Life.

Jul. 5th, 2010 05:03 pm
Cloud - Dance?
 It's been a crazy last 24 hours. I took in this stray dog to help out Matt and Lance. It was fun. it was hard though cause we basically had to sneak around the whole time. It would have been a lot more enjoyable had I not had to do that. This morning I brought her to SPCA, however they couldn't take her in and the place they sent me was closed on Mondays. I did however meet this funny lady there. She had basically walked like 20 miles from her home to the SPCA to drop off her dogs. She definitely did the right thing. She knew that she was no longer able to care for all 4 of them. I am glad she made the journey. She said she had started at like 2pm yesterday, finally made it to the SPCA around 12am and ended up sleeping outside the SPCA until the morning. It was really funny chatting with her. She referred to the Lancer as a spider (I assume because the Mitsubishi logo sort of looks like a spider?!) and told me it was up there between the Mercedes Benzes, Lexus' and Ferraris. If only...haha. Anyways, I did have fun with the dog, it's been crazy.

Work is going well. Actually very well. I am pretty psyched to see what the next 2 months have to bring. I really hope I can save up some money again cause I really need to move to a dog friendly apartment complex. I found out it may not be as expensive as I thought it would be to make the move with renting a U-Haul and all. I think the most pain in the ass part will be getting my bed and this computer desk into it (from the 3rd floor where I live now). I am really hoping they have an apartment studio at the time I need to move. I really really need this to work out.

I should also mention I went to Vermont the other week for my best friends wedding. It was really good seeing Greg and Jess and Keatz. The wedding....well it was a wedding. I've never been a fan of them, but it was good to see my friends. I also hung out with Sam, we went on a hike which was really fun. I hung out with Abby, we went horseback riding which was awesome. I love my horse so much. The horse show at Towne Ayer was also amazing and fun!

At the moment, everything is Moretown is offline because of a failed modem. It's really annoying because nothing is backing up and I can't do any work on websites because all the SVN repositories are there. I am hoping to have it all back online by the end of this week. Tomorrow I need to contact GMA and get directions on how to setup the new modem in bridge mode. Then hopefully Morgan can make it over there and get that done for me. I am going to see if he can boot Percheron into the old kernel so I can copy over the new kernel with ext2 support so I can then use that new kernel haha. I mean, right now I can't even access the box since it's all down, blah!

Work tonight was good. It was a bit slow, but then it picked up and the last bit of the night flew by. It was good seeing Christman and Simsic, funny peepz! I wanted a baby kitty so badly haha.

Well I should get to bed. I am exhausted!

Exploding Dog - We Grew Apart
Life is far to short to be miserable. I know life can really suck sometimes, but when it's good, please try to enjoy it as much as you can. It so sad to see someone who is so beautiful destroy it all and not care about it at all or anyone else. Unfortunately sometimes, you just have to cut your losses and move on. We certainly had fun and I will not deny that, but there were time where I wanted nothing but to run away and never look back. You just have to enjoy what you have an not let other people bring you down.

That said, I've been really good besides the above. Work has been really amazing! I've been getting a bunch of Level 2 things to work on which is really awesome. I've been doing some server fscks as well as an OS Reload or two. I've also been shadowing a new guy at work which is going well. The other night Lance, Vince, Katie, David and I went out for a 3am breakfast at the Denny's across the street. I love hanging out with those peepz outside of work. It's nice. I would however lean towards becoming a shift lead over a Level 2. Level 2 is HARD! Hell, Level 1 is hard lol. I do enjoy a good challenge though.

Last weekend, I pretty much hung out with DaveC all weekend haha. We haxxed his xBox which may have inadvertently broke his fan-set. I have a hunch it might have been my PSU that did that, but he seems to have hacked together a new fan and gotten that works. We also hacked my Wii (in-which nothing broke). It's BEEN AMAZING. I've never used my Wii so much since I've gotten it (which was like 4 years ago or something haha). I just beat The New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I really enjoyed the game, a lot of fun. There was definitely a few frustrating spots but I managed to suck it up. I do wish Yoshi could have been there in every level! My next game will likely be Resident Evil 4 (Wii).

