Dogs and Sleep

Well last night was a weird one..

My dog who i love dearly decided to get back at me i believe for playing on the computer all night and not paying any attention to him...

around midnight i went to bed as I do most nights, but before I took him out and let him pee around as I call it, this is his ritual of running from one point to another sniffing and if needs be peeing on that spot to confirm his dominance!

well I get tired of this normally around 10 minutes into it but last night it was freezing and I was ready to sleep...

Well around 2 I feel him move suddenly to an upright position and then run out of the room to the front door... I hurry out to see him there and I go no we are not going outside... we go lay back down he lays there for 2 minutes then up again.. so its not a joke I figure I get to the living room to hear his prepare to throw up sounds so I shoe him out to the deck where he does indeed throw up.. and normally he will go back to bed but no he stands in the living room looking at me so we go down to let him do more peeing around.. finally he poops a bit and we head back up.

So I get back to sleep after a bit of telling him he was a good boy for not peeing or throwing up on my bed :)

around 6 he starts to wake me up again for our morning ritual of a bit of workout and his peeing around again...

I guess i need to pay more attention to him today when I get home from work :)

ho hum... very much bored

Well nothing absolutely nothing is really worth talking about...

Be that as it is I will just bid you all a good day :)

Underworld... WOOT

GO SEE IT

FRIDAY!!!

Ok first Today is the release of Underworld:Rise of the Lycans which I will most likely see Sunday morning while everyone else is in church

I completed my Sprint5 tasks just about 30 minutes ago so I am happy with that...

I did my training this morning and it went well

I had a nice Thai Lunch and will not be hungry tonight!

Tomorrow morning will be breakfast and a read at Johannas and a bit of cleaning, need to dust and clean bathrooms and do laundry tomorrow

other than that its cold and raining...

Headaches and Heat

Headache!

Cube is Unusually Hot..

Think I may be sick soon..

More tomorrow

Dogs and their love!

Last night I went to my Friend Tom's house to Practise Karate with him, drop off some videos for him and his family to watch why he is recooping from shoulder Surgery he is having today, and get my hair colored and trimmed by his wife.

They always feed me dinner and last night they made individual shepard pies which were really quite good.

They have a small pom named fox because is coat is looks just like a fox, well this little guy literally loves me he kisses me and plays with me and follows me around like a shadow when I am there. He was sitting on my lap when Sabrina started to cut my hair and and one point under the poncho thing he was trying to find my face to lick it. I laughed and so did sabrina we finally had to kick him out of the room so I could sit still for the cut.

When I got home my DOG the infamous one who is the most beautiful and smart of all dogs I have ever owned starts sniffing my face, my clothes and all for I have cheated on him! He pouted a bit when I jumped on my computer to play some games and when we changed my shirt to a fresh tshirt to avoid the itch of cut hair on my neck and back he started to sniff that shirt like it was an enemy in his home.

We went to bed around midnight and he literally slept so that his back was to mine to shoe me is disapproval of my having been with another dog!

I woke up with him lieing dead center top of the bed where my pillows lie. I guess he showed me :)

44th President of the US ! Barack Obama

As I was getting ready for work this morning I had the Inauguration Playing on my Television... at times I was literally moved by the Music of the Marine Band.

Really there is no other form of communication that feeds the heart of people as music does.

I listened to his oath you realize he is just a man and a nervous one at that...

I Love to see the Armed Forces out in the full dress uniforms the event is a great moment to reaffirm you patriotism.

Now back to things that are a part of my life..

Work I have been asked to do a presentation at Manage Fusion and I am now researching to get a working out line for it then to fill in the gaps. as i am truly opposed to Power Point presentations I am trying hard to just have a few slides with definate information which I will NOT READ to the audience.

Its in March in Las Vegas so I get to have a few days on the company there!

today I am just fighting a headache not sure where it came from but its just hanging there. Hopefully its gone soon so I can enjoy my day the best I can

My Civil Rights?

Well I am at work and yes its Martin Luther King Jr day and yes... I feel my Civil Rights are being stepped on by My job.. don't they know I want to sit at home and do nothing? Jeez.. oh well..

I must say I do respect and believe Martin Luther King Jr to be a great and noble man.. he had a dream and his dream is one many of us share...

