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Still not feeling well.

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I didn’t sleep too well last night, I’m not sure if everything on my mind is catching up with me but apparently Sean had to come in the room around 9am because I was punching and screaming in my sleep. I’m not sure if I’ve ever done that before, maybe it’s a good thing that he got little to no sleep last night. He only got about two hours at most, I believe. He also slept rather late last night as well. Either way I have no idea what happened, not sure if it was a dream either.

I woke up sweating my ass off, even with the air conditioning on. The humidity is rather high today so I’m finding it rather difficult to sit comfortably no matter what I do. I cleaned out the sink and so far have only made it to one counter top. I started removing some clothing from the living room to throw on Karen’s bed and then kind of wondered back outside for cig #2 of the day. Now, after bringing in the UPS boxes, I’m kind of just sitting in the air conditioning.

I did some cleaning out of the servers today. A lot of dead accounts that needed to be booted. There are a few people I’d like to boot from the servers completely because they owe me money but for now I’ll just leave it as an outstanding balance considering I’m in no mood to deal with anything. I’ve got one girl with like 4 domains thrown around there, hasn’t paid a dime, most of her accounts are maxed out on disk space – it’s fucking ridiculous.

I’m going to surf around a few databases, maybe I can keep myself busy with some posting.

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What the hell man?

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I’m so pissed off at myself, it’s unreal. I went to sleep around 1am anticipating that I’d be up early and I’d get myself back on track with my daily routines. So when I woke up at 3pm this afternoon I was freaking pissed. How the hell did I sleep for 14 hours? I know I only had two hours last night but why the hell couldn’t the first 8 hours cover what I missed yesterday? I knew before I went to sleep that I should have set the alarm. But I also know that I told Sean that I’m going to be up EARLY today and he was up all night long and for most of the day but never bothered coming into the bedroom and waking me up around the time he knew I wanted to be up “You needed the sleep” – no I didn’t freaking need the sleep – I have work to do!

How is it that every work-at-homer I know, is capable if sleeping on normal hours? Why am I the only one who just can’t seem to get it right? I typically only do about 10 hours of work a day and even if I woke up at 9am I’d be done by 7pm – that gives me more than enough time to get myself in bed by midnight at the latest. So how exactly do you retrain yourself to go on a normal schedule? I’m having a hell of a time figuring this out.

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Happy Tuesday!

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

The sun is slowly starting to set and I’ve only been up for an hour. While everyone else considers 5PM to be hour 17 of the day, I on the other hand consider it to be hour #2 of my day…see what kind of world I’m in? Last night Sean and I watched Bench warmers, tonight we’re going up to Blockbuster to pick up Reno911 if there are actually any left, he should have gone this morning! Oh well, according to him no one rents on Tuesday’s anyway – I just hope that’s actually the case considering all the freaking tourists are down here.

We got a little bored after the movie and wound up playing backgammon online for a little bit. Then after some television we got back to work and that’s when I completed the template for blog-ideas. I still have a lot of email to go through but I’m hesitant because most of them are bitchy clients who I probably never should have put on the servers to begin with. Just recently I got rid of a kid who I’ve hated for years. He signs up, stops payment two months in and then bitches that his account is suspended. He’s done this to me on two domains, he’s now officially blacklisted. Tony loves when I tell him to put that kind of stuff through, lol.

So tonight there’s little plans made, but a lot of work to be done. I have quite a few clients to get back to, I hope to have Reno 911 in my hands sometime soon but that depends on whether or not Sean is going to get off his booty. Once that’s all completed I’m going to start completing the Beta on blog-ideas.net so even if I don’t have the database up and running I can at least get the content pages ready for all of the front end stuff. For now it isn’t hard to just setup a randomizing JavaScript for the ideas and then build from there as time goes on. I hope to get some more templates up and running as well, I’m going to need to play around in Photoshop for a while anyway.

