Friday, August 31st, 2007
it’s been a while since i updated last. i worked two nights this week to setup and monitor a video conference for our over seas offices. video over IP (the internet) is illegal in dubai. the way you get around this is by putting in a connection called ISDN lines. it basically allows the video conference system to call another system, not using the internet connection.
so, wednesday morning i went in the office at 2am and stayed till 8am monitoring the offices connecting to a video conference bridge. the bridge allows mulitple points to connect to each other for a meeting like a phone conference bridge that most large companies have. wednesday morning, half way though our meetings the bridge we where using went down. it turned into a stressfull morning.
thursday morning we used a different bridge and had a person available for support over night, incase we ran into the same problem. things went rather well and the directors where happy to see the video conference system actually work like we’ve been telling them it will.
this morning i woke up and barely have a voice. i’ve had this sore throat crap that everyone else has had over the last couple of weeks. i’m hoping to get a doctor apointment later this afternoon, but i have to wait till the doctors open up today.
tomorow morning i’m going to the gun range with mandys dad and maybe some other guys. then tomorow evening mandy and i are suppose to shoot a wedding together. i just hope i’m feeling better soon.
happy labor day weekend.
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
it turned into a pretty busy weekend, even though i did not really get anything done at all. saturday flopped, and instead of going to a fly fishing class at bass pro shop, and, going to the lake property to mow the grass and do some fishing, i stayed in town, and kayaked around lake grapevine.
it’s funny how plans can go the opposite of what you expect, for no given reason.
sunday was kaitlyn’s bday party. mandy was out late saturday night, at a wedding shoot, and i was up late with the guys, so we did not go to church sunday morning. luckily, it gave us time to get around and gather things up for kaitlyn’s party. we got kaitlyn a cool pink guitar. i hope it works well once she starts playing around with it.
bleh, another work week ahead. the new building is completed, and the people start in the building today. i’ve got a load of stuff on my plate this week, and mandy does too.
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
isnt josh freakin adorable…
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
mandy and i had a great weekend together. we really just stayed in and she got a good portion of her red brick pictures edited and ready to upload and i finally got the dual xeon box up and running. i found out the xeons are 3.0ghz each, so i am going to upgrade my main rig and use it’s current parts for a nice remote access server, maybe at mandy’s house.
this morning mandy and i went to church and then decided we would go get her a nice point and shoot camera for her to carry around. she’s had her eye on the nikon coolpix s4 for some time now, so we went and got it for her. (the s10 is out, but not available in stores at this time, even though it’s been out since last fall.)
tonight we met up with my mom to move a queens size matress to my house and help her move a freezer from her storage to susan’s house. after mandy and i lugged the mattress up to my apartment, we found that the queen is just a few inches longer than the day bed thing that i have in my room. bleh.
tonight we had buck-n-loons in arlington. i love the irish chicken nachos, but those jalapenos, do a number on my stomach.
anyways, the weekend is up, :(
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
i’ve been up since 4. i just could not get back to sleep after waking up in the middle of the night. so, i got up and started working on my computer and now i cant get it to boot into windows. bleh… oh well.
i uploaded a bunch of pictures to my flickr, go check them out.
