travis' brain dump

oh man does today hurt… lol

i was up almost all night with a nice case of acid reflux… i’m glad these things have been tapering off, but i tell ya when i do get one, i’m ready to just hang myself in the stairway… lol however, i did get a ton of FFXI played last night, figured as long as I was up, why not do something entertaining.

pretty good party in the dunes last night (if you don’t play FFXI you may just want to skip ahead to the next section) which got me leveled pretty fast. props to chem and marsh for PL’n the party last night…. nothing like layin down the smack on things that would normally kill the crap out of you without any risk to yourself or your party. hookd level 16 last night, made a new friend (shout to Utopia) and hung out with Mike (Cludseph) for a while on there. Just how late did you stay up bro? LOL I bet he’s still asleep right now. It’s funny how this game is catching on with my friends like a fever… if everyone who wants in actually goes and gets it, we’ll be up to six of us playing this thing together… hey that’s a full party… c`mon slackers, go get your stuff so we can rampage! I’m goaling for lvl 18 tonight if possible… I’ve got to get on there and get some stuff done first though, headed back to Sandoria to take care of some things then I plan on returning to the confines of the dunes for the duration until I make level 20 and get my subjob quest completed. Then it’s on to Jueno for the chocobo! (i know Mike’s ready to get his thunderchicken too) ok, so enough FFXI talk… that was my geek moment for the morning…

so, since i was up all night, i feel like crap. tired, moody, blah blah – hopefully i don’t pass out. mark’s back! wooo! arwen was freaking goin nuts last night. i think she missed her buddy. daddy’s cool and all but when you’ve got someone who plays with you all day long and doesnt have to work when he’s home with you during the day you tend to lean towards the person who plays with ya when you’re 3. lol only a couple more weeks though until school starts. i talked to the school yesterday and they seemed optimistic about arwen making it in… that’s gonna rock if she does. keeping those fingers crossed! she really wants to start going… *sigh* i remember when i was that excited about school, those were the days. i just hope she stays excited… i got bored fast. third grade on was just a drag, lol.

work is going pretty good… we’re ramping up for hopefully a busy next year. we’ve got contracts sitting out there for all kinds of stuff. now we just wait for deployments of our partner’s products and then the fun begins. we’re looking to restructure a lot of things it appears. i got this list yesterday in a meeting with the president of the company and things appear that they are going to be really busy for me. that’s good though. the hardest thing is that we’re going to basically be restructuring some stuff and i need to come up with the battle plan for my department and what resources i’ll need to get things done. fun fun fun… (not being sarcastic, i’m actually looking forward to us operating like a somewhat normal company, haha) in other news… the upgrade to this server is going pretty good. i’ve been compiling the daemons on the new system for two days now… i made huge progress yesterday. we’re moving this webserver to FreeBSD 6.1 with a TON of new bells and whistles not to mention upgrades to apache and mysql. should be lots of fun. 🙂 there may be some downtime this week when we do fire it up, but it shouldn’t be down too long, maybe 30 minutes or so.

so myspace evidently ticked a few people off last week in addition to myself… ahh yes… so glad that my blogsite is on this server and not over there, lol… i need to go complete the deletion process of my old posts… i’ve just been slowly doing so for some unknown reason. they’re all here so its not like i’m losing anything, but all the same – its just weird. 🙂

well, i’ve got work to do so I better get to it. lunch is coming up but since I typed this out, i’ll work through it. lol not like I feel like driving anywhere.

laters