Leopard, No Trespassing, Old Houses, GHETTO!

I bet you are all sick of hearing.. “What a weekend”! But it’s been another adventure packed weekend! Sooo much fun!

So, lets start. Friday I got off work an hour early and headed home, stopped by the gym for a quick run which was nice. There was some really hot guy wondering around the locker room completely naked. You could tell he shaves his ass.

Got home after that and cleaned and then started cooking for the Ghetto Dinner. The menu included tater tot casserole, corn casserole, Sloppy Joes and Peanut pie! Yum yum! My favorite foods! 🙂 Jason and gang were a bit leary of the food to start, but ended up loving it! We also had some excellent sangria from Sirin! We also watched Marry Poppins

The night was tons of fun after a bit of a rocky start, we played card games and laughed and got very very drunk. I was really pissed at Oksana though cause she NEVER called me to let me know what was going on. So she missed out on all the fun!

Saturday morning Constantine and I got up and I made Banana Nut Muffins. After breakfast we did some random stuff and then met up with Jason and Steve to go hiking at Sunken City in San Pedro, CA which I’ve been to a few times before. But for some reason they have it all fenced off now! So you can’t get there any more! Very sad, instead we went to Korean Bell of Friendship and Bell Pavilion which was alright.

Ended up spending an hour doing really nothing. Constantine and I came home after that and bought food and then met up with Erick, he needed a strainer or something, so we ended up driving to target. He let me drive the new Audi A3 that he has on loaner. I LOVE it! I wish I could afford one! From there we headed to his house and watched Nightmare Before Christmas. Came home after that and ended up spending the night at home. I don’t even remember what we did, but I’m sure it was fun!

Sunday morning we got up and went for a walk to the Pier and back. After that we headed up to this Haunted thing at the Heritage Square Museum. I really liked it there! The place is soo cool. If you like victorian houses, you should go check it out. Along with Carroll Avenue here in Los Angeles.

Came home after that and I installed Leopard on my laptop! AMAZING! Is all I can say!

While that was installing we watched The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie. It was such an good and moving movie! It was so sad!

Speaking of…. Ever since I met Constantine, I’ve been becoming more and more emotional again. Like I used to be, I cry during movies and TV shows and what not. It’s very strange. However, my tolerance for people in general has been going down. It’s very strange.

Anyways, Constantine left after the movie and Jason and Steve came over to install Leopard on his mac. He had a bit of a hickup because he has something called Application Enhancer installed on his laptop. Thankfully we were able to find instructions on how to delete it and now it works great!

Went to bed about 10 because I was busy playing with Leopard!

Photos are on the Photodump

Adios!

Trip is not yet better

But hopefully it will be…

It’s now nearly noon. I’ve been here since about 9:30 now. We were supposed to take off from MSP at 7:10… What time did we really leave you ask? 8:10!!!

We sat in line on the tarmac for an HOUR waiting for all the other planes to take off. Very annoying. I can’t believe they get away with this shit. And they wonder why they are losing money. It’s the HORRIBLE service. Maybe if the people who run the airlines would actually use them.

The flight attendant on our flight was speechless when we all told her that the airline didn’t do ANYTHING to help us out when we were stranded. She was like, “They didn’t even give you toothpaste or anything?!?!” It was kinda funny. Apparently this is all new because of the new owners of Northwest or something.

UGH! So anyways, now I’m at the library (the only place I have in this area that I can get free highspeed internet) where there are TONS of children running around SCREAMING. What happened to the days of getting yelled at if you talked over a whisper in the library?!?!?

Now I’m gonna go home and try and nap before this afternoon.

Adios!

Road Rage Friday!

Wow, there’s a lot of road rage out there today!

I get in my car at 5:45am this morning. I’m running a bit late (I’ll explain later!)… Radio comes on.. “5 car pile up on the 405S at Western backup starts at the 105”. Oh great! Thank GOD I get on the 405 JUST PAST western, so I should be fine.

