July 10, 2008

What’s blue and white and still not working?

My internet connection. SO here’s the scoop 5 days until cutover: I call AT&T, tell them I’m moving and need to transfer my Static IP DSL service on the 30th(Monday). Tech says no problem it’s all set. I am pleasantly surprised at how little of a hassle it was and that it was way smoother than any other interaction I’ve had with them. Saturday, 2 days until cutover: We’re planning on doing the actual moving Sunday morning and plan to spend Saturday packing and planning.

June 30, 2008

ow… ow… ow…

So, we’re in the new house as of yesterday- AT&T just finished the dsl line, and everything is up and running- well, except for the 200 boxes that need unpacking. If the site goes down, let me know- AT&T didn’t bother telling me that my static ip was gonna change- I suppose it makes sense, but my gut instinct is they gave me a dynamic IP instead and it’ll change in the next week or two.

June 22, 2008

Closing Time

So we’re finally closing on the house. We close on the 27th, and take possession on Sunday the 29th. We have a lot of work ahead of us. The Todo list goes something like this after moving everything and getting settled: [X] Change locks [X] Build child door over stairwell [_] Replace broken glass panes in both bedrooms [_] Clean out bird nests in vents in roof, add screens outside Next up is things we should do over the next 2 months:

June 19, 2008

5…6…7…

So I was wandering through del.icio.us and stumbled across hundredpushups.com, a site that supposedly helps you get in shape by getting you to do 100 pushups in a row. It lasts 6 weeks and I figured what the hell, I’ll give it a try. My initial test was 8- I could have done more, but my lower abs weren’t used to holding the 20lbs of flab and started feeling like I was gonna have a hernia.

June 7, 2008

Good Wii Games I don’t have…

So I think I need to actually keep track of the Wii games I like so I don’t lose track of them. Here’s what I recall being worth buying, what I am anticipating, and what were good purchases. Mario Kart Wii (bought) Excite Truck (bought) Mario Galaxy Mario Strikers Charged Warioware: Smooth Moves PuzzleQuest Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Metroid Prime: Corruption Spore (?) More to come as I think of them.

June 3, 2008

ping?

*ahem*

June 3, 2008

We hates them, yess prescious, stupid fat banks….

So jackie and I put in an offer on a house march 19th. The sellers agreed on… lets say the 25th of march. So we should have a house, right? Not so fast. Our offer was less than what was owed on the mortgage, so they had to get THEIR bank to approve the short sale. One delay after another. Every 1-7 days they give us another excuse. I’m getting really pissed at this point and needed to vent.

May 31, 2008

Kids in the Hall

So Ian is staying with Jackie’s mom this weekend. Jackie left to drop him off about 10am friday morning with the intent of being back in Troy to pick me up around 6pm. Around 3pm one of the guys I work with walked into the room and began a conversation like this: [matt] Anyone want tickets to see Kids in the Hall? [me] How much? [matt] Free. [me] ooh, I’ll take them!

May 23, 2008

Shutup Shutup Shutup!

die you wretched pc speaker beep that is so loud when I use the find bar in firefox or tab complete in the cli and nothing is found! rmmod pcspkr echo blacklist pcspkr >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist aaah, glorious silence.

May 16, 2008

What’s on QA…

Had an amusing conversation with a developer at work that had the feeling of an abbot and costello bit. I’m leaving his name out of this to protect him, but he’s read this site before and will know instantly that it’s him. The conversation revolves around our new continuous integration system, and how the terminology has changed. BTW, QA=Quality Assurance, UAT= User Acceptance Testing (staging) (10:50:50 AM) morgajel: ok, so after talking to mick, it looks like my suspicions were correct