Day: 17 June 2003

Space, Space, Space, No Space

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Work space in my office is in short supply. We are over crowded. This will continue until we finish our new call center in kingston. Unfortunately that wont be till the end of the summer. It is going to be a hot and crowded summer at work. For the past year I have been lucky. I have been doubled up in an office with Keith. We are messy with all the computer crab we get, and we can lock it up so that is why we are in an office. Well, we are probably hiring a sys admin to oversea some projects we have going on. That means we are getting a new office mate. Our building area is now going poof. I won’t feel the pain until all the kingston servers come in. Not sure where we will stage them. On the plus side this will be a temporary (2-3 months) thing. The problem with temporary things at my company is they tend to end up permanent or long term things.

Thankfully I have input in space allocation. To my dismay I ended up with that job when we moved into our new office. Not sure exactly why I got that privilege, but I have an idea. I have come to accept it. It has it’s plus’s and minus’s.

The next problem to tackle is the lack of GOOD AC at work. It is always hot. I am going to start leaving the door closed to let the AC work.

New apartment status report

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I am all set to move on July 1. I have 2 guys that work in my buildings maintanence department who will move my furniture from one building to another for a small fee. I don’t have that much big stuff so they can do it without hiring movers. I will move the rest of the stuff myself. My new (parents old) living room and dinning room set will arrive sometime in September. My mom was not just ready to redo her living room, so I don’t get stuff till then. I am getting an awsome couch and wall unit. The dining room table is ok, but I need one so I am not going to be picky. This stuff is sort of old. They bought it when I was in Junior High or early High School. I think JH. But my mom is a crazy cleaner and neat freak, so it looks like it did back then. The style is modern so it looks good.

I still need to call the cable company but other than that I think I am on target to move. More updates later.

Your special favorite place to be

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Do you have a special favorite spot you like to go? Where you feel the most relaxed, or at “home”? I do. It is not anything fancy. I am most at peace sitting on my bed at home with the pillows propping my back up. I sit in this weird position with legs propping my laptop up. I am doing this as I write this blog. I put a pillow on my lap and play music, and just type. Recently, it is the blog I write, but I can write anything. Emails, letters, etc. Hand pain aside I could do this for hours. It is calming and I always fee at peace when I am done. I don’t know why I just thought of all this. I did a thing in school once where they asked that question “what is your favorite place to go that makes you feel at ease or safe”. I had no clue to the answer then and came up with some stupid response, but now I know what the teacher was talking about.

This is an entry that either you will go “what is Scott talking about”, or you get the gist of what I am getting at. I can say that I am relaxed sitting here now. I am going to bed in a few minutes. I hope to get a good night sleep and do some Scuba Diving Class research tomorrow. I want to take that class more than ever now. I need a good hobby, and I liked diving better than golf. More tomorrow.

Work, ipod’s, and Blog’s

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Work was crazy since I was only in for a half a day due to the eye doctor. We are going to go with the 3 ton HVAC unit. 1.5 tons for our new computer room is not enough, but my inflated estimate came out to requiring a 10 ton unit. Sorry Gus your theory of taking a maximum theoretical number of servers in the room and then increasing the heat load by 50% sort of put us way over the top:) It was sort of funny to hear the construction guy tell me we were way off and wanted to do my math since he thought I was crazy. I sent him my calculations, and they were correct. We just inflated stuff. Oh well.

While I was out this morning I think a demo that someone was supposed to do was not up. I don’t think people were happy since the site was supposed to be ready last week. Keith said their was some yelling going on. It was something my team didn’t screw up and I wasn’t their for the meltdown. I am glad for small favors.

It also looks like we are going to overhaul our Dev & QA hardware. I am waiting to see what the needs are before I make any changes.

Gus and I went to the apple store in SoHo today. He got a new 30gig Ipod. I am jealous. it is great. I can’t goto the apple store. They make it tempting to buy a new computer.

On the blog front another person I know did a blog. Howard Morgan got one going today. I felt really stupid since he asked a bunch of questions about Moveabletype and I didn’t have all the answers. I would consider it an honor to teach howard something new. I bet his blog will be incredible. So far I was the first person to comment on it.

Eye doctor was not what I expected

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So I went to the eye doctor. The results were not what I expected. No I cannot get La-sec surgery but the reason is not what I expected. Turns out my prescription changed. And it actually got better. So Dr. Marks (my eye doctor) does not want to do surgery since I am still slowly improving my eyesight. I can’t blame him, but I am still unhappy. He also gave me a new person to check out contacts with. her office is right in Union Square (3 blocks from my office).

I also got instructions for putting this gel goop in my eyes at night since they are really dry. I knew they were dry but I am being told that it is bad for them and I need to keep them moist or whatever if I want contacts. This stuff is supposed to help when sleeping. I will goto the drug store and get some. it will be weird putting on but I will try it.

Everyone at work thought I was crazy walking around inside with my sunglasses on all day. the drops never wear off quick with me. Dan thought I came from the matrix. he is a freak.

Dam Apple

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I am pissed. I called to get my Powerbook fixed tonight at a reasonable hour of 9:30PM EST, only to find out that apple does not provide consumer hardware support after 9pm. Uh, hello apple. People use their computers 24/7, so you should have 24/7 support. Your windows competition you love to bash has 24/7 support. What is the deal. Your hardware is not that indestructible that you don’t need to provide support. Now I have to call your stupid support people during work tomorrow. I love spending a half an hour on the phone for support people to realize what I knew when I called that my speaker port is blown.

I love this powerbook and it has been working well, but I have had it for less than 4 months and it will be in for servicing twice. That is not good. I have had other computers for years and never needed servicing.

OK, my apple support bashing is over. I actually like this company but I can’t stand when a company falls flat on their face completely on their own. Dumbass stuff like this gets me wondering if I invested in the wrong computer? Granted I still have a ton of intel box’s, but I just want apple to get it right, and then maybe Microsoft will get a clue.