Jordan Riane

Yesterday was an awesome day. Not so much because it was Valentine’s Day, and I have the cutest boyfriend ever, but because of two phone calls I got. I’ve been job hunting for awhile now, two months almost, and with no luck. I’ve had some possible call backs, but one of them isn’t really getting back to me (the dealership job) and I don’t have the time to really wait around for the possibility of working for them.

But the two calls today were for Cafe Manager at Barnes and Noble, and the other for Cingular Wireless. Either of these jobs I know I’ve got the knowledge and experience to be able to master them. It’s just a matter of seeing what kind of pay I can get, along with benefits. The B&N job is about an hour north of me. It was originally for a new store opening up about about 10-15 minutes from where Mark lives, but the Cafe Manager from the store I’ll be going into, is going to that store that opens in May. So I assume that if I do get a job offer, and I take it, I would be training/working with him (or her) until he/she leaves for the NSO.

With Cingular Wireless, it’s literally a five minute drive, about a mile south of me. You can see which I’d rather have to take. Not only will I save a lot of money gas, but I won’t have to stress out and leave here 1-2 hours before work starts just to make it on time.

At 2pm is my interview with B&N, and Friday at 2pm is my interview with Cingular.

So because I’ve got an hour drive ahead of me, I’m going to be leaving here around 12:50 to ensure that I have ten minutes to get lost and get found quickly. I guess I should get off my ass and get dressed. If the interview goes well, which I know it will, I’ll treat myself to Subway. Yeah, food, whatever.

Oh but how could I forgot talking about my boyfriend and last night? Since I’m completely jobless (eg: broke) we didn’t go out for Valentine’s Day, but I didn’t mind at all. He came over and gave me a red rose, Trinidads, the big Reese’s cups, ghirardelli chocolates, and Ice Age 2. Ate a filling dinner here, watched Ice Age 2, and just relaxed. I felt like a wiener because I had a card for him down in my room, but I didn’t even remember to give it to him until he was getting ready to leave. Whoops!

Alright, NOW it’s time to get ready.

Sorry I didn’t post about the maintenance that I was going to be doing on the server. Remember how I wanted to go ahead and install Ruby on Rails? Well, I went ahead and added it to my server, though I didn’t want things to be ruined while it was online, so I denied most http access to websites for about 24 hours. This is partially because I did some other configs and upgrades here and there, and fell asleep on it last night before I had a chance to turn it back on. Whoops!

We’ve gotten so much snow is quite disgusting. It was a bit of a blizzard yesterday, and because of all the ferocious winds we have 2 foot snow banks throughout the driveway (especially behind my car, thanks!) I’ll take pictures of it later on, and of the yummy things I’m making right now.

Oh yeah, why haven’t I listened to Regina Spektor until now? I love her voice.

Happy Valentine’s Day

Well, I’ve been so obsessed with RoR lately, that I’ve finally dipped into it, instead of reading up on it. Since I’ve got the server for Holdfire Network, I think I might add Ruby On Rails to it. Not only because I want to use it (although my accounts with Dreamhost and Surpass Hosting have RoR) but I think it would be a perfect add-on for reseller accounts. Although majority of my clientèle doesn’t seem to be the kind that would be interested in RoR, it might inspire some new people to sign up with my services.

Even though I’m tagging these for del.icio.us I’ll go ahead and post up some of these links in case some of you are interested in them:

Ruby on Rails resources

• Installing Rails on CentOS
• planetrubyonrails.com
• 3till7.net/category/techy/code/ruby/
• rubyinside.com
• web2withrubyonrails.gualdong.net

Applications I can’t wait to try:

• mephisto.com
• radiantcms.com

Since it’s already quite late tonight, and I’d rather not do SSH commands while I’m yawning and rubbing my eyes, I’m going to save the install for tomorrow. Right now I’m just finishing the design. I finally figured out why e-mails from one of my servers, were not sending out mail. Turns out when I created the new cPanel account for holdfire, the guy who helped me never created the new e-mail accounts through it. Since my MX entry is pointing to google’s, this caused an issue for e-mails being sent from any app on the server.

It didn’t even dawn on me about the e-mail accounts. I just assumed that it was a misconfiguration on the server, and was about to look into not using Google’s Hosted services. It’s also very discouraging finding that minor issue though, due to the fact that I’ve missed a lot of crucial e-mails that were sent through my client control panel’s for pre-sales questions. Oh well, at least I fixed it. It even motivated me to get my butt in gear to finish the last few pages up.

Now only if the .htaccess file would work currently so I could rewrite the urls to be SEO friendly. If any of you know that proper code to rewrite a url (eg: website.com/about.php, website.com/about-contact.php) to another (eg: website.com/about/, website.com/about/contact) I would really appreciate it, as this would be much more aesthetically appealing then seeing the file extension on the end.

Mark and I went crazy on making pizza this weekend. Last night we ended up making a BBQ beef pizza. We made the dough (using the breadmachine and the recipe for it), used KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce, mozzarella cheese and deli-style beef. I also made breadsticks from the remaining dough from the first batch.

After I made the pizza, Mark went ahead and made more pizza dough. We thought we were going to make another pizza last night, but ended up realizing that we would’ve been stuffed regardless. So we saved it for today. Ended up making spinach and pepperoni deep dish. Used fresh baby leaf spinach, pepperonis, homemade pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and the dough from the other night. It was absolutely amazing.

For the past week, I’ve made a homemade dinner. Tonight is going to be the first night, though technically I did make lunch. Phew, all this cooking and I’m kind of worn out. Though I really need to find a frosting recipe that actually works. I’ve already tried three recipes and all have failed. They come out too runny or just not mixed well enough.

I need to get something done by Tuesday, because I want to have it for Valentine’s Day. I have a feeling Valentine’s Day is going to end up being just like any other night, as opposed to doing something really nice/cute/romantic. Oh well.

The redesign is still coming along very smoothly. Though I have to be honest, TNT has been distracting me most of today as there’s been movies upon movies on tonight. I don’t work well with the tv on, and I don’t work well with the tv off.

Today I’ve watched: Trapped, Twisted, Signs, Sleepy Hollow, and that’s it so far. You figure about 2 hours a movie, so far I’ve watched six hours of movie, and gotten about 45 minutes of work done.

Mark is on his way over right now, and then we’re going to head out to go pick up some groceries for the homemade BBQ Beef pizza I’ll be making. Maybe I’ll include a recipe and some pictures of it when I’m done. Maybe even some pictures of Mark and I, since I’ve failed the last few times trying to take them. Off to get some stuff ready for the pizza.