In any event, I’m going to get my butt in gear on finishing up the email. Maybe I’ll be able to get some more backgammon in while Sean is in the shower or something. At least it’ll keep me entertained – in peace and quite no less. I need to get my iPod back in here, I’m going nuts listening to all this crap going on around me!

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Finally getting some sleep…

Friday, June 15th, 2007

It’s about 3:30 in the morning and I’m to a point now where my eyes are finally crossing and I know for sure that I’ll be able to fall asleep. I’m setting my alarm for 10 so I should be up to get some more work done. I do have a few emails to respond to but those will have to wait until morning.

I’m still waiting on an email from another venture, Eric if you happen to be reading this please contact krissy@agn-solutions.net if you haven’t been able to get through to my gmail account. I haven’t heard anything from you since Wednesday morning.

Sean just left to bring Bella for a walk, I think I’m going to have my last cig of the night and then get myself ready for bed. I hope to be asleep in the next half hour, I can’t wait for my head to hit that pillow; I really can’t.

I do need to get my ass in gear on some work though. I didn’t realize how fast my father’s birthday and even my sister’s birthday are approaching, there’s only two weeks left in the month, where does the time go? Jesus.

Family Guy is officially over, time for bed for me!

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Working, Networking, PC Issues … save me?

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

I’ve been rather productive today. I’ve gotten a lot of work done and I’m now working on some content for other sites to keep me active. My sleep schedule is still messed up, I woke up later than anticipated but I think this is based on the fact that my body gave up on me last night and I just CRASHED. Either way I woke up too late to get myself back on track so now I’m working hard in order to get there.

I took my external hard drive off Sean’s computer. I can’t run two programs at once whenever a file is being called off the external, so instead of having it networked I’ve got it plugged directly into my computer and thunderbird is already running much better for me. Even Dreamweaver isn’t stalling up for that matter. Considering I’m working with heafty .css files at the moment, notepad just wasn’t going to cut it for me!

My white-board is pretty full at the moment, hopefully I can start getting everything knocked out. I swear I’m going to need another one of these things, heh.

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Slowly chugging along…

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I’m currently running on about 2 hours of sleep. After we got back from dinner last night I wound up crashing until 3:30 this morning. It was only about 4 hours, then around noon I wound up falling asleep for another 2 hours but that didn’t help me much because my eyes are still bloodshot like holy hell. I’m planning on getting to sleep in the next hour or two, then I’ll be up around 6am and work a solid day. It’s kind of the schedule I like to be on at this point, honestly. I was too tired to go to the beach tonight, I really did want to see what the storms in the area are doing but I can’t keep my eyes open at this point, so there’s no real point in going.

I spent a lot of time keeping myself active today. I got a lot of work done and even managed to get some much-needed cleaning done around the house. The only thing left to tackle will be covered tomorrow. I’m going to wash the blankets in the living room because they reek of both smoke and dog. The toilet could use a good scrub and throwing some drain-o down in the tub and the sink wouldn’t hurt either. The water down here has turned my once very manageable hair, to straw. This straw is now falling out and having a cap on the drain wouldn’t help anything at this point. Baby’s hair is also falling out because of the water so naturally the drain is going to fill up quite a bit more than one would like. An hour-long soak should dissolve everything, I just love when things work ‘like new’ again.

I started throwing together another template for blog ideas. I’m now up to three, which is about 30% of where I wanted to be. I figure I’d start off with 10 high-quality templates and then go from there. I’d absolutely love to get my templates to the same high status of Beccary but I highly doubt that will ever happen. I’m only coding templates for WordPress at the moment but I’ll also have basic copies available for blogger.com, movable type and maybe even Live Journal depending on how far I want to take it. I also have some ideas for Greymatter, even though I absolutely HATE the program with a passion. It causes so many server fuck-ups it’s unreal, then I get shit from clients because the script is banned – boo hoo, go cry to your mother about it. I’m not putting clients at risk because you don’t know how to work with a secure blog program, for crying out loud! [/end rant]

