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so not that anything HORRIBLE is happening... but it is turning into an annoying day...
first... while attempting to repair my mom's iMac, I find that the hard drive is not readable. For those who don't know... her iMac was working fine... then half of the town lost their power. Then the power came back on, but her iMac won't work. I have tried everything, couldn't boot it up... Not that I have lost any of MY data, it is still frustrating... We got her a new iMac (20inch iMac G5) and it is very nice. Now she may start backing up on DVDs and this can be alleviated.
Then I stayed home waiting for the couch to be delivered. I cleaned the house a bit, organized stuff, etc. Got ready for the couch... they showed up around 1:20 or so, and low and behold the couch won't fit up the stairway. Damnit.
So I have a clean living room and a couch I like, just no way to get it up there. I have some thoughts on how to remedy this. It involves removing walls. We shall see.
So now I am at back at work... Get some shit done, then go check out a garage space with dylan tonight before my parents get into town...
word.
so so so busy…
and robs pointed out it has been a while since I updated... so word up...
got the website up, although not without much hassle from the hosting firm... but it is up... finally. I reiterate, they suck.
On to better things... I got the jetta running on saturday. Well, it wasn't NOT running, but it was leaking coolant. Dylan and I replaced a hard pipe on the coolant system and she is running fine now. Oddly enough, Cali sat on the street for nearly 2 months (end of may to last saturday) and still started right up. That was cool. Remember that key item, it will come back in a minute. We replaced the line because on Sunday, I entered Cali into the CVO's annual car show, Treffen.
Since Cali is hardly a PRETTY car much less a show car, I had to have some fun with it... Here are the pics... I won 'Jetta Least Likely To Make It Home'. It was a good time. There were some nice cars there. I got a fair amount of amusement out of watching the other people laugh at my car. I was having a good time.
It did however remind me that I want to get this engine built and into the jetta so I can actually have a better running, non-leaking jetta. It would rule.
So that was the weekend for the most part. I have been working lots, due to things at work not working correctly. Stupid computers. But they seem to be coming together nicely. Monday night we went out to my parent's house to go couch shopping and so that I could fix my mom's computer. Her iMac died when the power went out... so I had low hopes and I think I am correct, I can't get the machine to boot AT ALL. I will try tonight to see if I can recover the files on the hard drive. Fingers crossed.
We did find a couch and my parents threw in some money and it will be delivered tomorrow. I am excited because we NEED a couch in that room. Or something to sit on. I am of course grateful that my parents helped out, although I feel a bit... not sure of the word... extremely grateful... not uncomfortable per se... but anyway. It rules though!
But between early saturday morning, early sunday morning, being in the sun all sunday, early monday morning, shopping and computer stuff monday night, I crashed come tuesday after work.
We ordered pizza hut. Pizza hut is one of those things that I THINK I want... and I think, man, I haven't had pizza hut in a while. So we get it. and I eat it. And I remember that I don't like it that much. But oh well. We ordered online and ordered the new twisty bread bread stick crust thing that they have been advertising the hell out of... only to have them call me after the order and tell me they don't have it, since it was promotional. I am not sure if it is too early, or too late, but it seemed odd. Whatever I guess. The guy that delivered it was in a Lincoln Towncar. It was kinda odd. He also spoke in a such a way that you would think a MadTV or SNL sketch comedy person would talk in. It was odd. His name badge said "team manager". weirdo.
So the couch is coming tomorrow... and I am getting mom a new computer tonight (eMac)...
is that a good enough post robs?
hold times may be longer than normal…
OMG ... so I am trying to finish this website for a client... the site is done. the client said make it live. The webhosting company is having trouble telling me what the FREAKING MYSQL HOSTNAME IS. I can't make the DB without the host name.
So I am trying to get that information... so I am on hold. Again. This is like the 5th time (no joke) that I have called them. I have called them in the morning. I have called them from work. I have called them at night. Currently, the timer on my phone says 40 minutes... on hold. listening to music. occasionally interrupted to say that they are all busy. and they appreciate my patience. OMG so annoying. To make it MORE annoying, the woman from the client's office called them today as well, and they told her they didn't KNOW THE HOST. wtf?
I hate it. HATE IT. I am going nuts. Screw you TDS.NET!
Ok... update...
I finally talked to someone after 49 minutes on hold... and he has no idea what the mysql hostname is. Nor does anyone there... so he is going to hopefully get an answer tomorrow during the day and email that to me, tomorrow. This is after I had to call them because PHP wasn't working. Evidently they didn't ever test it? I have no idea... but they were able to fix it. Eventually. So I guess they are nice guys, but this is nor a hard request. It is not complex, and it is a service the client is paying for and thus, shouldn't be that hard. The techs should know HOW to access it. It is a required part of ANYONE USING THE DATABASE. The database included in their package, that they pay for. ARG.
a place to call home
so after a LONG LONG weekend, we moved. I finished the floor on the main floor on saturday night, and moved all the big furniture on sunday. Thanks to my dad and brother for helping me with the move. I rented a pickup truck from uhaul for the day, $30, and moved the bed, couches, etc. The red couch didn't make it up the stairs, so we need a new couch for the living room, but overall, I am happy.
We slept there for the first time last night and it is a nice feeling. Now we get to unpack, buy more crap, etc.