Jimmy Brancaccio

 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!

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

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.

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.  

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.

 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!

 I've been super busy lately. We've been trying to complete as much of that movie rental application as we can before I move out to Texas. It's coming along very well. I think we made a really great break-through in terms of not allowing non-in-stock movies to be rented. We just don't allow the rental to go through haha.

I've been searching for apartments, I think I've got one figured out. The place has a 100% rating on some trustworthy apartment rating website. It's also about $200 more then I want to be paying but you know what, if it's a good place, then I don't mind paying a bit extra. I am really hoping this place works out cause it looks really great. Basically I'll know if I am going there as soon as I get some pictures from the people. And hopefully that's today.

I finally moved my buddy over from our old web server to the new managed one. I'll probably be getting a cPanel license within the next week or so, I'll probably do a month to month for the time being. It's working out really great though, although it's coming up with some odd usernames for the actual web box, I'll try to figure it out soon enough.

Not much else is going on...I might go for a bike ride later this afternoon. There's a horse show at the barn on Sunday and I am very excited to see Nippet in it :D That's as long as he gets his feet done today...

That's about it for now. :)

 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!

Today marks the official start to a whole new everything. A new job, a new home, new friends, new everything. While I can admit to it being relatively nerve-racking, I am embracing this change because it is a great opportunity for me.

Scribbld used to be my old home. I had originally wanted Scribbld to be SceneJournal, to bring it back, back in 2007. Unfortunately someone had already snagged up the domains so we were unable to do so. Fortunately, I was able to at least get the .net domain back so here we are. We're on a much faster Internet connection in a real datacenter (thanks CrystalTech). How cool is that!?

So this is now my new home. I'll still be checking in on DeathNote and Scribbld and we'll continue to support users on the sites. I don't think we'll continue development with Scribbld though. The core code base just isn't as good and doesn't seem to be updated as often. Enough about that though!

Currently I'm down in Houston, TX. I was supposed to just be here for Monday and Tuesday but then I got an extra day cause I was going to kick it with the COO or something, but I ended up missing my flight back home so I got to hangout that extra day haha. So I'll be home tomorrow late at night.

The whole point of me coming down here was to get a job at this web hosting company. morgan is friends with these guys so she put in the good word, they flew me down here, I did some preview stuff yesterday and today they offered me the job. I'll be moving down here on August 10th which is like REALLY CLOSE. Hahaha. So what will probably happen is, I might live with the CTO for a bit until I find an apartment. That'll be cool. They're all really awesome guys, so this is going to be amazing regardless.

I'm pretty amazed at how excellent this is. I really am excited to start this all. It's like 12am local time, but I am beat. I think I'll pass out, then do whatever in the morning until my flight at 3ish. I just can't wait to get my own apartment down here and get all my stuff down here. Will be nice to just be settled in.