Talked to Amythest, Nyx is doing fine (I've been a worrywart) and Whiskey
is having a blast playing with her gang, especially her two guys.
I thought Whiskey was a big ferret til I met Gibbs, and then there's
Shadow...who's more like a small badger. She gave me a report on
their activities, crazy playtimes and ferret snacking. Got a few pictures
of the assorted weaselness...if I can figure out how to get them from
text to computer I'll post them. Yay for ferret pics. And yay for a
friend who understands I'm a worrywart. Watching 'Midnight Movie' on
streaming Netflix, it's pretty good actually. Lost film/slasher flick.
I've seen this done before, but this is a nice take on it. Especially
for a streaming Netflix. After this I may make it an early night
with books. Or watch something else. We'll see. But yeah, fox is in a
better mood than earlier. Lets hope the rest of the weekend is good.
*crosses tentacles*
Which sports team or sports figure is your favorite (from any sport)? Do you stick with them through thick and thin, or are you more of a 'fair weather fan'?
Nope, never been a big sports fan. I was an Islander fan growing up, when my dad got tickets from work every season. Never cared for baseball, football or basketball. For a short while I watched Australian Rules Football on ESPN in the middle of the night, still couldn't tell you the rules. I'll watch some of the Olympics when it's on, especially gymnastics and fencing. Sports are more fun with weapons. I should learn the rules for Irish hurling...
Well I'm home. Yay home. Watching movie 2 of the 'Blind Spanish Zombie
Knights Templar' series. I think I'll watch the rest of the series tonight,
it's kind of that mood. Already gotten called once by work, last minute
migration foo. Had cheesesteak for dinner. Hoping the rest of tonight
will be quiet and restful. Or at least, not as frustrating as this
afternoon was. *sigh* There's a post about the Shoggoth Pit that may
or may not ever appear. Venting can be useful, or it can cause major
problems. Not sure if it's worth it to vent. And before the worry warts
start worrying, it's not a big complaint, nor is there a problem with
the job I do or with my boss. Just some frustrations. Nothing a
vacation and a swim out to Devil's Reef wouldn't cure. Yeah, I'm doing
the Innsmouth Dreams again. Whatever gets you through the night, be
it Ponies, Jesus or Cthulhu. Just try to not make it rum, that can be
bad.
Still at the Pit. Still haven't done my planned project for the day,
instead I helped the boss out with one of his projects. Just can't
get up the energy to go work on mine, it's not important and it requires
me standing in front of the routers then walking back to test, lather
rinse, repeat. Just don't have the energy today.
Tonight's plans still are pretty vague. Take out of some kind, Netflix
streaming or my movie collection, staying up way too late. My usual
destress activities. Plus book time, there is always room for book
time. Not sure if tonight will have any kind of theme. I'm kind of
running out of my feel good movies, this last two months have been
a bit much. But, I will get through all this. Hmm, there's always
Blind Spanish Zombie Knights Templar movies, I watched the first one last
weekend, I could watch the remaining 3 yet again. Or there's always
Dagon. My feel
good movie if I ever had one. We'll see when I get home.
Not much else to say. Want this day to be over already. Want my
screwy life to be back to normal. Don't want to dream about having
to worry about my parents finding out I caused the end of the world.
*shakes head* Really my brain needs help. or better drugs. Or I need
to bribe plushcthulhu into playing dream catcher for a while.
Not having the best morning...weird dreams as I was waking up. First
was me opening the gates to horrors beyond time and space. Yeah,
nothing new there for me or really anxiety generating...except it morphed
into I was out to dinner with my parents and I was really anxious about
having to explain what I'd done. I'm fairly sure in the dream I wasn't
worried about explaining the 'Summon Azathoth' bit, but the waking brain
has mashed them up but good. So yeah, if you plan on nuking the planet
from the center of ultimate chaos, make sure you don't have dinner plans
with your parents. They'll know.
Got to work late, been trying to focus and get stuff done...and I'm
really failing at it. Just...don't care. Definitely have a case of
Fridays. Tell you how hard it was to get out of bed, it required a power
blip at Dagon-Moor for me to get out of bed.
