Deal is done, so why am I still stressed?

Can’t answer the title question just yet. Probably because there is still tons of work to be done, but I have no idea.

Today I got my hair cut. Hung out at home and fixed some stupid problems at work. I went out to dinner and a movie with Rich and Amanda. We drove around for a half an hour trying to find a place to eat. We didn’t want to get garbage food and didn’t want to spend much money. We ended up at Boston Market. I normally don’t eat there, but it was OK. I saved room for the mandatory popcorn at the movies. We saw Identity. It was pretty good. I like a good mind fuck movie. Not as good as a 12 monkeys or a sixth sense, but it was good.

I also downloaded Free BSD 5.0 again today. I brought it home a few weeks ago and make a copy but I can’t find it. I ended up taking it off the ftp site at work. I am burning a copy now. I am finally getting rid of my windows 2000 server. I have my website up on my red hat box. I also am no longer using exchange so the win2k server is not in use. it has actually been off for most of the past week or so. I want to try some stuff in linux, so instead of messing up my web server I will build bsd on another box and break that. I may also do a dual boot into red hat 9. Not sure yet.

I need to start reading up on voice over ip systems. Now that we own one I need to understand it more. Dam, I also need to figure out how to use Cisco’s layer 3 switches also. I know the foundry commands but Cisco is different. I have been slacking on the network commands recently. So much business stuff to do. Keith has been doing good, but I want be able to do, well everything. I know I can’t so I at least want to know the switches, and basic firewall commands. I have learned it is one thing to look at a configuration and know exactly what it means, compared to actually typing out all the commands.

Not sure what is in store for me tomorrow. I at least have to gas up my mom’s car. I used it a few times this week and want to leave her with a full tank when she gets back from her cruise. If I don’t I won’t hear the end of it.

Got a call from Glenn (the CEO of the company I work for). He thought their was a problem with our main website. I was on the way to dinner at the time and my cell phone was almost out of juice. I luckily was able to get in touch with mark and Keith in time to hand off the problem to them. It was weird. I have had Keith take trouble issues before, but this was the first time I called and told him to run with something. Actually mark was taking charge, but I usually am in on problem resolutions. It feels good that I can hand off some of that responsibility if even for a short while to someone else. Turned out there was no problem with the system. The person placing the order (in this case our president) put an incorrect address into the system and it kicked back an error because of it.

Well I am hopefully going to bed soon. I was up till 1:30am this morning for no good reason. I need to get a good night sleep one day this week. More tomorrow or monday.

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