Author: jrwren

morning.

    todays drive to work:  Blade Runner Soundtrack… not at all something you can sing along to.  But it was awesome.

Currently eating cheese danish (yummie) becasue someone brought stuff in to work!

I beat the hell of out aix lvm fc san poopiness this morning.

and that is it.  that is all I got.

spent.

i’ve been listening again.

I have music again, I’ve been listening again.

About a year ago, my 95 VM Golf started exhibiting numerous problems.  After getting something fixed in Aug-Sep of 03, the car died in Oct-Nov.  Not having money or ambition to fix it, compounded by the RX7, I left the car in a parking lot all winter long.  It was not until April that I moved the car.  I did not care, the ’86 Mazda RX7 with only ~30k miles on it was damn fun.  I showed it its first winter.

In June, I get the VW back from the shop, after dropping more $ that it was worth to fix.  I’m less than happy about its status when I get it back.  They shop said it had electrical problems, but when you get a car back, and you just paid through the nose, you expect things to work.  Things didn’t work.  No turn signals, no hazards, no power sunroof, and worst of all, no radio.

I love my radio.  I have a Pioneer P550MP that plays MP3 CDs.  It has adequate power for listening, even at 70Mph with the windows down.  I used to rock out all alone in the car to all the good music that (my wife, although gf at the time) doesn’t like. 

Compound further still with the fun facts that for the past 3+weeks, I’ve been driving 70+miles to work, in each direction.  NO STEREO!!!  Three hours in the car daily is not so bad, even without a stereo.  It is fun to yell at traffic.  It is fun to be alone with ones thoughts.  It is fun to…  Well, there isn’t much else to do while driving. 

Saturday, I tore car apart(not much actually), and shorted some wires and replaced some fuses, et voila!  STEREO!!!  Mmm… is so good.

My favorite now is singing along.  NoFX, Blink 182 – Josie, rapping to big pun.  Damn there were songs that were old standards for me, that I haven’t heard in over a year, only because I used to only listen to them in the car!  But by far the absolute best and most favorite right now is singing along to Radiohead.  I especially enjoy trying to sing along to Street Spirit and being completely inadequate to hit the notes, my voice screetches, but I don’t care.  I’m alone in my car and no one can hear me by me… and maybe God… and the spirits… and since grandma and grandpa are with God now too… maybe they can hear me… hrm… I’m almost embaraced now… but grammy and grampy won’t mind.  Who else may hear me?  Budha?  Ghandi?  hrm… Only embaraced for a second there.  nope…  oh well. 

Hrm.  This post certainly digressed into stupidity.  I was going to post something in my own words, about something going on in my life, and the stereo story is as good as any.  I figured my LJ is far from a window to my psyche, so I thought I’d try to let you all get to know my better, but alas.  My post quickly fell to stupidity.  Through this window to my psyche you can see my stupidity.

Scorpions – Still Lovin’ You

 Time, it needs time
 To win back your love again
 I will be there, I will be there
 Love, only love
 Can bring back your love someday
 I will be there, I will be there
 
 I'll fight, babe, I'll fight
 To win back your love again
 I will be there, I will be there
 Love, only love
 Can break down the wall someday
 I will be there, I will be there

 If we'd go again
 All the way from the start
 I would try to change
 The things that killed our love
 Your pride has built a wall, so strong
 That I can't get through
 Is there really no chance
 To start once again
 I'm loving you

 Try, baby try
 To trust in my love again
 I will be there, I will be there
 Love, our love
 Just shouldn't be thrown away
 I will be there, I will be there

 If we'd go again
 All the way from the start
 I would try to change
 The things that killed our love
 Your pride has built a wall, so strong
 That I can't get through
 Is there really no chance
 To start once again

 If we'd go again
 All the way from the start
 I would try to change
 The things that killed our love
 Yes, I've hurt your pride, and I know
 What you've been through
 You should give me a chance
 This can't be the end
 I'm still loving you
 I'm still loving you, I need your love
 I'm still loving you


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shock and awe

I haven’t been shocked by computing in a while.  I’m configuring this IBM FC SAN switch for the first time ever.  It is actually an IBM labeled Brocade switch running Brocade Fabric OS.  It turns out Fabris OS is…  LINUX!  (dramatic dum dum dum!)

Now I am rarely surprised when it comes to finding these types of things, but this really did shock me.  Brocade is the Cisco of storage networks, so this is on the level of discovering that Cisco IOS was indeed Linux… wouldn’t that shock everyone?

back to work.

breakfast breakfast

mmm    breakfast of toast grits and eggs…

YUMMIE!!!

Busy Busy Busy…  that is what I have been… mostly driving too and from work!

Become AIX and SAN expert… west coast begs me to come for six figs 🙂

Classes started again… This is the first fall semester that I have not been a student since… well… age 4?  no wait…  preschool – age 3, but even then I was a student of life.. well, I’m still a student of life… nm… POINT BEING – it is nice to not have to worry about classes, and it is funny to watch the incoming students wander around campus like lost fools

http://blogs.msdn.com/jesperh/archive/2004/08/27/221536.aspx

hahaha… good way to start weekend for nerdie programmers.