 |
« October 2006 | Main | December 2006 » November 29, 2006Seriously... What?Me: Hello. You left a message with our department. How may I help you? This was one of the people I had to deal with yesterday. Why on Earth would you schedule an appointment to see a doctor in ANOTHER state without having any means of transportation? The worst part is that she had the audacity to expect UCLA to find a way for her to get there. Hell... if that were the case I'd be scheduling check ups in Hawaii and Europe. How do you say 'cough' in Swedish?
[keywords: Work I-love-my-job] November 27, 2006New Server StoryI finally changed hosting companies and moved servers this week. I remember the first time I changed hosts. I wanted to go to a dedicated server and my current hosting company was just too steep for what they had to offer. I was really disappointed because they were so nice. After searching forums and hosting review sites I found one company that always had great reviews. I went with them and was very happy. Then they were bought out. The stellar support I counted on changed to 'just okay'... and it went downhill from there. The old company answered tickets almost immediately (I think 30 seconds was the fastest). The new company once took two days to answer a ticket. It wasn't that big of a deal, but the time lapse was still pretty shocking. I outgrew my server and finally decided to move on. My new hosting company is EV1 Servers. I looked through hosting review sites and for the most part I've read positive comments. So far so good! The customer service rep was extremely helpful and nice. He worked with me to get the server I wanted and help me through the initial steps. The support was fast and courteous, and I really like the fact that I can actually talk to someone instead of waiting on an email. I was stuck when it came to setting up the server and transferring data. My best friend, :bane:, usually helps me on the server but was stuck working every night. He found Platinum Server Management, who I recommend to ANYONE wanting to set up their server, make sure it's secure or needing someone to monitor their server. I emailed them on Sunday not expecting much to happen. By late afternoon I had received five emails listing what they had done and updating me on what was still needed. I was amazed. I'm not sure if I want to continue to pay them monthly, but it was worth a one month fee. Now the icky part. Telling my old hosting company to shut my account. I sent them a ticket Saturday at 12:30PM and got a curt reply 24 hours later stating that it will be dealt with during normal business hours. I'm crossing my fingers they don't come up with some weird fee to hit me up for.
[keywords: Maintenance nct server] November 20, 2006A Bitch of a MonthThe last month (or two) have been a pain in the ass. Between me trying to eat normal again (and failing), updating :nct: (fucking that up), updating the gallery (see: NCT) and finding a new server (Hurrah! I found one!) I have been disinterested in doing anything else. Some of it is finally falling into place (thanks to :bane:), so I will be back to enjoying my online experience soon. My post operative healing has been an eye opening experience to say the least. The other night I tried eating chicken strips from a grocery store deli and ended up ripping something inside and coughing up blood. Yeah, that's attractive. Supposedly I should be eating normally by the third month. Thanksgiving should be interesting. Updating the forum on :nct: has been another exercise in patience. I made TWO test forums and had :bane: walking me through the problem hacks only to fuck up the real board. We're not even going to discuss me accidentally putting the upgrade to :nct: and :bane: having to spend three hours unfucking that up. When it came down to the live update I managed to miss an error that was on the test forums, do something to the front page that made it wonky and erase the log in section. Yeah, that was just a few of the errors. It's still not completely fixed, but whatever. The galleries were expected to go down with the upgrade. What I *didn't* expect was for it not to upgrade correctly. As of now I still have two galleries that don't work and no idea as to how to fix them. Go me! The server issue has been one that's been around for a while. Our server sucks. It's slow. It's old. Our current hosting company is too expensive for me to upgrade so we started looking around. More on that baby later. I'm sorry I haven't been updating the journal and I'm sorry I haven't been talking to a lot of my dear friends. I miss you all so much and promise to get back to normal once this is all over with. Hopefully this weekend will be the magic number for finalizing everything and I can sit back and breathe....
[keywords: Health Maintenance nct] November 16, 2006ARGH!I am waiting for a VERY important email and Hotmail has been giving me the "Server too busy" message for the last hour. *screams* If my website email wasn't slammed with so much spam I would have asked them to send it there. I just didn't want to chance it getting junked. *grumbles* Death to all spammers!
[keywords: hotmail spammers] November 13, 2006Three Days of HellI cannot believe how bad this past weekend was. All the preparations. All the testing... for nothing. I've been trying to upgrade :nct: for a while now, and finally decided to do it. I did TWO tester sites to upgrade beforehand and make sure all was well. After all that I still ended up fucking everything up. On Saturday I accidently uploaded the wrong config file and started to upgrade :nct: live. After freaking out and calling :bane: in tears he spent three hours fixing it and went to work on two hours of sleep. On Sunday I finally went live only to find the front page was wonky and the board was buggy. The new shoutbox (that I hate) doesn't work for everyone and now I am stuck with a semi working site. *sigh* At this point I am honestly ready to say 'fuck it' and just close the thing down. Irrational? Yes. But I waisted my whole long weekend only to end up with a fucked up site and begging for help between Bane's work schedule and help forums time differences. Bah!
