Well I survived the turkey - not to mention I got a TON of sleep yesterday (Friday) - nice to have 2 days free for Turkey day, and more coming up for Christmas. Much needed sleep, but of course that fun had to come to an end, and I had to wake up and do something So I joined Scott for a late night milkshake @ Denny’s.
All in all though Thanksgiving was good - got to hang out with the Z Clan fun stuff - good eats for sure, even 1 arm’d after his surgery my dad still makes a mean turkey & gravy so stuffed myself good, glass of Nog, was ready for my nap.
But all in all this has been a very fun time, and even with tonight’s late night milkshake run turning south a little (Denny’s Lost Power) it has been a fun couple of days - even stopped by the rent’s place to check on their cats & the house in general - and braved the scale in the kitchen - I had been weighing in on the heavy side for a while, but tonight I weighed in at 70lbs or so down, possibly a little more as I was up there (320lbs) and now I am down quite a bit (250lbs) which is one of my old weight’s I stuck at for some time - I can contribute it to the job I suppose, high stress, more movement in a day, and lack of eating since I am not always home snacking anymore. So good in some areas bad in others, just need to lower that stress.
Anywhoo - later today (about 12 hours actually from now) hoping to see the new 007 movie with the guys, going to check in later this morning and see who is game, but I am hoping we’ll get to go see it this weekend and enjoy a flick, good company, and of course for me no movie is complete without nachos. Night folks! Hope you all had a good turkey day, and have a relaxing weekend!
So tonight could of gone much much worse. The biggest gripe was the last dryer on the row doesn’t work in the laundry facility (calling the manager in the AM to let them know) - but it held me up a little for my evening with the boys, but in the end it’s currently drying the remainder of the way on the shower curtain rod
I made it to dinner @ 9:15ish to see a group of friends I have not seen in 1 place for quite some time - and it was good to see them all, and get to share a meal, good conversation etc. - there was a slight difference in opinion on Rocky Balboa - but no one died (yet - as I agree it was good) lol - but we laughed, had fun, had the Denny’s pretty much to ourselves as usual when we have a later evening group in the work week - but we chatted, Scott graciously picked up the tab, and we headed out our seperate ways, minus Me, Jake and Jeff - we chatted a bit longer, and I just barely pulled into the house now.
A much needed night, even got slipped a thank you card from Scott (thank you good sir, always glad to help!) for my help this week which was an honor to provide - and getting to see Dan, Jeff and Jake - a good evening of company which I think was needed.
This week has begun to slow down for me, a few days there I thought it was going to be Friday instantly and an entire weeks worth of work was going to be done, and I’d not gotten anything done - but it has begun to mellow, got a massive pile of things done at work that were waiting for me from Tuesday, and now tomorrow Cory should be here (call me for directions to my place! I’ll be settled @ work by 9AM(PST)) - but hoping this weekend should be mellow and get to spend some more time with Friends/Family.
Anywho…. time is up, off to put away laundry that did dry, clean up some as not sure what time Cory is gonna be in, and see if guys want to join up here and have pizza and hang with Cory - might need to stock up on beverages… but I think I can handle that. Have a Great Thursday folks, and thanks for your prayers!
What a week this has been, hard to believe that it is already Thursday! Wow! A lot has gotten done, a lot of fires put out before they got bad, some strange things worked out for the best, and progress on a lot of fronts - not all the fronts that I had hoped - but progress is slow going, and change takes time.
A odd day at work, our new office bandwidth cut out at noon, and the COO was obviously a tad frustrated, this move was supposed to improve performance (READ: Speed) and give us more pipe (10Mbps) compared to our old connection (1.5Mbps) but for the last 2 days we have had issues, so for the remainder of the week I have 2 monitors, and a smokeping on the line, watching for outages, and I am going to try to push it at the lunch hour and see if maybe they just are oversold/overloaded.
On my own end, a productive morning - some DNS issues for the kMan, minor firewall Q&A, a DCMA violation on some software which was a error, that went too far lol, but it too was taken care of, and things are all rolling good, I have the HTML for the new FH being re-worked 100% I like the look of it, but I am also wanting 100% compliance if at all possible, I want it to be compliant with CSS/HTML standards and viewable nice and pretty - so I am doing my best - HTML is a tad rusty as of late, but I am making due.
The way home was interesting, at my exit I found a LONG line to get off our exit, which is not normal, myself and the car in front of me pulled over to help push a lady’s car off the freeway, her car died (hybrid) so she neutral’d it and me and the other driver pushed her off the on-ramp to the side of the road - she had a phone and was calling for help, thanked us, and off we went back to our journey home!
