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?

December for some companies is rather slow, some companies are rather busy.  Most times the company I work for is about medium pace.  However yesterday I made a list of the projects that need to be completed.  Some of them sooner than later, and of course all of them will take more than 1 day to accomplish.  Let’s not also forget the daily issues that come up.  Kind of like yesterday.

I had planned to start down my project list and then it happened.  “A Problem” hehe.  I get an email from our accountant and she was having some issues with quickbooks enterprise.  So I start to check into it and soon realized I was going to have to call their support line (which is a total pain).  That call lasted about 1 hour and to make a long story short, I worked this quickbooks issue from 845am till about 2pm.  Not really what I had in mind, but it’s my job so what can I do.  So moving along, here is a list of some of the projects that I need to start working on.

• Upgrade to Diskeeper 9
• Upgrade to Quickbooks Enterprise 9
• Upgrade our in house instant messenger (OpenFire)
• Patch our Domain Controllers
• Finish packaging up Adobe 9 to be installed by Group Policy Push
• Upgrade our VMware software
• Upgrade our LeftHand Networks software
• Quarterly maintenance on our Exchange Server

So as you can see I have a lot to work on and this is about 50% of my complete list.  I cannot pay you but if you would like to help any in way, I will greatly accept it, lol.

After being settled into the new office for a few months now, everything seems to be going pretty good.  Still liking the layout and there are only a couple of minor things to really gripe about.  However the lighting in the office is not to be desired, really.  The fluorescent lights are over powering at times.  The only drawback to this lighting and the layout is the corners do not get as much light as the rest of the office.  I’m trying to figure out a solution to this and I might need to check out maxim lighting.  What would really be cool is the under shelf lighting around the office, now that would be cool.  And it would brighten up the whole desk area as well and then the corners would not be that dark.  I’m going to go pitch that to management and try and get this issue resolved!

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Office Makeover Update

In a previous post I had talked about my all morning long fence repair that myself and a neighbor did.  I can say now that my back fence is pretty strong.  However my neighbors fence, not so much.  In fact both neighbors, the left and right one, both have there back fences leaning outward at a horrible degree.  I think if they do not do something rather soon they might need a new fence installation.

If they don’t they it might look a little silly since my fence would still be standing there.  Then again you never know.  I will see if I can get a picture so you know what I’m talking about, stayed tuned.!

OK so they got to work on the office today.  It’s about 1/2 way done.  They say we should be able to move into it tomorrow.  I will snap some shots of it after we get everything installed and hooked up.

Happy?  Yeah for the most part, somethings I wish were different already, but who am I to complain.

Here you go:

I really like the overhead cabinets and shelves..

I have added or maybe I should say that I installed a Do Follow for Comments plugin so all comments will now be followed.  I hope this might encourage anyone out there who does read my blog to comment once in awhile.

I have also installed the commentluv plugin which will enable you to have a link to your last blog post show up in your comment if you wish to choose that option.

Things have been nuts at work today and with soccer tryouts this week, I haven’t been all there mentally so hopefully I will find some time later tonight to get some posts moving along and get my drops back on entrecard since I haven’t had much time to spend dropping my cards on other people’s blog..