, I dunno, just had a urgency on things today - at least it felt that way to me, but things got done - took in some supplies to the office, which I don’t think the guys understand are there for everyone, which is fine I guess, but at least a few folks seem to get the hint and enjoyed some of the munchies/drinks, at my office I always had snacks, drinks, things like popcorn and such - wanted things to be relaxed, and if you just needed a snack, no need to run to a store to buy something, it was there.
I feel like sometimes people take me trying to be nice as me trying to PUSH something on them, I realize, some folks don’t want a hand out, they don’t want you to have pity for them, or think they aren’t able to support/care/handle their family/business/etc. but I dunno, I guess everyone has the right to say “No thanks” and I respect that, I mean if someone doesn’t want my help - its quite simply a gift they can easily not accept - but today I did have someone get a little defensive when I was trying to lend a hand, was off the cuff, and maybe they realized how they sounded, and sort of stepped back, but I dunno - by no means am I trying to say my friends are incapable of getting something nice, taking care of business, etc. I just like doing nice things for folks. I dunno, maybe thats odd - but so be it, I have learned over the years, I’m a tad odd.
But anywhoo - coming up on 1am here, I am leaving tomorrow for Grover Beach for the day, I love the trip - and I am dropping off my mom who my sister will bring home over the weekend - so everybody wins - BUT also I get to take some photography of my niece playing soccer!!!!! WOOHOO!! Never have done sports photography, so I may actually go use my $50 gift card at CompUSA tomorrow and get a 2 or 4GB CF Card since I want to shoot half of the game in digital negative so I can do some color touchups and such - but tomorrow should be fun! Then it’s back on Friday for the Fluxar Dawgs in Da Alley fest, and Movies with Cousin Sarah and possibly a friend or two, then my weekend fun going to a 2yr old’s birthday (us redheads hafta stick together).
So night all, do keep my friends in your prayers, not sure what’s up 100% but things were mildly confirmed that there is indeed something up when I talked to him briefly today, so just hoping its all gonna work out one way or another - ah life. Thanks for stopping by and reading my insanity.
Man oh man do I know how to party. No really. 
Quite a day, quite a couple of days, but things are finally winding down, life is slowly returning to normal, and sleep on a normal schedule is slowly going to return (but I mean what’s truly normal for me?) - but the past 48 hours had a few tickets pop-up, thankfully nothing major, a few I actually hope to fix up tonight/tomorrow - but a lot of small/common issues - Frontpage the one thorn in my side, not to mention some ISP’s stragglin with DNS! But all in all the DNS servers are updated, sync’d and good to go, the FH3/NS3 hotspare here in bako should be lit up in about a week.
As for my Wildman comment, its quite a week of “extreme relaxing” as I am going to put it, I was invited to dinner tonight by my buddy William, of course I asked his mom if it was okay, and that I didn’t want to intrude, so I had some food, twas delightful, Thursday night I am taking my mom to the coast (which I have to run by my bro) which if we do, means I get to play with Charity some possibly before she has to goto school on Friday, then on Friday, Fluxar is doing a BBQ in the alley, so going to speed back from the coast around 9am, get back in bako around 11, time to stretch,unwind,get my legs back by noon, eat, enjoy, then on Saturday - oh yes, another party - for a 2yr old. the Foster’s daughter Carlie is having a party, and I am so going!
Yes I like kids, don’t know if you caught that - but should be fun, heck my upcoming birthday I am thinking about actually putting up some cash myself and having it at John’s Incredible Pizza and invite not only my friends, but their kids, cousins, nephews, nieces, since most of those kids I know and love to death, so would be crazy to have my niece, and a slew of other kids all come out for a birthday party - and not tell the John’s employee’s the part is for a 27 yr old guy - I seriously want to have them make one of those balloon monkeys, they are AWESOME.
So thankfully after a semi-stressful move, its all calming down, the dust is settling, but for some others life seems to be getting a tad crazy, while I don’t want to air other folks ultra personal issues, I can say if your a praying person, keep my friend and his wife in your prayers, so tension there and its getting bad from the looks of it, just nothing I can do or think to say that would be of any help - so pray it up if you could.
Anywhoo - that’s all I gotz. I am going to run to the store since I have no snacks, all the granola bars are gone! Someone ate all my baked lays, and the Rich Chocolaty Ovaltine is gone! How can a man be expected to survive conditions like this?! I need my tacklin fuel. Night folks.
ps. 8 days.
Well here we are on the other side of a bulk of the migrations, and so far so good - a few “What happened!?” emails graced my inbox this morning, one gentleman thought we had crashed and thankfully saved all his email - so for about 35 seconds I was a miracle worker 
But so far so good, since Thursday a server has been moved a day, several customers moved to the new business class server, and the new DNS system is working awesome! So no complaints from me as of yet, and so far no real complaints from customers, well 1 is complaining, but has given me no response to their tickets, emails, etc. just sends the same email with no details what-so-ever.
