There’s an old friend of mine from high school that maintains a pretty high traffic site (linkage not really needed, but I’ll give it to him anyway: needcoffee.com). He’s turned it into a site that watches/comments on pop culture.
This friend was in theatre with us… and quite good… it’s rather eerie to hear his voice and know his personality hasn’t changed much. Good stuff.
So, just as soon as I spread my wings on Ubuntu one more time, it smacks me down like the bitch I am. For some odd reason, directories just began to disappear from the disks. Disappear! Can you believe that? I first noticed it when network mounts weren’t coming back and there were long, odd pauses on the desktop when it loaded.
Back to Windows again. Sigh.
I had a problem in Windows over the past two months - it was a problem so annoying that it drove me to try Ubuntu again. I had a problem where everytime the computer toked on the hard disks or the network, it would pause. The mouse would stop moving - just enough to annoy. On first glance, it’s easy to think… okie… my hard drives are messed up (especially after what Ubuntu did!) - but then, I rolled back to some ancient revisions of the SATA driver and the problem went away. We’re talking… ancient as in 2005.
Good thing I’m not trying to run Vista on this thing - those newer drivers would be required and I’d be in a world of hurt.
In other news, it’s cold - damn cold in our house.
We had a lovely dinner at Mikawa - a local Japanese joint that has quickly become one of our favorites. It was quite packed tonight, but they managed to find a table for us. The service was a bit slower than usual, but that’s because they really were pretty swamped and they do not have a huge wait staff. The wait was worth it - the food delivered was hot, steaming, tasty and lucious as always. Our son became quite the ham with other folks enjoying their Valentine’s Day. He was waving at everyone and everything.
I’ve wished a happy Valentine’s Day to my Taitai, BunBun and Kiddo - now I need to wish a Happy V-Day to all of my girlfriends out there: Morticia, ShinyHappyJen, Miss J, Jenny, Rosie, Vo0, Beth, Gingerr… and shit… since I’m naming names, hope I didn’t forget any. Love you all! Kisses.
So, Aquatix pointed out (correctly) that the coffee-n-cream theme didn’t have a login button. File that one under WTF.
Part of the reason I keep changing these themes is because I keep finding little items missing. While I like Sapphire significantly, it takes out the blogroll. That sucks because I really want you to visit my friends and I find it pretty important to link to them. File that under Suck.
Besides, the coffee-n-cream theme had a background that looked like corduroy pants. Lame.
On to the spoils of the day. Taitai ran out with Nana to shop all over town today and blew some cash. Good for her - it’s good for her to get out every now and then. BunBun and I stayed home and horsed around most of the day. I even got him down for a nap, which was quite a victory if I do say so myself. I was concerned that the nap just wasn’t going to happen since mommy wasn’t there with him - but the sleep fairies came and sang him away to sleep.
Then I had to head off to the data center to do some work on a server. When I arrived, several things had gotten messed up in the paperwork, so I got to spend the first hour or so refiling it. Why an hour? Well, some idiot decided to dink with the wireless and I couldn’t pick up jack from a DHCP server. File that under Irk.
Work done, but I got home later than I wanted. Now BunBun’s already in bed. It’s okie though. Time to relax. I still did more work. I shouldn’t be though. I need to stop and relax. Get my mind off of things.
Oh yeah, and I need to answer some home email. Bigtime. Tomorrow we’re going to go do Christmas with the other set of parents who were out of town during the holiday. That has nothing to do with the fact that I need to answer email, so that should have been a new paragraph. I need to practice my writing skills. They apparently suck again. File that under Dammit.
Well, tonight is another night for that New Year’s thing. First off, let me say… Happy 2007!
Today we ate/socialized with Whitey and Vo0 at Cheeburger Cheeburger in Providence. Funtastic time! Thanks for the Christmas gift, guys! I can hardly wait to play it! I’m glad you guys are back in town and enjoying it so far. This town has become so much more interesting lately - and it’s only getting better. Besides, you’re just keeping with the trend of everyone moving away… then coming back… heh.
2006 was a stellar year for me and my family career-wise. It’s been fast-moving, crazy, full of advancement and excitement. The downside? I’ve worked far too hard. Probably my New Year’s resolution would be to stop working so much and do other things like… spend more time with my son and daughter… read books more often… write more often… exercise more often… do all of those things to better my personality. I’ve spent a lot of time bettering my career. It’s time to stop and better my personal life for a year.
I’ve planned several adjustments at the workplace to help that out. It starts with moving my office to a new location - one that can afford me some time away from the operations side of things. I know myself - if I’m near it, I won’t keep my hands off of it. I need to stay hands off. I need to be doing Powerpoint charts, Visio drawings, etc.
At home, I need to be learning more about Linux, PHP/MySQL, learning Chinese, buying Macs, reading and writing, photographing, videoing and creating. I want this to be the year I regress back to my artistic side.
Lastly (and this is where I need your help, Jennifer and everyone else)… I need to be exercising. Vo0 has lost 55 pounds or so… I should be able to do so too.
Let’s have a great year!
The night is silent once again… time for all of the Santas out there to stir up the dust from the closet. Merry Christmas from our family to yours 
Wow. 6:38am. I’m lucky I got up - I didn’t go to bed until about 1:20am this morning. 5 hours of sleep and the day looks to be long on scheduling. There are 9 meetings today, most of them back to back… and they walk all over my lunch hour. It’s going to be rough, keep me in your thoughts.
The subject of taking better care of yourself has come up again recently. Jennifer blogged about having headaches and the need to take better care of herself. I too need to do the same. I’ve said it countless times before (but you’ll have to rely on memory since I wiped all of that out in the old blog) - I need to slow down, stop working so much and try to keep my mind off of work all the time.
It’s proving to be a significant challenge since I just ended up with a new job title. The new job title places me in a different position that makes me naturally feel I have to step up my game, not slow down. That’s becoming a real problem and I know that within a few more days of pushing this hard it’s liable to catch up with me. I’ll probably snap and have to take the day off or something, even though I did just take the day off not too long ago. Actually, I took two days off. I tried to burn some holiday time. I failed - went over 40 hours anyway.
I don’t enjoy complaining about this and I just need to resolve to do better. If I don’t take care of myself, how am I going to take care of my job and my family? What an endless circle.
Jennifer is already making adjustments out there and I need to resolve to help her by gently prodding… same goes for here. People need to stay on top of me and keep me in line.