Tomorrow is the Inauguration of a new President. As we turn the page on a new chapter of USA will any of us look back to learn from things in the last chapter I like to call BUSH II. I hope so but as in all things not many people will and thus we continue the cycle of repeats and do overs.

Friday night TV just got exciting again I mean really I was thrilled to turn on my TV and go to Sci Fi channel to Watch BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!! I am just sorry to see it coming to an end...

Now if any of you want to watch a well made show I would suggest Pushing Daisies. Unfortunately its in the second season and will not get renewed but it is without a doubt a wonderful show, an excellent cast and just a bunch of fun to watch.

Well I am really looking forward to this friday as well, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans or Return of the lycans or what ever it is is coming out :)

Yippy!

FRIDAY!!!

Ok so I have to go to the store on my way to work because my headset/microphone setup quit working last night.
I had to use my travel Headset and mic to continue to chat with my friends in my online games I play.

At work we have a fix for the break that core introduced to RC1 and we are now trying to get the fixed version installed on our servers, however there are issues...

going to lunch with my friend joel graham today we are heading to One Man Diner for Breakfast! WOOT...

Weekend forcast? not much :)

Oranges and Grapefruits

So there is this guy who sits in a cube kitty corner from me and he has recently started to eat Grapefruits..
I asked him this morning what was up with that and he said they are a natural source of Lipotrofic benefits ( fat burning )
So I told him ok and then we started talking about the difficutly of choosing a good orange or grapefruit as most the time I find ones that are half dried up inside or very bitter etc.

so his theory is the Florida vs California Fruit selection:
the fruit is like the people (please take no offense in this theory as it is far from proven)

California Oranges and Grapefruits are round and bright colored and beautiful, but inside they are questionable... their skins are glossy and thick but... you don't know what you are getting on the inside they could be dried up old hacks :)

Florida Oranges and Grapefruits are odd shaped, scarred, discolored, and think but inside are full of juice...

I thought it was pretty funny and thus I share it with you now other than that, same thing different day :)

HumpDaY!

ok so today is Wednesday...

Got Karate after work and so looking forward to that...

got my lab set up at my desk, linux shorewall router machine, 2 subnets with their own DNS and DHCP, and all WOOT!

am now addicted to SPITZ sunflower seeds (Smoky BBQ flavor!)

Movies I look forward to this month:
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans...

Not much to say today but hopefully more comes to my mind tomorrow

Another day not much to say

Well lets see...

Back at work just finished the development teams test rack.. Its portable and allows it to be moved to a location where it needs to be...
What id doesn't come with is someone on the dev team that knows how to restore it to points that are useful so I forsee many questions coming my way as they decide how to set it up.

Now to get to work on my set up.

I currently only have 1 subnet and I need to arrange it so that I can 2 subnets. which means a bit of work on my setup now that I have the time before we start the next code sequences...

Last night talked to my sister Diana, she finally got the card I bought her for christmas which was quite funny since it was very late.

Not much going on tonight, I think I have practise with my friend Tom on Karate, but he has an injury so he can't do much with is shoulder till its repaired so its just me.

Oh well... FUN FUN FUN

Monday Morning?? again?

Well here it is Monday... not a very eventful weekend...

Did some cleaning, cooked a pork roast in my crockpot>>> YES i know that is two times this year I cooked... LOL must be that I found out how easy a crockpot is to work!

Also baked a cake that I had the mix for I don't know how long, of course I left it unfrosted just the way I like them and yes I didn't burn it, just a bit over cooked... recipe on box said 29 - 34 minutes so I opted for 31 minutes and think it was done best at 29.. oh well still takes chocolatey good!

went to the gun show Saturday to get some ammo and boy was it crowded.. had to wiggle around just to see what all was there.. and left after getting the ammo quickly so I didn't have to smell it any more LOL

so as you can see a very uneventful weekend.

Today finishing up the install for dev test rack and then start working on RC1 install on my test lab. Yippee!

The Traffic Bermuda Triangle of Utah

Ok so today I start to drive to work about 8:40 it normally takes me 30 minutes to get there give or take a few minutes depending on weather and all.. well
Today I walked into my desk at 10:15...

Why?? because From the point of the mountain south till Orem is the Bermuda triangle of Insane and non-stop traffic problems. Really more accidents occur in that area I fear than the rest of the world!

