Author: Jordan

Well, after a year and a half of smooth sailing with my computer (or rather the hard drive) it finally decided to take the world’s hugest shit on me. It didn’t even die, that’s the worst part. It ended up getting horribly corrupt to the point where I couldn’t delete files without getting read and/or CRC issues, nor could I install various programs (though some worked just fine!?)I wasn’t able to backup anything. The zip I made of my important documents, was going to take well over 24 hours to upload (wtf?) so I decided that I needed to get used to a clean plate to work with. I’m going to ship the drive to Rem so he can take a look at it and work his magic. There’s over 3,000 photographs, and about 2-3gb’s worth of website files. But right now I’m fine with the thought of not having the back. Sometimes it’s good to have a clean start. -shrug-

I’m now running a 120gb Seagate (ATA). Well, it’s not running YET but I just took out the old drive, and put in the new one. Going to boot from cd-rom, so I can install a new OS. My other problem I came across after the drive pooping: Not having my old restore disc, aka I am SOL. Thanks to Rem (again! what a life saver) he went ahead and uploaded it for me, so I could burn the cue file to a disc. So I have to get that started, but right now I’m taking a break and enjoying some Chocolate Marble Ice Cream, and checking up on e-mails and writing this post via Chris’ laptop (the one I’m blaming for my Maxtor’s death!)

I’m excited because this kind of gives me a chance to get everything anally organized. I’m going to partition for the os, one for programs, one for photos, one for music, and one for website files. It’s going to look rather snazzy. Then once I get all of my programs uploaded (it’s going to be a bitch, I have so many in regards to photo editing, os themers, and various other programs.) I’ll worry about uploading my ipod’s hd. That was the one thing I wasn’t worried about–my music, all 30gb’s of it. Hehe, it’s on my ipod, and I knew it was as simple as downloading a program to be able to upload from the ipod. sweet.

Back to getting my computer back into tip-top shape.

edit: Well, my computer is now back up and running. Installed the new hard drive, installed Windows XP Pro, and updated the drivers. Currently reinstalling all of the software programs. It’s a bit tedious and frustrating since I can’t remember the names of some of them–but maybe that’s a good thing. I’m also going to let my iPod upload while I’m sleeping. Which I should be doing in a few minutes…

Almost a year of not cutting my hair (aside from a couple months ago when I trimmed off part of my nasty mullet that gew) I finally got it cut again. Generally I tend to pick shitty haircuts that I’m dissatisfied with within the first month or so. So I really don’t know if this haircut is going to end up that way or not. I went with an A Line style cut, which is a first for me. That and having my hair so short. I’m still trying to get used to it.

In my last post I talked about a customer, Jerry, and how I helped him buy his first computer. Well, he gave me a call at the store today, and thanked me for being so nice to him, and for taking my time to help him get his laptop. Told me that he spent fifteen hours on it the night he got it. Mentioned that he’d be in next week to buy a bag for it. I’m so glad he called, because after I left work, I felt disapointed for not telling him to call the store once he played around with it.

This weekend is going to be a very busy weekend. Rem and I are going to install Linux on my computer. I’ve been dying to get this done for quite some time and finally ask him to help me do it, because well, I’ve got Friday and Saturday off. What better way to spend it!? We’re also going to put the finishing touches on HF. Just minor details like retweaking the layout, customizing whmcs so that the design is incorporated into the main style of hf, and to create a logo for the software. Other then that, life has been pretty good.

Time to go look at round trip plane tickets to Houston. SOMEONE changed my mind on driving down there, so I’ll be flying there instead. It’ll be my first flight too! A month away! YAY.

How work was today, is how I wish it to be every day. It was busy, and the customers were amazingly friendly. I was with one customer, Jerry, for almost an hour, talking to him about laptops and everything else related. He had never owned a computer before, was a 52 y/o disabled war veteran. He was just so happy with my helping him, and talking to him about the little things people take forgranted, and was so appreciative. At one point when I was walking towards the software section to grab him a Texas Hold’Em Game, I felt like I wanted to cry a little bit because he was so happy by my simple act of kindness.

The “customer service” aspect of it was long gone. I just wanted to get him what he needed, and for him to enjoy every second of it. It’s customers like Jerry, that actually make me love my job. I truly hope that in a couple of months, after his hip surgery on Wednesday (he was very outgoing ;)) he’ll still remember me and his promise to stop in to see me and sign up for Insight Cable Internet and In-Home Networking from Geek Squad. More so just to remember my name, and how I helped him out. He also wished me to have the best weekend and to have a Happy Mother’s Day. Told him I’m only twenty and too young to have children, to which he retorted that he had two by the time he was eighteen.

I still hope to hear back from Charter. If not, then I’ll put in my JOS application for Geek Squad City at the end of this week. I really don’t want to work a second job, but the extra money will really help me out with bills, rent, and being able to save it for future needs (vacations, moving, splurging.) Time go to take a nap, I’m exhausted.

I got paid yesterday, and afters bills and rent, I have $55.44 to last me until May 26th. It’s to the point where I can no longer have a day where I do NOT think about money. Part of it is because I was never really “taught” how to be responsible with money–hell, I really wasn’t ever taught anything about life, I just did it as pleased.

It’s to the point where I’m looking at a second job. Earlier today I applied (again) to Charter for their “High Speed Data Specialist I” position. I have a couple of friends that work there, and I talked to one of them while I was doing the application, to let Shawn (HR) know about my application (again). I applied there back in March, and I received a call back, however it was right when I got deathly ill during a weekend, and I never got a chance to get back to the guy. Hopefully this won’t deter him from contacting me again.

