Well, that was fun. We just lost all front end connectivity here for about 45 minutes. Gave me a nice long break though 🙂
Category: General
So far, it’s been an alright morning. Woke up and got out of bed on time, this is a plus. Stopped and got a donut and some coffee on my way in. Traffic kinda sucked, but it wasn’t that bad.
I forgot to mention that we went to see “Almost Famous” this weekend, it was a pretty cool flick, especially if you were really into the music during the seventies. The soundtrack was dominated by Zep, which just kickz ass, cuz they are my alltime favorite band. So I was inspired to listen to old music today. I listened to some Gary Numan in the car, now I will listen to nothing but Zep and the Police all day at work 🙂
Bah!
this weekend sucked. Friday night I was stuck at work till like 7:30 working on a problem caused by another program that I do not work with. We thought everything was cool, another dept. was running some scripts to automate shutting down the proccess on all the machines, so we were told we could leave. As I am walking out the door, my supervisor stops me and says the director wants us all down in the NOC for something. I was like “fuck that, I’m going home. If he has a problem, tell him to call me.” So I drive back to Va., stop by the pet store, and get back in my car. My cell rings, It’s my manager. He’s like “Dan.. where are you?” I’m like “just about to my house.” He says “you need to come back to work” I ask “why?” he tells me that he needs someone to write scripts, I tell him that I am not a programmer, and would not be of help. His answer, “you’ll learn it then.” I tell him that’s not a good answer, and I am not driving all the way back up there to try and deal with a program that I have never even seen, let alone done admin work on. So he get’s that god complex, and says “so you’re telling me that you are refusing to come in?” I say yes (keep in mind, it’s 8:00 Friday night, I get off work at 5:30). So he’s like “you’re putting me in a bad position here” I say “I’m not putting you anywhere.” so he’s like “fine. This is not over. Have a good weekend.” and hangs up. Why must I put up with this stupid crap? I’m sure I get to have a little meeting with him and the director today, about me not being a team player or some shit. Joy!
Oh yeah, If you havent already, make sure you cough up a lil change for Brad, so he can get lj back to running full speed.
Dont be cheap bastards!!
It’z finally Friday!!!
This week has been long as hell. Not sure what all I’m doing this weekend. I know I am going to get some more stuff installed in my car tomorrow, and go get an oil change. Steph sayz I’m becoming a grease monkey, because I am always looking at stuff for my car lately. I decided that I want to soup up my car, and keep it for a while. I had thought about trading it in for a new one a lil while back, so I hadn’t made any modifications to it. Someone else, who will remain nameless (R O B), is callin me riceboy now. hehehe I don’t care, cuz my car iz gonna be even more smokin than it already is!
s i g h
I have been so bored with work lately. I have had a hard time getting anything productive done all week. I need a vacation. Maybe I’ll take a couple days off in a week or so, just to keep me from goin nuts. I plan on taking off over a week during the time that we move, but that wont be until the beginning of November at the earliest. I am really looking forward to it. I’m gonna get to spend time doing projects around the house. I love building stuff, especially when it’s in my house. It’s been many years since I have lived in a house, and I miss doing yard work and painting and all the other stuff most people hate.
Only about a month and a half to go….
Okay,.. I am in no mood to be doing real work. I wanna do something fun. I wanna make something, or break someting on my serverz 🙂
I was just talking with Steph about how we’re gonna do our donations to charities next month. Since October is breast cancer awareness month, we had already planned on donating to that cause. But since both of us lost our mothers to cancer, I thought it would be a good idea to donate all profits from the site to various cancer organizations. Talking about it has made me sad though, cause it makes me think about my mom, and how much I miss her.
Weekends just aren’t long enough anymore. I had a good weekend, but got nothing done that I wanted too. We went to see the oriole’s get their asses handed to them on Friday. Aside from them sucking so badly, we still had a good time.
I slept till three on Saturday, since I had a total of like 10 hours of sleep all week. Steph and I went out to CPK, then did some shopping, and headed over to a friends place for a party. I was going to attempt round three against the firewall afterwards, but I had zero patience to deal with it, so I decided to just say forget about it, till this week.
Sunday, we went out to look at the new house, itz looking awesome. They have finished the bricks on the front, and we should be ready to do the pre-drywall inspection this week. If they keep on schedule, we should be ready to move in around the first or second week of November.
After the house, we met up with some friends and headed out to the zoo. Coming from that area, I had no idea how to get there, and apparently neither did anyone else in the car, so we wandered around the various ghettoz of dc until we finally stopped and got a map. The zoo is always fun, especially with Steph. The highlight of our trip was Steph saying wouldn’t it be funny if they started doing it. I guess the male took it as a dare, cuz he walked up to the female, lifted her tail, said this will do, and mounted her like a $2 whore.
After the zoo, we all headed back out to Va, and met up at the Macaroni Grill for dinner. Our server sucked, as they do about every other time we go. The food was good though, and itz always good going out with friends.
Believe it or not, I actually got even less sleep than the night before. I was up workin on the firewall again, had everything workin great, then i noticed that Steph’z computer had locked up. So I was like, okay, this would be a good opportunity to change her over to the internal address. So I reboot her, put the new ip on it, the firewall saw her, Icould see her, but I couldnt ping out from her box. I am completely boggled, the firewall says everythingz okay, i could see her from an external address and all. At this point, it was gettin real late, so I was like fuck it, I’ll put her back on the external IP, and deal with her machine tomorrow. So I switched her IP back, and tried to ping the gateway, with no love. I was completely at a loss, and figured it hadta be an ARP issue, but by this time it was around 4am and i hadta be up in less than 3 hourz, so i brought down the firewall, and dumped everything back on to the external net. I then tried to ping out from her machine again, once again no love. Juzt for shitz and gigglez, I tried to connect her cam program to the server, and it worked! Her stupid fucking net utility iz broke ass! So chances are it was fine behind the firewall. I guess I’ll find out this weekend. GRRRR