Month: September 2005

Shut Up Rose!

Sometimes I feel like Rose in the Golden Girls. I have all these stories to tell, and everyone tells me to shut up.

Tonight is the premire of Gilmore Girls. I’m very excited about that. 🙂 I hear it’s going to make everyone cry.

I’m going to go camping this weekend, that is as long as I don’t have to help with the builds. I’ve been telling myself that I’d go camping forever. And well, now I’m actually going to do it!

I couldn’t sleep very well last night, I kept thinking about a lot of things. And well, spent some time crying as well. Oh well.

Yesterday at work was OK. I’m starting to put HD documentation into the Wiki, which is an annoying job, but at least it’s giving me a break from coding for a while. Plus we had a meeting about how to speed up the build/deploys. Things we’ve been bitching about forever. It always comes up from the higer-ups though about the time we’re on crunch because they want them out so the QA people have more time to work with each build. It’s understandable, but there’s nothing we as SA’s can do now to speed things up. Here’s the current break down:

* 1-1.5 hours to do the build (Compile) with no problems. This can easily and usually does take much longer because of failures on the developers side, not on the SA side.

* 1 hour to deploy internally. This part could go faster, if we had better dev boxes to deploy to, but can not be skipped. This is where we find out if a script is broken before deploying to the QA sites.

* 2-3 hours to transfer the build to the QA sites (It’s a 460 Meg Zip file… This is where we should be able to cut the most amount of time, by getting a faster connection to the QA sites.

*1 hour to deploy to the QA sites.

So basically if there are NO problems, which is very rare, it’ll take 5 hours. Lately I’ve been having them done by 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Which is still pretty good I think. But that’s just me!

Yep. Adios!

We’re all going to die, have a nice day!

So apparently there have been terrorist threats against LA for today! Whoopy.

Also Ebay buys Skpye. 🙁

I totally forgot that yesterday was 9/11 till this morning when I heard about it on the radio. And then I heard about the Crazy OC guy that’s putting out terrorist threats on LA. So yeah, kinda crazyness! I would’t mind if they were blown off the face of the planet. Just leave me alive enough so that I can get my shit and leave. Haha.

I feel that I could do pretty good in an event like that. That’s what BSA training is for, no? Plus I have lots of Powerbars and the like at home that I can take and live off of for a while. Either way, i’m sure nothing will come of it. I guess time will tell.

Had a really good long chat with Blake again yesterday… Infact we spent from about 11am till 6pm talking. Haha. Kinda creepy. He even gave me homework. lol.

And that’s my life!

Adios

Wrecker Exotics

On one level I feel sorry for these people… But really I don’t.

Umm, I’ve gotten so much done already today and it’s only 1:00!!

I got up about 7, wondered around the house a bit and then went out for a two hour walk. i went from here to starbucks at the corner of Alicia and Pacific Park, then down the street to the starbucks at the corner of Pacific Park and La Paz. Then went to Stater Bros and had breakfast, then went to Target on my quest for a black pot. I ended up buying two new pairs of headphones. My good pair broke the other day and I don’t like the pair I have at work. So I bought these, one for work and one for my workout bag.

They also have my favorite Halloween candy out, so I had to buy some of that!

From there I walked down to Home Depot, still looking for a black pot.. They didn’t have one either. Though I did find a dark red one I liked.. However they only had one, and no matching base. Jerks.

From there I walked up to Wal-Mart, still no black pot and then back home. After I got home I watched the third Harry Potter movie. Which I actually liked.

That just got over a bit ago and I just finished a really good hamburger. It’s half hamburger, half turkey burger. With a shot of Jack Daniels, a shot of Worcestershire and a shot of balsamic vinegar. And then a little fresh ground black pepper, a little garlic and then just a tad bit of onion powder… Then after you cook them put a little cheese on top, and some mayo (or ranch) and some ketchup…. They are amazing!

So yeah, now I have nothing to do for the rest of the day though. Blah!

OH, I had a HORRIBLE dream last night, I dreamt that GG died.. I was so sad! I woke up and thought it really had happened and nearly called my parents. I was so scared. Speaking of her though.. I feel so bad about that all. I mean she’s already sold off or given away pretty much everything she has. There’s very little left. And I really love the woman, she’s always been really cool. But I know that when she dies, I probably won’t get anything to remember her by. Mainly because her Grandkids are whores. IE Pam. I can almost bet you that stupid bitch will take everything that’s left.

Same thing with my GmaS.. I doubt I’ll get anything from her. And my parents have already sold off thier share of the farm… So I’m not going to get anything there either. I’m glad though that my G&G have gone through thier house with everyone and let us pick out one thing…

Though we all know what EVERYONE will be fighting for there.. The noodle spoon and noodle bowl! lol. Though I really also want to get some of my Gpa’s Guns… They’re so nice, and I have a lot of memories there with him because we used to always go out shooting with him.

Adios yall!

PS, I forgot… BLAKE BLAKE BLAKE! haha.

Blake Blake Blake Blake!

So Blake has informed me that I have to talk about Blake every day on my blog. Haha. Anyways, today I actually do have something to say about him! So here goes:

We had a really long chat last night. He’s up in Sacramento at a specialist and was feeling like shit, so we talked on Skype for like 3 hours last night. And then talked on AIM for about another hour or so. And he admitted just how much he likes me. 😀

He also sent me some good music, but it’s depressing.

At work yesterday I really didn’t do too much. I’m getting to the point in this program where it’s taking me an hour or two to track down small little problems. So Even though I am working.. I tend to sit here and just stare at my computer screen for hours trying to figure out what’s going on. For example. I have a grouping of Variables. IE APACHENODE-0,-1,-2 ETC. And it set the first one just fine, but if I went and set the second on, it would set the second one to the value of the first one and if I set the third one, it would use the value of the second one. I eventually figured out that the problem was that I had an SQL statement inside an IF statement when it should have been BEFORE the IF. So yeah. That got fixed. Now I have to figure out why the you can select check boxes, but you can’t unselect them! Grrr. Current line count of this project though is just over 4,000 lines. 🙁

I also got 5 phone calls last night in the middle of the night. Thankfully I put my phone on silent before I went to bed and had it set so that it would only make noise when I got a txt message. I was very annoyed that they kept calling because I’m NOT ON CALL! Damn people learn how to read a calendar!

There’s a lot going on next weekend that I want to go to. On the 17th I have three things already… There’s The Laramie Project, The Pacific Symphony, and the guy’s party from work. Sadly Blake! (Are you happy yet, is that enough references for you?) Doesn’t want to go with me. 🙁 Jerk… haha, no he’s already got plans.

I know this actualy happened a few days ago, but apple announced the iPod Nano on Wed… It’s AMAZING! I so want one! But I dunno what I’d do with it, I mean my iPod holds all my music so yeah.

Family guy’s first episode is being postponed simply because they reference hurricanes… This really annoys me. Yeah, it’s sad that the shit in LA happened. But if people can’t understand that this is a joke then they can just fucking deal with it. My god people! Get over it.

Also, how the hell did I miss a tornado on the ISU campus? I’m sad!

I haven’t talked to andrew in days… And honestly I’m doing much better (As you can all probably tell)… I’m still pissed at him and still sad about the outcome… But I guess it’s what was meant to happen. So yeah. It’ll take time to be completly over him and to not be pissed at him anymore.

Umm, yes. Adios!