Not much else going on. Still boggled by dream choices. Weekend
plans are firming up, and it looks like socialization on Saturday evening,
Mom time Sunday, Amythest and laundry Sunday afternoon. So tonight
is my usual me time, and tomorrow day I'll work on the kitchen and
reorganizing the closet. *sigh* And not plan to summon a outer god to
flatten things. Crap, netflix is failing me this weekend...hmm, have
to pick some films for tonight. Guess we'll figure that out later.
Boss just handed me some work, so I'll finish this up. Laters gators.
Having antisocial thoughts, wanting isolation from people (yet still
wanting the internet). Pondering dream house (see post about
Chateau
Innsmouth), but instead of here in Texas, sticking it up north
on the shore of the Atlantic. Massachutes, Maine, something like that.
This is one of those 'if I win the lotto' plans. Then I could fly down
on a regular basis for Ufie gathers, get to look out over the ocean when
I wanted to, and be very isolated when I wanted. Yeah, it's a dream.
A silly dream, but lately I've wanting that isolation more. Not that
I don't like hanging out with my friends, far from it. I just seem
to want to be alone on demand. Like right now, I wish I was working from
home right now. Or not working as the case may be. I was thinking
earlier while doing the back and forth from the network closet to my
desk, I could save a lot of shoe leather and desire to kill noc techs
if I just setup a desk and a chair in the network closet. (I'd go
deaf from the router noises but...) Won't happen, boss likes me within
yelling distance. So here I stay, with some isolation (just not enough).
Maybe someday we'll have teleporting done, so I could live where there
are seasons, yet show up at my friends places (whereever they are) for
bad movie nights. Oh well.
In other less isolating news, doing the 'Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04' dance.
This means my test server here at the Shoggoth Pit, then my home server,
then Amythest's file server. I'll do that last one this weekend, when I can
be in place to fix any issues. So far I haven't seen any, but still.
I rather do upgrades where I can go in and fix them.
Not much else going on...tonight's plan is to go to the store, get
assorted 'stuff'. Snacks and stuff, I still need to pack the kitchen
for the assorted sprayings. *sigh* Hope this fixes the problems.
Want my ferrets back. Oh well. It will done soon, and they're getting
good care at Amythest's. Just miss walking into the bedroom and saying 'hi
guys' and seeing their furry little heads pop up. *sigh* Gah, ending
on a downer...I hate posts that do that. Oh well. Laters people.
Back into the Shoggoth Pit. Had a kind of stressful night. Ferret time
was had while me and Amythest watched TV. All was well until Nyx
vanished. This happens, she gets tired of playing, she holes up somewhere
until it's time to get put up. Except, we couldn't find her. I started
worrying. We looked 'everywhere' (well everywhere we could think of, she
on the other hand hid out where we didn't think of). Eventually she was
found, looking up at us like 'What's the problem bipeds ?'. She got
fussed over and treats and got put up with the rest of the feezles.
Post that, I headed home and generally was in a bad mood. Every bad
thought a ferret owner could have ran though my head while Nyx hunting,
and that kinda shot my good mood of yesterday into the ground. Sat
up for a while until the meds kicked in, then had weird but ok dreams.
Got up late, came into work and generally ran around with people
looking for me. Not sure how they kept missing me, but oh well.
Not sure what I'm up to for today, Boss was going to have me mount and
config some switches, but the ones he keeps picking are flakey.
Not sure what else I'll have to do, I'm still kind of moodish today.
Don't want to deal with work, or stuff. Given my druthers, I'd be
at home either hiding in a book, or cleaning out my closet of crap.
*sigh* Gods I must be goofy if I want to clean out a closet.
That's about it. I'm here, work will be a little busier with another
conf call with the firewall vendor, and some other foo for the boss.
Well busy means I don't have time to be blah. Laters hominids.
Well, I'm staggering my way through to the end of the day. Work has been
quiet. Haven't gotten as much done as I wanted, but not every day can
be like Monday. Amythest time soon, this is always a good thing.
Hopefully I'll sleep more solidly tonight...less dragging tomorrow.
*yawn*
Well today started out earlier than planned. Woke up an hour before I had
to stagger out to the computers to work. Tried to sleep, failed.