From the point till thanksgiving point going ok then suddenly everyone is slowing down and stopping why? a single car (crunched) sitting in the 3rd lane in no one in it and no police around it to let other cars know its there. How many fender benders did this cause? 2 i saw to pairs of cars pulled over to the side with backend and front ends matching the dents.

Then I see another couple cars paired along as we continue to crawl towards Lehi... then comes the fun, I move to the HOV lane since I figure the truckers moving there know more than I do. Well they did... there was at least 1-5 more cars all crunched in various lanes and on the should leading to the area right before the Lehi Flour Mills exit where there was 2 cars crunched then 2 Semis off in a ditch one's back end connected to the second semis front end then another 6 cars in varous states of Crunch. So I figure yea we are done with the accidents .... nope because right then in front of me (moved to the slow lane at this time) another couple of cars are crunched. after that I can go freeway speeds to american fork where suddenly the traffic stops again. I get of at the next exit and go the back roads to work.

Now that was an insane drive to work.

Right now still working on the test rack getting finalized then I have to post our new build and I think that is it for the days schedule.

chow for now!

Test Rack Mayhem

Ok so I get to work today and decide to build the DEV test rack I have been planning on doing for about 3 months...
so I get all the machines, switches cords and all hooked up

I start working on os's and the main server starts to try to delete things without me even clicking on it... like its possessed... well I just stick in the OS cd and format and start fresh...

Then I get working on updating machines and all and when I go to show how to do something to my boss suddenly no video feed is coming to the monitor.. so I undo all the cords and hook up a new kvm switch then still nothing so finally i unplug the monitor and plug it back in and wala! it works... Musen fraten bricken braken monitor!

So now I am back to making sure all themachine are updated and the os gets complete so I can install products tomorrow.
Yea me...
Catch on the flip side

New Calendar!

Well I finally put up my 09 calendars today....

I normally get a few different themes...

Work has to this point been movies, pirates, Star Wars, batman, Xmen my normal but this year it is my Nieces and Great nieces and nephews calendar. They created an 09 calendar with all the dates in them. YEA I will remember some birthdays this year hopefully...

January of course is Jamie and TJ..

my computer room Calendar this various as well and this year its actually moved to my bedroom as its the Studs in Spurs calendar.. hunky cowboys... I know what? cowboys? well I live in Utah now and to get the good calendars its hard to find so I was stuck with this one... but they aren't all that bad to look at :)

Calendar by the kitchen.. has been in the past a mini one of Japanese wood prints or some zen thing and well that just hasn't helped so this year its my Affordable heating and cooling Norman Rockwell calendar.. good thing it there because this year I may have to replace the condenser in the air conditioner. /crosses fingers

Now for the fun Movies I am looking foward to in 09:

January
Underworld: Rise of the Lycons
Ink Heart

Feb
????

March
WATCHMEN :)

April
???

MAY (BIG MOVIE MONTH)
XMEN ORIGINS (GAMBIT GAMBIT GAMBIT)
Star Trek (JJ ABRAMS version)
Terminateor Salvation

June:
???

July:
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince (only way I will ever get to know how this series ends as I don't read the books)

August
GI JOE!!! SNAKE EYES and STORMSHADOW ROCK ON

Sept
???

October:
???

November
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (GO Baricade!)

I like to put them on my calendar so I can easily plan my movie weekends and advance buy any important tickets and yes I will be taking May 1 off so I can see XMEN origins over and over GAMBIT my all time favorite Xmen ever!

I also get to look forward to seeing WICKED (broadway tour) the End of April so I am very excited about that since its like the best musical to come out in ages as far as I am concerned.
great music.

Well thus ends my post for today...

Snow and Snow and Did I say Snow?

Well snow came to us yesterday got pretty heavy in Happy Valley!

Today I am home working not because of snow but because I have a bit of a tummy issue

Dont have much to say today other than I love snow, hate tummy issues and definately can't wait for the my Time of Life to be over...

Back to work and back on schedule

Well the end of 2008 was uneventful... no work just laying around at home playing with my dog and goofing online in online games I play!

Today I get up with the alarm and my dog looks at me, had to tell him today was back to work day... no laying in bed till 8 or so.. lol

Asked if I made any resolutions this year by a co-worker...
Got to say no to that... just going to try go do things that make sense and possibly stay out of trouble :)

Well back to the grind got to get our product installed to see if there are any huge issues to fix!

Later