Yeah, so even with the raise, I’m thinking it will be a while before I really go all the way and upgrade the hell out of my network. With the fileserver on the fritz and the linux router missing a few pieces, it just isn’t in the cards. But hell, I should be able to pay off debts. Won’t that be cool?

I caught the Hellboy animated thing I posted about eariler. Not sure how it fits in continuity-wise, but otherwise it was spot-on. The dialogue was good, the art was good. My only complaint was the 12-year-old Liz. I mean that’s just odd. Also, with the guy who was the actual body for Abe in the movie doing his voice, I was struck by how much closer to Abe he sounded than Dr. Niles Crane. But that is beside the point.

Have you been watching Heroes? You should be. It pretty much rocks. That and Pumpkin Scissors, but then that’s fansubbed, so fewer people will bittorrent it and watch it. Fewer than just turn on NBC and catch the best drama that isn’t SVU or 24 that’s currently on TV. Whew. Dodged a bullet there. Would have to explain to Hogan’s Heroes, Get Smart or Dragnet why I was seeing another show, much less praising it as highly as I praise them.

Got a free Blackberry with the new job as well, so that’s cool. I can make long distance phone calls, whooo! I also have an office and business cards. The office is a first time for me (previously it has been cubes or a shared office), I mean it has no windows and is basically a storage room with a door to the server closet, but hell, its an office and its mine. The business cards are a second for me. I’ve had them at Lex 2.

Burning Crusade was delayed from November to January. This is a good thing because it will give me time to pick up and play Final Fantasy XII. This is a bad thing because I want to start playing my Big Blue Space Demon Paladin. Creatively I’m thinking of naming her Blulicity. As my current human is Calicity, my (short-lived) FFXI mithra was Nyulicity, and my Phantasy Star Universe robot is Robolicity. Yeah, I’m in a rut, but it is a funny rut, you’ve got to give it that.

I need to get back to Kendo. I need to call Steve and get him to talk Aaron (actual name Dale. As he is a balding redheaded ex-marine, I called him Aaron after the Secret Service dude on 24.) to move the night either back to Thursday or to Monday. When it moved to Friday back in August, I lost my ability to go. I mean it kinda messes up one of the two nights I can spend with my girl. If we were living together it would be one thing, but as we are still in seperate houses, this cannot be.

Ah well, I’ve babbled long enough. I’ll be back though.

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Yup, with the raise I’m thinking about upgrading my Roadrunner connection and adding a static IP address to my list of features. That would allow me to move my webpage from ADDR where it is costing me $10/month to a more badass home platform. This would shift overhead more than cut it though, so who knows. I know my fiancee wouldn’t go for it, but I practically had to shove bamboo shoots under her fingernails to get her to replace her 3 year old iPod with the monochrome screen and inability to play anything starting with the letters D, E, F, G, or H. Which made her playlists that contain mostly Evanescence, Dropkick Murphies, Dragonforce, and Flogging Molly a bit unusable.

But yeah, with all that I’m thinking about putting a webserver up, which means increased security, of course. The standard seems to be a double firewall setup with DMZ between them. In the DMZ would be where my more public but still secure site stuff would go. The modem to dial into the Catalyst 5200 switch, the Web/FTP server and some other security measures. Now I want to go all hardcore CTU level security with an Intrusion Detection box and a Bastion Server. Now that I’ve magnified my server load by quite alot, I’m thinking about naming conventions. With only the one before I could call it Redbox (on account of it being red) and feel ok with that. Now I’m torn. I need some cool way to designate servers that is still crazy enough to be memorable. I’m torn between NES games I liked, Transformers, Sexual positions or Bleach captians/vice captains. I’m thinking of going with the Bleach names thing, because it allows me to allude to the function of the box with its name as well as be cool.

While being able to say “I can’t get into DoggyStyle, could somebody check that out” would be fun to say, I’m thinking that it, also, wouldn’t make it past the fiancee.

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Heck yeah! I got that promotion I was talking about. Thirty three percent raise, office, insurance, the whole nine yards. Man, I could (and will) go to the dentist as soon as I get that card. He’ll tell me to floss, like he’s been telling me for almost sixteen years, and I’ll lie to him and say I’ll do my best. See, its just a little odd to take advice from a dentist with bad breath.

Of course, now that I’ve said something, it’ll turn out in the few years since I saw him last that some kind of Halitosis-related accident killed him or something. That’s how my luck runs, I can never say anything bad about people without it being some horrible social faux pas.

It’s rough being me. Pictures of my office soon to follow. I wonder if I can hang up posters and bikini calendars in here…

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Geez, I had a whole set of entries written and about to be edited about Richard Hammond’s insane jet car crash thing that happened last week, but wouldn’t you know it, he’s back up and walking. Seriously that’s one bulletproof TV Host. Now if the show is that bulletproof, I’ll be happy. Apparently there is much hand-wringing among the more pussified classes in Britian about how the show is “too awesome” and might inspire people to be witty and enjoy life. Can’t have that, now can we?

Yes, I am talking about Top Gear. Why aren’t you watching Top Gear?

I’m still working infomally as a tech here at the old McClatchy Call Center. I just finished an NT Image that works on almost all of our clones. An NT Image. Yeah, my skin crawls. Apparently it just isn’t kosher to start mass-upgrading to 2k. That and I don’t have config info for our call logging software. Wouldn’t it just suck to not have Big Brother watching your every call. They wouldn’t have a chance to single me out for being “too blunt.”

Ah well, back to work. Here’s hoping I get that promotion, as I’d hate to go back to full time phone answering. I’d really put the “Swearing” back into phone answering.

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