random ramblings of a crazed nerd

So today marks the offical “move in date” of my apartment. It won’t be 100% live until I get entirely moved in over the next week and services come on line (cable/security/internet/phone/etc) but this is a big step into a new chapter of things.

A few friends asked me “are you going to sleep tonight?” and honestly I thought I wouldn’t - but I got home after hanging out with Scott @ Denny’s and I crashed out, just woke up  a bit ago as I had the home phone in my room and my sister called - so I got some sleep, and here I am once again working on prepping some things to make the move.

For starters I am taking my bed, couch, supplies, going to probably hit Costco or Target later to get the big stuff (supplies like TP) but no use in moving some stuff in, until I can get internet/alarm system - so I’ll still be here at home in the afternoons - I considered getting a internet card from Verizon, but I’d just end up returning it, and internet is getting in quick (Thursday) so I figured, just wait it out.

I am going to try and take off work a half day Thursday and All day Friday this next week so I can schedule appointments in those time frames for installs, Cable is already setup, which means Wed. I’ll bring the TV over, but hopefully work will work with me, and I can get the remainder of things setup for Thursday/Friday afternoon.

Anywhoo - AGAIN many thanks to all of you who have kept me lifted up in your prayers, I appreciate it - Your all invited to the apartment warming here in a week or two - but for now I am going to get back to it, and get some more things sorted and ready to go! Have a WONDERFUL Saturday, pictures will be on Flickr soon.

Well I am moving forward with an apartment, big step - home has always been where I have lived, since I was 4 I think, it’s a good home, it’s served me well, but it’s  time, and after a good talk with my Dad, some good prayer time on the matter - it’s a step forward I simply need to take - now if this is the time or not, I leave 100% up to God - as I am going down tonight to snag 2 checks totalling $425 - going to turn in the app, and we’ll see what happens!

Pretty excited, little nervous, just trying to remain positive no matter what happens, as who knows, may it is simply not the time, and I pray that if that be the case, the Lord would close this door, and we will see what happens, if it is, then I’ll get things all setup, maybe my bed, and take my laptop, but then slowly get things rolling, internet access/cable setup, phone, etc. etc.

So keep me in your prayers, I’ll post an update here in a little bit, hoping to sneak to the bank, then off to the complex here in a bit - maybe 10minutes early from work, but I know it’ll be made up this week most likely with the firewall install - so off I go!

Update (6:30pm) - Well the guy I spoke to was gone by the time I got there apparently I didn’t get across time quickly enough and his “working late” wasn’t as “late” as he imagined! So going to call in the AM, maybe call in to work that I am going to be late - we’ll see again, if this is a closed door, then so be it - just giving it 1 more try.

I have been cleaning my room, and when I say clean, I more or less mean cleaning what is the combo of my office, bedroom, and former house setup, so there is a LOT of things in here - and I am trying to sort thru things to get towards having an apartment, the media center and such are part of that, but I am working towards a bigger place, and to reduce some of the clutter.

Sometimes I suppose we all take a stab at cleaning up things, reducing - I have far too much stuff as is, that is why I hope to reduce computers, old computer junk, piles of papers, old files from 10 years ago when the business started, and looking at a backup solution to backup my backup! So lots on my plate aside from two jobs! But while I feel exhausted, sick, and sad I can’t goto my niece’s birthday on Friday - must keep moving forward.

So thus far I have used my new shredder to go thru 3 piles, made 1 pile of “Scan” and then shred, or maybe shred/file cabinet (might need to get one again) but so far so good, making good progress, but sleep time is coming soon, as it was a long weekend, and I didn’t get all the sleep I wanted as each time I went to bed, I got a call lol - the joys of a migration.

Anywhoo - thanks to Scott, Brenten and Lara for their book suggestions on Xanga and here - going to do a check around and see what’s on Half.com and such - pick up something for sure soon as I want to unwind on the couch and just be separated from reality for a bit. One final bit though, prayer request again, going to look at an apartment on Friday since I can’t make it to the coast - so who knows, by this time next week - may have a new place! For now though, I am going to keep working on this place, and head to my bed for a good night’s rest. Night all!

What a week, a slew of changes, ups, downs, backwards, forwards, friends gained, friends lost, toaster strudel (mmm love that icing) and ideas for projects, but thru it all, I have seen several adults this week act VERY childishly in regards to issues at hand - just sometimes wonder if it was the alignment of the planets.. maybe China has a “10 yr old” ray-gun that reverts folks to dealing with things by comments like “Turd Head” (oh yes, they went there) - but lots of things were resolved by people this week in that manner, leaving myself and a few others going “HUH?” - but maybe once the moon is full… lol who knows.