I get on the free way and I’m driving along, about 75-80mph in the far left lane. Come up on a BMW going 65… I slow down and stay behind him for a while. (At this point, I’m no where CLOSE to tailgating either!) Suddenly he SLAMS on his brakes. Apparently I’m too close to him. So I start tailgating. That doesn’t last long and he gets the hell out of the way. Before I can even get past him. He’s got his window down and he’s screaming at home and flipping me off. Excuse me? I didn’t even DO anything to start this. You’re the jackass going 65 in the left lane when theres basically NO ONE around! So I flip him off and speed off. Back to my 75mph. 🙂

He pulls up next to me again and starts signaling for me to pull off to the shoulder! WHAT? I THINK NOT! I flip him off and just pay attention to what’s next to me. He’s still following along right beside me. I crank it up to about 85 cause I wanna get away from this crazy! I lose him for a minute and then he’s right next to me again. This time making a gun motion with his hand as if he were shooting me!!!! OH MY God this guy is crazy! And then he starts motioning for me to pull off again.. At this point. I pull out the cell phone and make it VERY obvious I am calling the cops. He backs off… I put in a report about him.

So I’m cruising along again and come upon ANOTHER jackass going 65 in the left lane. This time, I just go around him on the right and then merge back over… He speeds up, starts tailgating ME and turns on his bright lights!!!! Seriously!?! I didn’t do SHIT! I went around the mother fucker!

Lose him for a little while, then ANOTHER guy going 65 in the left lane! (Ok, WHAT’S UP WITH THESE PEOPLE TODAY! When I go to work, I’m usually in the second to left lane going 80ish and _I’M_ the one being passed!). This guy just WILL NOT MOVE. He’s got the guy right behind him flashing his brights at him and he’s got people FLYING buy on both sides. People are even going INTO the carpool lane just to get around him! UGH!

What is it with people. Learn how to drive!

So I was running late today because the last two days have been 12 hour days for me. Today I’m gonna work 6 hours and then go home. I have SO much to do! I should be doing stuff right now, but I’m working against a dev machine that was left in Debug mode with a stop point. The machine is LOCKed so I can’t go tell it to step over the stop point!… IN English, I can’t do anything!

I can’t wait for this weekend. I’m excited to see Constantine and also for Wicked! Yay!

Also the girl who came and looked at my car wants to take it to the mechanic tomorrow! So perhaps by Monday I will have new car! Fingers crossed! 😀

Adios.

Siteground hosting SUCKS!

Ok, I’ve had my last straw with Siteground hosting service. I have been with them for just over a year at this point and since day 1 it’s been nothing but problems.

The last issue was that I decided I wanted to turn on SpamAssassin. Up till now my Mail app has been handling spam just fine, but recently I’ve been getting too many false positives, etc. So I go to turn on Spam Assassin in the CPanel.

There’s an option there that says. “To simply have the server DELETE and NOT deliver emails that are tagged as spam by SpamAssassin, click here now.”

So logically NOT clicking that link means that your email will be processed through to your email account with the correct ***SPAM*** subject line. Right?

Apparently NO! Apparently they have it setup on the server to just delete it automatically. They claim it’s for “Security” reasons and that being on a shared host it’s the ONLY way to do it. I’m sorry, but as a systems administrator, I’ve setup SpamAssassin on MANY MANY servers in my day. You can EASILY setup PER USER rules for this sort of thing. It’s NOT THAT HARD.

Issue: They moved servers TWICE in one month. They said it was to “upgrade to a newer machine”. I’m sorry, but there should be NO REASON to move servers twice in one month. And secondly EACH TIME there were major problems with the upgrade.

1) They did it in the MIDDLE OF THE DAY!

2) The lost nearly a days worth of my mail.

3) They broke my website by not correctly moving things over.

Issue: They have some idiotic process running that creates a zero bit file in EVERY DIRECTORY in my account EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Issue: They require a php.ini file in EVERY DIRECTORY for wordpress to work correctly. This is ridiculous. Why not set these things at the server level?

Issue: You cannot re-open a ticket if you don’t reply within 2 hours of their last response. Therefor you have to go through the long and annoying process of opening a NEW ticket. They also don’t seem to be able to reference old tickets, so you have to go back through all the same crap you did in the last ticket.

