Month: March 2004

RT

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I am still crawling into the linux world. The more I try to get into it, the more I realize how much there is to learn about it.

My latest project I want to get into is RT (Request Tracker). It is a ticketing or request system that is open source. Idealab uses it and many others. It is supposed to be really good. I am trying to install it on my Suse 9.0 desktop at work. If I can get it to work, maybe we will deploy it and replace Mailflow for our support tracking system. Mailflow is good, but I don’t like the fact that it requires you to use IE. That locks me into using windows. I cannot even use IE on my mac, the pages don’t load right.

I still have to see if/how RT’s reporting functions look. Mailflow has nice features that tells me when I get requests, how many and other historical information that is very cool so I can do proper planning.

One Year Of Blogging

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It has been one year since I first tried this blogging thing out. I can’t believe it has been a year. I have done journals before, but never for this long. I actually like sitting down and writing about what is on my mind or what is going on in my life. On this one year anniversary of my blogging adventure I say this is still cool.

I hope that I continue on with the blogging endeavor for another year.

A Cold

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The down side of hanging out with Paula and Carrie in the van was I think I got their colds. I woke up sunday with a soar throat. Now today my nose is runny a bit and my throat hurts more. I took some tylonnol cold and I hope I will kick it.

I have been getting sick allot this winter. 2 flu’s, 1 relapse of the first flu. Like 3, now 4 colds. I am not happy.

I actually gave up and took a vitamin this morning. My vitamin of protest is the flinstone’s chewable. It is good for adults too, so I am taking them!!!

Birthday Continued…

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Alison took me to the Outback for my birthday Saturday. Nothing fancy, but that was where I wanted to go. I was really good and didn’t even order the blooming onion. Mmmm fried onion. She likes the cheese fries so I went for those instead. I had the lobster tails. They were good as usual.

I got the simpsons season 3 from her. I can’t wait to watch it. To me that was the beginning of when they started getting good.

The Site Launch

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Throughout the trip to Foxwoods I was always in touch with the office since they were launching a new website product on friday. It wasn’t that bad since most of my work was done before I left, or else I would not have been able to make the trip.

It only got interesting when the site actually got turned on. Keith was calling me and I was at the blackjack table. I wasn’t going to answer the phone there, and I found out later that it is against the rules to do so. I ended up handing the phone to dari. it was funny to hear her try to explain to keith why I couldn’t take the call.

In the end the site launched. We had our share of small complications, but it went out.

Comedy

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Friday night Glenn our CEO took us all out to dinner. I had the surf and turf. It was a small but great fillet, and a lobster tail. Both were really good.

Then we saw John Steward in concert. He was awesome. I was almost in tears with laughter. It was 90 minutes of funny. I am going to start Tivo’ing the daily show again. He is just good.

The Casino Trip

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So I made the casino trip. The trip is the reason why I haven’t blogged in a few days. I have been away and the only internet access that I had in the room was my mobile phone. I didn’t want to goto the biz center to use the internet.

The trip was fun. Thursday night we all ordered room service in Glenn’s suite and played a friendly round of texas hold-um. We took people who didn’t play poker and teamed them up with people who could play. Dean our company president and I were a team. I told him I don’t know how he does business deals, because he had no poker face what so ever! I had a ton of bad hands, but in the end I actually won. I got $200 to share with Dean. I took my $100 and went to the casino.

Dan showed me the basic’s of craps. It was allot easier to learn with a table in front of me. Keith had been trying to teach me for 2 weeks to no avail. What he taught me made it easier for dan to show the fundamentals.

My first time out playing craps I went up $70. By the second night a bad run at a more expensive table caused me to loose all my winnings and also the $200 from poker and other winnings. I ended up putting up a hundred of my own money to keep playing. I figured that I was going to have spent that money anyway, so why not. By 11PM on friday I was down to my last $15, then Carrie and Alyssa came along to the craps table.

One of the guys running the table convinced them both to put money down and play. Alyssa sort of ticked the guy off the day before when he was a dealer at poker so he was razzing her. Glad they both decided to play because my luck turned around and the next thing I knew I had all my initial money back and I was up $50. By the time I called it a night I was down $30 of my own money. It was my fault because after I lost all of my winnings I dipped back into my initial cash like I said I wouldn’t. All in all I had a great time.

I need to play craps again and get better at it. It was way more fun than black jack.

The Casino

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For the past few days my status regarding a trip we are taking to Foxwoods casino has been up in the air. Most of the management team of my company is going to celebrate a good year last year. Some of the Tech department cannot go since we are releasing a major product on friday morning. My role would be as backup in the event something went wrong with the infrastructure. Today Gus decided that I can go to the casino after all since I have a cell phone and the hotel has high speed internet. Gus and Bob will stay back in NYC and go up to the casino Friday afternoon.

This is good for me. With Gus gone I have one less good poker player to contend with on Thursday nights game we are scheduling!!!

I now have to go home and do laundry and then pack. We leave Thursday afternoon at 3PM.

The Birthday That Was

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My birthday turned out better than I expected. I ended up going to my sisters place for little while since my friend Rich had to work late and Carrie wanted to see me on my birthday. I got to see Morgan (she is running now) and Mike. Carrie got me a pizza size cookie. it was good. I ended up bringing it to work today since it was so big. I was never going to finish it.

Amanda cooked Rich and I dinner. We had some fillets. They were good. For someone who does not eat or cook meat, Amanda knows how to cook meat! Even the cheese and crackers were good!

The best part was the chocolate volcano desert. It is this individual size cake with molten chocolate in it. It explodes like a volcano the first time you cut into it. I burned my mouth on the liquid Hershey chocolate inside. Mmmm burning chocolate. It was fantastic.

Amanda was not to happy. She cut her hand on a knife, had the bathroom flood, and she claims she ruined the desert. It was a stressful night for her, but it turned out great. Thanks guys.

And to finish the day off, it did snow. For that matter it snowed today also. Doesn’t anyone know that spring starts next week?

One last bit of advise. I will quote the card my sister gave me. 30, it is a joke to everyone until you turn it:)