December 30, 2003
Burrr

tomorrow is kind of like Thursay because there is still one day to work after that. Friday. But no work thursday...

Last night i had a crapy headache and it took me a while to get to sleep. Then i woke up with it again around midnight, took some drugs, they didn't help so 40 min later i took 3 of 2 other types of drugs that help with headaches. I slept fine after a little while after that. Tiffany was suprised my tummy was ok. But I wasn't I nearly have a gut-o-steel. Its after my tummy that i start getting problems if I'm going to get problems...

Its damn cold. Not as cold as last night i don't think but still damn cold.

Posted by Ben at 06:53 PM
December 29, 2003
sleepysnowy

It is all cold snowy and icey out side. They even sent Tiffany home from work early. I worked my normal day then came home to play some GTA VC. Great fuckin game. My head hurts.

Tiffany is currently plotting her methods of which she will use to make affordable the sony 828 digital camera which came out today.

I updated the stuff page as well as the watches page.

I've got a headache. it sucks. I'm gonna go now.

Posted by Ben at 07:57 PM
December 28, 2003
Late but good

So we wen't and visted my cousin and grandma Grants Pass yesterday, and Collyn came and found us last night. We hung out at Jeffs cold cold place and watched a movie that should have never been made, Too Fast Too Furious. I'd say about 90% of the line were dumb, dumb as hell.

Tiffany also still isn't feeling so well so she requested (we didn't have too). That we go home so last night we got back home at around 3am. We just got up about 20 min ago and the cats were cute and cuddely with us in bed. I think its because they are normaly sleeping at about that time and they wanted body heat... Or maybe they do like us. They are damn cute thats for sure. Murray is here purring away and was sniffing at the keys a moment a go.,

I need to open a Savings account. Cause I got $2000 well I will as soon as I tell my stepmom my account number.

Posted by Ben at 11:20 AM
December 27, 2003
Rising Early

I should still be sleeping. But my dad insisted on leaving salem at 8 this morning meaning he will be here around 9, When I normaly wake on weeknds. I called jeff last night and Tiffany and I will be crashing with him.

Chris called last night and he got his x-mas gift. and as an added bonus it was nearly damaged in shipping. Luckly he doesn't keep cds in cases long. He also had another thing damaged that was for his car. I think the delivery people are out to get him. Hopefuly they are not out to get me because I recently ordered a couple of CDs from Amazon for my self.

Now should I take my camera today or not? hmm... What to pack and what not to pack....

Posted by Ben at 07:57 AM
December 26, 2003
Busy busy.

Tomorrow to GP to see cousins and Collyn.

Next weeks schedule looks like this weeks only its next week. Thursday off and back to work on friday. I'm not as busy as some people i know like Collyn and Kala but hey thats ok.

Ouch. Just paid my ISP bill. Nearly $95 oh well. So far I still think it is worth it to not be payin' comshaft and their nazi restrictions.

Posted by Ben at 09:39 PM
December 25, 2003
Homeish

Home again. Christmas this year wasn't near as magical as years past but I think that has something to do witht he lack of presents this year and the trip to folorida bing a presnt. ALso not waking up in the same house as my parents at the ass crack of dawn to open pressents. Well I haven't done the ass crack of dawn thing for a several years now, well not unless prompted by someone waking me up to do so 1st. Anyways it wasn't a bad holiday just one that makes ya kinda realize your grownin' up and it sucks....

Saturday Tiffany, my Dad, My Sis, and I will be goin' to Grants Pass. Tiffany gets to meet my dads side of the family and such. And I get to see my cousins again I haven't seen them since just before I started my current job. Turns out my cousin David is a dad and the kids name is Grace. He also is now a manger at one of the DB stands in Medford so it is possible Collyn has met him or seen him now if she still does the DB thing... Perhaps we could meet up with Collyn sometime this weekend...

Posted by Ben at 07:52 PM
December 24, 2003
Merry XXXmas...

Merry Christmas all you people out there who celebrate it. and if you don't celebrate it happy what ever you celebrate.

I got off work early because no one was calling today. I did however speak to a couple of people who didn't even try to fix their problems 1st. They called I sent a doc when they called back 5 min later they had the document hadn't even tried to read it and see what is going on.

After work I went to Tiffany's parents place for some Christmas eve stuff. Tomorrow is busy going to Salem possibly Albany and maybe even visting my mom's side of the family at some point.

Posted by Ben at 10:18 PM
December 23, 2003
Enjoy the ride?

To my California friends did you enjoy your earthquake yesterday?

I forgot to post yesterday. I will blame it on being sick and Tiffany's PS2, as well as GTAVC and Simpsons Road Rage...

Work is rough when you are sick. I think I'm feeling a bit better today but I didn't sleep so well so we will see if I stay on track to weldom again.

