Adult swim

 

Fun and games. But I don’t get to play.

 

Before I begin my disjointed wandering rant, I thought I’d say hello to those who are reading the RSS feed on Facebook. This is a blog I keep to vent, inform, and entertain.

I blog in stereo from:

http://mikestermike.livejournal.com and http://mikestermike.wordpress.com

 

 

I swam 200m this morning again. Unfortunately I felt completely ill afterwards. I think I am probably over exerting myself. I also am probably not drinking enough water. I am trying to rectify both of those issues. I swim horribly with mainly doing sidestroke. I mix in some breaststroke, but crawl is so difficult for me because of the breathing timing. I find I need to take a bigger breath than my pace will allow. I believe I am still trying to swim at swim team speeds.

 

I forgot to bring my clothes, so I had to return to the house after the swim to get dressed for work. Oh well. I was going to be early, which would have allowed me to leave early.

 

I have my headphones on listening to Frank Sinatra. The children pretending to be engineers around here make such a ruckus in my hallway. Of course, they do not even have offices here. But, plant decorum prohibits me from telling them to shut the hell up and slamming my door. I really wanted to slam my door today.

 

Slamming. What a release. The rush of air that pushes past you as the door swings by, like standing next to a highway feeling the cars dash by. The satisfying *slam* as the door makes contact with the jamb. The reverberations from the impact making the wall decorations and knick-knacks dance an angry, short ballet. So irate are they, that one or two items are driven to suicidal mania, leaping from the wall to crash, tinkle or crunch against the hard tile.

 

I so needed that this morning.

 

I forgot my drugs this morning, so I was shaking when I was confronting an irrational safety tech and deaf boss. I kept my tone in check, and never used my trump of “This is horseshit!” verbal fragmentation grenade. What is even more frustrating is that people come up to me after I am blown off, and say “you were right” or “yeah, that’s the truth” or “you’ll never win.” No one has told me I was in error yet. I am not always right, but I try to use logic and reason to prove a point. They just didn’t even want to address what I was saying. They just wanted me to nod my head and shut up.

 

I can’t do that. I just can’t. And it will always get me into trouble unless I am careful how I word things. So, I went home and got my drugs at lunch.

 

I did stop by my old plant to give tem a hand on a problem. They would have figured it out eventually. I just helped it along and provided a little training. I do miss having my micro-kingdom. It was still frustrating that no one listened to me above, but I did have some good working relationships with my peers.

 

The job sucked, but it had its perks.

 

I refinanced my student loan. Actually, I consolidated it. Locked it at 2.25%, baybee!. Will lower my payments substantially (increased the term, but I needed the relief now). The amount of interest paid will be about the same, unless I pay off early (50%+ drop in rate).

 

I got to online chat with her, the ex-girlfriend that has been on my mind. It was refreshing. We talked about family and her vacation plans. I miss her friendship as much as I miss her I think. Maybe more. It would just be too awkward now, I think.

 

I did a test run on the file server I built for our house. I am running FreeNAS. It worked like a champ. Large transfers fromPC to NAS was about the same as PC to PC. I shut it down, but will restart it soon. I am using an old Dell Dimension 2400 and a 250 GB drive to test it. I will eventually move it to the new case and motherboard I ordered (very cheaply as it is an old P4 board. I have tons of P4 procs laying around). I have to move it because the Dell has no SATA or room for more than 2 drives. The new enclosure will have 5 HD bays. I plan to run 4 drives in RAID 5, unless I can get some really large drives cheap, then I might go with 3. The Dell will then become a Unix test machine. Now, the new mobo didn’t have SATA, either (even the P4 ones that did only have 2). The large drives need SATA. I do have a 4 port SATA PCI card, so we’ll see if it works. If it doesn’t, no sweat. I am only paying around 20 bucks shipped for the mobo.

 

I have started a few conversations with new folks online. There is one in Friendswood I hope works out well. She seems to be pretty cool.

 

Well, that’s enough for now.

 

L8rs-