Jimmy Brancaccio

woof woof

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:09:49 GMT

I've been pretty busy lately with work and my new weekend activity, working at the Houston SPCA. It's really great and it gives me time to be outside and getting exercise. My plan was to work in their barn just mucking stalls or grooming horses or whatever. However, you need to complete 20 hours in another area within the place and then you're on a wait list to work in the barn. I guess that's okay, they make you work with large dogs, which is fine by me, but I guess I'm not seeing the correlation between large dogs and horses. The largest dog they have there was a German Shepard, which...is probably no bigger then a Shetland pony haha. Oh well, I think I'll enjoy the dog walking and the time being spent outside with some fun dogs.

Work is work. Last week was decent, got to do some IS work...which makes the time go by rather quickly cause you're always working on something...however tickets have definitely been flowing in, I don't think there was a slow point in tickets at all last week. We've started the HG's Biggest Loser contest at work, I've got Chef in my group so that's awesome. I did a bit of working out today actually while watching Jackass. I also finished up another movie, GO which was pretty funny/weird/awesome. I'm also in the process of watching through Bamboo Blade which is actually a lot more fun then I thought it was going to be.

Hung out with my friends the last 2 nights, Matt and Markita. On Friday we got eatz and watched some Top Gear eps at the apartment. Also watched a couple episodes of The Office which I'd never seen, pretty funny though. On Saturday we had chicken pot pie which was amazing, and then watched The Hangover which is amazing. Then we played clue, Matt cheated :) Hahaha.

Today, nothing much going on...I've been having less to do since all these servers are running unusually well lol. Not having to fix shit all the time, Scribbld has been real good on the new server. I need to figure out what we're going to do with the servers in Vermont. I could definitely use Friesian as a media server, buy those 6x1TB drives. Put them in RAID5 probably...whatever will give me the most space with at least 1 okay to fail drive lol.

Been loving the Lancer, I really need to clean her up, hopefully sometime this week it'll be warm enough to do so. Not much else going on this week, I think Chef and I might go out biking one night after work, but depending on the temperature we'll see how that goes. I've gotta get myself into work in about 30 minutes. I can't wait to just come home and relax :P

Nomz!

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:50:09 GMT

Not much going on. Work was eh last night. Some asshole gave me shitty rating, but I guess I kind of deserved them. Fortunately, it was Monday so whatever, I'll just eat that day...it was a particularly crap day anyways. Getting a car is such a pain in the ass. I went to look at a Hummer H3 since it was on this dealers website only to find out it had already been sold...fuckers. Oh well...

Got home and basically just planted myself infront of a movie I've been trying to complete for about a week now haha. It's
Kimi No Tomodachi, decent movie, I dunno why it's taking me so long.

I've been working on my new Ubuntu system, trying to get everything working just right. I think I am pretty much there, however there's a couple remaining issues which I posted on the Ubuntu forums to which of course no one has replied too. Oh well, I may go on the IRC channel and see if anyone has any ideas.

Today nothing is really happening. Just hanging out. Was texting Bethany before, just catching up on things. On chat with Adelaide as well. I guess I might go get some food now, and try to finish that movie haha.

I really really need to install some new moodthemes on SceneJournal haha.

DNS Issues!

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:35:39 GMT

Well, we just added a new DNS server to our network. I dunno what the deal was but OpenDNS wasn't working correctly. The new server will provide DNS for internal servers only, anything else gets re-routed through OpenDNS. So hopefully that works well...woke up poor morgan hehe

Friday didn't work on many things. I went over to Matt W's around 6pm and we watched some Top Gear. Specifically the Lancer episode hehe. However we did watch some of the challenges which were hilarious. I can decide if the camper racing or 18-wheeler challenges were the best LOL. He also had an episode with this little itty bitty car that he took driving around the BBC offices lol Oh I forgot, I went to see Zombieland on Friday haha It was pretty good, I enjoyed it! Ok, so after Top Gear we went out and got pizza and then played some DiRT2. Matt's got a projecter, so it's wicked awesome. I need to get one ASAP. Going to see if Lance will let me borrow one of his to see how well it works in my apartment & with spacing.

Saturday, hung out, working on a new website project. It's going to be pretty cool and I can definitely find myself using it :) Around 3 or so I went out to Chef's so we could go to the range. Stopped by Walmart and they would only sell me 2 boxes of ammo. Wicked fucking stupid if you ask me. OMG...how could I forget...Adelaide called me this morning, haha my alarm clock :) So we talked for a couple hours until my phone finally ran out of battery. Then we chatted online for another hour or so. Ok, so anyways, we went to range and they would only sell me 2 boxes too!! WTF!!! Either way, we had a good time, I love going there.

Came home, and watched some South Park and cleaned my gun. Then worked on my iTunes Library cause I figured out the descriptions for TV shows now work (I would assume the same with movies too). I took a nap around 10pm, woke up around 12am and have been working on iTunes Library crap since and then that DNS issue. Just made some food and some Black Dragon. I think I might grab my Redwall book and read some...or play some Crisis Core. Either way, I'm out! Dunno what's going on tomorrow.

Kill Em' All!!