So I got up, got dressed, and got logged in. Handled the few tickets,
and started futzing around on work project #2134123. Yay for bandwidth
monitors. Now about 90 min later, I've got it working to my satisfaction
and recording data. Problem is, not sure it's recording in the way management
wants. No one has yet to tell me how they want this thing set up. Oh well,
I'll talk to the boss tomorrow about what's running and go from there.
Oh, and I'll figure out how to build a template so that when a switch is
first polled it does all the foo I've been doing manually. But before
I do that, I want to know I'm on the right track.
I have another project, a centralized login system for the network equipment
(tacacs+ for those in the game). I'm going to update the server to
Ubuntu 12.04 before installing and configuring it, save me a headache
later (I hope). *crosses tentacles* Not much else, tickets are slow,
only one migration scheduled for today. Hoping everything goes nice
and quietly. Then tonight is Amythest time, yay for bestest buddies.
State of the fox is well, ok. Besides not sleeping well, I'm doing ok.
Mood is fairly decent. Apartment is still clean. Plotting some layout
changes here and there. Nothing major, hell I don't have room for
anything major. My next home project is to clean out and sort/organize
my closet. Maybe this weekend. I also need to take the boxes I snagged
from work out of the car and get the kitchen packed up in them, so I don't
have to remove and replace things over and over again. I also sense I'll
be eating out a lot this next month to avoid using kitchen stuff. Hmm,
wonder if I can negotiate a bulk discount at my Chinese place. Hmm,
I think I'll be living the life of the gang from 'Big Bang Theory'.
Hmm, do I need a Tuesday night burger place...not going to the Cheesecake
Factory, too far away and too expensive...*grin* *sits in his spot*
Hope you all are doing alright. Ciao.
Home from work, vegging. Was a calmer day that yesterday, til some
goofy stuff at the end. Not bad, just some work frustrations. Stayed late,
traffic was ugly. Left around 6, was stuck in traffic anyway. Got
home, made dinner, watched 'The Devil Inside'. Wasn't bad, but I can
see why everyone went 'huh' at the ending. Now watching the latest
'Game of Thrones'. So far not enough Cthulhu worshipping Vikings. *sadness*
Tomorrow is work from home day, my focus is going to be on some network
projects, software stuff that we use on the old network that we want
working on the new network. So I'll hopefully have plenty of time and
focus to make things work. Or I'll have no time, and I'll be busy doing
goofy configuration foo. Either way will work. I'm flexable. Then
there will be Amythest time, and feezle time, and then back to work on
Thursday. Still feeling positive, all things considered. Lets hope
I can keep this mood for a while longer. *crosses tentacles*
Linux admin: What the fsck is whoopsie ? Me: Something my great grandmother might have said ? Linux admin: It's running on our Nagios box ! (for the non geek, Nagios is a monitoring service) Me: Umm, whoopsie ?
I honestly don't remember how much I've posted about the apartment foo
lately, and rather than guess or assume you guys know all the details,
here is the backstory.
I'm not a tidy person. I tend to clean when things get to the point
that it's hard to walk around. Due to living 8 years in the same
apartment with the this, things got bad. I also had a roach problem.
Last Monday they sprayed as a normal part of the complex maintainance,
first time in a long time for me as there's been issues with management
not having a key and such. Later I talked to the apartment manager, and
I get told basically 'Clean your place or you're going to have to move
apartments'. So, rather than try to do it myself, or deal with the
embarrassment of having friends help, I called a professional maid service.
And they pulled off a mild miracle, I also hired a professional steam
cleaner by way of chraptor, he who knows everyone. I
also have been laying down traps and borax to kill more bugs. Skip
ahead to yesterday, the management and exterminator did a inspection.