There has go to be a better way to get money, then to actually have to work for it. 😐

I’d like to say that I’m pretty sane and lacking any kind of mental illnesses, but I have come to the conclusion that I have an obsessive compulsive disorder with alarm clocks. Every night before I go to sleep, I will set three alarm clocks for the same time. You know, in case one doesn’t go off, two others are there for backup. Or in case I didn’t turn one or two of them on.

Not only that but the process of how I go about setting the alarm. I’ll set the time, then turn the alarm on/off several times to ensure I have it for set for the AM time and that it’s on, and will work. One alarm clock is by my computer, another is by my bed, and the last one is my cell phone.

After this morning I just sat there thinking “Wow, I have an issue with alarm clocks. I am definitely OCD.” But I don’t really mind this, because I’d rather not fuck up my alarm and NOT wake up–oh wait, like this morning.

I didn’t go through that process last night for some reason (first time ever) and had only set my alarm clock on my cellphone. I checked, double-checked and triple checked it. When I woke up, I shot out of bed, looked at the clock by my computer, and saw that it was 10:05am. I was supposed to be at work at 9:45am. So I panic, and fumble with my cellphone trying to call work, while trying not to sound like I’m about to cry. Told the opening MOD I slept through my alarm, and would be into work asap.

Generally I don’t worry about getting written up becuase in most jobs–I never do. But twice in February while I was carless, I had gotten written up, so that meant anything else past that would result in me being terminated. Well, I get to work and I’m stressing out, hands shaking, waiting to get canned. It never came, and apparently I was off the hook.

Moral of the story:  It’s okay to be OCD with checking the alarm clocks 10 or more times to see that they’re set for the correct time, and hopefully will turn on.

I’m currently working on the design here for aow, so if you notice anything fishy happening while you’re looking at one page, and another, that’s my doing. I’ve also gone on a plugin adding rampage. Tonight I really had the motiviation to work on my site, and actually get some “content” up perse. I love wordpess, but I was also missing phpnuke, for the soul purpose of member integration and whathave you. Well, once I get the theme completely tweaked, you’ll be able to see what I’ve been working on 🙂

Also, I turn twenty today. It’s going to be like any other day, but I don’t mind it too much. I just hope that Chris remembers to bring home the chocolate cake mix from Target after he gets off of work. If I’m up in time I’d definitely enjoy going to the China Buffet, because I love their crab rangoons, California Rolls, pasta salad, and their rendition of General Tso’s Chicken.

Time to go back to slaving away behind the scenes, and enjoy staying up late because I have today off as well as having Sunday off 😛

Work has been work. I don’t know why I’m not satisfied with it anymore. I think it’s the fact that I work alot, do alot for the company, and I get paid balls. I’ve been looking around our JOS system and noticed that they’re going to be building a new service center through Geek Squad, called Geek Squad City.

Apparently it’s going to be the main service center for the store (Best Buy).They’re doing an ungodly amount of hiring and I think I might actually go for it. But that won’t be until July’ish when it opens (I assume) because the last day to turn in JOS applications is June 24th I believe. For the time being I’m going to try to apply to work full time at Insight for Tech Support, and if I get that job, try JOS’ing into Geek Squad to go Counter Ops. That way I get a hang out the entire GS system and whatnot.

Either way I definitely want to stay with Best Buy/Geek Squad just becuase I honestly love working for this company, and want to stay with them.It also helps out for the future because it’ll make moving easier, since I’d be able to transfer into another Best Buy. Whereas most places are not going to have Insight to transfer into. Not only that but if I go ahead with the Counter Ops position, I’ll have Mobile/PCHO/Geek Squad as departments I’ve worked in and am knowledgable in.

Holdfire has been doing pretty good. I need to promote more of it to generate more business, but for now it’s done pretty good. The server move went well, thanks to Rem helping out with alot of it. If it weren’t for him, I’d still be overpaying for my services, and not really making much from the job. Thanks again Rem 🙂

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No matter how many times I tell myself to update this site I can never remember to do so. Except now I have a harpie forcing me to–right Rem?

Most of last night and today has been spent trying to transfer holdfire over from my the network redux server, to dreamhost’s server. After we transferred it over and dns propagated, we ran into an issue with my whmcs script. After getting the license pointed over to the new IP and subdomain, we ran into another buttfuck of a situation. Essentially it ended in me and Rem deciding on getting a refund from dreamhost (I’m hosting the main account off of the main server where my clients are hosted) and am now moving it back to network redux. Currently waiting for the dns to prop. back to that, and then I will begin changing my client’s nameservers to reflect the new server.

Fun, eh? Other then that I haven’t been up to too much lately. Just working a bunch, and coming home and taking care of whatever needs to be taken care of at the moment. Tonight I decided to eat “real” food. After surfing the web for pasta salad recipes, I finally came across one I enjoyed, Antipasto Pasta Salad.

It was AMAZING. Though if I do make it again, I am going to not add in the olive oil and balsamic vinegarette. It made it feel too “thick.”

I put HF on hold two weeks ago in hopes that it would be moved to another host/server, and open with a new design. Unfortunately my monetary situation did not look up like I had thought, and there has been a slight change of plans. Currently the redesign is finished, I just need to redo the pages for it, and create new packages. More space/bandwidth and a little more a month.

I’m also planning on leaving clientexec and switching to WHM Complete Solution. From the demos, and features available on their website, I’m in love. That and I’m tired of clientexec. I have issues logging in and I’m not as satisfied with their service as I was when I first got it. I’m also stripping 2CO and sticking with paypal only. No more e-checks/checks, money orderies, etc. Strictly paypal. Lower plans are also going to be yearly only, anything under 1GB space plan, is what will be yearly.

I should go finish that right now. I’m losing money not having it up. :