In any event, I’m going to get back to work on the template. I’m working with some fairly interesting color schemes and I’m lucky that I have a few older ones sitting on my computer that could be coded up, most of them are based on PSD’s but that doesn’t matter too much. I include the Fonts and PSD’s with almost every template I create, I know quite a few people with Adobe so this shouldn’t be a big issue.s

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Can’t quite get there…

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I’m lagging at the moment and I have no idea why. There’s a huge list of things to do sitting right in front of me and I’m having trouble starting anything. My eyes are wigging out, I should probably be sleeping at the moment. I’m still waiting on an email from a new guy that I’m going to start work for soon. He told me I’d have something by Monday night but now we’re going on really early Wednesday morning and still nothing. I want to assume it’s just an email issue at the moment, hopefully it’s resolved. I know that he sent me an email in the past with a test attachment but the attachment wasn’t there. I’ve had issues like this with Gmail in the past, it’s the same on the server based email as well considering there’s a file-size limit so lord knows what’s going on. I’m sure everything will be taken care of.

For some reason I’m starving at the moment, I’m going to raid the fridge and see what’s available, maybe I can get Bella to eat something too considering she was uninterested in touching the chicken I put down for her earlier. I really wish I knew what to do…ugh.

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Ding Dong the Bitch be GONE!

Monday, June 11th, 2007

I’m a little behind on email but that’s based on the fact that it was kind of a ‘blah’ sort of day. I spent quite a bit of time working on blog-ideas.net, the basis of the site is close to done, I just need Sean to program the back end of it for me when work slows down for him after the launch. I also managed to get a few templates created as well, they’re going under the future freebies section. I have so many templates on my computer that were either rejected by clients, or just rejected by me, that completing the code for them and working most of them into the new wordpress formats should be somewhat beneficial to the content of the site.

The house guest will be leaving in approximately 4 hours, Sean and I are both happy about this. I’m to a point where I’m willing to stay awake long enough to see the woman off but with how heavy my eye lids are at the moment, I have no idea how much longer I’m going to be awake for. All I know is that the ‘dark’ feeling around the house will be gone once she gets out of here, and that’s absolutely fine for me. I’m unsure of what the weather is going to be like tomorrow but no matter how many clouds there could possibly be in the sky, there won’t be any in the house and I just love that!

I just checked the weather quick, I multitask with the best of ’em! It’s going to be about 80¬? tomorrow which isn’t too bad but in this office it’s rather uncomfortable. I’m sure all of the windows will remain open throughout the rest of the house while we’re airing things out but I know the office will be an ice box so that’s all that matters.

Once she leaves I’m going to have quite a bit of laundry to do. Any material that can make it into the washing machine will. All blankets, towels and anything that absorbed the smell is going to be piled up and cleaned out. I’m also thinking of unzipping the covers off the couch and doing those as well. The problem with the couch in the living room, however, is you can only wash the seats themselves you can’t take the covers off the back of the couch. Princess is on the couch all day and with her stinky booty, just washing the seat covers and not the back rest seems a bit absurd to me. Nothing a bottle of fabreeze can’t aid…right? :hrm: I do hope there’s enough to get the house covered too, fabreeze works wonders on smoke – trust me. The rugs and all seats are going to be done. I might even just rinse the walls down quick, she was only here for a few hours of actual smoke time but there’s a pretty bad long-lasting effect to it as well!

In any event, I’m going to get Bella and myself ready for bed. Lots to do tomorrow, plus a heap of work as well. Hopefully enough payments come through between now and Wednesday so I’ve got enough cash to cover Karen’s birthday dinner. I’m waiting rather patiently on an email back from someone in regards to some site work, I just hope that comes in soon; I could really use the money right now.

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Spend a little … get a lot!

