Perhaps I should refer to it as 'all night' oil.. as it seems that whenever we have one of these after hours deployments it happens to go ALL FREAKING NIGHT!!!!!
Right now I'm waiting on the vendor to respond with some code that will fix a situation that could totally knock this deployment out of the park. While the issue at hand is not something that would cause us to rollback, it's rather annoying that we couldn't slam this one down and be home by 1AM or earlier.
Tomorrow I had plans to drop Amy off at her volunteer position at SAM, then work from Starbucks until about 1:30 PM in the afternoon. Even if I get home really late I might do it anyway because it sounds like a lot of fun and I want to spend some time downtown with her after she's done volunteering. I don't really even care what we do.. just being downtown with her sounds like a lot of fun =D
Anywho.. work is work... and I've definitely gained anew perspective on things in relation to my job, my career, and my placement in the working world. I have new goals to work towards, and it will be very interesting to see how things progress over the next while.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Locked Down
Yesterday I had set up my computer to host a Remote Desktop service so I could log into it from work. It's something I have done ever since I had my job in college, and has proven to be very useful to me.
Whether I slack and spend time working on other projects not related to my job, or I set up a stream of music to listen to while I work, having the ability to get into my computer from work was a great luxury. It even came in handy a few times troubleshooting issues in which we needed to have a computer with a connection that is external to our corporate network.
No more. I was unable to connect remotely today. I remembered awhile back they were going to be blocking the standard RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) ports at the external firewall, but I realize now that they weren't just blocking the ports.. they were blocking the actual protocol. Oh well.. I guess this means I can keep my nose to the grindstone more often than I have in the past year.
I'm now signed up for an Oracle taught Oracle administration class. I will be taking it for an entire week in July-- not really a break from work, per-se, but at least I'll be in different surroundings for that week and not have to do any of my jobby job tasks.
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The music is brooding in my head now. Including, but not limited to, distribution of City Shadows, new songs, new songs I'm working on, cdbaby.net, live performances.... I really want to make my hobby into something bigger. I'm not going to quit my day job for awhile (if ever), but I definitely want to be heard.
Good times.. good times.
Whether I slack and spend time working on other projects not related to my job, or I set up a stream of music to listen to while I work, having the ability to get into my computer from work was a great luxury. It even came in handy a few times troubleshooting issues in which we needed to have a computer with a connection that is external to our corporate network.
No more. I was unable to connect remotely today. I remembered awhile back they were going to be blocking the standard RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) ports at the external firewall, but I realize now that they weren't just blocking the ports.. they were blocking the actual protocol. Oh well.. I guess this means I can keep my nose to the grindstone more often than I have in the past year.
I'm now signed up for an Oracle taught Oracle administration class. I will be taking it for an entire week in July-- not really a break from work, per-se, but at least I'll be in different surroundings for that week and not have to do any of my jobby job tasks.
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The music is brooding in my head now. Including, but not limited to, distribution of City Shadows, new songs, new songs I'm working on, cdbaby.net, live performances.... I really want to make my hobby into something bigger. I'm not going to quit my day job for awhile (if ever), but I definitely want to be heard.
Good times.. good times.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Blowing Off the Dust
There was a massive amount of dust on the 'ol brain. Work hasn't been too terribly kind to me lately, but I realize that I have to make the best of it.
I became, and admittedly still am, burnt out on IT. A few incidents at work really took the wind out of my sails and left me feeling a bit stranded not too far from shore. I'm slowly gaining the momentum back and getting excited about my job and the prospects it brings.
Along side that I am finding myself more and more in the music composing mind-set. I'm having moments of clarity when I sit down in front of my computer to do music. It sorta came out at a decent time yesterday when my buddy Jeff came over to make music. We ended up with a pretty sweet take of a collaboration that we will wrap up and throw out on the internet soon (I'm guessing).
My mind is all over the place as far as objectives for music go. Part of me says I need to get back to my days of City Shadows-esque music.. while I am also pulled in the tech/trance direction at times as well. I seem to have multiple hands in multiple pots of creativity, to a point where it's not really working towards anything.. just a bunch of lateral shifts. Did that make any sense?
Anywho.. summer brings great weather, more desires to travel (within and outside of Washington), and I'm itching to have all my debts paid later this summer and the savings to start kicking into high gear. I'm starting to get home-ownership on the brain =X
It's almost 3. Time to kill an hour on more documentation and quarterly goals to get a phatter bonus. Yay!
I became, and admittedly still am, burnt out on IT. A few incidents at work really took the wind out of my sails and left me feeling a bit stranded not too far from shore. I'm slowly gaining the momentum back and getting excited about my job and the prospects it brings.
Along side that I am finding myself more and more in the music composing mind-set. I'm having moments of clarity when I sit down in front of my computer to do music. It sorta came out at a decent time yesterday when my buddy Jeff came over to make music. We ended up with a pretty sweet take of a collaboration that we will wrap up and throw out on the internet soon (I'm guessing).
My mind is all over the place as far as objectives for music go. Part of me says I need to get back to my days of City Shadows-esque music.. while I am also pulled in the tech/trance direction at times as well. I seem to have multiple hands in multiple pots of creativity, to a point where it's not really working towards anything.. just a bunch of lateral shifts. Did that make any sense?