So a wild ending to my day - loafed a lot tonight, did some HTML for the kMan and MySelf to fill in some time, enjoyed the new Starz content on Netflix INSTANT view - about an hour left on Deja Vu (go Denzel!) so it was a fun evening, got to chat with 2 friends online and reviewed some Flickr stats on my account - all in all, fun stuff.
Anywhoo - it is time for bed, already shaved, brushed the teeth, and I feel ready for a nap, stomach ache is still hangin around, not sure if it’s this new sinus meds I picked up from Target “All Day Allergy” claims to be similar to Zyrtec, but it’s cleared up my allergies for sure, just not sure if it’s the source of my stomach ache, but I am going to lay off it tomorrow and see as the dosage lasts 24 hours - so that’s it for me, off to bed, have a good Thursday Folks!
So another week, another pile of things to do - and in 9 minutes I hope to be on my way to sleep - as it’s been a long day - a lot got done, some work on some sites that required some PHP tweaking, updating some scripts, and prepping for more to come, but also some nice downtime watching Heroes (lovely), and really unwinding before bed.
Tomorrow though brings the continued fun working to merge the old recovered Goldmine and the new changes folks have put in recently, ah the joys of work but work is getting smoother slowly but surely, hope to have more progress on the office, like many things they expect done “instantly” at work, this is one thing I did not want to rush, as there is a LOT of crap in there, some should of been thrown away in 1990, instead it was piled on bookshelves taking up space galore, but now I have a lot more open space, and more to come.
Anywhoo - that was more or less my quick update. Sleep becomes me in a few minutes and I still have a few more glasses of water to catch up on (long story) but needless to say, I am hoping for a good day tomorrow - I hope you all have a good one too!
Well I finally made some progress at work, seemed like lately a lot of things were against me, the drive failure was bad, but I have really pushed forward that things need to change - and for this company as I told the President of the company is like cavemen, the moment something is different/wrong - they run back to the safety of the cave, but thankfully I have had some good luck with making him see the benefits of a few upgrades, the firewall was a great step forward, and now I have gotten him to allow me to move forward on a multi-megabit line!
We have picked up a 10Mbps/1.5Mbps - upstream isn’t what most would call “FAST” but since the bulk of our issue is mainly that of saturating a T1 connection (1.5/1.5) and having no where else to go but down, so with more room, we should handle the daily grind a bit better - or so I hope, if not, then there is a network device somewhere in the drop ceiling, and one weekend I am going to have a router/switch/hub hunt
Things are getting slowly better, less ALWAYS ON STRESS - a odd night of sleep last night which was more or less classic me, sleep early, wake up early, hit that 6:30am hour and the pillow calls again - but I made it thru the day, no worse for wear - and I got my first power bill, pretty much my only other “living” expense attached to the apartment… it was a big $110 - not bad, I had budgeted everything high, it was set at $200, so not bad a $90 extra into the budget, and I have adjusted my fridge/freezer settings, as well as setup a program in my thermostat.
So its all getting there, tonight is a web coding night, taking some casual fixes/work I have been doing in development, and some I haven’t and moving them to production servers to try and mend a customer’s customers - quite a bit of work, so should be a nice addition to the budget long-term, but since it is such a large amount and the customer is without additional help and he has a few people he is comping time for this blip, I am breaking it up, and also cutting a few hours out, more or less combining them into one big set of coding time.
Anywhoo - thanks to folks who have been checking in on me as always, I have a lot more to do this month, and this month is nearly over - so I am going to get to it, right after a bite to eat for dinner! Night folks!
Unless I get one heckuva offer, I am in for the night. Been a busy week/weekend, and I know tomorrow is going to be a wild one as I am going to try and finish up the move of the last little bits (paperwork, phone, etc.) from my rents place - so going to enjoy this evening, and relax.
Cleaned up my twitter account, too many people on there I added because they were local, but most turned out to use Twitter not to do a quick “Washing my Car” but rather a full-fledged IM / marketing tool - sad that the simplest of tools that can be used for fun, were used for strange reasons and it was those types of users who were leading the “frustrations” Twitter for it’s “shortcommings” yet, it does exactly what it should.
My fileserver is back online, not where I want it, but I wanted to get it all lined up and online so I could enjoy some television I have recorded on it - of course now I have to sort this Realtek Audio issue as apparently their HD driver blows and I can’t watch DVD’s anymore via Media Center, instead I must use VLC, which isn’t a huge deal, just was hoping for easy of use via the remote.
Anywhoo - more I could rant about, but going to stay off the computer here a bit tonight, as the other half of tomorrow is computer work - as my current plan is morning = cleaning/moving and afternoon/evening is websites/servers. Have a great labor day those who have it off!
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!
So I joined Scott for a late night milkshake @ Denny’s.
Night folks! Hope you all had a good turkey day, and have a relaxing weekend!