[keywords: nct upgrade] November 08, 2006Democrats In Da House! W00t!It was a pretty wild election day for us. :jake: and I met after work to cast our votes in the usual spot. I was going to send it in... but with all the vote problems of the past I didn't want to chance it. I figured Schwarzenegger was going to win again, but was surprised to see the Democrats take the House. The only thing I heard was a possible Senate takeover. We came home and signed on to the various websites and it was on! I kept refreshing like a woman playing slots. After CNN called Democrats taking the House Jake went to bed. I just couldn't tear myself away. Finally I went to bed with 4 votes undecided in Senate. I'm not saying the Democrats are going to be our saviors. I just hope that it will do some changes. I also hope for world peace... so there ya go.
[keywords: Politics] November 05, 2006Oh G-d, Not Again...Last week was fun. And by fun I mean sucking donkey balls. It was my first week back at work, so of course my boss starts in on me. I am still pretty weak so working is tough already. Tuesday we were at each other's throats. She was blaming random shit on me that I had nothing to do with. A nurse misses a call: My fault. A coworker forgets to give her info from before I was back: My fault. It was getting stupid. I bitched at :jake: only to hear, "Honey. Don't forget you just started your period and you two are on the same cycle." Fuck! So I shot her an email that simply said, "FYI: I started yesterday." She came back and asked me what it meant. I said, Me: Think about it. What happens once a month... usually around the same time we're at each other's throats. After that it was much better. I told Jake and he just shook his head. "I don't get it. How can two people be going for the jugular one minute and laughing about it the next just because it's hormonal?" Welcome to the whacky, crazy, scary world of women, honey...
[keywords: pms boss] November 02, 2006One HELL of a Night!Halloween was a fucking blast. I finally took :jake: to see the West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnaval. If you've never been and are planning to be in Los Angeles next Halloween... It's the BEST place to go. West Hollywood is made up of a mostly gay community and is a great place to hang out. The people are friendly, the streets are kept clean and there are some great places to shop. The annual Halloween party is held on Santa Monica Blvd and spans for almost two miles. This year they estimated about 500,000 people showed up. It was insane! The costumes were over the top and the people were all so nice. There were families with children of all ages joining in and everyone loved to have their picture taken. My only downer was that I forgot to change my camera setting to outside/night so the pictures aren't great. Jake got some fantastic shots, though.We drove down Santa Monica Blvd until the roadblock signs warned of "Loooooong delays", then turned down a side street. After a few *cough* wrong turns we ended up at the parking lot. We arrived around 7PM (about 1/2 after everything started) and ended up on the fifth floor before finding a spot. After that it was a short walk into party heaven. Imagine four lanes with a median in between and people filling both sides. There were at least four radio stations with stages set up blaring music while people danced. The roads were blocked with police who were taking pictures and posing with people. We started up one way and the costumes just kept getting better. I kept asking Jake to take pictures and he finally said, "Next year. This is just so much to take in." I forgot how overwhelming it can be for someone the first time. The best part about this party is that people spent a lot of time to come up with these costumes. Most parties consisted of the usual rentals and cheapies from stores. A lot of these were hand made or altered. As we walked down the road there were people gathered around spots watching others do dances and acting in costume. My favorite has got to be the Victoria Secret Models. Four men dressed in tight shorts and black wings that looked like super models. They would clear a small area and each take their turn walking the catwalk and posing like glamour models. I went nuts. They all had incredible bodies and were gorgeous. Another popular duo was the YouTube guys. They wore a box cut out that looked exactly like a Youtube page (pictures on my Flickr account) with fake/humorous ads on the top and side. Crowds would gather and chant "Rotate! Rotate!" until the guys turned the ads to say something else. Brilliance! The freakiest costume was the one I am using for my post. It wasn't JUST the costume. The guy had this high pitched maniacal laugh that made my neck hairs stand on end. I didn't know whether to laugh or run. I chose to just hide behind Jake and tell him to take a picture. We walked for two and half hours straight before my back started to give out. I felt bad about having to go so early. Luckily our cameras batteries both died at the same time so it was a good time. This was one of the best Halloweens ever!
[keywords: boyfriend jake Flickr holidays halloween West_Hollywood] |
|
  
 
 
 
 
|
|