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Baby and I were on a mission today, to cool down the office. In my head I knew the more affordable method would be to get some fans and place them in the room at the proper angles. He had a completely different idea in his head and $90 later, there’s now a shiny new air conditioner in our window. It’s working rather nicely at the moment, neither of us is dying of heat exhaustion anymore – there’s always an upside to that. Not even Bella is panting because she’s nice and cool in here, it works out very well for everyone.

The bedroom has a few new fans. We do have central air conditioning, but even with the central air, computers do need some source of a heat break. The bedroom is a completely different story. It doesn’t get that hot in there at night because even the television is LCD so that doesn’t give off any kind of heat. Our resident space-heater is Bella so there’s no real control there. When the air conditioner is on with the fan above us, it’s still a little bit warmer than I’d like so we got a big 16″ oscillating fan to put at the foot of the bed and for those nights when the air conditioning isn’t on and the window is open, we have a small box fan so that Bella can still have her window seat and we can still get our much needed air.

The bitch is gone for the moment, her and Karen headed down to Ocean City to hang out for the evening. There’s the chance that Karen picked someone up last night and they’re more than likely going to see him tonight. I hope she’s safe and enjoys herself, but in the end I’m just happy the bitch is gone. She stinks to holy heaven, I don’t think she showers regularly she kind of bathes in perfume, the house reeks of that on top of the smoke. Poor princess is in the living room barely able to breath at this point, even Candy doesn’t look too pleased. It’s freaking bull shit.

I’m gonna get back to work. I’m finally throwing some free templates together for blog-ideas.net so I can get that up and running soon, I also have some things to do for curvy-chick.net as well. Should be a busy day. I’m waiting on emails back from clients so once those come in I’ll wind up switching my attention over to income, not personal stuff.

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[insert title here] ::blinks::

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

I’m not quite sure what it is but I seem to be losing my mind. Many of you saw this coming, I know, but for some reason lately it’s hard for me to finish the things that I start. Tonight, for example, I was in the mood to get some cleaning done, cleaning I’ve been putting off for quite some time. I started throwing the garbage away and got some other random things taken care of and I walk back into the kitchen to pick up a bag of garbage to then completely forget why I’m in there.

This isn’t the first time it’s happened to me either. When Sean and I were moving rooms around, I went to the living room to bring a box or something into the office and wound up staring at the floor wondering what I was even doing in there. I’m not sure why it’s happening but I can tell you this much – I don’t like it.

I’m 99% finished with Shauna‘s template, the only thing stopping me is Adobe being a butt head while I’m working on these finishing touches. That’s another thing though, I opened Adobe to create the fav icon and once it loaded I’d completely forgotten why I’d even opened the stupid program.¬† [edit] Make that 100% completed. Email me when you get the chance, Shauna! [/edit]

Maybe I should start popping some Ginkobaloba on a regular basis… :hrm:

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:: smacks senseless ::

Friday, June 8th, 2007

I have no idea why but I’m agitated as SHIT right now. I’m trying very hard to work on getting Shauna‘s template completed and every little noise around me is driving me bananas. Sean is having a sneezing attack, Bella is being obnoxious and just little stupid noises like the air conditioner kicking in are bothering the shit out of me. It’s to the point that I wish I could just go deaf for a little while just to get some shit done. I threw my iPod on and now hopefully this will get my concentration back.

I’ll tell you this much, the one millisecond pause between songs is equally annoying.

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Lack of inspiration getting the best of me…

Friday, June 8th, 2007

I’m going through a severe lack of inspiration at the moment. I believe it’s based on the fact that I haven’t been down to the beach in a while. According to my inbox I have quite a few jobs coming to me but I feel as though I don’t have enough energy to get through them. The work I’m doing at the moment seems rather small in comparison to what I’m used to. I don’t discredit it in any way because I do love what I do, don’t get me wrong. I just feel like I should be doing something much bigger than I have been lately. The little site work here and there doesn’t bother me by any means, I just want to work on something HUGE.

