My Name is Exhausted.

I am so tired I can’t even sleep. Trust me I have tried. As I noted on Twitter today, several people have noted my symptoms match Sleep Apnea - but also if you compare it to the flu, just as well :) I do know I am incredibly tired, and a night’s rest doesn’t seem to help - I am going to take some extra strenght tylenol here in a bit, and crash out - but the plan as it stands is to call in tomorrow morning and take a day and see if I can rest up a bit.

My day job was another item discussed, this job has given me quite a few perks - health insurance, steady flow of cash, retirement, 401k, etc. etc. etc. but at the same time it seems to truly continue to steal my joy, but in technicality I only have 2 FULL months left in my commitment, but at that point - where do I go? What do I do? I have plans in my head for FH & TN - however I am not 100% sure either would grow quickly enough to support the apartment and general living expenses - and I don’t know if any other position will be open in 2 months as the economy kind of sucks right now (apparently we have been in a recession for a year.. time to break out the fedoras and hit the soup lines (ah the humor of colbert)) - so who knows.

Only thing I do know is I am tired, tired of being tired, and really just needing to get some good sleep, may even get crazy and get a bed tomorrow after a nap or two, that too may be another part of the issue, so I may be using a card and getting wild ($500+ for a queen).

Anywhoo that’s it - going to go back to watching the blinds move from the fan blowing them. Night all.

Bleh!

So it finally happened, all my lack of sleep, interaction with those I knew had colds, and well stress caught up with me, today I left work at 11am or so, I just couldn’t function anymore, and I am still achy galore right now, head is spinning, and I just keep running a high temp. Sick.

Thus I think I am going to call in tomorrow morning unless suddenly I feel 100% better, heck even 50% better would be a step in the right direction, just really think I need the rest - and lets me ease into my weekend worth of work/projects and keep it mellow leading into Monday a fresh week ready to go.

Anywhoo - feeling a little sleepy so going to give things a go with getting some sleep. Night all.

Still a little weird…

So a long day at work, left the office at 7:30, 2 hours later than my normal day, going to probably go in early as well, but the firewall is in place, so that’s a start towards good things - but a long day to say the least, been up over 12 hours, and I think I have a few more to go, but the pizza will be here soon!

But it is still weird coming home to my place. For over 20 years my home was the same place, even when I had my own place, it was the same place and the only difference was I was the only one in a 3bdr house ;) but this is getting there, getting used to the idea of silence again, always one thing I found hard, but thanks to some book suggestions I hope to have some fun reading material soon, even though I have cable, it’d be nice to really unwind my brain into some paper pages.

In other news, security system comes in tomorrow, from there it’s getting the install done, and everything nice and happily secured. Going to hit T-Mobile tomorrow after work or at lunch and see about getting the T-Mobile @ Home, they’ll try to rope me into a 2 yr contract renewal, but I am going to of course manage to wiggle my way into a single year (or else!) - but hopefully it’ll be good.

Anywhoo - pizza should be here shortly, going to go get my glass of Dr. Pepper ready to enjoy the tasty Chicken Alfredo Pizza :) Have a GREAT night, and wonderful Fake Friday!

Tinker Time!

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!

Big Jumps, and Little Jumps

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!

Learning, Living, Change.

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!

Happy Birthday to Me!

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!