Month: September 2004

Stressed Out, Going Away

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I have been really stressed out recently at work. Some friends recently pointed that out to me. I have been feeling run down, but didn’t know that it was showing. Turns out it is. I need a vacation. I think/hope that will make things a bit better. On that note I will be off to Vegas next week for a few days. I am going to hang out with my friend Sean, and his wife Kelly.

Hopefully 1 night at a nice hotel getting the 5 star treatment, and then 3 days of hanging with friends that I don’t get to see too often will calm me down a bit. This trip is made possible by the Delta SkyMiles points I earned at Datastream. Delta ripped me off on the amount of points needed for a ticket since it was a short notice trip. That is the new thing airlines do. But at this point I didn’t care. I still have tons (and I mean tons) of points to use on travel.

The new HP iPaq GSM Phone

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I checked out the new HP iPaq h6315 GSM Pocket PC mobile phone on friday. I was walking by a T-Mobile store and decided to see if the had it. I was able to get a side by side feel from the new iPaq and my Palmone Treo 600. I didn’t get any pictures but my original assessment seems accurate. The iPaq is allot bigger. It is more the size of the old Treo 270, but a bit taller. It is just as wide. That was what made the 270 not comfortable to hold when talking. The screen was big and nice, but I have doubts about the removable keyboard. I will probably wait for the new Treo to come out. Whenever that may be. My luck it will be another 6 months before it is for T-Mobile. Of course since there is no official release date, it is anyone’s guess how long it will be before the new Treo’s hit the stores.

AJ will be getting the new HP iPaq phone this week, so I will check it out in detail later this week. Hopefully I will get a picture of it with my Treo. It will remind me why I won’t spend $600 (I already have T-Mobile service so it will be more than a new activation) on a larger pone.

Day In The Park

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Today I walked around Central Park with Amanda & Rich. We originally went out foraging for food. We found a nice burger place on 86th & Lex that has mini hamburgers. It was good. We then walked to the park. We saw the big lake. We walked on the jogging path. We even hung out near the botanical gardens.

The weather was nice, so it wasn’t so bad being out doors. We hung out in the shade and it was breezy. It was a perfect day. The park is always nice on a weekend (holiday). The garden was cool. I live less than a mile from it, and I had no clue it was there. Amanda is good at finding cool places.

On the walk back to my place we hit the Museum of NYC. We checked out the gift shop. We didn’t see any exhibits. We didn’t want to pay, and we were already tired from walking all over. Also on the way back I saw where the Metro North trains come aboveground on Park Ave. it is cool watching the trains go by.

I am glad I put my sneakers on because my feet would really be hurting right now if I did all that walking in my Doc Martins. We finished off the afternoon by just hanging by my place. Amanda needs to come out and visit again when she has a day to kill. I am going to have her help me decorate my place.

Now the work week begins soon:( I liked my 4 days off. I don’t want to work again.

Scanned My Life Today

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I took this long holiday weekend and did something productive. Well actually I took 3 hours or so of it and scanned a whole bunch of old documents. My office just bought 2 high speed scanners that have document feeders. I plugged on into my laptop and just dropped 40 pages at a time in the feeder and scanned. it even does double sided papers. Jayson gave me the idea a few weeks ago. I finally had time to do allot of my stuff.

I scanned almost all my old bills and statements. I like to do that. I want everything electronic. I scanned a bunch of old report cards and other crap I had left over my parents saved from my pre college days. I even scanned a bunch of really old medical records, letters, and stuff from elementary school. it was kind of cool going through this old stuff. I maybe scanned 500 pieces of paper today. I have a big stack of scanned stuff locked in a drawer at work. If all the documents are backed up I will begin to shred the originals.

Now all I need to do is make a DVD backup everything and the job will be complete. I should begin to do this every few months so I don’t have extra papers lying around. My goal is to have everything electronically stored. It saves space. And is easier to search.