I get quite a bit of inspiration from listening to the waves. I always feel a lot more energized when I’ve left the beach. I get the same effects by looking at the stars as well. Unfortunately with all of the ambient light around here, it’s close to impossible for me to see enough stars to keep me calm. I came across a new product recently; it’s called skyscout. It’s a hand-held, point-shot-and-identify multimedia guide to the universe that can guide you through the night sky better than if you had your own private astronomer standing next to you. I’m used to my grandfather telling me where things are located. He’s always been into astronomy, he’s spent lord knows how much money on telescopes and other interesting gadgets so he could get a better look at the sky at night. He trucks it up to Maine with his friends once a year when they’re doing the children’s toy run. They spend a bit of time just laying in the grass looking up, there’s close to no light up there so the sky looks like nothing but sparkles at night.

Living in a highly populated area with a lot of ambient light, I never really believed that the sky could be over loaded with stars. Sean took me to some farm a few miles inland and I close to pee’d in excitement – I could see everything. The area we were in had us both on edge but if we could happen to find another field like it (which isn’t hard in Delaware considering it’s all freaking farm life here) I’d really like to go back and sit under the stars again.

You can’t see them very well from the beach, the lights along the board walk make it hard for you to really see anything at night. Sure, the waves calm me down but after that, there’s not much to look at – you know? I guess I’m just venting, I don’t know…could be that I’m feeling borderline depressed today for some reason.

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Why Spy Sweeper is the way to go!

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

PPPAs many of you may know, my old desktop crashed a little while after Joe died. At first I thought it was because of the fact that he may have crashed his the night he died and wanted every computer he’s ever worked on to die, or it was a virus or spy ware attack that destroyed windows. Either way there was no fixing it. I tried everything I could in order to get things back up and running the way it was supposed to. It took me about 4 days just to remove all of the spy ware and it was all put on there because my sister decided to install some stupid download program that permitted EVERYTHING in, damn Kazaa! I had an overflow of pop ups, more installations of programs like bonsai buddy and other random crap that I could imagine. I was SO happy when I finally found some decent programs to start getting rid of it all.

I used many different programs but the only one that actually got the job done was Spy Sweeper. I bought the program about six months prior to my computer crashing. I’d been using a trial version for a while and decided to go ahead and purchase it. I was rather content with it so I figured purchasing it would be the best way to go.

I’ve used many other programs in the past but the only thing that ever worked for me was in fact Spy Sweeper. I will say, however, if you’re running on a system that naturally lags I wouldn’t recommend using it, it does eat up a lot of resources. But I’m basing this on older systems. Karen’s old computer was really crappy and had no resources to eat up, Spy Sweeper did keep a lot of extra things off it, but she did still need the new one. Now she’s got everything loaded up on the new desktop and thankfully with more ram and a better processor, Spy Sweeper runs PERFECTLY for her.

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How could I NOT be smiling?

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

I’m not sure how I managed it, or what powers that be are floating around me helping me out at the moment but I’ve landed some work that’s more than likely going to keep my schedule full for a while. I’m working hard on cranking out templates for current clients but after that I’m going to have a fairly solid work flow with a few people whom contacted me over the last couple of days. It could turn into some fairly decent money, adding a few thousand to my income every month. That on top of the $800 average a month on paid posting and then the web hosting subscriptions coming in, it’s safe to say I’ll be set for a while.

I’m keeping everything in savings though. Yes, I’m going to enroll in school. Yes, I’m going to buy an iMac (I’ve wanted one for years) and Baby and I desperately need a new bed. After that, however, it’s going to be smooth sailing for quite some time, I can’t wait.

Baby is still asleep at the moment, though I think he’s getting close to waking up because there’s a lot of sniffling going on in the bedroom and typically he can’t breath too well in the morning. It’s either him sniffling or there’s a bird outside the window making a strange nasal sound…do birds even have a sense of smell? :hrm:

Bella’s sweating her butt off but that’s because the air conditioning hasn’t been on yet today. It’s only about 70 something and while it’s rather warm in the office, it’s comfortable outside. It’s nice to air the house out on occasion so I’m keeping myself from switching on the central air.

