So the most obvious change to LJ, at least from my perspective, is that the fee for paid accounts went from ~$12/year to $20. So now I get ads instead. Maybe I should get off my butt and get a blog on my own server ...

I've certainly been lax recently about writing much. That's probably because I don't really get on my home computer for much anymore except games and specific tasks (pay bills, ... um, that's it?). And recently work has actually been full, over-full at times. However, this week I finally released for testing a project and set aside the week to ( Read more... )

Last week through this one has been rather terrible. I usually have a good time at work, solving problems and coming up with creative ways to develop solutions and projects. This past week has been a pile of emergency fixes to systems that I maintain but did not develop. With bugs popping up in parts of the system that I've never managed as they ( Read more... )

So ... doesn't seem like I'll have to worry about a lack of work any time soon.

Integra Telecom to purchase Eschelon Telecom

More conversion work ... hooray!

Especially when you work most of Saturday. Either I can't concentrate well enough at work on Friday (well, Thursday too), I can't get the DBAs to give me the time of day on those days (also possible), or everyone is just too damned busy at work. We're going full steam into this ELI conversion and it is painful. Too few of us doing too much work ( Read more... )

I must be getting old. Having some serious shoulder pain that started on Sunday and won't go away. Off to the doctor today!

My mutant healing factor's obviously on the fritz ...

ouchouchouchouch

I fucking hate AIX. It needs to be wiped from the earth. top doesn't exist? WTF!

Ah, public journal security. Do I lock entries like these down and put something closer to what I'm actually feeling in them or do I leave them open and keep my comments intentionally vague? I suppose it's obvious which one this is ( Read more... )

Not sure how to say this while still making it understandable ( Read more... )

So I decided and bite the bullet and empty my hard earned savings to pay taxes and some debt this month. I wrote out the checks and sent them off last week, Thursday. By Saturday, both Multnomah County and the State of Oregon had cashed the checks and removed the funds from my checking account. Multnomah County I can understand - that's almost ( Read more... )