Month: April 2004

Yet More Train Delays

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Just went through an interesting train issue this morning. I was on a train and they just tell us to get off due to equipment problems. The good news was we were already at a station. The bad news was we ended up waiting 30 minutes or so from the time we stopped till we got on another train.

The good news is I got a seat on the new train. That is always a plus. I am now officially late for work.

UPDATE: took me an extra 30 minutes more to get to Penn from when I originally wrote this entry. In total it was like an extra hour to my commute. I just love the LIRR sometimes…

Tuesday Late Night, Wednesday Work From Home

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Tuesday was a late night for me. I stayed up late to finish adding Backup Exec agents to some servers that could not be brought down until after midnight. I then did some troubleshooting on some other backup issues. The goal was to get a good backup tuesday night. I was able to do so. I finally finished work at like 2/2:30AM.

By the time I got up and dressed Wednesday morning. it was already almost 11AM. It was then that I decided to work from home. Some people like to do that. I always think I like to do that, until I actually do it. News flash, I don’t like working from home. On one hand I do get allot done since less people bother me for stuff. On the other hand it is lonely sitting in an empty apartment working on the computer. If I lived closer to the office I would have been in.

I finished working on some more backup related issues Wednesday. Also worked through an issue with Kai & Jay related to some phone problems. Dan and I also tracked down an AT&T rep to discuss a bill we have issues with.

I also worked on cleaning up some ACL;s on our firewall’s. Most if not all of our restriction problems have now been resolved.

Drinks With Dave

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Jay and I met up with Dave and his cousin for some drinks after work today. dave still doesn’t know what he wants to do for a living. His cousin johnny is always interesting. I cut out early so I could rest up a bit in order to install some backup agents tonight for work.

We went to a cool bar on 35th and madison ave. It had over 100 beers. I think on tap. I am not a big beer drinker, but they did have some interesting stuff. I just stuck with Jack Daniel’s and Coke. Can’t go wrong with Jack and Coke.

Tuesday Stuff

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Jayson and I are trying to get our friend Dave to come into the city tonight to go out to dinner. He has the day off, so we figured it would be cool. He is talking with Jay about relocating down to LA (near New Orleans). I told him that I loved it when I was down there. I moved back for work, not social reasons. The lifestyle there is totally different than NYC. I still don’t know if where is better to live. each is a toss up.

Not sure if we will get together tonight, but as of this morning that was the plan.

Mortons

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I had dinner at Morton’s steak house last night. It was good, as always. It was a little hectic with Alison’s nephews around, but not too bad. I had a small filet and I was stuffed. I didn’t drink more than 1 jack and coke since I had to work after dinner.

Because we were running so late at dinner I had to cut out early to get to the office for our scheduled maintence. I missed out on the godiva chocolate cake desert. It sounded exactly like what amanda made for me for my birthday. Mmm, molton chocolate center cake. I don’t want to ask how it was because I wanted to have some. Oh well, next time for sure!

Canceled Plans

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I got my hair cut yesterday, but that was about it. I got a migraine and ended up doing very little the rest of the day. I hate these things. I took a zomig, and it let me nap for most of the afternoon. I then took a butabitol and was able to function the rest of the evening but I wasn’t up for going out. I had to cancel my plans. Good thing since we had web site problems at work at like 9PM. I am luck I was near a computer.

I also finally renewed my pool / fitness center membership. I got screwed into paying the full price since I was a previous member. They won’t prorate you if you already were a member, and I needed to renew back in November and I didn’t. Oh well. I hope to use the pool this summer so it was worth it.

This entry was written while listening to Mary Jane’s Last Dance from the album “Greatest Hits-Tom Petty” by Tom Petty And The Heartbrekers

Toronto In The Next Round

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I am a hockey fan. I try to be a big fan but it doesn’t always look that way. I have neglected watching hockey over the past two seasons. This season is the first year in a while where I didn’t goto any games. I am going to try and watch over the next week or so. My favorite team the Toronto Maple Leafs (yes I am from New York, don’t ask why I like them because I have no answer) made it into the second round of the playoff’s. I should watch, and hope they go further.

Toronto have done well in post season in recent years, but never gone all the way:(

Just for the record my second favorite team is the New York Islanders.

Apple Has New Laptops

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Whenever apple comes out with an updated version of hardware that I have, I need to stop and look at it. When they went from the original 12″ Powerbook to the one that I have, I noticed differences that I wanted to take advantage of. The third generation 12″ doesn’t look like it is much different at all from the 2nd generation one that I have.

It has a 33% faster process, and that is great. What else does it have? Built in airport extreme and a faster video card. So what. I don’t play games on this thing and I have airport extreme on mine. The only thing of interest was the bigger standard hard drive, but that is not enough to want to get a new one. their is no other differences. That is good news to me, since I won’t feel compelled to upgrade anytime soon.

My current PB does good by me so far.

Ring Tones And More

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When I got my Sony Ericsson T610 I realized I had a ring tone or two on my old T68i. What to do? I paid for those tones, and I sure wanted to keep them. Turns out it was a snap to move them. I tried IR to beam the tones to my new phone. That didn’t really work. I figured it out via Bluetooth. I paired both phones with each other and just sent the tones. Took like 3 minutes total. The tones work fine on my new phone because it is also a Sony Ericsson.

I also got the new phone to pair with my Powerbook (talked about that in detail before) and now my HP iPaq 1945. The iPaq took some time. I had to figure out the dial up networking settings on it, but now I got it. I can browse the internet on my iPaq using the GPRS of the phone anywhere I have a signal. I was trying it out from my desk at work when the phone was in my bag. I also was able to connect to the phone when it was charging in my bedroom and I was on my couch. Nice!

My next mission is to get this setup to work with my Win XP PC. I think my problems are related to the Xircom card I am using. Their are no new drivers for it, since Xircom got bought up by intel. I am looking for another PCMCIA bluetooth card or maybe a USB one.

Mmm Outback

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Now that Jayson is in NYC for a while working with me, that means only one thing. Lots of Outback and other really bad (for you) food. We went to the outback after work today. I don’t know how I walked to the Subway. I can barley keep my eyes open let alone walk. I feel so full. We put in a decent days work and got stuffed. Just like old times. We used to goto outback like twice a week and just eat appetizers. Man was that good food.