Bad Mood?

Well since yesterday I have been in a bit of a bad mood, things “seem” to  be going good, got a new gig that’s getting me $500 a month in cash, and got the kMan on board for backups, so that’s good, things all seem to be coming about slowly, yet I found myself upon getting home, in a bad mood, and I know part of the reason, but I dunno - life is odd I suppose.

Been pondering where to go from here, things seem to be going in a direction I’d hoped, but at the same time, I really in some ways don’t like the new direction, means going against things I know are easier/better ways to do somethings in the hosting biz, but at the same time, it’s a job, it “pays the bills” as it were - but  I find myself longing for more projects like the one I picked up with Dan, its fun, challenging, a hint of scary, and exciting to explore new areas not only of code in some regard, but a industry itself of horses. Very cool indeed - but work is work I suppose, just wish it’d been a bit more than $500 a month, but that will probably go up, I am just watching my hours as it is casual at some regard, I don’t want to come into this and be “helpful” to the point of being stupid.

I have still not moved folks to the friends server, it’s still sitting there, looking at me, asking me “Why haven’t you moved me?!” and also I need to still move one client out of servers in bako, so some work to do, but seeing as it is midnight nearly now, I am going to maybe do it Sunday night or Monday - just need to get my head on straight first.

Anywhoo - thats my ramble, I think I am going to go back to bed, safer there lol. Night folks.

I miss my iPod… and I party too much.

Oh how I loathe and love technology sometimes I miss my iPod for my car, it was nice to have my collection on hand in the car, easy to access, not to mention easy to put on headphones at night and pull up a playlist and rock out while coding ah only in due time, I almost bought one at Target the other day, but I held myself back… a while longer still… if only I had $350 on hand for the 80gb model…. ah a boy can dream can’t he?

Tonight it was one wild time after another, got to hang out with friends, it was a good time, a really nice Saturday night, granted more sleep might of been a good idea, but all in all, fun fun - played a little poker, still suck lol - but I want to get some rules down for blackjack, I think it’d be fun - and I’m not bad at it but hopefully if I can wing it, more fun to come as the summer ends and we all settle into patterns again.

Work front.. some things brewing I think… a weird Friday, good/bad - but things could be moving forward, found out some odd stuff about some folks, about how they think of me apparently, and the level of respect they have for others I know - sad really, but I suppose folks aren’t always what they seem, such is life, and life goes on, but in my own life, some things could be in the works which could make some good changes.

Anywhoo, its almost 4am, I am watching Eureka, drinking water, and pondering sleep after this episode … so I wish you all a happy Sunday, take care!

The joys of …. something!

So what a month July was, now into August things should get, well more crazy but some things will actually normalize for me. You know how when your a kid your excited, you get summer break, now I dread it - the roads fill up, lunch is a wait, basically highschoolers and college folk invade what was once my quiet lunch hour already a friendly battle with other business folk but as August draws on, college and k-12 start back up, and the roads will thin, movies mid-week will be quietly open, and that guy in front of me at deltaco won’t order 400 things.

So I am going to pitch a old friend on a deal, a service contract meets employment, complicated I suppose, but I want to avoid the 1099 bleh I get every year from as many sources as I can until I can get the funds together to get my LLC and avoid some of that, funds have been tight getting the new backup server, as well as the usual year round bills poping up (Car Lic. and Car Ins.) as well as the usual bills that seem to hop up to say hello, made this last month not really “thin” on the wallet, but more bad timing, as I had extra funds coming in from big projects, but sadly the timing of those seem a little off - so I want to pitch an idea for employment which is really nothing too different from things as-is, just getting a kickback for services.

In about 30 minutes (depending on transfer speed) I should have a full image uploaded to the server to deploy the new friends server, going to get things rolling on migrating the cPanel lic. then if I don’t take my mom to the beach this weekend (thinking I am not, but you never know) - I plan to get folks migrated from other servers who are on a “friend” deal, and set them up on there - now please don’t think just because its a “friend” bit, your getting skimp’d on, this server has its perks, less crowded site wise, going to have a few more “toys” long-term, as it is also going to serve as a test bed for things like Ruby on Rails, Apache2, etc. so feel loved…. or else.

Been considering a new mp3 device, while the iPod would be my prefered device since most of my music from the iTunes store isn’t mp3′d as of yet, its the easiest way to go from point a (the iMac) to point b (new 80gb iPod) but as per the previous bit above, funds are tight, and well, doesnt appeare to be happening any time soon, but I’ve heard good things about the Sansa from SanDisk, and it sounds good, does video, so like a iPod Nano with a little more beef? Who knows, but for now it’s simply blasting iTunes really loud

Anywhoo, I could ramble on for a bit more, last 48 hours have been  weird, felt kind of sick, but probably just the combined fun of this week and weeks past (ie. no sleep) so I crashed most of Thursday - but it’s all coming together, I think. Need an oil-change in my car (it’s first one! tee-hee) but hoping for a productive friday, granted, I’d love a day off, but I must push on, wrap up loose ends, and hope to get a nap this weekend, who knows, may even be on a beach with a cute blond who I lovingly call my goofball niece, but sadly more than likely, it’ll be here, but things can change in 12 hours, who knows have a good Friday folks.

Farewell… dear friends.

Well today two of my devices gave up the ghost.. a fond farewell to the following:

1. Jarba Bluetooth Headset (no longer charges)
2. HP+iPod 40gb (Dead)

So I am going to order a new headset from Newegg, but not sure about the iPod, as much as I’d like to have it, dunno if I can afford to get the 80gb one and keep to my budget *sigh* ah to be responsible. lol.

