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Eventful road trip

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My Kingston road trip on tuesday was eventful. I got allot done regarding the new AC units and electrical setup for our computer room. I also found that both data T-1’s are technically in the room we need, but the smart jack for one is somewhere else. After running around the building looking for the dam thing I cannot find it. A smart jack is the terminating end of a T-1, be it data or voice. We want the smart jack in our telecom room because if we have a problem we have easy access to the smart jack. I am working on fixing the problem with our provider.

I am also getting our cable and construction people talking to each other so we get the data cables done in time.

Dan and I found a good greasy spoon diner near the office that we can eat at. Our waitress was so friendly that dan kept saying she would be a perfect CSR.

The drive back was interesting because we both tried to get allot of work done. it is weird being on the cell phone with someone else in the car trying to do the same thing. You got 2 people holding 2 different conversations at the same time. It is just weird.

I have other really big news regarding Kingston that I want to mention but I need to wait for something else to happen before I discuss. Lets just say good things are going on!!!

I didn’t get home till late last night. I was catching up on all the missed work I had since I was out most of the day. I need to have a social life during the week…

the short vacation is over

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The holiday weekend is over and I was back at work today. Thankfully we tracked down one of our two missing T-1’s today. I am going up to Kingston tuesday to sort things out. Dan and I are driving up tuesday morning. It will be interesting, since dan is an interesting driver!

I have some other issues I need to take care of while I am up there so it should hopefully be a productive trip. I am also planning on being up there next Wednesday to oversee our next T-1 install. I won’t let this screw up happen again.

With my cell phone and wireless internet, it is almost like I am in the office! Who am I kidding!!! It beats being totally out of touch on some island.

Got a bunch of Kingston related issues worked on today. And I survived an almost 2 hour long management meeting. I felt very productive today. Hopefully tomorrow I get the telecom issues taken care of.

Deal is done, so why am I still stressed?

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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.