Last min shoping. I still have some todo. For my mom and sister and maybe others but others and sister may just get Gift Certificates for someplace...

8:17pm: here is the good the bad and fuzzy images form the animalkingdom.

Posted by Ben at 07:22 AM
December 21, 2003
sick=early christmas,

I'm still sick and it still sucks. I did sleep better last night and I think I feel a bit better today than yesterday. But yesterday was spent out a Tiffany's parents and there was some heavy lifting involved which I'm sure didn't help. The advantage to my being sick is Tiffany took pitty on me and gave me my X-mas gift early. She got me all the James Bond Movies on DVD.

I've been working on the florida page some. I still have to create a photos page and resize the images to a website/viewer friendly sizes. Some of the Shots I'm very pleased with.

Tomorrow I go back to work for 4 out of 5 days of the work week. So I'm working my way up to a full work week again. My next paycheck will be a bit weak but thats ok because Florida was fun.

Tiffany is having trouble deciding on what she wants for X-mas. But shes out now and has my ATM card so who knows what she will come back with. She has my ATM card not for shoping but because she was going to deposite a couple of cheques for me in the bank. I really doubt she will that unless she called 1st or let me know befor hand.

So what do you all want for christmas?

Posted by Ben at 11:42 AM
December 20, 2003
Blaeck

I'm sick. It sucks.

Tiffany's dad's new TV is cool. Lots of inputs.

Tomorrow I plan on doing a whole lot of nothing unless I'm feeling better tomorrow.

I'm looking for a DVD player that can connect to a network and play things from a server like videos and Mp3s so far there are a few out there but none strike me as exactly what we are looking for. A computer comes up real close but too costly. Many of the DVD players that are close also seem to be too costly. An X-Box with the right software may be whats inorder.

Posted by Ben at 06:30 PM
December 19, 2003
2 days-o-work

I got a call from my old work today. They need me. Too bad cause I can't help much cause I hardly was able to do what they need done. the person before me set it up. Perhaps I will be nice and give them a call monday or this weekend and leave a message...

Winamp 5 is officaly out. Its cool.

Nathan is going to be having another get togheter to play games tomorrow. and this time I'm screwed because it's laundry day and hook up Tiffany's dads HDTV X-mas gift. Maybe maybe I will get lucky and be able to make it. Last time it was fun.

Work is making me work christmas eve and the day after. That is BS i tell you.

Posted by Ben at 06:14 PM
December 18, 2003
Return from the East

I'm back. It was a fun trip. I have a page all about the trip in the works. And a few pictures but not a lot because I'm too lazy to take my camera with me everyplace. But there are a few pictures from my phone cam that I will eventually put up someplace, most likely near the section about the trip. So there will most likely only be metntion of the trip here not much detail.

I missed you all. But now its time for me to think about getting ready for work. I will most likely post more after I get off work.

Posted by Ben at 07:16 AM
December 08, 2003
A Matter of hours.

It is now only a matter of hours until my flight. Aprox: 13.5 hours. So ya. I think I'm all packed. A duffel back with my clothes and my laptop case, not backpack. Tiffany packed my blue pack in her big luggage incase i need it on the way back. I try to pack lite when i can.

Crap! my compute rust seems to have locked up for the most part. at least everything on the left monitor. DAMN! Well I'm gonna go. Don't expect to many posts while I'm gone.

Posted by Ben at 05:03 PM
December 07, 2003
t-munis 48hours

By this time Tuesday I will be in the air if not actualy sitting somewhere. Like atlanta for a stop over. I have yet to do any sort of packing. That is on the list of things to do. Infact its about all I have to do to get ready at this point. I just have to figure out how/what I'm gonna pack and the kind of luggage I'm gonna feel like going with. Duffel bag?, Backpack?, Huge rolly case? Laptop backpack or just laptop case for the laptop. Not to mention things like what toys get packed where.

The time at Nathan's place was pretty fun last night. Played games. Drank beer BSed with people for a few hours and stayed up way past my bedtime. Good times I tell ya. I just hope i didn't mess my sleep pattern up too much to get to bed at a decent horu tonight so i won't be fuckered for monday and tuesday.

I think I'm gonna shower. Then see if i can figure out how to properly strip the text from the mobile cam page. Even if i can't figure it out I will post a link to before I leave so you can see some crapy pictures from my cool phones crapy camera.

Posted by Ben at 05:01 PM
t-munis 48hours

By this time Tuesday I will be in the air if not actualy sitting somewhere. Like atlanta for a stop over. I have yet to do any sort of packing. That is on the list of things to do. Infact its about all I have to do to get ready at this point. I just have to figure out how/what I'm gonna pack and the kind of luggage I'm gonna feel like going with. Duffel bag?, Backpack?, Huge rolly case? Laptop backpack or just laptop case for the laptop. Not to mention things like what toys get packed where.