Anywho - going to go help cook dinner now… more later.

I think I’m Alive..

Who knows what the heck is going on in my life anymore lol - not even I do! One day it’s major up up up - then the next it’s mellow, then it’s low - for a while there it was a nice middle of the road patch ah how I miss those days

I have started to re-think my AUP/TOS when it comes to sites getting hacked, some clients are awesome, they understand that their site is offline, they didn’t keep the software up, so it’s their fault - I love those clients. Then you have the other batch, who feel their hacked version of phpBB 0.1alpha was my bad, I should of somehow provided protection for that - I had one customer recently get on me a little upset because their software was broke after a hack, and they wanted the database, well for me to re-install the DB meant I needed to go over it a bit, search for rouge usernames in their forum, check access - basically security test a database. Not my job - I have been hired to do it, but this is just general support I have done it on, for some customers I am happy to do it, heck one even said thank you and kicked me down $25 via PayPal - now that client is my buddy

I dunno, just one of those days today I guess, things started out good, then just some of the same ol bunk waiting on my doorstep, but, here it is coming up on a new day, a fresh start, and hopefully a nice warm shower here shortly to take the layer of the day and wash it down the drain - of course since its still a little warm/humid, I’ll finish off the shower in freezing cold water to drop my core temp a bit

Lot’s to do, but I can’t seem to get ahead on it at all, design job looks like it fell thru, trying to salvage the hosting bit, few projects are wrapped up now, and working on a project off and on, just deployed it’s flash highlight widget which will scroll thru highlighted articles, pretty nice, some more CSS/Image work needed to spruce up the look and make a stand-alone article page so things can start rolling soon - and the usual billing backlog, server upgrades, and new server hardware, anyone want to come work for a hosting company for free?

Anywhoo - that’s my bit, 2m till Thursday - have a good one folks. Take Care.

I just want my 5%

So after looking around for options on the savings route, turns out my bank (WaMu) offers a special savings offering of 5% to customers who have their Free Checking they call it “Online Savings” and it looks good, however I am hitting an issue with it, see I signed up ages ago, and my account claims to be a “Free Checking” however its not the right “kind” of Free Checking, so thus, I am playing the game to get it.

Yesterday a telephone banker instructed me to sign-up for an Online Savings account sans the linked checking, this she claimed would allow her to link that savings to my personal checking within my online banking login, so I did that, the micro deposits came in, I confirmed and called back to get things linked today, however - after 2 online bankers I made it to a Online Banking Manager - which said:

“I don’t know why they would of asked you to do that, that will not work at all, your current Checking account is not the newest version of “Free Checking” - so you are no eligible for this offer, so what you need to do, is sign-up for the linked accounts, then call us back, and we’ll get you squared away.”

So as it stands, I know I am going to be calling back Monday, and I know its going to be even more fubar’d that before - don’t get me wrong, I love WaMu, they’ve treated me good, they have some very nice options for business, but somehow I know calling on Monday with now not 1, but 2 savings accounts, and now a 3rd checking account to my name, they are going to say “Uhm, we can’t do this either” lol. To me now that I let it simmer in my brain, the best course of action would of been to do this:

1. Upgrade my current “free checking” to the new “free checking” thus giving me all the fancy new addons.
2. Tell me to apply again, thus the form reads the right checking account, and lets me sign-up.
3. Tell me “Mr Brown, you are our hero, thank you for banking here… here, have a taco”.

Seems like the best course of action, so I am going to call them back and suggest that as a solution and see if it works, because to me, it seems like it’d be the perfect solution, it’d get me to the proper checking account (the reason probably it wouldn’t let me go in the first place) and then I can sign-up and be online the same day with the online savings.

Ah what I go through for a savings account, I just want to save some money is that too much to ask? Monday I’ll probably be closing 3 WAMU accounts (the new checking + 2 savings) and having the simple 2 second fix applied that I just thought up, who knows, if I get really excited, I may just call today and suggest it.

Feeling jumpy….

I know something is going on with the ol body, but not entirely sure what - tonight I started to feel sleepy, then all of the sudden my mind was everywhere, so I headed to lay down, and whammo - saw my dad’s cat, and his sore on his head oooozing - needless to say its gross beyond belief. I have seen some disgusting things in my time, but this, because it keeps oooozing out of his head, just takes it up a notch or two - had to hold  back from throwing up.

So I gave the cat a bath, something he hates, but his fur was gross, his head was gross, he looked miserable, and while I know he’d howl till the cows came home, I had to do it, in the hopes of giving the poor little creature some peace, and boy howdy, did he howl. poor little guy, just not sure how that much puss is in his head, its gross and then some - I think I may puke.

But I dunno, maybe it’s the full moon, officially a full moon tonight, so maybe the bit-o-werewolf in me is acting up, but right now I feel like half of me is asleep, and another half is up running the mile, twice - heart rate is up, almost would classify it as a panic attack - who knows. Hopefully things level out though, I know I need a break, I know I have a little bit of stress on my plate right now, but its no more than I’ve handled in the past, so not sure why its so different now.

Anywhoo, I should get off here, and try to unwind, prayers are appreciated, I am hoping to get a photo friday in tomorrow, but at this rate, not sure if sleep will come, and I have a 2pm tomorrow, so sort of seems a little doubtful, who knows. Hopefully peace will come to my mind, and sleep will follow. Night all.