Month: July 2004

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Posted on by DizkoDan

So I found out late on Friday, that there was a mixup in HR as to when I was starting. Originally they were told the 29th, but on my offer letter I said the 26th. So they weren’t ready for me to start yet. I might start tomorrow or Weds, but maybe not till Thurs. Which is completely fine by me, as I have plenty of other shit to do to in the meantime. This weekend, I caught up on some sleep Saturday, but then completely lost it again Saturday night. I hopefully made up for it today, and will be on track for a “normal” schedule this week. I finished building all the new furniture with the exception of a shelf that I need to get more anchors for today. I also need to swap out Steph’s two shelves with the new one’s. There are still a ton of books on the floor in here, but they should be put away fairly soon. I have to move all of my shit from the old drawers into the new one’s, and that will pretty much be it. The new furniture looks awesome, and it really makes the room look bigger even though it takes up more real estate.

Yesterday I helped some friends move to their new apt. It went a lot quicker than we all expected, but I’m definitely a bit sore from going up and down 3 flights of stairs about 100 times. The cool thing is that they moved right around the corner from my new job, and Steph works around the corner as well, so hopefully we’l all get to hang out a lot more.

Today, I am going to pick up some shit from ho depot, and try to finish up in the office. Hope you all had a great weekend.

Random Thoughts

Posted on by DizkoDan

Last night was my last night at work. I didn’t do much work, nor did I stay all night. I got my shit all packed up, and left at about 3:30am. I’ll be starting my new gig on Monday, so I actually have a full weekend to get shit done. I slept about 4 hours this morning, so I shouldn’t have much trouble sleeping at night tonight. My goal today, is to get my desk built and my old one out of here. I’ve gotten pretty much all of Steph’s stuff done, so everything else is waiting for my side of the office. The new furniture really looks nice too, so I’m looking forward to getting rid of my old non functional desk. The only thing I’m going to miss is the amount of storage space this desk has, considering it is basically a full dresser (chest of 6 drawers) and 2 night stands. I have so much computer shit stacked up in these drawers. I don’t really know where I’m gonna put it. I’ve already sold some of it off, but I should really auction off some of it.

Anyhow, enough of my ramblings… How you doin?

Out with the old…

Posted on by DizkoDan

So for the past month or so, I have been actively pursuing a new job. I love Rackspace, and they have been good to me, but I felt it was time for me to move on and put my talents to better use. I had been contacted by a few people about potential jobs, and my resume is all over the place. A couple of weeks ago, a recruiter contacted me about a Linux sysadmin position that I might be interested in. I gave them a call thinking that they were gonna offer me some windoze admin job with a little unix/linux. Instead, it turned out to be damn near exactly what I was looking for. We finally got an interview setup for yesterday afternoon, so I went in on my few hours of sleep for the week, and had a nice long 2 hour interview with some of the other admins, and the director. They were all awesome, and I wanted to stay and talk with them even longer. They told me they were in a hurry to fill the position, and would decide soon. I got home from work at about 8:30 this morning, and they called me at about 10:00 and said congratulations! I received and faxed back my offer, and sent off my resignation letter this morning.

I am beyond ecstatic! I have been extremely stressed out at work over the past couple months. The hours were really beginning to tear into my time with Steph. So I will finally be back on a “normal” schedule, get an ass-ton more money, and do what I’m actually good at. I can’t wait to start!