Bowlcut’s little piece of the world

Dont you just love it when all you can do is one thing a day.  The co-worker called in sick, other co-worker is out on site for some stupid reason…  So Im holding down the fort for the 3 of us.  Which in the end means you can only get one thing done in a day.  The rest of the day is spent doing paperwork or playing fire fighter.  Nothing moved forward but one thing.  It sucks when you walk out and you really do know there was so much left to do, but you can only put so much of your life into it.

Im trying very hard and doing pretty well at it, to not have work be my life.  Also doing my best not to be on the computer 24×7.  After working hours Im not checking my work email as often as I used to do.  Also Im no longer sitting in front of a computer all day.  Sure Ive just moved from the computer to the couch, but I dont feel as bad about basicly touching a computer for 16 hours a day.  And well I gota get my money’s worth out of the big tv.  Now to buy a Xbox 360…

Monday’s or Friday’s?  All I know is I don’t like waking up for either.

Long weekend here.  Just got word no code patches this weekend so easy weekend of just building content.  Sad that it has come to the point where you expect to work every weekend isn’t it.  I seriously need to find a way to make money on my own.  I’m tired of living to someone else’s schedule.  Sure on your own likely means more hours.  But at this point at least I’d be my own boss and could say what those extra hours are for and when I should be doing them.

You know the feeling.  Waking up not knowing what day it is.  Still go to work and feel like crap.  Then get home and wonder…why did I go though all that.  Oh well.  Its over with now.  But no cravings today, just hungry on the drive home.  Being almost 6 hours since lunch, its understandable.  Had a little bit of crabby attitude today, tho I think it will be worse tomorrow.  We will see.  Again same food as yesterday, thats just how I roll…

I dont know what I was craving but on the drive home…I knew I wanted something.  Not entirely sure tho.  Im not really a sweets person so it wasnt like sweet.  I think maybe just lack of food late in the day ment the blood sugar was off and I knew it.  But right now Im doing decently well.  Made a pot roast for lunch and it was decent, probably could have cooked it longer, needed to start it sooner.  Then some chicken salad for a small snack.  And then some steak’s for dinner, yes steaks.  They are small eye of round steaks so two isnt bad.  I am feeling a bit of a headache coming on.  Not sure if its caffeine or not, just because I still havent drank a lot of caffeine.  But I didnt make it to the gym, thats still tough.  I had hoped to go for a walk.  But right as I was trying to leave work an issue came up that kept me there longer  Going to try to stop that.  But maybe tomorrow…maybe

Well last few days Ive put in an honest 8 hours.  Sometimes more if you ask me.  Ive been busting my butt to get crap done and I guess it shows.  But then also I am having to work tomorrow…a Sunday. Oh well its not that bad dont have to be there until 10am.  All I really have to do is move 3 pc’s and pull one back from the other end of the factory.  Thats another thing in itself.  Ive found out a round trip from one end to the other is right at quarter of a mile.  I end up walking it 4 to 6 times a day.  Not counting other walking either.  So in a day Im probably doing 2 to 3 miles just inside.  We will end up getting this crap done eventualy.  We are busting our asses to get Nissan up and running, Friday is like when we are susposed to have crap done…good question if it will happen or not.  Ok almost time for bed.

Well Ive completely revamped the place here. New software for blogging, new software for the gallery. Got a few more things I think I want to do as well to kinda make this place cool. It is easier than ever to update this page, the gallery is quite nice and will take a little getting used to. Doing this has helped keep the mind off of things and keeping me busy.

Have to work this weekend as I have said and lamented before. Saturday will be spent restoring a tape to the hard drive. Ive never dont that, so it will be interesting to say the least. That susposaly takes like 4 hours. Then Sunday have to go in and turn off a machine to let IBM replace the battery in it. Also during that time do a ghost image of another machine since its hard drive has died once before. The one we imaged to took a crap, the old one was fine. So do that process again. Fun…just hopeing it all goes well and I can breathe a bit easier at work.

Well it seems all I can do anymore is fuck up. I screwed the pooch big time last Friday. I crashed our backup server/development box. While its not mission critical, it is definatly not a good thing. The building was being locked up and I got out, not realizing it was assumed by higher ups that I would stay there day or night to fix it. I didnt really know that. But I got it back up within 2 hours Monday morning. I am totaly ignorant towards AIX, IBM and their opperating system is totaly criptic. It never crashes unless you screw with it, but dang its it annoying to work with. Now I gota work Saturday and Sunday to do backups and try to get that backup box online as production so we can take down production. Have to replace some hardware within production. I hope I can get things working right this time and not type in the wrong command that brings the box to a grinding hault.

I am stressed out beyond belief. Guess after all that goes down this weekend and if it goes well, Ill be taking the following week off. I will have some comp time Ill have to take then Ill take a few days off. Thinking the week of the 29th. I dont know what Ill do, but I need some time off and get away from work. Its going to be a long week thats for sure….

Well I got recruited to go to work tomorrow. Electric company is turning off the power to one of our buildings. Just so happen we do have a major server in that building. It is on battery backup. But 4 hour downtime…untested batteries…what do you do… Well Im going in and turning things off just to be sure. Stupid sql database on a windows server. Lord knows if that goes down non-gracefully…it will likely corrupt everything. Not taking a chance thats for sure. So that means up in Metro Center by 7:30am, fun stuff for me. Guess go ride the bike around downtown or something see what I can see. Or take this laptop and watch some movies…decisions decisions decisons.

Did go get the new account opened, it was mostly painless. Now to get the paycheck split between the two. Thats more of a headache than anything else cause it means stoping direct deposit for one time then it restarting. Thats a headache cause means I gota go deposit the pay check, and Im bad about getting to the bank. Oh well think im going to watch some british tv while I fall alseep

Seems Im going nonstop lately. Just cant get a little time to sit down and do very little. Work definatly keeping me busy. Hope keeping decently busy. Driving fills in the gaps. It makes the days go by faster thats for sure. Look up and its almost time to go home, look up later its time to eat, look up again and its bed time. I cant believe its already mid June.

Know what would be nice to have? The ability to read people, or hell just figure them out. Everyone is so cryptic and secretive….now I wouldnt be that way would I??? Just cant figure out things here and there. Wouldnt it be easier if everyone had a help button. Cant figure out what the hell they are saying…hit f1 figure it out in the manual. Like the old joke with linux. Its help is called man. So you do a man (short for manual) for woman, man woman…it comes up “No manual entry for woman”…total confusion, isnt that the truth. The old man entry was funnier I cant remember it tho. Man man does give you all the help in the world tho, says something dont it.

Im still somewhat stuck on the weight loss. Cant really shake it. Im not sure what Im doing wrong, body totaly adapted or what. Im just screwed I think. Only thing I havent tried yet is ye old binge/purge. Doesnt that sound fun tho. Looks like maybe another full weekend. Going to try to give the car a good workover. Need to change my oil, then I want to do a full wash/wax. Funny people look at me like Im weird when I say I need about 8 hours to do that. A good wash/wax takes time. I wonder if Ill put sun screen on this weekend in the sun….