travis’s brain dump

So browsing around the net this morning I discovered that the prison dancers from the philippines are back at it with another presentation. You may (or maynot) remember them dancing to Thriller but this one is just as entertaining.

Enjoy.

I can honestly say I thought this weekend would never get here. This has been one long week and I’m sure next week promises to be an even longer one! Thankfully though we’re on 8-hour days all next week so it’s heading home at 3:45 every day for me! yay!

I’ve got this huge project to get completed for our backup and disaster recovery revamp we have going on. So much to do and so little time. They’re pushing for a March 31st implementation! >.< I’m just glad I was given a way to drop down the amount of pages in the proposal. LOL It’s amazing what the words loosely quoted “I think a high-level overview will work better, don’t waste your time on something upper mangement isn’t going to read,” can change. I seriously have the best boss ever! Still, Myke and I definitely have our work cut out for us next week… Thankfully most of the research is all done.

I’m hoping Mike and I will get a chance to go up boarding tomorrow… it’s supposed to be dumping in the mountains constantly over the next 24 hours so we should definitely see some nice powder to play in… *crossing fingers* I just hope the roads will be drivable in the morning!

Well, it’s time to get ready to leave… woohooo! Weekend here I come!

You know what I love? Hardware vendors that have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE about the items they sell or have sold to you…

So to give some background. My first out of town trip for the company I work for sent me to Rock Springs, WY. Nice little spot if you’re into a seriously slow/small town. I have no complaints. The people here are pretty nice and well, despite the fact there is nothing for an out-of-towner and the fact it’s not a vacation spot by any means, if you’re stuck in a place for work, it’s not *that* bad. On this first trip I am to meet a tech from Quantum who is supposed to help me put in a new tape library here… no biggie right? (can you tell I just set myself up?) We get the unit all ready to rock and roll to discover that our vendor had not a) sent out a new SCSI card for the system and worst yet b) hadn’t sent cables to connect it up. So we do what we can, get the old unit working on the new server and call it good. I’ll come back when the right parts are in…

Parts are shipped… I schedule some time to come back out here and take care of it and here I am…

Guess what? Right SCSI Card, WRONG CABLES!

So I almost feel like this was a wasted trip. It was but wasn’t… the wrong cables at least allow for the old SCSI card to be used just not the new one… but we still will have to have someone plug in the right cable when/if it comes in… Well here it is… 3pm and I wanted to be gone by now but this server is being a pain in the rear-end.

Anyway… Trying to wrap this up and it looks like it’s moving again… Time to finish and get on the road… 5 hr drives suck.

I have to say this past weekend was probably one of the best I’ve had in a long time. I actually didn’t mind getting up this morning. I hurt from snowboarding for two days, but it’s a good hurt.

For the record, I love 4-day weekends. Especially those with lots of activity and lots of uselessness packed into them. LOL Between shutting out the world except my family, playing FFXI for stupid amounts of time, two days of snowboarding, catching a movie and eating some incredibly good food it’s been amazing.

We got a lot of time in getting Amanda’s character up on FFXI… I need to get in there and get mine going again. I’ve been so focused on getting her up to speed I’ve neglected my own character greatly. It’s good though, she’s doing great and has a ton of key components to start moving forward. I was also able to get a couple things done for myself as well in-game so I did get *some* progress.

Aside from being lazy and playing FFXI and getting some much needed mountain time in Amanda and I went to go see Jumper this weekend. Pretty good flick but the ending kinda left off to abruptly for my taste… they left it open but it just felt like you didn’t get any kind of closure from it. Maybe they will make another one, who knows. After the movie though was the highlight of the weekend… we hit up Rodizio Grill here in downtown Denver. WOW is all I have to say about the food *and* the deserts in that place. You get there, you get seated, get a bowl full of appetizers (the Pao de Queijo and Bolinho de Arroz rock!) brought out and you’re turned loose on the salad bar… By the time you come back there are a couple plates on your table for the meat and oh man is that some good stuff… They constantly come around with meat on skewers cutting you off pieces at your request. You have a little device on your table that you either have with Green up (for them to keep coming to your table) or Red up (so they know to skip you while you’re taking a break)… Needless to say our’s stayed Green up for quite some time, lol. If you’re ever in the mood for some serious beef, chicken, buffalo, fish, etc… that is definitely the place to get your fill. I definitely recommend the Rabanada for a desert personally.

Well… it’s back to the craziness of work so I need to end this here… I’ve got to get a ton of stuff done today so I can drive up to Rock Springs, Wyoming tomorrow to fix some problems we’re having up there… oh the fun.

You would think we were gone for a couple days or something. LOL