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The Holiday’s

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I am off to my parents for the holiday’s. Not a big observer of anything religious, but I go to see the family. This will be a small gathering. I will get to see my parents, Carrie and Morgan. not even sure if Mike will be there.

it is just “bla” out today. no other word for it. I have to go soon to look for some flowers or something to bring my mom. I feel so comfortable right now sitting here in the AC right out of the shower dressed to go and feeling great. Unfortunately I foresee a hot sticky trip on the subway ahead of me. it is not hot out, but it is humid enough for me to want the AC to get rid of the mugginess.

Tourist Day

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Jennifer and Steve came down today for the day. Met up with them early and we headed to Time Square. They wanted to catch a matinee show, so we hit the discount ticket place (TKTS) in the middle of broadway and 7th ave at 47st. The line looked really bad. Turns out it only took us about an hour to get tickets. We ended up seeing Moving Out. We all like Billy Joel, so it sounded like a good choice. I am not the first person to say lets go see a broadway show. I probably will be the last to suggest it, but it was a good show. Not totally into the whole the story is told by the music (aka no dialog at all), but since I liked the music it turned out good. Not too much into dance numbers, but the performers were great. Will I just at the chance to see another show, I don’t know. I did have a good time.

We ended up walking up to central park. We walked around there for a while. It was a beautiful day. I bit too hot for my taste but it wasn’t super hot to make the day uncomfortable. It was great being outside in the park during the weekday. After that we headed down to the Empire State building. Jennifer had never been up it, so we took the trip. The lines were not great, but they could have been ALLOT worse. The view was fantastic as always. The fog started coming in, so we couldn’t see as far as I have in the past, but it was still awesome seeing the whole city below us like that.

The day went by so fast. I have to remember to go back to a Virgin Megastore. They had tons of $10 DVD’s that I liked, but I didn’t want to buy anything and then carry it around the rest of the day. I didn’t have my Treo since I had shorts on. That means no pictures. I only had my T610 with me. That camera sucks, so Jennifer will send me photos she took from the top of the Empire State building.

It was good to see old friends. I need to make a trip up to their neck of the woods. The visit was too short, but they always are when you are meeting up with friends you don’t see that often. Now back to work for me tomorrow.

Tuesday

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Difficult day at work today. I am just wiped out. I thought I was going to play softball but the team thought I only wanted to play if they were short. John invited me to play, but since they weren’t relying on me (and truthfully the game was way uptown in the 130’s on the west side) I decided to just not go. I did hear from Jenn & Steve. They will be visiting tomorrow. Not 100% sure what we are going to do, but they want to see if they can get tickets for a show or something.

I took the whole day off tomorrow. I hope to meet up with Jenn & Steve in the mid morning. Hopefully it is not too hot out, but I hear it is going to be in the 80’s!

Powerpedia Lives

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While coming up with names (and uses) for my wiki, I came up with a name that I actually like and think is appropriate for this blog. For ages I just called it Scott.ac. Kind of dull, even though it is descriptive of the domain name. Well Jayson and I were riding the subway home the other day and he was telling me the name of his wiki, Wikilicious. Cool but not 100% original. I was trying to come up with something catchy but distinctive to me. Then Powerpedia came to me. .com was taken so I am sticking with .net. Power(z) because that is the online persona I have taken. See my new wiki for the story (link redacted).

So I have a cool & descriptive name, I might as well use it for things like this blog as well as for the wiki.

Stay tuned for some cosmetic changes to the site also, and most importantly read. I can be interesting sometimes!

Vader Mask

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Not sure if I should admit this, but I have had this since December. Got it as a joke since Kai and I always through back and forth stupid movie sayings. I leave the mast on my windowsill or desk at work. Important to note that I never wore it. At least 2 others at work have (that I know about), but I won’t put it on. I do use it to play nonsensical Vader sounds when people piss me off though!

