June 29, 2008
Things are interesting.
First and foremost I want to extend congratulations to my friends Brian and
Lindsay who just got married yesterday. Granted they're not going to see this
for some time as they are probably already a little more than halfway to Hawaii
right now, but it's the day after the wedding and I was too tired after the
ceremony/reception last night to write this update.
Of course while I've never been one to discuss my own relationship-ish stuff on
my site, I feel like I need to make an exception in this case. Yes, I have a
girlfriend. Yes, she's awesome. No, she's not pretend. We've had a really great
month together so far, and it doesn't show signs of slowing. This weekend we're
headed up to the lake, so I'm going to have to once again suppress my
seasickness, or at least make sure the boat just keeps moving forward.
Then there's work. I have a new boss already. Thanks to some corporate
restructuring I've been moved under an engineering manager whose department was
also shifted under someone else. No big deal, though. As good as my last manager
was, I've worked with my new boss regularly and he's a cool guy. Plus, since I
have a very specific job, nothing about what I do is going to be different. I'm
not worried about the change.
(08:08)
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June 11, 2008
I am quite sick. Enough to require a doctor visit.
I do not like going to the doctor, but I will admit that my doctor is really
great. I first started going to him on the recommendation of a friend and former
colleage at SecureWorks, and I'm glad I did. He's the type of doctor that takes
the time to explain everything thoroughly, answer all your questions, and crack
the occasional joke or two.
But right now I just want to rest.
(12:21)
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April 28, 2008
And we're back. In more ways than one.
So you may have noticed that my website has been down for a long time. This,
you see, is because I went on vacation. Not directly, mind you, but invariably
any time I go on vacation something happens which causes my site to go down
while I am out of town and is not possible to fix until I return. In this case,
two days before leaving my ISP seemingly imploded. You couldn't get to their
websites, you couldn't call them on the phone, and you couldn't visit their
offices. It looked like they'd shut down entirely.
As a result, I was left with no choice to attempt a last-minute changeover to a
new ISP, working to reconfigure my entire network in advance prior to the
circuit being activated so that when the connection was lit up, my sites would
come back online immediately. Unfortunately, this did not happen as I had some
netmasks incorrect and a busted route.
Things are up and running again, though DNS has not fully propagated as of yet
so access to the site is going to be spotty for the next day or two. But since
you're here (and reading this) you're free to have a look at the photos from my trip to
Germany.
(06:13)
Update: Thanks to me using two cameras, I've just discovered the images
in the gallery are going to display out of order. I'll fix this when I have more
time.
(06:20)
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