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 the night has come, Unicron-Classic (lol) is being shutdown as I type. It was a good server, lasted longer than I thought it would, even if it did cause me great grief this past weekend locking up, running out of ram, etc. but the customers of that server (not mine) are now re-located to 2 masterful 8-Core systems - and doing great on lovely RAID10 drive setups, so a nice improvement for those folks, I am sure there are some little bugs waiting for me here and there, but all in all, very very happy!
In other news! My parts showed up today, as I have been working here, I have been trying out the new thumbdrive which is for a combo of personal and a combo of work, 16GB of thumbdrive wonderfulness - so very happy, and every little bit I have been putting together the system, and it’s going well - but I’ll post more later, a few things to sort out in here, and waiting on the final on the old server, etc. etc. but tonight I’ll have a few things to post about… more soon!
Only a day left in this week - it seems to of flown by looking back at it now, but honestly it felt long - but I wanted to take some time tonight to unwind a bit, work on some projects - one of which was that of my blog, I wanted to get some time under the hood to update some plugins, scripts, etc. I have a Netflix tool I wrote, but it’s not ready for prime time.
All in all things have been busy in general, closed some deals today - did quite well thankfully, and finally got some payments handled, but all in all definately a few things moving forward that I had hoped would - even though I know that “studies” show things like people who say “I’ll read up on it” never sign-up, but also sometimes folks just need to review the facts, and make an informed choice.
Anywhoo, going to unwind, play with a few new features in Wordpress 2.6, seems pretty smooth and functional, I am enjoy Google Gears, much much quicker interface that’s not streaming AJAX goodies, and it tells me how many words I have typed Off to fun!
So the week is done, twas a long one, with little sleep, but I am alive, and probably going to pass out here in a minute, but just figured I’d post a note.
A good week overall I’d say, the iPhone is doing well, with all the talk of 3G I have considered taking it back, but at the same time, it works, it does what I need, WiFi will always be faster, and granted 3G speeds will beat that of EDGE, at the end of the day Edge is more widespread, and like last time AT&T’s big data release, unless they REALLY learned from last time, we’ll probably see more outages, and for those who get it for T-Mobile’s 3G being rolled out, outages there too I’d imagine… if it’s not locked into AT&T’s 3G network!
Anywhoo - busy day tomorrow, meeting about servers in the afternoon, probably a service call in the morning across the street to look at a DVD Burner Issue, and Dinner later that evening with friends, so busy busy - so I am going to crawl over to my bed, start up the movie where I left off, and dream happy dreams. Night.
Kinda, sorta, not really - okay maybe. I got home earlier, and just crashed out. Dead to the world I needed sleep, I woke up about 2 hours ago, but I am about to crash out again - just wanted to do something for lil ol me, aka upgrade the Blog.
I had read mixed thoughts/feelings about the latest upgrade to Wordpress, some liked it, some thought it was too sparse, some thought it mucked up things - honestly? I like it. Light, simple, some options aren’t exactly where I would think to find them, but such is change.
At some level I think the trade off of features/fixes should of given folks more to try, but as usual plugin conflicts for some were their un-doing - but a nice feature of the new system is live updating, which I know many groups will complain about the security of the concept, but it’s no different than that of Windows / Mac Update systems, you use / trust that product enough to do updates, why not your blog?
Anywhoo - all in all I think it’s pretty slick, it was a simple upgrade, sent my DB backup to Gmail, and uploaded the files, easy peasy - but for now, I am going to wrap up, and goto sleep, meeting @10am tomorrow, last day of “freedom” so to speak, as the boss-man comes back on Thursday, and I am sure he’s gonna have a pile for me. So I’ll say goodnight, and Happy Fake Friday!
Soooo where has the time gone? A week ago I was having a mixed day, getting speeding tickets, stressed out of my mind, and here we are a week later, and where am I? A little older, a little wiser, and a little less stress!
This week I have gotten a lot accomplished, ordered the Laptop plan for the boss man, got GoToMyPc installed on his Home rig, I can get on and work on it from here! Whoohoo! I’ve setup a laptop, I’ve apparently gone the speed limit as I have no more tickets this week and I just bought a $1,800 server that will give us 1.5TB of backup storage, in Raid5 setup, all SATAII with 16MB cache on the drives, a nice dual core with 4GB of ram, it looks lovely, plus I’ll have a SSH machine now at work! Woohoo!
So a lot has gone down, went and sung at the Church Choir practice for easter @ UB, twas fun, also had a birthday party at the lake, low turn-out, but good friends and family were there, so even with small numbers, it was fun (Long Live Pine!) - Sleeping a lot more lately, I think the ol body is starting to get the hang of things, and tonight I get to finally meet Mr. Solomon Poon! Da Baby! So I am pretty jazzed.
So another week down, and I need to start on my taxes this weekend, as it’s a few weeks earlier than normal, BUT since I don’t have the luxury of sitting up all night as usual, I need to get started on em now to get a good head start and have the ready to go.
Anywhoo - that’s about it, busy busy busy, fun, busy busy busy, fun, sleep, busy busy - my average day but it’s all good, keep me in your prayers, lots more stress on the way I am sure with this backup server, you spend nearly 2k on hardware it will need to work So that’s my plan, make it work, for now though, only 30m or so before Niki calls me to do the Cougar backup, so I am going to work some more on this excel export VisualFox Pro script and see if I can’t make it sing. More later (hopefully)!
So far so good - I crashed out and woke up at 1pm, so fair sleep, got some minor issues out the way, and on a whim installed Installatron on Trogdor, hit a snag, but the guys at Installatron were awesome and quickly got me a work-around, and now all friends on Trogdor will enjoy the benefits of this great auto-instaler, frequently updated, some nice scripts to choose from - a major enjoyment indeed. If the budget levels out, and once I get all these assorted cPanel lic. cleared, as well as various tid-bit bills I have officially phased out cleared off the books, I plan to install it across all servers.
Tonight will be a night to relax, possibly going and hanging out with Dan and the nephews, I hope my scrabble skills have not gone down-hill, as I am indeed out of practice. But this will be one of the last nights I imagine for relaxing as I head into things moving forward this week with a spot job, a coding discussion, and a job interview - but none the less I am hoping things all work out and move forward, for now though, I am going to hit the shower - and get dressed for a relaxing evening, one way or another.
Thanks to everyone for their prayers over these migrations! Much appreciated - always glad to know I have folks watching out for me even on something that to some may seem trivial like a server move, but every little bit of prayer helps! So again thanks a million, and now I will go forth, and become clean! More later.
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.
Off to fun!