Anywho.. summer brings great weather, more desires to travel (within and outside of Washington), and I'm itching to have all my debts paid later this summer and the savings to start kicking into high gear. I'm starting to get home-ownership on the brain =X
It's almost 3. Time to kill an hour on more documentation and quarterly goals to get a phatter bonus. Yay!
Friday, June 1, 2007
Check Baby, Check Baby, Check One-Two..
Attitudes are contagious.
A major problem I now have with my work environment is the bitter and negative attitudes of many people that work within my organization. I can't let their candor and demeanor affect my overtly sharp wit. What can be perceived as "the best" in me for a quick wit and sharp tongue can easily be taken as "the worst" in me by many other folks. I have to be very careful and selective of how I present myself to others that I work with as to not hinder my career and working relationship with my company and sub-organization.
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Keeping myself in check at work, I have also kept myself in check outside of my work life as well. I am starting to get excited for the things I used to be excited about (hobby-wise mostly): Computers, web development and technology, some video gaming, and most of all-- creative output in the form of anything audio/visual.
Nick and I are still host-less as of June 10th. Our friend is departing from the hosting scene since he had a few bad experiences with overbearing customers, and what started as a hobby has become a pain in the ass for our friend. I can't blame him for retiring the hobby. Thankfully I have another friend who may be able to host a few of our small sites. It will be nice to have SNN-Core, Sliptide, Angel Assassin, and our new project hosted online for development. I'm excited to take our back-seat hobbies and move them into new directions and on the forefront of our creative processes.
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I have started building Titan, the latest piece of my technological arsenal. Amy's laptop broke (again) and we really needed to have two functional PCs. Being 5 years old, I figured it was time to do the last upgrades to Euclid and build a new box.
Euclid is running an AMD Athlon XP (Barton) 2.0ghz, 2gb DDR400 (was upgraded from 1gb of DDR333-- huge difference!), BFG Tech GeForce 7600 GS 512mb (AGP), A-bit AN7, and all of the other bells an whistles (HDDs, etc..). It performs fine and has plenty of life left in it for day to day and creative projects (Photoshop still screams enough, even with 8 mega-pixel images), and games don't look half bad with some of the options limited in texture and object quality/detail.
Sidenote: Yes, I name my computers. I have named my computers since my first Micron p166 machine back in the day. It's like naming anything else if you ask me. Cars, boats, satellites. A geekish habit, but a mark that expresses how proud I am of what I build.
Titan: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Windsor 2.8GHz Socket AM2, SAPPHIRE 100185L Radeon X1950XT 512MB, Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) ,
I'm looking forward to getting it all set up this weekend. I'll drop a post when I'm done burning my eyes out with a few games, oh, and making some phat music ;)
A major problem I now have with my work environment is the bitter and negative attitudes of many people that work within my organization. I can't let their candor and demeanor affect my overtly sharp wit. What can be perceived as "the best" in me for a quick wit and sharp tongue can easily be taken as "the worst" in me by many other folks. I have to be very careful and selective of how I present myself to others that I work with as to not hinder my career and working relationship with my company and sub-organization.
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Keeping myself in check at work, I have also kept myself in check outside of my work life as well. I am starting to get excited for the things I used to be excited about (hobby-wise mostly): Computers, web development and technology, some video gaming, and most of all-- creative output in the form of anything audio/visual.
Nick and I are still host-less as of June 10th. Our friend is departing from the hosting scene since he had a few bad experiences with overbearing customers, and what started as a hobby has become a pain in the ass for our friend. I can't blame him for retiring the hobby. Thankfully I have another friend who may be able to host a few of our small sites. It will be nice to have SNN-Core, Sliptide, Angel Assassin, and our new project hosted online for development. I'm excited to take our back-seat hobbies and move them into new directions and on the forefront of our creative processes.
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I have started building Titan, the latest piece of my technological arsenal. Amy's laptop broke (again) and we really needed to have two functional PCs. Being 5 years old, I figured it was time to do the last upgrades to Euclid and build a new box.
Euclid is running an AMD Athlon XP (Barton) 2.0ghz, 2gb DDR400 (was upgraded from 1gb of DDR333-- huge difference!), BFG Tech GeForce 7600 GS 512mb (AGP), A-bit AN7, and all of the other bells an whistles (HDDs, etc..). It performs fine and has plenty of life left in it for day to day and creative projects (Photoshop still screams enough, even with 8 mega-pixel images), and games don't look half bad with some of the options limited in texture and object quality/detail.
Sidenote: Yes, I name my computers. I have named my computers since my first Micron p166 machine back in the day. It's like naming anything else if you ask me. Cars, boats, satellites. A geekish habit, but a mark that expresses how proud I am of what I build.
Titan: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Windsor 2.8GHz Socket AM2, SAPPHIRE 100185L Radeon X1950XT 512MB, Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) ,
| | nMEDIAPC Mute Power MP-500 ATX12V, To name a few things. Oh, and I can't forget the: ZALMAN VF900 - CU LED 2 Ball VGA Cooling Fan/Heatsink. This computer will last me quite awhile.. sure.. it's not DX10 right now, and I'm not going to bother installing Vista on it, but I really don't have any motivation to use Vista-- and there aren't any DX10 games out yet.. I'm fine with DX9 for quite awhile, so I'm going to milk it for all it's worth ;) Hell, I got this far with AGP, right? |
I'm looking forward to getting it all set up this weekend. I'll drop a post when I'm done burning my eyes out with a few games, oh, and making some phat music ;)
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