The West Side

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If you haven’t figured it out yet, I live in Manhattan. To everyone else in the universe that means New York City. I have lived in NYC most of my life, but only last year moved to Manhattan. I live on the east site (exact location: classified). Last week while walking with Jay & Gretchen I found this interesting almost imaginary place called the West Side. I never imagined there being life past 6th ave. I went back again today to return something from a store. I am still amazed at the West side. More specifically I am amazed how I (and most of my friends) never goto a place that is less than 3 miles from where I live. I spend most of my time on the East side. I barely goto Queens anymore, and when I do I grumble that it is far. Yet I used to commute every day for years.

Just something I thought about when I was on the subway returning to the good old East side. I never thought of myself as one of those snobby people who thought NYC was the center of the universe, but maybe deep down I am? Probably not, but outsiders may think so!

Possible Name, Server, & Mail Changes

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Making some back end changes to this site and my other server systems. The biggest achievement was moving my mail server. Basically a cut and paste of files and registry entries from one server to the virtual server I am using to host much of my site now a days. The DNS changes to the mail happened very fast. I was happy not to have much of a lag.

Poker Night a Bust, Well Sort of

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Started the day off with a hair cut. Then I headed down to help my friend Cari finish moving her stuff into her new apartment. My timing was off. Due to traffic I beat (she called when she thought she was 30 minutes away) her to her place. I met Karen there and we ended up waiting for like 30 minutes for Cari, Jayson & Gretchen to show up. It was funny that we ended up waiting to unpack her car longer than it actually took to unload stuff. Because there was a bunch of us, and she didn’t have much stuff, we were done in like 20 minutes. Note to sell, my original thoughts on never living in a walk up are still valid. Don’t even think about it!

After moving stuff in we went out for pizza. I mean she does live in Little Italy. For me I then headed off to the office to kill about 2 hours until I had to show up at Dan’s for poker. I got some light work in, and Jayson met me there. He had to drop off his fish to our office tank. We then both headed over to dan’s.

Turns out most people couldn’t make it to the poker night so we only had 5 people (4 if you consider jayson didn’t want to play and just came to hang out). We played a bit but not the typical tournament style. Dan lost. I made $2, Dari broke even, and Billy (Dari’s brother) took all of Dan’s money. We had a good time for a small game. Jay brought Pierre, so he and Cooper played the whole time. Watching 2 dogs play is always funny!

On-Call This Week

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After weeks of flying under the radar I got the joy of being “technically” on call this weekend. I mean technically since I am always on call. I get calls for problems even when I am not the person who is supposed to be called. It comes with my position. One of the worst things that can happen to me is to be sleeping and get woken up with some major systems outage. It get the same feeling I used to get when I ran on an EMS squad in college and a call would come in late at night. The only difference is being on call at work usually does not require me to go out in the cold to respond to something.

To set a good example I took the on call pager this week. Well it is not really a pager. We all have nextel’s (most with Blackberry’s), so we just route the emergency number to the Nextel of whoever is on call. Of course most of the team was happy when I got to be on call. They assume if someone calls for a non emergency I will give them a verbal beat down. They are probably correct.

Linux Is Addictive

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For years I have been getting poked and prodded by Gus to do more with linux. Of course he would say this as he gave me a workload no 2 people could handle. Over the past few months Jayson and Danny have been getting into the act of wanting to push our linux use, personal and professional. Now I got Brian, Chris and Kai also saying we should play more with Linux.

Jayson took it upon himself to setup a web server at his house. it is an old dell box I had lying in my closet. I have yet to put any applications onto it, but he has a website, blog, wiki, and mail system running on it so far. His enthusiasm is addictive. I have been working on a virtual machine that I can host my stuff in, but I am thinking that won’t be enough. I could just host my stuff with him. That was the idea of giving him the box in the first place, but then I think what fun would that be?

I want to play with my own personal wiki. The other stuff he has done I don’t really want. The mail server sounds good, but I am not sure if I want to put mail (i rely on mail allot) on a system that I don’t fully understand yet.

What everyone doesn’t (or does) understand is that I want to learn, it is just not super simple!