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Category: life

08/28/07 05:29 - ID#40787

Decisions, Decisions

Oh Estrip, give me your advice:

Should I give up my business which is finally starting to come together after 2 long years of struggle, and go back to school and try to get a nice permanent job sometime next year at Roswell with (e:Enknot) and (e:Paul)?

Or screw security and keep working at Roswell a couple days a week for the next year or two and try to be awesome the rest of the time / the rest of my life as my own man? After all, big things could be in store!

Lifetime security versus trying for the stars? I have to choose what to do in the next month.

Edited to add: Well thank you everyone! There's really no need to make a decision this month, now that I think about it, I'll just keep trying to do it all :)
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Category: life

06/15/07 08:11 - ID#39667

Painful Internet

At our new place we are sharing the internet connection of the guys downstairs, but the wireless reception is completely painful. It's totally out for about 5 minutes out of every hour, and the rest of the time is really slow - like dialup slow, plus really long latencies. I just ordered a wireless bridge and am praying that that will be my salvation. If not I'll have to buy them a giant antenna to stick on their access point.

Also speaking of utilities, I've been cursing my morning showers because the water hasn't been very hot, but it turned out (e:james) had just turned the thermostat on the water heater way down. At least that is an easy fix :)
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Category: life

05/15/07 01:59 - ID#39284

God just killed Jerry Falwell.

That is all.
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Category: life

04/18/07 09:13 - ID#38949

Red Tape

So, I started a business, and I think so far I've spent as much money paying NYS for various things then I've actually brought in. Hopefully by the end of the year things will be rosier.

The last requirement for starting this thing is that I publish the creation of my LLC in two different papers in Erie County. I have another month or two still to fulfill this requirement, but I've been afraid to find out just how extortionate it will be. I'm going to call tomorrow and find out. Hopefully it will be more like $50 and less like $500.

My merchant account I'm just getting through PayPal, so that hasn't been too bad. And it's funny, if you're starting a business account at HSBC they have you meet with a Vice President. Apparently every single branch has a Vice President working in it or something, so HSBC must have something like 20,000 VP's.
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Category: life

04/10/06 05:48 - ID#24487

Passover Coke

I gave up drinking soda almost two year ago. BUT, this is the one exception every year. What is it you ask?

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Passover Coke.

There are some Jews who can not have any corn-related products during Passover, so the good people at Coke make soda with REAL sugar, not corn fructose. I am not a Jew, I am more than happy to pretend today.

You can really taste the difference.

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Look for the yellow bottle caps (2 liter size only, with the OU-P).

Even this Coke doesn't hold a candle to Dr. Pepper made from real sugar cane. That is really something to die for.
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Category: life

03/31/06 05:42 - ID#24482

Work is Not Fun

I had to reinstall linux on a server four different times today because I was a freakin idiot about the partitioning.

And it wouldn't recognize my RAID card.

TGIF.
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03/29/06 05:44 - ID#24481

Work is Fun

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Part of our tape library.


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Some of our VCR's and DVD recorders.


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Some of our Buffalo tapes.

Work has been fun lately. We're converting over from VHS to a mixture of DVD's and DVR's. We do news monitoring and also advertising and marketing research on what airs on TV.

I'll post some pictures of our server rack tomorrow. I've been redoing the cabling so it looks pretty instead of like the flying spaghetti monster.
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Category: life

01/19/06 07:59 - ID#24476

He is going to kill me.

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[size=xl]HAPPY[/size]

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[size=xl]ANNIVERSARY[/size]

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[size=xl]!!![/size]
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Category: life

01/17/06 11:19 - ID#24474

Engagement Rings

(E:James) and I went to go pick up the rings we had made (tomorrow is our Anniversary) but the jeweler had made them out of yellow gold instead of white.

I almost didn't notice they were wrong ... the rings turned out really well, just ultra plain bands. I thought maybe they were just colored by the lighting in the store. Offhandedly at the end, I asked,"Isn't this a bit yellow for white gold?". So, no rings. It'll be on my finger for the next million years, so what if it's a day or two late? I'm trying to be philosophical about it.
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01/13/06 07:14 - ID#24471

Global Warming is Excellent

If this is what we get, I think we should all go out and rip the mufflers off our cars. And burn down all the trees in our yards.

60 degrees on January 13th!
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