Jimmy Brancaccio

 Had a really nice day at work. Lance bought a new car, a Lexus IS350 I believe he said. It definitely sounds awesome and I can't wait to see it. So work was good, went by pretty quickly. When there's work to be done, it really makes me love my job even more so. As nice as it is to see a an empty queue it usually means boredom and sitting around which sucks. I did another server FSCK tonight. I am pretty sure I've got those down now. I upgraded a few Apache/PHP installs on some server and then did the usual fixing WordPress' and such ha.

I am getting quite excited about moving in with Lance and Matt. That's going to be a lot of fun as well as let me pay some debts off and save some money. I wish these next 60ish days would go by as quick as possible. I have no idea where I am going to put all my stuff. A bunch of things can stay in boxes and such and can go in storage or something.

Well, it's about 6am here. I'll be sleeping until probably 2pm, then up to get lunch. I'd really like to go get some pizza rolls, but depending on how lazy I am that may or may not happen haha. Then it's back to HostGator for some good times.

Oh yeah, I ordered this cute little Totoro the other day and it's already shipped. I can't wait to get it!

Life's been nothing short of busy lately. Still trying to figure out which car I want, I mean I know which car I want, but which car I can honestly afford haha. I could probably afford the Evo, but it's a matter of getting someone to co-sign for me for it. My parents likely won't and I doubt anyone else will. My parents said they would probably co-sign for a car $25,000 or so. There's definitely some decent rides out there for that much, so we'll see where that whole thing goes. They'll be down in a couple weeks so that'll be cool.

Works work, nothing really new, been trying to kick as much ass as I can without breaking to many things in the process. Been learning a whole lot of new things which is really great. It sucks, but like 12am or so each night I am pretty much done with tickets and I have no motivation to do more, so I try helping other people with their tickets. I wish I could concentrate on the hard tickets so I could learn more without having to worry about my count.

So apparently this girl on my Facebook who I never really knew how I knew her, well I hosted her pictures and maybe a couple web files back when we were like 13 lol. It's so funny, cause now she's into like web design and computers and stuff, we talked a bit yesterday, she's definitely pretty awesome. She's also from Texas about 8 hours south of me which is pretty awesome too.

I also started talking to this other girl from Scribbld, she's pretty cool, minus having a boyfriend haha. No, just kidding...but it's nice to meet new people.

I am hoping to get out to the range either today or sometime this week to fire off a couple rounds. I am sure it'll relieve some sort of stress. I can't wait to go out with my Dad when they come down, that'll be fun. Pay day is this Thursday/Friday so that'll be great, until it pretty much all goes out to rent...X___x ugh!

Not much else to say...I've gotta figure out what I should do about DeathNote...pain in my ass....I'd love to just get all servers out of Vermont except for maybe 1 or 2...an SSH box and then one web server for local shiz. I've got like $3000 worth of servers sitting there doing nothing which annoys me haha.

 Well, it's been a bit since I last updated. I've been extremely busy down in TX, getting all settled in and everything. The journey started last Wednesday. My Dad and I started out 2000 mile journey from Vermont to Texas. At the end of the day we had made it down to Virginia. Nothing to eventful, just a ton of driving haha.

On Day #2 we made it down to Louisiana. Again nothing to eventful. One car accident that held us up for an hour but since we gained an extra hour by switching time zones, it had no real effect.

By the third day, Friday, I was definitely ready to be done with the drive. Of course we had like 250 miles left to go, but it went relatively quickly and we actually got to the apartments before I thought we would.

So we checked out the place, I said yes, I love it, did some paperwork and finally moved into my apartment. Boy was it a bitch to carry all my stuff up three flights of stairs haha. After we got all my boxes and stuff into the apartment, we did some food shopping. Then my Dad went back to his hotel and I just kind of chilled out. There was a little community get-together that night and I met up with a couple cool people who are living in the complex as well. One of the guys is the president of one of the local Mac user groups. I told him I was definitely in and am pretty excited to attend one of the meetings. He said it does consist of a bunch of old people, but hey, anyone who is Mac-minded is awesome in my mind. After that little thing, I just headed back into my apartment and passed out.

Saturday and Sunday consisted of spending a ton of money shopping for things for the apartment. I went to Ikea, Best Buy, etc...I did all this with my Dad, we had a ton of fun!

Today, Ikea delivered my bed and all, so I spent a bunch of time setting that all up. Once the bed was setup I promptly fell asleep on it for a few hours. It was nice to get some real good sleep in haha. Last night I just couldn't sleep well, I ended up going to the business center at like 3am haha.

There's a Vietnamese restaurant like right behind my apartment. They make a really good chicken fried rice and they have bubble tea!! I've never had bubble tea but since about 2003 I've been wanting to try it. So I got some strawberry flavored one and I LOVE IT! I'll definitely be heading back there soon, maybe tomorrow for lunch. There's so much close by. Apparently there's 6 Apple stores, tons of Best Buys, Super Walmarts, Targets, Ikea, work is only like 15 minutes away, food of every type, 3 grocery stores. It's really fantastic and I know I am going to love living here. Heat, hurricanes and all.

I also setup my new Garmin GPS today. It's definitely VERY COOL! I got my new Motorola SB6120 modem from Amazon today as well. Hopefully I get my stuff from Small Dog soon as well (new Airport Extreme 802.11n and Airport Express 802.11n). I also ordered up my best friends birthday present and a new card for Xbox LIVE. Was like $40 for a year, so why not hahaha.

I've also been working with my other best friend on Macintosh-Admin.com - it's coming along. Hopefully I got him all setup for SVN/Trac access and web server.

I purchased a license to cPanel this morning since our free trial finally ran out. I am definitely in love with it all and I am glad we're finally using it for web hosting (note it's for a very small customer base - maybe 5-10 users, all from back home).

Looks like our movie rental application is really coming along well. I would like to think we could at least say we're at version 1.0. Client is pretty happy with it too as well and I haven't gotten any issue reports in a while now. In 5 days they will be off support and it'll be 100% live.

All in all, I'm very excited to be making this change. I've uploaded some pics of the new apartment to Facebook. Tomorrow I will take some more and upload them, now that I've actually got some furniture and all setup :) I hope everyone is well!