At times I can have a lot of things going on.  Some things I can forget about and some I wait and procrastinate and wait till the last minute.  But last night despite the busy schedule I finally said forget it.  I grabbed my iPhone and put some music into my ears and just sat back and relaxed.  It was pretty nice.  I really don’t do that enough I think.

The last couple of weeks have been really long.  For starters my wife left on Thursday 11th to head up and help her mom take care of her dad during back surgery.  I know that took a lot out of her.  I think she is actually coming home today.  I hope so, I miss her.  We missed her birthday and our 8th Anniversary.  I love you Leslie…  We have had lots of soccer practices lately and in this heat it can wear you out.

A couple times I have tried to go out and do some clothes shopping, but wow I will be honest I hate it.  Not to mention things are just so expensive.  Maybe if I wouldn’t have bought the new iPhone it wouldn’t be so bad after all.

And finally, work is work after all.  I’m trying to get mentally prepared for a few big projects that might be coming up in the next few weeks.  Although I did want to start these back in March, it has taken this long to get what we needed configured on the hardware side and to get some good deals going.  For those who know IT work, we are getting ready to switch over to VMware on a blade server.  And I also have to get a new backup server prepped and ready to go and last but not least, learn server 2008 and exchange 2007 so we can migrate our existing email system.

See a lot going on huh?  Not to mention that I seem to need about 1 hour a night to play WoW.  I’m up to level 33 now.  Still a long ways to go to hit 80 and be elite like the others…  hehehe

So I decided to drop some cash Friday and buy the new iPhone.  This is my first time owning one and so far I’m pretty impressed.  Although I knew it would outshine my POS Windows Tilt phone.  So I went with a 32gb iPhone 3G s..

Today I decided to check out the video function on the phone and I like it..

Here is a clip I took and uploaded to you tube right from the phone:

This is Mazzie our Rat Terrier..

I still have a lot to learn about the phone but I think it was the best phone buying decision ever..!!
Well minus the part of telling everyone on the planet your new number!

Thunderrage (Level 10 Paladin)

Finally made it to Iron Forge today.  This place is pretty massive I must say.  Upon entering it there were quite a few travelers and common folk running around.  As a dwarf it reminded me of my families home.  Here is how my day got started:

Earlier, South West of Iron Forge I had a few errands to run for some locals. (Trying to make some coin)  This errand took me deep into a cave with evil creatures.  At one point I had 3 coming at me at once.  I thought I wasn’t going to make it.  I finally hammered my way out past the creatures and went back to my contact to deliver his request.  After doing so, I decided it was the day I made the trek to Iron Forge.

Once I got to Iron Forge, I had to find this secret guy to deliver some reports to (remember I need to get paid, lol) and then I called it a night.  I was too busy from the all day of fighting and running to explore Iron Forge.  I went to the local Inn to call it a night.

So today I was on a mission.  “To get out of the house” hahaha..  Actually I had an agenda.  Goto Fry’s, Academy Sports, Game Stop if needed, then a haircut and then to a good friends house to help him do some web design work.

So my first stop is always the worst.  And what I mean by that is FRY’s.  It’s my candy store really….  So my main focus was to get 2 new laptop mice since one of ours died and the other one, well might as well..  Then I checked on the computer games and started looking at WoW (World of Warcraft) ..  not sure what I was thinking.  So I left with just two mice.  Next stop, Academy Sports.  While looking for some sandals, work called with a server down so while trying to check out some sandals, I had to help get the server running.  I like Academy as they have such a HUGE assortment of foot wear although I didn’t see any UGG Australia wear.  So after finding something that might work, and ran over and grabbed some new soccer shorts and I was out the door.

So, Game Stop was next and I was out of luck.  Haircut yep same deal.  Came home grabbed the laptop, headed to another Game Stop and snagged WoW and the 1st Expansion.  Then off to my friends house for a few hours and finally got my hair cut after that on the way home.    WOW..  Seemed like I was busy all day today.

It’s really good but we are just crazy busy at work.  We have a quite a few big projects that we or I am planning that will need to take place in May.  My boss is in need of a few KVM switches to get all his computers hooked up in his new office.  That way he can configure our new load balancer (Fat Pipe) and our new watchguard firewall.  He is pretty busy too.

