… finally a chance to breathe
by Travis on Jun.12, 2008, under Personal, Tech Stuff
Ok, this week is by far the busiest week I think I have ever gone through, PERIOD!
For the record… It’s never good when you’re doing a MAJOR deployment of a company DR/Backup solution to have your counterpart on vacation… This entire week has been one thing after another, lol. If it hasn’t been the rush of things breaking it has been the constant workload trying to get this solution deployed. Nothing like juggling the usual issues rolling in with the deployment while having two people in your office for half the week. 🙂
And in case you ever wonder…. CommVault Galaxy + Exagrid = abso-friggin-lutely awesome! Nothing like doing a backup that took you 50+ hours to tape in less than 24 for the first backup then using synthetic full’s being able to complete all backup jobs to disk in less than 5 hours from there on out. We’ll still have to see how the tape portion moves this weekend but it should be a lot better considering we have dedicated connections between the storage point and the tape devices now. So far I’ve gotten our Denver and Tulsa offices online. That only leave 5 more to go, LOL. All in all it should be pretty quick now that we have the system all figured out.
I’ll be so glad when this is all deployed… Then we can sleep at night. 🙂
Fitness – End of Week 2 Report
by Travis on Jun.08, 2008, under Fitness
Ok, so nothing too dramatic to report this time around. It’s been an overall great week with the program however. A plus side this week was the ability to complete all of the exercises in their entirety without stopping, exception Yoga. People who do Yoga are crazy in the head for the record. I’m not dogging on you by any means, I respect you but you’re still crazy. 🙂 Seriously though that has by far been the hardest thing for me to get through. Quite possibly because I am hardly flexible. I am getting better though. I can reach some lengths I couldn’t a few weeks ago for sure.
I think most of my lack of dramatic progress this last week has been mostly my fault. I’m definitely not eating the way I should all the time. hehe *shrug* what can I say? I’m still losing weight though so I can’t really complain. How many workout programs do you know that can accomplish that if you stick to it?
I think it’s proof positive that you can still have issues with eating everything the way you should all the time and still find a way to get into shape. Overweight people who blame their failures on their eating have no sympathy from me as I’m living proof that the only way you can fail is to give up and there in lies the fault back on the individual.
This week has taught me a lot though and has helped to encourage me to do a lot better and stay more focused on the goals at hand. Getting through all those workouts (again, exception Yoga) taught me that a little application and commitment to a plan can roll out some pretty positive feelings not only about ones self, but even the world around them.
I’ve honestly been more focused this week than I have in a long time and I have a lot to be thankful for with this program and the support I’ve been getting while working with it. As you may have noticed, I’m not divulging the plan until I’ve completed it. Some of you who are smart like that or have found leaked info somewhere have probably already figured it out. Keep it to yourselves. One of my major reasons in doing this was to evaluate so-called commercial workout plans to see if this one in particular works. The only hints I’ll pass off are: the trainer is a mad-man and I have nothing but a world of respect for him.
Stay tuned. 🙂
Another Confirmed – Certain Cable ISP blocking P2P traffic
by Travis on Jun.01, 2008, under Tech Stuff
Ok, so today I have confirmed it.
On occasion I use the Azureus bit torrent client in order to share out or download different files with colleagues and friends of mine, depending on the situation or the type of file. Whenever I would fire up the application, I would *ALWAYS* get a notification that the client couldn’t map traffic to ports XXXX-XXXX no matter which ones I tried. The firewall was setup to allow it through to this computer always and the ports were confirmed open on remote connects however whenever the client would talk out and have it try to talk back it would ALWAYS give me the announcement that it recieved no notification back and there was a problem.
So today, being the first day I fired it up while connected to Qwest. I get no such errors any longer.
Coincidence? I think not. *sigh*
Fitness – End of Week 1 Report
by Travis on Jun.01, 2008, under Fitness
Ok, so I have to say I’m quite impressed with the results thus far. I can’t really post this up as a ‘workout whine session,’ lol. After completion of a week of familiarizing myself with the program and doing some of the exercises then moving into the first full week of the plan I can already tell a difference. If I have this much energy after just a week or so of doing this, I can only imagine how I’ll be at the end of the 14 weeks. I’m actually looking forward to working out now instead of dreading it.
Overall the exercises are a little easier this week than they were last week so that’s helping out a lot. I expect them to get even easier this week… If I could ever get to the point I can do a decent round of pushups and pullups. Which for the record I’ve always had some issues with even when I was 185lbs and in pretty good shape in high school. So far I’ve dropped 2.25 points of bodyfat and lost an inch and a half off my waist. While I don’t expect the results to be this dramatic over the coming weeks it is definitely something that throws some promise to this plan. Even when the results slow down, which they will in the coming weeks, I could see it actually hitting my goal if not surpassing it. I can honestly say I believe the claim that I could be in the best shape of my life at the end of it. We’ll see how it goes though. When it’s all done I’ll post up all the before and after stats and pictures. Even those are showing noticable changes already, lol. 13 weeks to go! 🙂
