i am still alive and kickin’
May 14th, 2003 | by john |Yes yes, I do apologize for the lack of updated blogs on this site… but frankly, there is nothing really to update on.
I have been working over time late into last weekend because 1) No internet access except crappy dialup until Thursday so couldn’t do any work 2) I was in Chapel Hill until Wednesday afternoon.
Anywho, took my dog to the vet last Friday because we decided that it was a good time to get his dental cleaning. He came back a bit groggy because he was under general anaesthesia during the procedure… vet told me that three of his teeth just fell out with just a bit of tugging. Buddy also had an annual check up the week prior… and with a blood test, we found out that Buddy is … ‘overweight’ in terms of… just being fat. So he’s been on a stricter diet from that point on.
So went to Chapel Hill last week – I didn’t do that much, I just went over there to chill with my sisters and also get screened for a dental exam that my sister will have to take soon. She will have to perform dental care stuff on people that she’s screened and qualified for the dental care examination. She’ll do exceptionally well- of course she will – I have no doubt 
I also found out at Chapel Hill that I passed all my classes… some with flying colors and some others not so much although I was still thrilled to have passed the course (yes ladies and gentlemen, I have passes CS2130 and will not have to take any more frickin’ Computer ‘Kill all GT Students’ Science courses at Tech- WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO). So screw my former backup major as a CS major- I’m keeping on with my CompE degree with EE as my backup although… at this point there’s really no real reason for me to switch to EE since they are the same majors with only 3-4 different classes… ah screw it, I’ll just stick to my CompE thing. I’ve wasted too much time with the PreReq’s building up to this point to quit now. 
Work has been slow… especially because the network is rock solid now (they hired a new network engineer that spent about 3 days tweaking the network). The ping time to my new server increased slightly – but no bid deal, it’s at 39ms now going through the Level3 line. I’ve decided to name this server Spring. This is the first server that I will completely own to myself and I won’t have any restriction on running what and when and how etc. I named it spring because I like the names of the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Who knows where Summer, Autumn, and Winter are going to be placed – hopefully I can have them hosted in different data centers so I can make them all quadruply redundant or at least doubly redundant. If not, I’ll just run different stuff on each server. Let me know if you want to be hosted on Spring, it’s a rather high-spec server; definitely better than my desktop 
I am also looking for a laptop- I was thinking of just getting one of those dell cheapo deals but then I think I might invest some more money into it and make it my primary computer while using my desktop as a backup. But then again, since I don’t really like laptops much – I’ll just invest little in it and use it for wireless purposes around the GT campus. By the way, they finally laid out the grass on the park that they made out of the old Hightower building – took them the whole year to do this… So, I am looking at Dell, HP, Toshiba, Vaio, and Sager brands. If you have any particular suggestions – do comment.
Anyhow – just a itty bitty update. No promise as to when I will update this next but hopefully soon.
