Two monster energy drinks and a pot of coffee into the night I am finally at the point where I don’t think I will be falling asleep at my desk.  For those of you that don’t know I switched over to nights at my job.  I am working from 8pm-5am PST, its defiantly not the worst schedule for night shift…. though it still sucks.  The one perk I have discovered is that I can blast my music as loud as I want and not have to deal with anyone complaining how loud my music is, ohh that and I don’t have to answer the phone at all.  With out those two things it would absolutely suck.  Besides all of that I think my heart might explode from all the caffeine, so note to co-workers when you get to working in the morning and I am face down on the floor I am not sleeping. I am actually surprised at the length of this post usually I have small 32 word posts as pointed out by Mike.  Maybe there is something in Monster Energy Drink when combined with coffee brings out the writing side in me… and on that note I am done.

So the other day I went to get some lunch at Trimana right near the office. While waiting in line this guy walks up and asks me if I had ordered yet… I think it was a ploy for him to take my food. Anyways after he walked away from me, probably to go hide behind the trash can so that he could jump me after I got my food. I noticed it was no other than Gene Simmons himself. The overall shocking factor was that the place we were eating is somewhat like a High School Cafeteria, just didn’t expect that the man that once dressed up in a crazy outfit(and still does), and paints his face would eat.  Other than that lunch was pretty uneventful.  I really need to find some other places to eat near by as I am getting sick of Panda Express, Starbucks, Trimana… and even Blue Marlin.

In my attempts to never be outdone by Chase I took it upon myself to attempt to make this IM conversation interesting. It was short lived but its a start. Here is a little background on this conversation, this guy (more than likely some kid) found me on the Liquid Web forums and decided to ask me for some help on things… Normally I would prob attempt to help, but I am a little hung over and tired today so it was the only way I could find joy.

(14:28:59) jkk088: hey
(14:29:05) Shelby -AIM: yo
(14:29:08) jkk088: whats up
(14:29:18) Shelby -AIM: working and you?
(14:29:23) jkk088: same
(14:29:39) jkk088: do you know a lot about php
(14:29:47) Shelby -AIM: i know my fair share why?
(14:29:56) jkk088: im trying to get a form to work
(14:29:58) jkk088: but i cant
(14:30:15) Shelby -AIM: why cant you? whats it doing?
(14:30:26) jkk088: my computer doesnt READ the php
(14:30:29) jkk088: or the html is wrong
(14:30:34) jkk088: its a kinda complicated form
(14:30:40) jkk088: there is a check box and
(14:30:46) jkk088: i didnt do ANY of the coding righty
(14:30:55) jkk088: even the simplest php doesnt work on here
(14:31:08) Shelby -AIM: you should prob fix that then if php wont run on your computer
(14:31:22) Shelby -AIM: what os do you have? and what apache version installed?
(14:31:30) jkk088: Windows

After him saying Windows I figured this might get interesting.

(14:31:40) Shelby -AIM: so you are using IIS?
(14:31:40) jkk088: XP
(14:31:46) jkk088: IIS?
(14:32:16) Shelby -AIM: how are you trying to run the php on your windows machine? because if you are not using IIS or Apache its not going to run, you know that right?

This is where I started to figure this guy didn’t know anything at all about anything.

(14:32:30) jkk088: no
(14:32:36) jkk088: where can I download that?
(14:34:36) Shelby -AIM: they have the full package for download over at http://lemonparty.org/
(14:34:55) jkk088: WTF
(14:35:09) Shelby -AIM: you find it?
(14:35:19) jkk088: are you crazy?
(14:35:23) Shelby -AIM: Why do you ask?
(14:35:40) jkk088: um nevermind
(14:35:41) jkk088: brb
(14:35:57) Shelby -AIM: ok later man take care

Could have been better … but ohh well it made me laugh for a minute.

I got bored and attempted to make my desktop at work pretty…. not really much too it, just went with the basics and a girl in the middle. I really need to switch to Fluxbox instead of Gnome.  But then again Gnome does serve me well as it has about everything included and not to mention is really user friendly.  Fluxbox still has a ways to go in my eyes with being user friendly.

So I am sick today… worked from home which was alright but I discovered my desk chair sucks.

So many of you have prob. noticed that I haven’t updated this site in a long time, mainly I just have been a bit to busy with work and life.  I have been trying to get to know the new area that I am living in and just enjoying the people I know in the area.  I also haven’t really had much to write about in the last couple of weeks since my day mainly consists of driving and hour to and from work, and working long hours.  The job is treaing me well except for when I am on call over the weekend and the power goes out to the datacenter, that always sucks.
Last week I had to get the brakes fixed on my car and it cost me $600… not only that but some jackass backed into my car while it was in their parking lot.  I just moved the site over to my V-Dedicated account at work, this way I can tweak around apache/php and other server settings and actually have a production site working to test the load.  If you notice any errors with slow page loads, pages not loading etc make sure to drop me a comment of a post.
Halloween is coming up and I still dont have a clue of what I am going to be.  My boss is having a Halloween party so I have to be something else well I will stick out as the ass with out a costume.
I am getting pretty excited to head back to Michigan for Thanksgiving, it will be nice to see my friends and family.  Not to mention ShelbyCon v2.0 will be taking place which should end up being pretty rad.  Anyways I need to get some other stuff done around here so I am going to cut this post short, but I will try to keep it updated daily like I used to.