my friend anthony got a new phone that can snap and email pictures. i was sober during the taking of this picture. it’s a little blurry because the clear plastic is still on parts of the phone.
funny seeing you here.
Posted by Jason on May 29, 2003
ran into my friend jonathan at dinner tonight. got to spend more time with him to hang out and catch up a little. i got to tell him about how i’ve been happy with my life. and about my thing about friends. i miss him.
tonight’s perfect music: joni mitchell.
it don’t snow here
it stays pretty green
i’m going to make a lot of money
then i’m going to quit this crazy scene
i wish i had a river
i could skate away on
i wish i had a river so long
i would teach my feet to fly
and so it goes..
Posted by Jason on May 26, 2003
been working on the digital music collection.
there is now a working AFS server on my apartment. /afs/offramp.org/
i’m waiting for gabe to finish installing his sparc so i can test client functionality. i want to get another machine hosted somewhere out on the net so i can play more with distributed stuff.
work has been edging closer and closer to me. i’m actually going to stop into work for a bit today. but not before some sort of food. i haven’t been eating lately. like, at all.
last night i got a little caught up with tim.
there’s some computer work to do at dad’s tonight.
i need to get caught up on bills and work on fixing my cell phone again. none of the new phones seem good to me. too many features, actually.
back home, away from home..
Posted by Jason on May 25, 2003
i saw my friend mike at a party this weekend. he, boman, and i miss tim.. :-/
its okay to let go now and then
Posted by Jason on May 21, 2003
it’s so funny how the music i listen to becomes the soundtrack to my life. my stress levels are fairly high these days. and this escapology is really getting through to me. this morning on my way to work:
you wake up in the middle of
the thunder of a scream
and you realise that it was yours
you don’t know what to tell them
’cause you don’t know where you’ve been
and you’ve been late so many times before
it’s only natural to feel like you’re sinking
it’s only human to be so unprepared
don’t worry baby
if you get a little high
it’s just a phase to get you through
getting by
so you get a little restless
and you get a little wasted
it’s just a little light entertainment
embrace it
it might just save your life
you always say you’re sorry
but you never know what for
and it’s been happening more and more
act your age and not your shoe size
and blah blah blah blah blah
that’s your role model
slammin
the schlachet line
Posted by Jason on May 20, 2003
how could i forget.. congratulations to thomas and michelle schlachet.
i’ll post some pictures in my photo gallery once i get some scanning done.
one thousand words
Posted by Jason on May 20, 2003
no gfx here for a while. here’s an old self portait i took a few years ago. i took it with my old color quickcam. the camera was slow to adjust to new light conditions. i happened to snap this one during an adjustment. the effect is pretty cool.
life movement
Posted by Jason on May 20, 2003
my laptop broke some time last week. i placed a service call just before i left for utah. that turned out to be a mistake. what happened was banktech (dell’s support outsource house) ordered the parts. they weren’t able to get ahold of me so they cancelled the support case and sent the parts back. i do remember telling dell i’d be out of town. too late to fix now. so i called back today. i was on hold for most of the hour i spent on the phone. but now i have a new case number, a new dispatch number, and a new appointment window. tomorrow, 9:45am-12:45pm. they’re replacing everything else in the laptop. last time i had work done, they replaced the lcd panel and keyboard. this time, it’s the power brick, the motherboard, power supply board, and even the power button. so we’ll see.
i’m anxious to get the laptop back so i can let gabe use that, then i can rebuild my desktop. the desktop’s explorer has been slow/sluggish which is very annoying. why can’t things just work?
i’m finally caught up in work. i worked only normal hours yesterday, which was a good idea for me to mentally get back into things. working late tonight.
just before i’d left for utah, i worked until 3am working on a tape/san issue. we never fixed anything. we ended up instituting a work-around which has been in place since. everything else is broken, but at least the system is back up. well, tonight we’re moving forward on a possible fix. crossing fingers. it sucked getting home at 3am to wake up at 6am and fly to utah for the wedding.
i always get crazy when things aren’t working well. my main machine (offramp.org) has been rebooting. it seemed to reboot more often when i was out of state. i suspect the ups is at fault. so i need to pick up a replacement battery or a replacement ups. havent decided which yet. frys sells the batteries. but i dont want any guesswork.
i’ll try and do the ups thing tomorrow, assuming i dont work crazy hours. who knows at this point. i hate making plans that could be in jeopardy. indefinite plans make me go nuts.
so we’ll see.
relaxing a bit after lunch with some music. im gonna try to sneak away from work at 4 to get my utah photos back and get back to work by 5.