In a little while Sean and I are going to take a quick trip up to Lewes because I need to pick up a few things from Dollar Tree. Last night I made corn on the cob with dinner and there weren’t any corn holsters to keep Karen and I from burning our fingers off. So I figure I’d drop a dollar or two and pick some up – cheaper than Wal-mart! Then I’m probably going to hit up the super market because I need to pick up some things for dinner tonight and Blockbuster is right next door, I know Baby needs to pick up a few things…I think he’s getting Norbit, It came out on Tuesday – who knows. I’m just waiting for Reno 911 to come out, I think that’s the only movie this month that I’m actually looking forward to.

I’m going to get some emails taken care of, then I’m going to continue working on a template for Shauna and then pick up on a few things for Dick. Nothing beats productivity!

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Lack of Inspiration

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I’ve been working hard on getting blog-ideas.net up and running. I’m currently in the process of coding the administration panel. I’ve got Sean programming the database end of things. He’s been programming quite a bit lately so naturally I’ll throw it his way. I’m rusty with it, I do little edits here and there but I don’t have the patience to sit down and actually code something from start to finish. He asked me why I need an administration panel considering the bulk of the code is randomly generated but I just think it’s easier to have one, honestly. I know it’s only random one liners but I like to keep track of everything. I’m also working in the ability for visitors to submit their own ideas and be credited for it. In some regard it’s almost like using a guestbook, it’s just going to be a little bit more advanced.

I didn’t get around to doing anything k.nu based today, as far as posting goes. I was just too busy working on other things. I finally got WordPress working for Dick so now his admin panel is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. I was in touch with Shauna about some work with her, I’ll be working on that for the next few weeks. I have loads of ideas in my head and mixing them with what she gave me should turn into something nice.

I’m having trouble being creative though, this is why I feel like I’m lagging. Baby and I haven’t gone to the beach in quite some time. With the weather changing as frequently as it does and other factors being thrown in there, we can’t walk along the boardwalk the way we used to. And now with the fact that he managed to fuck up his knee somehow, we just can’t go anywhere – it sucks. Hopefully he’ll heal up so I can go listen to the water again, that’s the only place I truly got any kind of a creative streak. Granted, having a new desk/office arrangement has helped a bit, I just need an outside source as well. I’m going to thumb through a few of my design books, maybe I can find some color combination to inspire me.

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Still working on getting things in order…

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

I’ve gotten a lot done today. I woke up and went through my morning routine and then got the rest of my laundry done. The last load is in the dryer now so hopefully it’ll be done in time for me to get out of here later. I believe Kay and I are going up to Milford to pick up a few things from Big Lots then I’m almost certain we’re going to Wal-mart afterwards to get some shopping done as well.

She’s got company coming this weekend, Baby personally hates this woman but I don’t know her yet so I can’t really have an opinion yet. I’m sure by Saturday you’ll hear something out of me in regards to this woman, no doubt about it. She’s a smoker and with Princess being sick, Candy being rather old and Bella just never having to breath in smoke (I make sure of that) Baby and I are on Kay’s case to get her to smoke outside. Hopefully that actually works out.

I’m having some major issues with WordPress at the moment. I’m trying to get the Visual Text Editor to work for a client and no matter what I do the damn thing won’t show up. I’m waiting on a response so that I can upgrade to the newest version in hopes that it resolves the issue but something tells me that it more than likely won’t be the case, this is why I submitted a support ticket on wordpress.org in hopes to get some answers. There has to be something that I’m overlooking I just have no idea where to even begin.

I received an email today that I’m working on responding to. Someone contacted me about site work that could potentially fill my schedule for a while depending on how well it goes. I’m also working on other things so as far as income goes, I’m set for quite some time.

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