I must go back to Death Valley, it calls to me. I want to experience 130+ F heat.
I miss Death Valley
Apr 12th, 2008 by bwann
Knocking out the cobwebs
Apr 6th, 2008 by bwann
After a week I’m better, but still coughing. It was a fantastic Texas weekend, clear and sunny, in the 80s. I failed to go do anything Saturday except be a nerd and play with nerd things. Today I couldn’t take staying inside and decided to go out for the first long ride of the year. 41 miles around the Mansfield Dam loop, and my legs got completely shredded and in much discomfort right now. Normally I can cycle that in 2:30, today it took 4:22. There was a headwind on the 360 section which made it exceptionally tiring when coupled with the hills. Breating deep makes me cough a lot, but that’s pretty normal for me after a hard ride..
Gisele lust
Mar 29th, 2008 by bwann
Hellooooo Gisele!
I done went and got sick again! I wasn’t feeling very well after having ice cream + chocolate syrup for dessert at lunch and blamed it on indigestion. The night went downhill from there, I was getting very tired and went to bed. I woke up at 5 AM with some wicked chest congestion, felt like a cinder block was on my chest. A scalding hot shower fixed me enough to sleep a few more hours. Now I’m actually sitting in front of a space heater drinking a pot of hot tea because I’m shivering so much. Fuck you bacterial infection or Texas springtime allergies!
Swifters are awesome, that is all.
Getting older
Mar 18th, 2008 by bwann
I’m amused by work sending me a 1″ thick binder of doctors in my health insurance network … in New Jersey. But that’s fine, since Jersey City is my adopted city now during the day due to the number of people I work with there and how everything operates on east coast time.
Also, I did not know it was my birthday tomorrow until I got home tonight and had a few emails from friends wishing me a happy birthday. Thanks all! 29, almost 30!
New job, other newness
Mar 16th, 2008 by bwann
So far I’m enjoying the new job. I certainly have my work cut out for me. I was looking for apartments up north so I could cut out the 30 minute commute and ran across the place that’s literally across the street from the office. Looks pretty spiffy, has granite countertops, so I’ll have to check it out.
My new 20″ LCD arrived at home, I’ve been so productive this week. This week’s hotness, Aberrant behavior detection in time series for network service monitoring. The other hotness is Roadhouse on DVD for $5, coz who doesn’t love Roadhouse and Patrick Swayze kicking ass?
Boston – NYC roadtrip
Mar 10th, 2008 by bwann
I have returned from my whistlestop visit of the east coast. On the EWR->AUS flight there were three ultra hot, size-2 girls. Listening to them chatter about timezones and daylight savings, they revealed they were coming from Saint Maarten. One of them even smiled at me as I did a double-take as they were boarding. They clearly could not keep up with my standards, they were back in row 27 while I was happily enjoying my tea from row 3. I would’ve loved to know their story anyways. I lost track of them after the luggage carosel, so they’re about this city somewhere.
An airplane appears to be my coveted place for reading. After putting in earplugs to block out the drunk and loud Scot behind me, I was able to knock out nearly five chapters of a VPN book tonight and actually feel like I retained it.
I start the new job tomorrow; at present time I only have the address, no floor nor suite number. Interestingly, yesterday I was a few blocks away from the corporate office in Jersey City.
TSA warnings, what?
Mar 6th, 2008 by bwann
So at AUS, CLE, and BOS today the announcements seemed extra excited about the ORANGE security color, advising travelers to be extra cautious about suspicious items and people. What does orange mean? Is that worse than red? or is it worse than yellow? Fuck if I know. As Alex says, they need a numbering system, “today’s threat level is 3” on a scale 1-10 is much more useful. But, I wouldn’t know what it was yesterday… today it’s 3! did it go up or down?!
Departing employee
Mar 5th, 2008 by bwann
From: Data Foundry Intranet Subject: [PERSONNEL #165496] Departing Employee - Bryan Wann [bryan][e254596] Date: March 5, 2008 4:18:07 PM CST To: undisclosed-recipients; Reply-To: personnel Employee Record Inactive. Data Foundry Intranet access disabled.
It is done. Goodbye Giganews, it’s been fun.
Hello CentOS
Mar 5th, 2008 by bwann
So far the move from Fedora Core 6 to CentOS has been pretty painless. Aside from having to remember how to change selinux contexts on directories, all seems well. If you’re seeing this, you’re gold!