Conclusion, things are MUCH better, but I still have bugs. I went to the
office today to talk to the manager, and this is the plan. For the next
4 weeks, every Monday the exterminator service we use will check and
spray and whatnot, til everything is dead dead dead. I need to keep my
cabinets clear on these days, because they cannot spray otherwise. If
at the end of the 4 weeks, if everything not on the lease is dead, I'm
golden. If not, I will have to transfer to another apartment. So,
my plan to make things simpler, I'm going to go get some plastic, sealable
containers and put most of my dishes and kitchen crap in them. I'll
leave out basically a set of 4, everything else is locked up. So no
having to re remove everything every Sunday night. Dishes will be hand
washed after use, and I'll be running the dish washer more often. This
should just work. I'll make it work. Due to sensitivity to the sprays,
the ferrets are going to stay at Amythest's til this nonsense is over.
Hurrah for best friends who really do go above and beyond.
So, currently I'm on one hand relieved and relaxing. The other hand is
I've still got a good bundle of stress on my back that I'm trying to
relieve. But, I have an at worst situation (moving) and I have a plan
for that. Btw dear DFW friends, if I have to move, I will be cashing in
all those favors. Still, really it won't be so bad. 40 boxes of books,
12 bookcases, 1 bed, 1 futon, 1 desk, a bunch of electronics and quite a
few boxes of knickknacks (I'll make sure the box with all the Cthulhu
stuff is warded with Elder Signs). That's the 'worst case' and that's
really not that bad. Other than I'll be broke and emergency fundless at
the end of this, but well...better that having to live on a couch again.
So that's the state of the fox for right now, apartment wise. Wish me
luck, and death to the roaches !!!
Been a crazy busy day. But you know what, it's been a good day. So
far I've
Punched and traced cables for the boss (he's doing this round of cabling,
but ran short of time.)
Had a 2 hour conf call with a firewall vendor that was mostly both of
us wondering what the hell was wrong. I also had to explain why our
IPS system is named Skynet. He was quite amused.
Fixed the borked NMS server from last week (The OS had renamed
the nics, so once I fixed that, online it went)
Fixed the core routers so we can remotely access them without having
to do the dance of doom.
Configured our Cacti server to talk to the switches.
Built out a cabinet for a OMG Kittens are Dying customer setup.
Actually, since if this works as plan, the guy will be buying 5 cabs, I
don't mind so much. Switch configured, cables punched. I now need to go
do the uplinks in the MDF and I'm done.
This is as much work as as I was doing when things got mega busy, but
I'm less stressed and in a much better mood. Plus, I feel like I'm
getting Network Admin stuff accomplished, rather than cable monkey.
It's good to feel challenged, and then do it. Very nice change. Ok,
back to work. Laters peeps.
Just about done with cleaning. This weekend was the HPLFF, and to salve my sadness at missing it, I'm watching 'The Whisperer in Darkness'. Still need to
Do a last minute sweep up, get a shower for myself, and then bedtime. Lets
hope for a restful night.
Build your perfect pizza for us. Thick or thin crust, red or white sauce, the sky's the limit on toppings -- what makes your mouth water most when picking up a slice? What abomination of a topping will never grace your pizza, even though you see others enjoying it?
I grew up on Long Island in New York, in a town that had maybe 5 separate pizza joints in the 'downtown' area. Pizza was a favorite food of mine growing up. Then I moved to Texas, and for years I suffered with chain pizzas. Finally found a hole in the wall that had NY style pizza that tasted like NY style. I've since found several others. My personal favorite is a hole in the wall near where my Mom lives, crazy Russians who make very NYesque pizza.
As for what's on a slice, I'm a simple fox. Cheese, red sauce, thin and flexable (and greasy) crust. Generally the only time I change this is if I'm having Chicago style deep dish, where Italian sausage definitely adds to things. Oh yeah, if I make pizza at home, I add breakfast bacon to the cheese and red sauce, on a thicker crust. Quite tasty, but not 'real pizza' to me.
Well my plans for today turned into 'spending the day cleaning the little
bits that have been missed'. Lots of little things, lots of laying
down bug traps for the roachy bane of my existance. Lot of Borax laid
down as well. Still have a few things left to do, like dishes and putting
up the cleaning stuff. Went to the store to get new trash cans and some
other stuff. Now I'm home, watching bad movies and cooking up dinner.
