So most of you who still read this site know what all is going on. Academy fired me for total bullshit reasons which I won’t go into. I have no hard feelings towards anyone there. I might think it was crap but being upset at someone for doing what they thought was their job would accomplish nothing. I am upset about losing the monthly poker game even though I knew it was likely. It is held at my now ex-boss’s hacienda, thrown by her husband, and I guess it would be weird for her. For me work is work and social is social is social. I really liked that game even though I didn’t always win. It’s not easy to find a good home game and that was one for me.
Anyway I am back in webhosting doing sysadmin work for a lot less money. There are some perks to the job and some drawbacks. The perks include: no dress code, free lunch (if you accomplish certain goals), some cool people with which to work, and a schedule that allows me to consult. The drawbacks are: Low pay, a schedule that doesn’t let me off until midnight, dealing with customers, some people with stereotypical sysadmin hygiene, and having to deal with porn on a daily basis. It’s a gig and it’s paying the bills. I also have two consulting clients at this point and am open for server management consulting. I have a non-compete so I can’t do hosting but I never really did anyway.
So that’s the long and short of the last three weeks.
Seamus also turned six last Wednesday and we will have a party for him and Michelle next weekend which will apparently involve painting on Saturday. I am working Sunday through Thursday so Friday is the day I relax and since I get home long after the family goes to sleep I am giving Michelle Saturdays as her day to choose what we do. Today we are going to a park that has Bluebonnets and taking pictures with the kids. It sounds alright and gets me out of the house which is good for me. Next Saturday, as I mentioned, is painting day. We have to borrow a ladder but we are beginning to fix the house up a bit since we will be here a while. On my current salary we can’t afford to buy a house.
Well I am trying not to whine and ramble on about how much things suck as I want to have a good attitude about all of this but, quite frankly, it is a struggle. I upgraded to WP 2.5 and have to get some of the plugins working again but everything is looking good so far.
More than 500 people were killed when Peru was hit with by an enormous earthquake last week. When we learned that Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and author of the GPL under which the GNU/Linux operating system is licensed, was in Peru during the quake…
The sad part is that the whacko lived through it. Clip ganked fomr www.linux.com (cut and paste it).
Yet another random post from the world of crackberry blogging…
Well I added a forum today. Right here is the link. It’s also over in the left sidebar as I Hate These Forums. It’s just one forum right now to see if there will be any use. You can post anything at all. It doesn’t have to be about anything I have posted or even anything I care about. You can invite your friends or your enemies. I am keeping the rules to a minimum as I always have on my forums. Feel free to use them. I am still working on the colors so if you notice anything that needs work just drop a comment here and I will get around to it. I also added a link up top, the tabs don’t change color yet but that’s because I suck at css and the guy who wrote the base theme sucks worse at documentation than I suck at css. So as soon as the wife helps me out maybe it will start working. The link works but the tabs don’t change color.
I am torn about something. But first I must explain my stance on an issue that most people never give a first, much less a second, thought. The issue is Christian branding. For instance I heard a commercial the other day for a law firm who “uses Christian values in all lawsuits”. So today, in preperation for writing this piece, I called them up and asked them a few questions. As I was doing research I do not consider this to have been dishonest. The nice lady who answered the phone did indeed confirm that they proudly support Christian values and worked accordingly. So I described a situation wherein I was sideswiped by a fellow church member who happened to not have insurance and asked if they would be willing to help me sue this fellow. With no further clarification she began to ask if I had any pain and told me that any pain related to the accident would result in a larger settlement. I explained this person was an older fellow who had absentmindedly let his insurance lapse and was on the board of elders and wondered if it would be proper to sue him for damages since he had not paid as he said he would. She explained to me that it would be perfectly alright since we would only sue for what actually happened and not try to make it into a huge payday. I politely ended the call.
For those who do not know a lot of scripture I will post the relevant verses before I go any further:
1 Corinthians 6 (NASB)
1 Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints?
2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?
3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?
4 So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?
5 I say this to your shame Is it so, that there is not among you one wise man who will be able to decide between his brethren,
6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
7 Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.
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