The time at Nathan's place was pretty fun last night. Played games. Drank beer BSed with people for a few hours and stayed up way past my bedtime. Good times I tell ya. I just hope i didn't mess my sleep pattern up too much to get to bed at a decent horu tonight so i won't be fuckered for monday and tuesday.

I think I'm gonna shower. Then see if i can figure out how to properly strip the text from the mobile cam page. Even if i can't figure it out I will post a link to before I leave so you can see some crapy pictures from my cool phones crapy camera.

Posted by Ben at 12:26 PM
December 06, 2003
beer, games, cats, geekness.

I think I'm gonna be hanging out at nathan's tonight for beer and video games. and who knows what other kinds of maham. Tomorrow I pack. Or maybe monday.

I still haven't quite got the photo thing worked out but I'm getting closer all the time. It strips the text i don't want out but it also strips the attchment as well. This is a problem for me.

The cats are at Tiffanys parents house hanging out with the dogs. One of the dogs is actualy smaller than the cats. The other only slightly bigger.

Posted by Ben at 04:57 PM
December 05, 2003
Damnnear

I'm damn near getting my phonecam page working. I'm also damn annoyed that Its not there yet.... oh well. I blame t-mobile.... for putting that goddamn crap ass tag on all outgoing e-mails from their system. fucking advetising shit on my bits.

Work was ok today. Took abotu a million calls. The new techs are gonna make a mess and its going to be ugly.... Rob has a list and he checks it just once and if your on it your supervisor is getting an email from him.

Tonight Tiffany has mandated that something fun happens. I have no idea what we are going to do.

Chris also now maybe able to pick us up at the Air port on the 17th. Woohoo...

Posted by Ben at 06:38 PM
December 04, 2003
2 days of work and 2 days of weekend until Florida

I don't remember if i mentioned it but I got apache to be a reverse proxy for a server for chris so now he can run a webserver off of it. And I also got my new mobile cam page mostly working. Just a few things like gettings some annoying text that says "This message was sent from a t-mobile wireless phone" and getting all the images to send all the time... Once its 100% or close enough I will let you know.

Work work work. The phones died 2 times today. It was coool. Two more days of work then Florida. And 2 days of weekend too. Hopefuly I will get to hang with Nathan and some other people sometime this weekend causing trouble. 65 Techs hitting the floors between today, tomrrow, and monday. That is a lot of damn techs who suck. The training quality has gone down quite a bit. I have a feeling that is because they are in such a rush to get the people ready to take calls. Hopefuly they will learn quickly and suck less. Thankful I will be gone for most of the 1st week that they will be there and part of the 2nd. hopefuly long enough for them to figure shit out and not annoy the people who do know what they are doing too much....

Question. Does anyone one out there also have a phone cam? interested in a phone cam page or paricipating in mine?

Posted by Ben at 07:20 PM
December 03, 2003
getting closer and closer to the end.

The week is now more than halfway over. Woohoo. 2 days left then 1 more of work then its a week of sunny beaches and good tiems in Florida.Woohoo...

There was something i wanted to do once i got home today. But i don't remember what.

my hosting company is going to be upgrading the e-mail stuff for all the subscribers which is very cool. They will be adding webmail and imap access for free. Woohoo.. not like i need any more access to my damn e-mail ...

Posted by Ben at 04:59 PM
December 02, 2003
Rework the conf.

Honey is gonna be getting a bit of attention from me so that I can get a revser proxy to chri's server setup so he can host what ever worthless crap he wants off of that one. Hopefuly what I want to do is possible and not toooo hard to do.

One week. Woohoo.. This week at work is going slow. Oh well 3 more days left so its slowly but surely going away.

Posted by Ben at 04:54 PM
December 01, 2003
DOH Its not broked.

So my nifty wireless handsfree for my wireless phone is fine. I just pluged it in to a nokia charger vs its charger. Plugged it in to the right charger problem sovled.

Way too many calls at work today. all because of the 4 day weekend. So people had extra time to really fuck things up in there computers before calling us. My mentoreee took calls today. He needs to learn to take control of the call. I gave him the car anaogy. They Call is like a car and your in the drivers seat, if the customer reaches over you slap them and take control again. He needs to learn exit points too.. A 70 year old man was playing mind games with him. It was sad... Oh well its all part of learning to do the job...

Mext week is Florida. Next Tuesday I leave at the asscrack of dawn. woohoo..

I've worked a bit on making the main page a bit more dynamic as far as administration and updating goes. But once I's up you most likely won't be able to tell. I'm still kinda playing with the whole getting my phone to show pictures on the web thing but we will see how that goes.

Wholy crap. I just saw a video of someone beating SuperMario 3 in 11 Min. That is NUTS!

Posted by Ben at 04:59 PM