Light as Hell Mass Mailer is almost ready for beta. Wow, it is very late, but I’m really excited that I actually got the core working tonight. This thing is very fast, mostly because it’s not MySQL reliant, which means almost NO overhead. That combined with the simplicity of the code makes it fly.
All I need to do now is add some more user error checking in, add a couple more pieces of functionality that I would like to see in there, reformat the index page, and rearrange some code. After that, this thing will be ready to roll on the beta train.
Hopefully this is the first of many LaH Products. I’m planning a contact form w/ handler, a couple of other handy tools, and a CMS (cross your fingers).
Woot!
We’ll start with the less exciting news, which is that I need to do laundry tomorrow, which should be fun. The more exciting news is that I got both monitors working with Fedora. All I needed to do was put Options “Twinview” in the Device section of xorg.conf.. a quick restart and we were set, that was amazing.. My only problem with it so far is that it treats it as one very wide monitor, which will make it difficult if I try to do steam games on it (which is the plan).
Here was the day..
Cody called at about 10:30 am, I’m amazed I answered, I usually don’t let anything disrupt my sleep until like 1 when I finally get out of bed to shower for work. We went out to dennys which was delicious.. There is something about sitting over a hot meal with coffee/tea that just makes everything easier to talk about.. We usually talk about just about everything, today was mostly on the subject of Gay/Transexual rights in the united states. It was a pretty good conversation, basically all that came from it was that we don’t think the same as most of the utah conservatives, but that’s A OK. Everyone can have their own opinion. IMO, in a perfect world, the government wouldn’t have to make laws for these types of things.. Anyone can get married… but we aren’t there yet.
I was still feeling sick from the chocolate sticks the night before.. when I got to work, so I didn’t really work very well. Usually I can punch out chats like nobodies business, but today they just weren’t flowing. I decided I didn’t feel well enough to stay, then I left and went to Cody’s house. We looked at apartments for a while and made a few calls (there were two basement apartments that look AWESOME, and are competitively priced, so we’ll see what happens.. I really want to be moved out as soon as I can find a place where I do want to live. I feel like moving out of my parents house will save me quite a bit of cash, and here is why. With my current schedule, when I get home everyone else in the house is asleep. My parents work early in the morning, and are light sleepers, so I can’t exactly make a pan of mac and cheese without waking them up. When I move out, it will feel like I can make a bit of noise in the kitchen without causing too much disturbance. Moving out will also allow me to keep inventory of the pantry so I can make quick lunches to take to work.. That is 10 possible fast food meals per week that will be dropped, aka a ton of money that will be saved.
While we’re on the topic of saving money, I’m buying a new car soon. I’m planning on getting a Subaru Impreza WRX, they are a pretty fun sporty car to drive, and I’m excited for it, but at the same time, I feel like I’m giving up a part of me by selling my Jeep. My best friend (Eric Nish) is in the Army, and we had some amazing, amazing times with our Jeeps. We went all over utah in those things, and I miss those times a lot. By giving up my jeep I feel like I’ll be giving up those times I had with Eric. I know it’s not true, because they will always be in my memory, and in pictures. Every time I look at that thing it reminds me of my buddy.. We worked on them, travelled in them, partied in them, played, and wheeled in our jeeps, and we were always together doing any of that. Basically what it boils down to is that I miss my best friend, and I see my jeep as a connection to him.. I’m going to write him a letter tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes.
I actually worked out today, which was good. I did a 20 minute insanity video for cardio abs. I’m sure I’ll feel it tomorrow, but it sure reminded me how out of shape I am.
-Eric
I make a lot of plans, most of them fall through.. Like just a few hours ago I made a plan to be asleep at 2 am. It’s later than that now.. oh well though, this plan is different. Basically I want to be a bum for a while. I don’t want to set any time frame on it, because that would ruin the whole experience..
Basically what I want to do is save up a bit of money, get a camera, then hop on a train to Seattle. Once I’m there I’ll stay at the local hostels for a while, then venture out into the open.. If I dig it quite a bit in Seattle then I’ll stay, if not, I’ll move on. I’ll just keep going like this until I find a place I dig the most.. Once I’m there I’ll stop, get a job, and see how things pan out.. If things look promising, then I’ll stay, if not, then I’ll keep on going. If I don’t find a place, well then I guess I’ll just get back to Utah. I’ll know when the search is over. Who knows, maybe I’ll end up in Germany, or UK.. I don’t think my money will take me that far though. I want to do this before I’m old and have responsibilities like bills and a house. Maybe I’ll find a girl out there who is just as lost as me.