I'm tired, I'm trying not to worry too much, and I'm hoping tomorrow isn't
as crazy as I think it's going to be. *crosses tentacles* And yes,
I talked to my Mom today...we're going out for brunch next weekend as
I'm a little bit of a basket case today. Wee.
The rest of Saturday was ok. I brought over 2 weeks worth of laundry. That's
a lot of laundry, even for a bachelor. So I was ready to be there all
day. Luckily she likes me around. We watched 3 episodes of 'Smash'. Well
Amythest watched them, I paid vague attention, I know more theater
stuff than I thought, I paid attention back when me and Amythest were
first dating and she was in assorted theater productions at school, and
stored the details in some hidden file in the brain meats. Plus the
show has some pretty females in it, which is always nice. I spent most of
the time on the laptop futzing around. After 'Smash' we went for horror
movies, as I really didn't want to do our usual cop shows and season
finales. So it was 'Thirteen Ghosts' and 'Nightmare on Elm Street' 3 and 4.
Not serious, lots of goofy lines and gory bits and general fun times.
I also went out to get dinner, and stopped by Half Price Books for a gift
card for Mom's day. I also was slightly naughty for myself, found a cheap
copy of the 3 DVD edition of 'Hellboy' with a additional prop version of
Rasputin's diary about meeting the Oghru Jahad (Think HPL Great Old Ones).
I need more Lovecraftian props in my life. Also got a copy of 'Raiders
of the Lost Ark'. One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time, and I haven't
owned it since VHS days. $5 and I fixed that. Played with the ferret
mob for a while with Amythest, Nyx was very cuddly, I think she really
misses me. Whiskey was also fairly cuddly, but he wanted more to play.
Which is Whiskey, he was trying to eat my shoes. Her ferrets also wanted
to play, so I entertained them as well. Came home a little while ago,
sorted laundry, been watching 'Hellboy'. Lots of the cut scenes included,
including more Rasputin. Going to put up the laundry, finish the
movie and go to bed. Tomorrow is the final cleanup here at Dagon-Moor,
and a short visit with Mom for Mother's Day. We'll do a real day out next
weekend. My mom is cool, and knows I'm still fairly wound up. Then
Monday is the inspection and what should be a really ass kicking kind of
day at work. Oh well, thank Cthulhu for friends to hang out with, movies
to watch and Xanax (don't worry, I'm not over doing it). Oh yeah, the
abcess has gone down nicely, and the pain is pretty much managable with
OTC meds, so I'm happy about that. Not much else to talk about right now.
Going to finish up my movie. Until then, may tentacles from space not
attack you unless you want them.
I'm at Amythest's, and I got to see my feezles for the first time since
Tuesday. They're happy here with the other feezles, and getting
spoiled rotten by Amythest. I got some quick feezle snuggles and
pets, and cried my eyes out. I miss them so much. But, until all
the apartment foo is straigtened out and worked out, they'll be here
at Amythest's.
Honest moment...I've not felt like a good ferret dad lately. I haven't
played with them as much, or kept their cage up. I've had thoughts about
finding them a new home, one where they'd get the attention they deserve.
Right now, I don't know what's going to happen. I do know that
they'll be safe and happy here til I know what I'm doing.
I'm...I'm very very emotional, sobbing randomly into a ferret is confusing
for all the parties involved. I want them home with me, but I also
want them somewhere where they'll get the care the deserve.
Oh, for those who are now worrying that something REALLY BAD is happening...my job is fine, my health is alright (minus dental foo)...Mom is fine, friends are good, critters are good. I've just got possible issues that will cause frustration, and cost time and money. Really, as crisis go, I've had much much worse. But I won't say no to good thoughts. Or offers of squidgirls ;)
Finished watching the first of the Blind Spanish Zombie Templar movies.
Yeah, I'm weird...but they are some of my happy movies. Now trying to wind down so I can get some sleep. Brainmeats went into overdrive. But in a kind of good way, in the 'ok, if $possiblebadthing happens, this is the plan. If $lesserpossiblebadthing happens, this plan.' If nothing else, this is proof I have more confidence in myself. A few years ago I'd be a little sobbing shoggoth. Now I'm just twitchy. But, it's good to know that I feel like I can handle it. What
ever it turns out to be.
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