Thursday, March 26, 2009

Playing Catch-Up

I haven't posted in quite some time.  Sorry about that.  Let me try to get you guys all caught up.

My last day of work was kinda sad.  I didn't want to leave.  I was fine all day but when 5:30 came I realized I wouldn't be coming back on Monday.  Luckily I had the next week off.  I went to Naples, FL and had lots of fun.  It was beautiful there, almost surreal.  It's crazy how perfect life can seem down there.  I got a sun burn during my last 2-3 hours in Florida which totally sucks but it went away quickly.  I'm still peeling though.

I came back 2 weeks ago Saturday and started work that Monday.  It was a great first day.  They were expecting me to take the whole first week to figure out the system.  I was implementing new features my second day and analyzing and offering suggestions on the first day.  They seem to be fairly impressed and I'm happy to be there.  They pay for breakfast and lunch most times.  It's pretty cool and laid back.  Nobody's hassling me, which I guess is worse because I'm my own worst critic anyway.  I can work from home at will, and have been for the past 2 days and will again tomorrow because my boss wouldn't be there Wednesday-Friday.  No reason to be there if I can save the gas by doing the same work from home.  We have each-other's phone numbers anyway.

Yesterday I installed Windows 7 Beta 64 bit build 7000.  It's not as fun as I expected but it does seem to run a lot better than Vista.  Today I found a torrent of build 7057 and upgraded to that.  Not a huge difference that I can make out yet.  A bit disappointing that I can't run Virtual Box on physical drives though.  I can only create images and use those as virtual drives.  Apparently this was a change they put into Vista and it's still in 7 as well.

That seems to be about it.  If I think of anything else I'll post it.  Hopefully you've all been doing well.  Leave me a comment, let me know.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Breakfast Battlescars and Linux Too

What a day. Let me back up a bit and mention that I was at my uncle's place this weekend and there was a nice snow storm on Sunday night through Monday afternoon. No work for me because I couldn't get anywhere and didn't have my laptop to even work from home. I played Xbox 360 all day with my cousin. Good times.

I woke up this morning to get ready for work, took a shower, got dressed and then proceeded to help my uncle with breakfast. It wasn't complicated, it was ham, egg, and cheese on a bagel. Stupid me got the idea to put he cheese on the bagel while it was in the toaster oven so it would melt a bit only I touched the top of a toaster oven that had just turned off mere seconds earlier. I've got a nice burn on my hand. My "breakfast battlescar."

I got home after work and started fiddling, as I tend to do, because my parents got me a cable box for my room. I had given up on TV because I couldn't fit one if I wanted to fit my desk in my room. I got a Hauppauge HD-PVR last week (I shouldn't have because now I'm broke but that's besides the point) and now I can watch TV using my computer and even record it! Well, that was the idea anyway. I had installed Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) a few weeks ago and I've loved it. Today, however, I'm hating it. I'll probably love it again when I get this working but so far I've been messing with it for 3 and a half hours trying to get it to compile correctly.

I love computers, I swear. It's just a love-hate thing.