Tonight is a server migration! (YAY!) new servers came online for a customer earlier today, and it all is falling into place, which is super cool, even a new feature in cPanel which wasn’t there the last migration, which will switch the IP for me on the current DNS servers, with the size of this move, and all sites currently living on 1 server, that was gonna get messy doing updates thru the night, but this way - DONE! So very excited, I may, dare I say it, knock on wood, clap that you believe in fairies, and of cour say a prayer - this could go even smoother than I imagined!

But the only thing that is holding me up tonight, is a overdose of fun! As you can see from flickr -> my good buddy Scott said “PHOTO FRIDAY!” (okay so maybe not exactly that, but his offer translated to that in my head, I miss the photo days, and just getting out, we hit Lake Ming which is nearby and I gave him some tips on using his camera, and we had fun (or at least I did, but I hope he did too!) but some fun shots, he has some up too - so it was neat, had dinner (which I wasn’t too hungry - I think my lunch was icky) - but I arrived home to get the call about the aforementioned migration above

So it has been a whirlwind week, the weekend should be fun, I have a show I am going to with my Cousin, a friend’s husband is playing at a Borders so it should be a fun weekend with the Cuz, and there is a Atlantis episode somewhere, hope the DVR didn’t freak this week too - last week it missed it! Silly Brighthouse DVR!

Anywhoo - so much on my mind still some not quite ready for prime time in the public spotlight, but one thing really on my heart is a bit from earlier this week, the one I can’t chat about - you know the one (well God does) it still just seems odd, brash, sudden, but no one is talking to me about it - so I am leaving it as is, and let folks cool/calm/sort it out etc. and I’ll be here when folks want to talk - but my hope is something works out for everyone (vague I know). Have a WONDERFUL weekend! I am already shooting for NEXT weekend, as I am going to see my buddy turn 8 (go goofball!) and meet my Nephew and give him his first Photo Shoot Night!

Well a busy day, some massive progress, and some good fun - I got home and signed up for Remember the Milk (RTM) a online to-do list, but very well done, good iPhone interface, lots of good resources - I enjoyed it indeed, so very happy about that - my iPhone just got a tad more useful.

Flickr is doing their yearly 24 hours of flickr, I tried last year, but really didn’t get much going, this time however, I am all over it, might even take the 35mm to work with a tripod, and just go nuts

But for now I am going to find my sandals, and head to the store to get supplies, and cook up tomorrow’s dinner - should be very tasty - having dinner with my good friends the Poon’s - I am bringing the fine dinner (Bean Dip! Woot!) and they were stuck with the daunting task of the proper Chip to grace the beandip, I’ll be honest, I am hoping Dan goes for White Corn, but I am okay with Yellow Corn if they are there

Anywhoo - I am off, wish me luck, and by Monday I should have all my parts for my computer! (YAY!) and have things re-organized, and hopefully some initial conversations about moving with the apartment complex I like… busy busy. More Soon!

Well today I got the call from the boss man back east, chatted about the meeting they had yesterday, got the skinny on everything - and I mean EVERYTHING, I think there were some concerns which could of been generalized, but straight out I now know how everyone in admin thinks - but a lot of it truly as he said it “perceptions” folks don’t ask me what I am doing, what I am working on, they just assume standing somewhere other than in my office means “playing around”. I am not going to lie, there are times I have had a friendly chat, but simple, quick, casual - not unheard of in an office.

But we discussed quite a bit, not the 2hr conversation from last week, but a hour long conversation which actually taught me some more of the inner workings of their system, as I really didn’t ever have much training on things - so got the skinny on working out some possible new functionality, and getting things up to par with the reports they used to have generated - which no longer work for me - got a budget of $500, got things sorted with “Personal” vs “Work” and also clarified my laptop use here at work, as it was questioned “Why” was I using it all the time, well it was part of the original agreement to allow me to keep my own business, because honestly if all I was making was the money from here? I’d be on one tight budget - but in conjunction with my business, it ain’t too shabby.

So things are mellowing out, and I imagine they will continue to do so, worked some on their “newsletter” and it is starting to look good I think, I am going to layout some things in Illustrator to import for the back page, but it should come out pretty nice and really allow them to have a product sent out that folks actually READ for once, good stories, eyecatching promos, etc. So I hope it will be well received, and if at all possible ready to go by this Friday.

Anywhoo - long day ahead, going to be sorting more of the programming they have in FoxPro, and see if I can better export these data dumps to Excel and maybe into Access or MySQL, and go from there, just need a clean customer list, and a clean OE file - but if I can do that, I can write a PHP app to import the data from the dumps, and a PHP app or two to generate the reports, so busy busy. Thanks for the continued prayers, I’ll post more on the event last night later, still quiet, but who knows if that’s good or bad. Time will tell.