I've been trying to keep up with my new blogs and sites. [info - staff] morgan and I are also trying to refresh our movie rental application. I've tasked her with moving most of the code into the new theme/design we've built. She's doing pretty good so far. I think it gives her something to do, since she doesn't do much of anything anymore :P Poor girl. She also mentioned she wanted to start work back up on Confessh.us as well. That would definitely be cool. I know we've got a few bugs and tickets that could be completed. It'll definitely be a lot of work though.

Not sure much else is going on. I feel like I have a million things going on, but I am glad I got the chance to just spew out whatever was in my mind now. I really want to get a German Shepherd, so I have a feeling, come October I will be moving into a new apartment. I visited this one place the other day, Providence at Champions and it looks okay. They confirmed they would let me have a German Shepherd. The one thing I didn't like was how it's farther from work :( There's also one other place which is actually closer to work which allows large breed dogs, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. This all reminds me I need to go refresh the Houston SPCA Dog pages as well as look at CraigsList.

Tonight we're planning on seeing Toy Story 3, that should be awesome. I gotta tell Dave how well the Wii is working out (considering he came over at like 2am and helped me to get it working). This weekend should be fun! I've got the HAAUG meeting tomorrow as well with Matt. I hope I'll be able to stay away :P

woof woof

Jan. 10th, 2010 04:48 pm
Horse - Endurance
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

HaxxXxxXoR!

Nov. 8th, 2009 09:30 am
Exploding Dog - Kill You All
Nah. Not really. Work has been keeping me pretty busy as usual. We moved pretty much everything to our new server (personal). Was pretty easy, and [info - staff] morgan  helped a lot. Haven't been out to the range for a bit, thought about going today but I am so tired for some reason. I'd rather just stay home and watch a movie or something. Been chatting with Emilie a bit too, most via txt. It' nice talking to her again, I suppose...maybe it's just asking for trouble, I don't know. She said she'd like to come down and visit me, but we'll see if that happens. I don't see why it wouldn't though. Maybe I can convince her to move down here with me. Sure would help with paying rent/bills hehe. And it would be one, it'd be our final grand adventure.

Hung out with Stephen with a PH last night. Had fun. Friday, didn't do much, just sort of hung out and finished moving things to a new server. I also thought about going to the movies today, but I think I'm just too lazy haha. I need to go food shopping at some point...running out of eats.

Nothing special going on this week, just normal work. I signed up to work on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Work is my life basically. It's okay, it's not like I have anyone to be with on those days anyway.

I suppose that's all for now. Not much else to talk about...or that I really care about putting down in here.

Nomz!

Oct. 27th, 2009 12:33 pm
Exploding Dog - I Will Make Him Love Me
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.

Horse - Horse in the Fall

Work has been good. It was nice to finally have yesterday and now the weekend! :) Chef and I went out the rnage I think on Wednesday. So much fun. I think I would like to go tomorrow, hopefully I can get Lance and Chef to come out. That would be awesome. Today I was super lazy. Pretty much just napped, ate food, played Xbox. I tried to get my PS3 working, but it wouldn't launch the game I wanted to play so I just played some more Xbox haha. Dunno what to do now. I messaged Lance and I told him I was still awake, so maybe we can do an SNS run or something. I got a couple new games for my NIntendo DS< Kingdom Hearts 385/2 and that new Mario and Luigi game. I might play them a bit tonight. I also really need to finish Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. Maybe I can work on that a bit during my breaks at work LOL.


I also shouldn't forget to mention that AFI's new album is pretty good :)


So yeah, that's about all from me.  
FFVII: AC - Kadaj #2
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!

New Car?!