Today may be a short day - I have dinner at my sister’s house to celebrate her birthday a day early, and of course 9 days and counting here, but things are finally leveling out for me, and hopefully here very soon, normal operations will resume, new websites online, and life happy once again.
Thanks for the continued prayers, not feeling sick today, tad stuffy, but nothing that’s going to kill me… I hope. Have a Good Week Folks.
No really, I am excited about the moves - modern hardware, up-to-date software - but there are minor glitches to be had, things that would be most common would be path’s, if customers had /home2 - that is now /home - Frontpage users are always a concern as its configurations NEVER update properly in a migration.
DNS however is synced up nice a pretty, goes across 3 servers, and a hotspare - so DNS requests should be even faster, updated mail systems, etc. etc. - going to be very nice, with a newer batch of servers in the works around July if business perks up - so lots of cool stuff on the horizon.
I have a ’service call’ tomorrow, not excited about that, but it could play out nicely, it may suck worse than I imagine it will - this call was more or less thrown on me, not offered, apparently since I own 2 Mac’s and have fixed up one or two in my time, that certifies me to repair entire networks of Mac’s - ah the joys of me being there to pick up someone’s mess (long story).
Anywhoo - not sure I’ll be blogging the next few days, prayers are appreciated - hopefully each day goes smoothly, might do one move tonight - just so much to do, so little time Friends hosting with me on Homestar, heads up, move is happening tomorrow night @ 8PM (PST).
Hope you all have a good week/weekend - see you in 6 days, when hopefully life is back to normal, and things are movin on up.
My day, which started Sunday with a photo-day, and ended around 5pm or so this evening, a LONG day, but a good day overall I think. When you get past 12 hours awake, most people start to feel tired, normal I suppose, at 20 hours, if your up, you may get cranky, at 24 hours, most people don’t know what to do with themselves, I personally went into the office early, and ended up hangin out with my buddy William for a good chunk of the day.
The internet went out at the office, which was bad for everyone - but out of it, a new line is being provisioned, and things are moving forward to hopefully, be a tad more stable in the long run, but even with out internet most of the day, it was a good day - because when I don’t sleep I get to a point where my brain stops over-thinking, stops functioning at 200% above speed, it just passes out and leaves me to think a tad more clearly - and that’s fun too when hanging out with a kid.
I dunno, I have always been a tad, how should I put it, withdrawn, careful on what I say, mindful of what I think, and observant of what others are doing/going through - just how I am, how I was raised - but when you brain goes a mile a minute, thinking out ever scenario, each good/bad possiblity, it can get old quick, but in life since I am going through 10,000 possiblities in the corse of a single option of the day, I tend to displace something I am feeling, I have come to realize by hanging out with kids - kids tend to say what they think, which can lead to the classic “all 3 parts of the name” mother call “CHARLES ANDREW BROWN!!!!” but for me, I tend to put it into a “Well wouldn’t that be something” and push it off to the side as a funny after thought if someone brings it up, and it’s what I was thinking/feeling/wanting to say - I make it sounds like I wouldn’t be interested, but really I probably was, not always like that, but on ocasion someone hits on the head what I was feeling/thinking, and I panic.
Lately in life, I think people are seeing what I am feeling/thinking better than I am, and I have been trying to be mindful of that, but then again, I also have people projecting what they’d like to see happen in my life ie. married/relationship/kids - and while I am all for that, I dunno, I am still over-thinking it, there was a gal about a year ago, heck who am I kidding, even though she’s dating a guy right now I’d still do just about anything for her, no matter her ups/downs/etc. I still care about her - I had gotten the courage up to JAHOYFT - but the same day my courage, and every extra thought I could have was set aside, she tells me she has a boyfriend. “Yay”
The timing has never been right, or I over-think it all too much - heck my family/friends already have my new relationship picked out, and while I am not object to it, I just dont know, I have 10,000 factors already running in my head - and the biggest thing is really “What am I feeling?” - there’s a song by Chris Rice called “Love Like Crazy” it’s taken from scripture more or less, and the jist of the song is we should all love like crazy, as Christ did and loved so much, “He gave His life away” and as Christians we should also love to that same nearly insane style of love - that whole love with every ounce of your being - and thats what I try to do, but breaking that apart from personal feelings, thats where things get fuzzy in my mind.
I dunno, relationships are a interesting thing, and maybe when I meet “the one” my brain will shut up (I hope it does) - it’s never been an issue with talking with Gals, piece of cake, but the idea of going from Friend -> Girl Friend, heck even my 6th grade girlfriend was a series of notes passed lol - so maybe I need to get some notepads
But that’s it, probably going to crash out here shortly, just trying to empty my brain of things, so this may not of made much sense, but such is how my brain is right now, it got sleep, so it’s trying to reboot now, so I am instead going to goto sleep again Night folks.