One of my major projects is to re-cable our patch panel and switch.  We ordered some custom cables and some new cable management items and they should be in late next week.  So 1st or 2nd weekend of May we will take it down and get it all nice and pretty.  Then our backup project.  WOW this is a killer.  We are trying to determine what will be the best for our company.  It’s tough and a lot of money so we are not trying to rush into a quick decision.

Next project after that is to buy another new server to test and deploy Exchange 2007.  I’m pretty excited about this, however I know it will be a long road.  Especially since I have to split my time between all the other daily tasks and emergency’s.  (I need my co-worker to step it up)

Oh well at least right now it’s Friday night and will think about all of this later in the weekend.

I cannot believe it’s already the 17th.  This month feels like it has just flown by.  In fact it’s been so busy I haven’t posted anything in a long time.

Soccer started back up for 2 weeks now, and that takes up a couple of my free nights after work.  Trying to get the girls ready for spring league games which start in mid February.  Speaking of work, that has been busy too.  We usually are pretty swamped in January right after the holidays.  The IT Dept (my boss and I) came up with our 2009 goal list and there are some things we might not accomplish, but I hope we can complete all of them.  Here are a few items from that list which I also have to learn and research prior to completing.

• Moving from Exchange 2003 to 2007 (on a virtualization system)
• Windows Server 2008 (Active Directory)
• Put in new phone system (ah that is what I’m doing later today) – Check..
• Hire a web/print developer
• And various other goals and small projects.

I have put in a lot of Facebook time looking up people and using it more.  I haven’t played the Wii too much this last week but a whole lot up to last week.  I guess I need to jump on that today and get some time in =).  Tomorrow I will be taking my little brother (I’m a big brother for North Texas Big Brother, Big Sisters) to the movies it should be fun.   I have also been using up my commute time to listen to some cool books lately.  This one is called “The 7th Son” it’s by JC Hutchins.  I I just finished book 2 and starting book 3 today.  What an awesome story so far.  I highly recommend it.  Oh and it’s free to download.  And last but not least we got our final approval for our adoption/foster license.

The rest of January is uncertain except a few things.  Of course more soccer, might goto the sci-fi/comic con in Dallas next weekend and more work and soccer, lol.

Has your January been busy so far?

Sometimes I really don’t understand why we do things the way we do.  For instance, our family room.  We use TV trays for our laptops probably because they are pretty simple to put away if some unexpected company comes knocking on the door.  We have a bookcase and a tv stand which probably needs to be replaced, but I think I will wait till after I get a Flat screen.

Of course it’s usually a mess but we try our best to clean it up.  In fact tonight when we got back from our Christmas vacation we did some picking up.  And now I’m relaxing in the family room on the laptop typing this post.

For those looking for this post about hosted products but I had to pull the post for the time being…
Apologize for the inconvenience.

Once you dive into the world of computers and electronics quite a few products require some type of memory to save things.  For us it’s mainly used for our digital camera, video camera and cell phones.  There are many types of memory but I’m talking about micro sd cards.

Recently I have upgraded my digital camera memory so I can keep more pictures without having to dump them to my laptop every day or two.  Now I can take a few days worth or even go on vacation without taking my laptop in fear of not having enough room to continue taking pictures.

My cell phone has a card so I can keep my photos, work files, and videos stored.  It really comes in handy.  And I’m sure the better the technology gets, the cheaper it will become in the long run.

I think my 2gb flash drive just isn’t doing it’s job anymore.  It finally failed me..  Wait, I guess I could say that I really out grew it.  So I found a 32gb flash drive that was on sale and ordered it up.  Today I finally started to move some data so I can take it with me Everywhere..  lol..  You never know when you will need that data.

It really comes in handy at work sometimes.  I use it to get drivers and bios updates that I download to new desktops and laptops that I’m building or rebuilding.  This helps out a lot.  It’s pretty fast running on usb 2.0 and so far I love the space it has.

I’m sure once the 64gb flash drives come down a little more in price I will probably jump to get one of those to.