Month: April 2005

Interview

Wow, so the interview was great…

She said they would offer between 40 and 50 grand. Plus they have a yearly 8% bonus. They have more PTO then we do here, more paid holidays, They have education reimbursement for 100%, they have vision insurance, unlike here…

It sounds like a really great job. Now I just have to wait a week to find out if I get a second interview.

The only downside is that it’s from 2-10pm or 4pm to midnight.

In other news. I was officially told that they are going to work on moving me up this week. With a pay increase! Woot! They’re going to hire a student to take over for me from midnight to 6am. Then I’ll be working 6am to 2pm to backup Helpdesk and to be a realy SA.

So good news all around!

Woot.

Three Day Weekend

TGIF, and thank god I have a three day weekend!

I’m really burned out today for some reason. Maybe it’s because NOTHING EVER WORKS RIGHT FOR ME!

Damon got mysql installed. I needed to install libxml2. So I did ‘apt-get install libxml2’

It complained about something and told me to run ‘apt-get -F install’… So I did, and it fucking UNINSTALLED mysql!

God damnit.

So now I have to get him to re-install it.

And I was so close to, I had rt working, it was logging in, I was just about ready to fucking import the production DB and then make the domain thing work. GAH! GAH!!! Why’s Solaris hate me so.

I feel bad too because this was supposed to be done by today. Which it’s clearly not going to get done. I really hate missing deadlines.

I have a lot to do this weekend. Mainly car type things. Oil, wash, vac, etc. I also need to get a haircut. But I just don’t have enough money for all that. I wish this place was like Krell where paychecks would go through on Friday if payday fell on a weekend, but no… Here they go through on MONDAY! Fuckers. If it’d go through today, I could afford it.

Alas, I could take money out of savings, but then I wouldn’t make my goal of $4,000 savings by the end of the month. And I really want to stay on track for this year, because by Dec I should have about $9,000 saved. $4,000 of that will go to my Roth, $1,500 to a years worth of insurance, and then I can use the rest of that for something fun! Like maybe a trip to Mexico for my birthday or some shit like that. I’m hoping that maybe I’ll get a bonus again this year and I can use that towards my fun thing!

Hmm, what else to talk about…. Oh! I had a dream last night, that my interview went really well and they offered to fly me back to Iowa.. So I went back on Friday morning and then flew back here Monday afternoon. It was so much fun! I hope it really happens…. But I am very nervous about it. And then what if they offer me a job for the same as I make here… Or even better, what if they offer me MORE! Do I really want to move back? Or should I stay here, or should I look somewhere else? I fear that if I go back to Iowa now, I’ll be stuck there for life… Or at least for a long amount of time. What will happen to my dream of living in lots of places… What about Boston, or SC, or Chicago and all those other places! So much to stress about. Don’t be surprised if I get sick again here soon….. I’ve found I get very sick when I’m stressed… Look at how bad I was when I moved here!

So another story… Yesterday morning it was raining like a mofo when I left to go home for work, most people were doing about 60 or so on the interstate and there was this one guy probably doing at least 70, maybe 80 in the far right lane… well he lost control, skidded all the way across 7 lanes of traffic, nearly missed me in the far left lane. SLAMMED into the center divder…. Skidded back across three lanes of traffic (Nearly missing me again), SLAMMED into a moving/step van type thing and then skidded back across traffic and hit the center divider again… Finally stopping….. Oh, and did I mention it was a brand new (still had the dealer plates) BMW 5 series? Sucks to be that guy… You’d have thought he was driving on pure ice or something! Idiot… But seriously there was an accident like every half a mile on the way home. People here do NOT know how to drive in anything but sun!

I made some honey wheat bread when I got home yesterday morning too. It wasn’t as good as it should have been. I think my yeast is dead, or getting old at least. It’s still really good tasting, just didn’t rise as much as it should have, so it’s a little tough. Thankfully Good Eats last night was about making bread. So I learned! 🙂

I’ve decided that I’m going to take the time to download Tiger, so that I can at least be using it before I have the money to buy it (Probably something I’ll buy with my fun money at the end of the year). Anyways, it’s got 23 hours left 🙂 Hopefully it continues to transfer this fast. The next challenge is getting it burned to DVD.

Laters all.

Lots to write

You know. I’ve actually been thinking about a lot of stuff to write about here today, but now I can’t remember any of it. Only reason you got a long post yesterday was because I wrote reminders. I should have done that today as well I guess.

Anyways, still having solaris problems. Damon didn’t respond to me yesterday. I really hate that about him. He’s a nice enough guy. But he NEVER responds to you unless you corner him here in the office. AND he’s always saying, “Oh, I’ll send this or that to you” and he NEVER DOES. Look how long it took to get that guys name from him!

I also got a very scathing e-mail from the VP the other day (who happens to be the CEO’s brother) and of course he CCed it to the CEO. But anyways he was complaining at me about installing apache2 on the new corp webserver. (I did that because I wasn’t TOLD that they wanted 1.4, I just assumed we should use the newest version)… Well I guess I should go back first. Two days ago he sent me an e-mail saying the website didn’t work any more. After being moved from a windows box with apache1.4 onto solaris with apache2. Anyways, the website had SSI’s and it had files named *.GIF and they were referenced at *.gif. Now on windows, which doesn’t give a shit about CAPs, that wouldn’t have been a problem. But here on solaris were GIF, gif, GiF, Gif, giF, and gIF are ALL DIFFERENT FILES! Well the first e-mail he sent me said that he wanted apache1.4 installed on the machine (about 1.5 hours work to install and configure it) so that the page would work.

Now remember at this point he had NEVER TOLD ME WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS. Just that he wanted apache1.4 installed. So I asked oscar what the problem was, and found out. And fixed the problem in Apache2. (About 15 minutes work). But anways, he sent me a mean e-mail but after I talked to him about it, he understood and saw that apache2 was actually the better choice.

Not much else going on here. I’m going home early today. I’ve spent way to much time here this week already (38, plus the ten for fri). So yeah.

I’ve also decided that I’m going to be going to the beach every Sat/Sun from now on. I’ve lived here way to long and have only been to the beach a few times. So I’m going to start going every weekend and get a hot tan. 🙂

Oh, I found the BEST lj_community ever: found_photos!

Ok. laters!