The whole process, I think will take about 4 months.. maybe longer, maybe less, but we’ll see. I’m going to keep a blog of what I do every day, with pictures and addresses, so we’ll see how it goes.
This is just one plan though, I’ve got several to choose from, it just depends on what I end up doing. Even if I don’t do this plan, I still want to take a train to seattle and chill out up there for a few weeks. Either way I want to stay here. The green tortoise hostel just looks awesome. I don’t really have a problem sharing my room with a few extra mates.
This blog won’t be like the countless others in the past, because I really don’t care who is reading this, thus I don’t have to please anybody.. it’ll be great. I tend to write the best when I’ve ingested something to alter my train of thought (like ambien). So I’m not sure how long this blog post will be..
I had the urge to write 10 seconds ago, so here I am, talking about my life.
Today I woke up shortly after 12 PM and got on Facebook, because that is what I do almost every morning.. I pull it up, notice nothing is new, poke around for a bit, then get out of bed. That is the start of the morning routine. Pants.. ugh pants are so situational, at this point in my story, my bear legs are just dangling off the side of my bead, with goosebumps starting to form. I searched around the room, tossing different pairs of pants left and right, “Dirty, Stinks, too Formal, too Formal, I’m wearing those later, ah sweet here we are.” I finally settled on a too big pear of sweatpants that are super comfortable. I walked upstairs, interrupted my mother’s rare afternoon nap, which I felt bad about, and made a bowl of Crunch Berries. Delicious Delicious Crunch berries. So the morning went about like that, and I finally dragged my self to Garys to get a drink before work. I helped a few customers like in the old days when I used to work there, got a two dollar tip, then meandered inside for a beverage. 32oz pepsi, I was on my way.
There was a giant jug of water left over from the wheelin’ on Saturday, I noticed this jug of water sitting upright on the passenger side floor. The 800N light was approaching so I slowed my pace. I slowed down fast enough to make the jug of water fall over, break the cap off, and start spilling gross amounts of water everywhere.. I grabbed the jug put it upright and pulled into the sonic to throw it away. Jug tossed safe now, driving out of sonic I noticed a cutie on roller skates delivering food. Had she not looked flustered, I may have stopped to say hi.. Probably not though, so I kept driving. Off to work I go!!
Over the last two months or so, brent’s mood has been decreasing steadily, and I’m not sure why. I don’t know how much longer brent’s mood will continue to decline, or what the cause of the decline is, but I am interested in getting this fixed. Brent is a co worker that I don’t know too well, but I’ve heard from one of his friends that he is quite a nice guy. That being said, I’m not a big fan of the current brent. Right now, I just try to stay quiet and turn my music up to avoid conflict with him. We shall see what happens.. more updates to come.
Ah Work.. glorious work.. I’m racking my brain trying to come up with a senario where a customer has a reason to be nice to a tech, other than the fact that we’re both humans (which is often ignored). Right now I can’t come up with anything, but there may be one later if I feel not lazy enough. So that basically describes how the actual work part of my work day experience. Near the end of the work day, I was craving some chocolate dunkers, so I ordered some from pizzahut.. we didn’t hit the minimum delivery threshold, so I got another double order.. For some reason, it takes an hour and 15 minutes to make these and deliver them, I’m not sure why.. So I clocked out for the day, and went outside to wait for my chocolate sticks. Casey and Thomas stayed along, when the dude finally arrived he said for some reason the online system didn’t charge my card, which was BS, but whatever.. We went inside and enjoyed a shit load of chocolate dunkers.. it takes me about 3/4 of one order to start feeling the chocolate OD that followed. I gave the rest to Tim.
Tux
Came home feeling a little sick from the dunkers, but all in all pretty good. Found the problem that fedora was having with the proprietary nvidia drivers.. I forgot to add rdblacklist=nouveau to BOTH kernel lines in /boot/grub/grub.conf, so now that that is taken care of she boots with an X server now. Still not as good as I would like, because it’s only grabbing one of my monitors that is currently hooked up.. I tried to read up on how to set up a dualhead system, but was lost quickly in outdated stuff.. I’ll have to see if I can get into the nvidia docs tomorrow. if not, i may just reinstall with windows so I can play tf2.
I’m in bed now, gettin pretty tired, listening to Mykonos by Fleet Foxes.. they’re so good.
Time for some site maintenance then sleep. night!