This entry was written while listening to Right Now from the album Live Volume 2 by Van Halen

Online Dating

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So I have been told by several people to try “online dating”. I have setup profile’s on at least two popular dating sites last year, and didn’t do very much with them. At the time I didn’t have to. I got setup with my ex-girlfriend so I didn’t need to go online. Well I said I got setup with ex, I am currently single. I have no more excuses not to go out and find someone. Except the online searching for a girlfriend freaks me out. I know it is totally cool and all, but I just can’t get over how weird I originally thought the concept was. of course I first heard about online dating in the mid 90’s when it was weird. not it is the thing to do.

I checked out Match.com again today. My friend Cynde really pushed me to checking it out. they have really evolved their site. They actually ask some really personal questions, but I assume it helps.

I am going to spend some time cleaning up and updating my online profile. I need to get over my reservations and do it…

The URL Problem Solved, I Think

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So with Typepad I have been having a problem with the old url of this site. I mentioned the issue the other day. Turns out I may have had a partial solution the whole time. My DNS provider Dyndns.org has a url redirector service for free with my Custom DNS package. DYNDNS.org provides dynamic DNS options. it is really cool. I have been using them for just about a year (i just renewed my service this week). You set your domain to use their DNS servers, and you can control your domain from their web interface. That is not anything new. Register.com does that for free. What is cool is if you host your site on a dynamic ip address their service will automatically update the DNS whenever the IP of your box changes. I also had a function where their system stored my email if my mail server went down. They are very helpful for the self hosted person.

Dyndns has a feature called mywebhops. It is now taking the old URL and just redirecting to the new url of this blog. Now if you try to hit the old home page, you will get redirected to the new site. The only thing this wont do is keep all the embedded links that google has spidered. I will just have to wait until google spiders the new site.

I will know if this whole thing works after the DNS changes propagate. Hopefully in a day or sooner.

A Sad Fish Day

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Jayson called me while I was out. He told me the bad news. Carl our angel fish didn’t make it. Foul play is not ruled out. Krusty has now survived 2 other fish. We are beginning to investigate. We may partially responsible. We have tropical fish but no heater. Jayson noticed the dead fish when he returned from the store with our new heater.

Carl wasn’t with us long enough to get a photo of him. Bye bye little guy… This is why we shouldn’t name fish until they live in the tank for like 2 weeks. That way we don’t waste good names on dead fish.

Enough mourning. Where is Carl II?

So Far I am Successful

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I have been able to avoid work for most of the day! I got up at noon (NICE!!!). I unplugged my pager, and shut off my cell phone to ensure a good sleep. I forgot to turn off my alarm, so I got up at 7:30. Turned off the alarm and went back to bed. It felt good. I had lunch. Got my fresh direct order. I watched TV. I pretty much did nothing. And I am enjoying every minute of it.

I am about to go out and walk to Best Buy (love manhattan), and maybe hit the Cold Stone Creamery on the way back. That place rocks…

Tonight I may have a drinking engagement. I love vacation weekends!

New Fish

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Wednesday we added to our fish tank at work. It set me back a pretty penny, but the tank is looking good. Jayson got like 7 pounds of the living rock. I got a bicolor angel fish. We named him Carl to go along with our Simpson’s naming convention. So far Carl is shy and hides under the filter. Jayson is going to get a heater since the water is probably too cold for the tropical fish we have.

My luck we get into a hobby/pet that costs so much money. I will take photos of the fish when I get back to the office on Tuesday. We are also working on a FishCam since we have a web cam at work. No eta on that.

I just find it funny that I am doing google searches on angel fish care.

This entry was written while listening to Kryptonite from the album The Better Life by Three Doors Down

The Website Name Game

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I have a slight dilemma on my hands. Until yesterday my blog’s web address used to start with blog.sitename. Due to what appears to be a limitation (or my lack of figuring out how to do it after 2 hours) on my new providers system doesn’t like sites starting with blog. I can use any domain but I have to point the www.sitename.com to my blog. I don’t really want to start the site with www. as my blog home page. So the dilemma is what domain do I use? I have several, and I don’t know which one is more catchy.

What do I do? I am thinking it over. Hopefully I can finish my pondering and make a decision soon. I am opening comments if anyone actually reads this and posts an opinion.

This entry was written while listening to Humour of The Situation from the album Maroon by Barenaked Ladies