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:02:48 GMT

It sure has been a pretty busy weekend!! Thursday night, I pretty much just came home after work and crashed haha. Friday I just hung around the apartment, played some Xbox and worked on a couple network/server things. Then around 9pm Chef and I went out to see Gamer.It was quite a unique movie and I sure wouldn't mind there being something like that Society game in real life!! I am not sure about Slayers, but if the game wasn't with real people but the game itself was damn realistic I would be all over that! All in all, a decent movie. After that went out to the house and hung out there for pretty much the rest of the night. Watched Apocalypse Now which was a really good movie up until they met up with the French people, then it was just flat out boring. I feel like that's the movie that they screened for the soldiers in Jarhead, but I am not 100% sure on that. We started Max Payne but fell asleep before that finished. We also did a food run around 3 or 4am haha.

On Saturday we kind of just lounged around haha. I started Max Payne again, it's a neat movie. I'll probably finish it at some point on my own. I then came back to the apartment (stopped at Walmart and bought some ammo) and grabbed my AR15 and then went back over to the house. Then we went out to the range. Definitely had an awesome time. I put a pic up on Facebook and Chef has a ton on his Facebook. After the range we went back to the house and hung out for a while. Around 8 or so we went over to Dave's. Got to meet his new pups. They're awesome. Unfortunately one of them has a big of a problem with his leg...not good. BBQ'd up some steaks and all, and then pretty much played Rock Band for the rest of the night. It was awesome hanging out with him. I think he's really great, and I'm lad we get along haha. Sure helps! More friends the better!

After that, I came home, maybe played some XBox, can't remember and passed out. Today haven't done much, played some DiRT2, and that's about it haha. Made some pizza, and it's probably done, so off I go!

I Love My Job

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:46:04 GMT

I think I can officially say that I am madly in love with my job already. We've started actually doing some real work and it sure is fun. I really enjoy the problem solving aspect of it and I've already learned a few new tricks. A lot of the stuff is custom so learning about it all is really cool. The custom stuff tends to spend things up too since they're special script written to do that :P

I've been really enjoying my work hours too which are 6pm to 3am. It sure beats any 9 to 5 job hehe. I like working later and I tend to be able to focus and get a lot more done.

We have some really cool stuff to use while on break to like an air hockey table, ping pong, pool, Xbox 360 and you can just watch normal TV (which I've done a couple times). I actually played Rock Band with a co-worker the other night, tons of fun.

Besides work, I've been dealing with a dead/broken server of mine all week. I managed to kill it on the middle of workiong on it so that slowed me down. I forgot when you run the Gateway Setup Assistant, it'll give your Ethernet port an internal IP address which obviously breaks everything (for me at least and anyone who has set their IP to a public one). BUt yeah, I believe the machine is back up and should be running normally.

Hrmm, I am hoping to break out my AR15 soon...I went to one of the Apple Stores yesterday to snag a copy of Snow Leopard. I ended up getting the Family Pack so for once I can own some legal software haha. I just installed it on my MacBook this morning, haven't done much else with it. I did notice it removed my Server Admin Tools and put them who knows where. I guess I'll need to either download them again...hopefully they're on the Apple downloads website.

Last weekend I went to see GI Joe. If there's anything good playing now maybe I'll go see another movie this afternoon or evening. Movies here are so much cheaper then VT, it was like $4 haha

Other then that not much else has been happening. I just finished a nice Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty 4 session with Morgan and Keith. I love those guys!

I think I might hit up Steak n' Shake tonight. I'm kind of craving that, also might hit up the pool around 9 or so, swim for an hour and then get eats. Also might go to the gym and workout a bit but I can do that whenever.

Weddings and Love...

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:58:15 GMT

Yesterday I attended my first Jewish wedding. It was for one of my cousins who actually converted. It was pretty normal...and short for the most of it. After that we just partied it up and stuff. Met this wicked cute girl, who had kind of a southern accent, definitely awesome. Danced it up with her for a bit. Dinner was eh, portions were so small. Alcohol was flowing though which was excellent. Caught up with my cousins and shit. One of them has really grow up, last time I saw her might have been when she was like 10 or something, she's like 15 now but she definitely looks like she could be 17 or something haha. Everything seems to be good with peepz. My other cousin has a WICKED cute wife now haha.

Other news, my friend was on the winning CTF DEFCON team. So badass. He's really quite leet.

I am hoping to be in Houston with the next week to start my job. I am so psyched for it. I just need to get out and leave this scene. I need to surround myself by complete strangers and start all over. New girls, new life, new friends, new home. I'm very excited.

I think when I get to Texas I am going to try to get into teas and stuff. Last week Chef took me too this tea place and we bought some tea, which was expensive! I got some Black Dragon tea and tonight I made my first cup. It was definitely wicked good. Chef explained it as the legal way to get like "high" haha and he was right sorta. I definitely felt a little something from it, not like sketchy or anything but I definitely felt like nice and relaxed and shit. I really want to get like some nice Chinese gear and all. But that stuff is expensive like $150-$200 for some cups and kettle and all. Worth it though, it's bad ass...

Not much else going on, got most my shit packed up. Will pull hard drives off the Xserve too take them down with me, so I can have movies for the AppleTV when I get a place in TX. That's about it. I hooked up Morgan with some logins for what I hope to use as our new system.

Tomorrow I might go riding, I should since I probably won't be able to go for a looooong time. I shall miss my horse a lot but I know he'll be in great hands with Rita and B-Towne.

I've really got to install some new moodthemes on SceneJournal haha.