Issue: I can’t send email to Yahoo! And they refuse to do anything about it.

Issue: The support sucks. There are only two ways to contact support. 1) Open a site down ticket or 2) Open a mail down ticket. These ARE NOT the only two issues that can happen in a hosting environment. And the helpdesk people are dumber then shit. I clearly explained each and everyone of these issues to them and they seem to do nothing. It takes three or four support messages back and forth before they seem to be able to understand the problem and actually do anything about it. They seem to work on the “annoy the customer to stop asking for it” theory.

DO NOT USE SITEGROUND HOSTING SERVICES! They SUCK!

Soooo. I will be moving to a new host soon (hopefully this weekend). Any suggestions? I was thinking Bluehost. Anyone use them, how do you like them?

Yearly Review

WARNING!

My Site was hacked on Sunday at 12:11pm and the compromised continued until 7:00am this morning (6/25/2007) when my hosting provider was able to finally remove the infected code from the site. I realized there was an issue at 8:30pm Sunday night and uploaded some new code which should have stopped the infected code from being executed on my visitors computers. If you visisted the site between 6/24 and 6/25 PLEASE run a virus scanner (Link to free online virus scanner)to be sure you are not infected!!!! You can read about the issue here or watch a video about it here.

End Warning

 

 

 

 

So Friday I had my yearly review at the office. Usually something has been going on at this point in the year and I just happened to get a raise anyways. But this year nothing was really going on so I brought it up to the boss. It ended up being pretty good. We got to talk about what happened with the client’s office closing and where things were going. I got some really good feed back as well. In the end I got a 7% raise which is nice. We also talked about the possibility of me moving to London still. Apparently two of the people there want to come back. However, it’s a REALLY long shot. So I’m not going to get my hopes up for it. But I’ll still be hoping it does happen.

Friday night I went out with Nick and Dustin to a concert in Laguna. This guy Trevor Hall. He was very good and oh so hot! You should all go check out some of his music. I bought his album on iTunes this morning. And he’s also in the Shrek The Third movie.

While we were there I tried this really good new desert called spanakopita. It was so good. I’m going to have to make myself some. Left there about 10 and went home. I got home and my neighbor was just getting home as well and we were outside talking for MAYBE 5 minutes, and we weren’t being very loud either when some bitch up stairs came out and said. “Can you keep it down, I’m trying to sleep” all bitchy! UGH! I wish I knew who it was. We think it was one of the girlfriends of the guy upstairs.

Saturday I slept in late and then went to brunch with the neighbor and Erick. There’s a crazy street fair going on here, so we hung out at that for a while as well. Erick and I found these CUTE ass gifts that we each got for the little people in our lives. Keira’s B-day isn’t till August, but I’m going to send it to her this week because you need it for summer! OMG! It’s soo cute, I wish I could tell you all about it! After that Erick and I hit the beach for an hour.

Mac or PC, found this the other day. HILARIOUS!

Sunday I was going to get up at 7 and bike up to Santa Monica to meet Team 100 then ride back to Hermosa for brunch. I went to bed at 9 Saturday night and when 7 rolled around I was just still way too tired. Ugh! I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I’ve been sooooooo tired! So I just lounged around the house for most of the day. That afternoon I drove up to Santa Monica to meet up with Charles Phoenix. We were talking and I mentioned this amazing 1961 Ford F-100 Stepside Shortbed that is for sale at a dealer down the street form me. He got me all excited about it and said that I should really stop and check it out. So on my way home I did They want $20,000 for it! NADA says that the high retail value is about $16k. It would be interesting to see how much they actually get for this truck. It’s not even a very good restoration job either (The seams are not even at ALL, you can see where they just painted over the rust, etc). I found another one on CL that’s only $9,000 but who knows how much work it would need. I would _love_ to have one of these things though!

After CP I met up with this guy Aurthur from the valley. We hung out for like 3 hours. He brought his HUGE dog which has to weight almost as much as he does. That was fun times though.

So that was my weekend. Adios!