Brent’s Thoughts

Geez, I don’t know if I can tell you guys how great this new job is. Things are going great here for me. I just had an interview with WKU for a position and I found myself relaxed and un-worried about the outcome. Yeah the position pays a little more money, but I am not sure if I would enjoy it as much as this one. I really can’t seem to find a lot that depresses my about this place. I get to work on a myriad of machines, servers, desktops, networks, linux, windows. It all fits into a very ME kinda place. Perhaps a little too much desktop support mixed in, but I am not sure if that isn’t leftover “grrr” from AFNI. Lets just say the more I work here the bigger a joke AFNI becomes in my life.

Today why ordered $515 PDAs for ourselves, something that AFNI wouldn’t even ever dream of doing for me, and I have already helped out with several ideas and fixes for situations that are making things run much smoother.

The weather was nice here tonight and I found myself riding home with windows down and sunroof open, singing Pink Floyd’s “Shine on” at the top of my lungs. It was great!!! Today walking out of that interview and feeling free for the first time in a while was a great thing.

Also I need some help, there has been a song haunting me and I would like you guys to tell me what it is if you can. It has the line that is the title of this in it as the tag and it talks about looking out at the ocean and seeing a thousand blue sparkles, feeling the sand in his toes and being happy, it then says something like, “I wish you where here, miss you when you are gone” or something, he then talks about laying on the beach and looking at the stars and some other stuff, then his the refrain again, “I wish you where here, miss you when you are gone”. Sorry if I am not being helpful. It is a fairly newish song, but I have no idea who it is by and thus I cannot find it.

Sorry to those that are looking for immedate updates. It has taken a few minutes to get time to sit down and put this together.

The job is sweet. Lots of cool stuff to mess with and an office that is filled to the brim with computers, computer parts, and everything to go with them.

Honestly after my first day I didn’t have enough to talk about since I didn’t spend very much time at the place. Lamar (who as yet doesn’t have a profile in here, probably soon) was and is sick and needed to go to the doctor so I headed out a little early (read 10:00AM) with the rest of the day to myself. After today though there was more time to talk with him and to work on some stuff. It is great to be memorizing admin passwords again and to be working toward goals and agendas. All things that working at AFNI seemed to lack.

A conseqence of going back to work is that my work on Ann’s diary has slowed, though I do have some updates on gears that I will hopefully get posted soon. That reminds me and I don’t think I have posted these links. I have created pages for my machines since I so often talk about them I thought you should be able to see what they are.

Diablo
Samuel
Gears

Honestly it has been a week or three since I knocked those out so I can’t remember if I got them done or not. I’ll try to check someday. And no I didn’t pick those colors to be impossible to read I’m just lucky like that I guess.

What else….. Oh yeah big props to Pyroman for his meeting the other night about WebVCR+. The boy has done a bang up job on that shit and he deserves any traffic you can send his way. If you are too cheap to buy a TiVo then this is the shit for you. Top Notch!! Top Notch!!! (Two cool points for the movie which contains those last four words like that.)

Possible new look for the forums coming down the pipe. I am letting maxx get all his ducks in a row on his new house before I really start busting him or scott (sorry scott don’t have a URL for you off the top of my head) up with requests. It may not replace these but I might move it in on diablonetwork.net or as just an addition to these.

And finally props to Seth for his graduation from WKU!!! I hope he will continue to post to the page and keep us up to date on what is going on with him.