Sep. 17th, 2009 05:04 pm
Exploding Dog - Mend Heart
I feel like I really never have time to just sit down and write here. If I do have time, I never feel like I have the care to just spill everything out that's been going on haha. Either that or I'll make myself find something else to do. Twitter really is so much better and easier lol. Just quick things as they're happening rather then spending 10-15 minutes doing this shiz. Anyways...

On Tuesday Chef and I went shopping for trucks. We only hit up 2 places, I saw a Sierra that I really wanted haha. Both places pretty much told him the same thing. In the end it looks like he's going to hold onto his Hummer for at least another yar, then sell privately and get something new. After that we went to Gander Mountain. He left his phone there so we had to pick it up. Also checked out bunch of handguns. I saw like 4-5 that I liked. I actually am thinking about getting the XD/XDM over the Tactical version. The grip is much better on the other models. I love how in Texas you can just walk in and with the proper identification you can walk out same day with a gun (rifle/handgun). It's pretty much just like VT, awesome! Hrmm, after that we went to this place called Chipotle. Good food, it was pretty much like Qudoba back up north. After that....we went to his house to pick up the Hummer and then we went to Galleria mall. Picked up a couple things. I forgot my wallet, I was so pissed haha. It's okay though cause I think we're going back on Saturday. I need to get some tea cups. I am going to get these cast iron dragon ones hehehe. Then I headed into work.

Work had been awesome. I've been kicking ass and having lots of fun. And more importantly I've been learning a lot which is great. Making some good friends at work too, which is really important to me as well. Speaking of, I need to hit the showers and head into work haha

I've also been looking at new cars for myself as well. I'll probably end up getting a 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo MR. Of course it's like $42,000 so I better keep kicking ass at work so I can get a raise or something lol.

Packing Up

Aug. 1st, 2009 04:41 pm
Taking Back Sunday - Breaking Hearts
 Last night I worked on setting up cPanel and Plesk Billing, I spent probably 4 hours getting that all going. While it was doing it'sthing I worked on server backups and such. I've still got an outstanding issue where the MySQL database server will lockout the machine that's trying to back it up. It happens once a week or so if I don't flush the hosts from the SQL server. Weird, I'll definitely have to figure out why it's doing that. I was going to go to bed around 1am but I was just laying there. So I picked up Call of Duty 4 and played about an hour of that. After that I brought some boxes out and started getting all my stuff together. Currently I've got everything I want boxed up and ready to go. I have a feeling 90% of it will be shipped down after I find an apartment though. I'll probably just bring my MacBook, maybe my Nintendo DS and some clothing down initially. Probably my Xbox and my TV too. Finally at around 5:30am I went to bed. Woke up around 7am but was able to just go back to bed.

Today I spent like 6 hours working more on Plesk Billing, WHM and Kayako SupportSuite. Finally around 4:30pm I got it so when you register a new hosting package through the billing software and pay for it, it'll provision you an account on the server. Very cool. Looks like Kayako is also working integration-wise with the billing software so it'll pull accounts from that.

I was supposed to go for a bike ride with one of my buddies today, some crazy ass trails in Waterbury but I don't think I heard back from him, or I did and I was just so focused with other things that I missed it. I'm definitely like Google Voice though and I really hope Apple/AT&T quits being lame and just allows the app on the iPhone.

Tonight, nothing is really happening. My parents should be coming home from their vacation soon. not sure about dinner, might make some Philly Cheesesteaks :) Yummmmy. Tomorrow we're leaving for my cousins wedding and I'll be AFK for pretty much the entire time. Should return on Tuesday I believe, then it's crazy cause we're pretty much leaving for Texas then. Although maybe not since I'll need to get that relo check.

I bought Peggle and Minigore for my iPhone. Should give me something to do whilest being bored at the wedding. I played Peggle last night. I love that game so much! Maybe I'll go play some now.

Anyways, hope everyone is having a nice weekend!

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