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!
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!
Well it’s been a interesting couple of days. Some things got resolved with clients and money, and I am assured it’ll never happen again, that the last few months have been tight - so we’ll wait and see, but at the same time I am being firm, I am saying “if you say Go, it’s live” and even within 1 day of saying that, were at a spot now where the customer is upset, and I don’t blame him - but a good set of communication needs to be had, and folks need to really look at what they are buying before they just on a whim say “It’s good to go” when I said “Here’s the rough draft” - Crazy.
I am mostly alive, so tired lately, the last 2 weeks have been busy busy busy, some breaks, but I got to the point that the words out of my mouth, didn’t even sound right, like everything I said was wrong, I was a tad punchy towards friends etc. I probably need to issue out some apologies to a few people, but I finally crashed Friday after work, laid down on the couch, woke up Saturday at 5:30am - not what I had planned, but it was needed, and my brain has been doing much much better.
Some changes are on the horizon though, might be getting some cash here soon, meetings this week, also I am a ways into my taxes, thankfully TurboTax online saves last years, so most of the dialogs are filled out, just crunching the numbers now, which shouldn’t take too long, the system I have is pretty quick, but I am seriously considering getting with the program this year and trying to use a Quicken or something to manage Business funds, or get really crazy and hire an accountant - but let’s not get too carried away just yet.
Anywhoo - I should wrap up, clothes are in the washer, should be ready by morning, just need to be up long enough to switch things over then pass out on my couch here in the room, and then it’s off to the grind of the week, some powerpoint in the AM, need to tweak some DOS configurations as I think a FILES setting needs to be increased - but all in all, I hope that this week will be quick, painless, and give me plenty of time to crunch the numbers for taxes, get a check out, and get on with the year! New services coming to FH/TN - TN website is a priority this week as well, but lots to do, little time it seems, thanks for the prayers, the emails, and the occasional calls - they keep me sane. Night folks, have a GREAT week!
Well I beat my last 2 years time in making a plan for my birthday! Hooray! This morning I sent out word of the gathering this evening - Denny’s is the place, may seem odd, but its last minute, mid-week, and I know many folks will be maybes at some point, but already we have 4 for sure, and some folks as maybes - the real-deal is Saturday at Ming, in what looks to be sunshine and lovely weather - so one step at a time.
Today I got pictures of Mr. Solomon Poon, good looking baby! So that brightened my morning after surviving a marketing meeting… I and about 3 other people nearly fell asleep at the meeting, it was hilarious, but all in all today has been a good day, I am hoping to squeeze in some private work here for a bit, I hate my auth scheme for EE - so I am going to do a quick swap and see if the new idea I have in mind works, I just backed up the code so going to give it a whirl.
All in all though for 4 days straight here at the new job, it’s going well, things are smoothing out, even got a few folks thanking me for my hard work, just a lot of little things I am trying to iron out, Charlie did some good work out here, but as he said I am a salesman, and a few things I have sold them on are taking hold, Google Apps vs. Arrival (hooray!) and I put in for a quote for on a entry level dell server with 1TB of storage/no-os/2gb ram/mid-range drives - so I may have a big dell order, who knows maybe they’ll hook me up with a dell XPS laptop ah a man can dream can’t he!
Anywhoo! Off to code, if anyone would like to come out to Denny’s to celebrate with us, 7:30pm @ Weedpatch, buzz my cell so I know how many seats to ask for, you know that place get’s packed out! More later!
Hi, My name is Chuck, this is my site - I think, it’s been so long…. I need a nap, but for a little bit of an update, I am alive, I am busy busy busy, been working like crazy in my wonderful 8-to-5 world, with a mix of FH/TN in-between - so far so good.
Tomorrow, 1 day from now, is my birthday. 28. Yowza. I have NO idea what I am doing to celebrate, there was talk of RollerRama, there was talk of bowling, but I imagine after my day tomorrow, the only thing I am going to want to do, is sleep - lol. But I do want to get together with friends, have a meal, hang out, eat some cake, etc. or such is my thought/plan - but as usual, down to the wire with me, I have no idea, nor have I had the time to honestly even think about it - work, sleep, work, sleep, hang out away from the PC, work, sleep. etc. that seems to be the “standard” as of late.
So tomorrow we’ll see - heck I am going to try to come up with something tonight, but then again I am going to start coding at 7, and probably not stop till 11 - soooo we’ll see what happens. For now though, I’ll say “farewell!” and head off to find something to drink.
Tomorrow I am going into the job and shadowing a bit, still not 100% sure I have it, but I wanted to check in and remind them who I am, and also further qualify myself for the job But since I am tired tonight, I am going to leave you all with this:
So it’s that time again apparently, my two usual folks are now on their 3rd month of keeping me super tight on the budget, I guess that’s what you get for giving folks a deal *shrug* who knows, I am just tired of this game - thankfully the core servers are paid up, so I have some time to work, the only one I have to worry about is one of the ones the client didn’t pay on, and if I get overdraft because of either of them, Oh they’ll be charged.
In other news, the interview went good, not sure what’ll become of it, so just leaving it in God’s hands really, as I am too tired to really focus on it at all, but I went to dinner with friends, we hung out, got sang to, and then I watch a movie @ Jakes with some of his friends, it was … well a movie. LoL.
I’d take the time to explain the pug thing, but that requires more brain power than I have at the moment - my hope is to wake up tomorrow, have a credit card payment waiting, and a call saying “Come pickup checks” but if not - then I think I’ll be shutting off a server or two, tired of the games.
Anywhoo - sleep becomes me, or at the very least it’s time to zone out in front of the TV. Night all.
ah a man can dream can’t he!
