up to speed

Quick highlights since last post.

New job: I am now employed by SPS (Select Portfolio Servicing), they are a mortgage servicing company (scary eh?) who's parent company is Credit Suisse. Nice. good Swiss backing. As with any mortgage company there has been a lot of shifting and shuffling, but I am still employed so life is good. I do have to do rounds of on-call work, but at least it's not every other week like with iBahn.

SKIS: I bought a set of telemark skis, binding, and boots in december, I have been up millcreek and emigration canyons so far, I am hoping to make a jaunt up Big Cottonwood next weekend, but I might end up snow-shoeing with the wife.

These last few months have been interesting, I hope this year turns out better than last year. we shall see.

back to work-related DBA shit.

xmas!

I am typing this post on my new netbook. Sweet Felecia bought me an EEE netbook for xmas. YAY!!

I farkd up

yeah, i farked this post up good. oh well, the captain has to sink with the ship.






BLAP!

Workin' Man Blues

I am listening to George Jones and Merle Haggard. I got the workin' man blues. 6 beers into a night, feelin' good.

shhh.... I'm in here.

I am hiding from the woman party in the other room. Felecia is hosting the Christian Girlfriends night tonight. This is where the women from the church get together and chat 'bout stuff. So, needless to say, I have some good tunes pumping through my headphones (artist: Ohgr Album: Welt), a Marley firmly situated on my lap, a sixer of newcastle within easy reach, and a glass of scotch in my belly. No girl talk can infiltrate my defenses now!! muhahahhahhahaha.


I finished up season 2 of the IT crowd tonight. SO FARKING AWESOME!!! I love me some IT crowd. Moss is my hero.

Fall Hike

Yesterday I hit Mill B south for hike up to lake Blanche. I was originally shooting to scramble up to Sundial peak, but the snow was a bit too slippery for a safe go. I hit the trail-head about 8:00am so there was nobody around, awesome. There was a truck with a smashed out window in the parking lot, which was a bit discerning as I was the only other vehicle in the lot, but I figure the shits who did it probably are asleep now or have scored more meth and are good for a few hours. fuckers. Anyways, the hike itself was awesome. A nice southerly breeze was my only companion on the way up as Felecia did not want to venture out at ass-early on a Sunday morning, but it kept me company listening to my crazy thoughts. I hit the lake at just the right time as I didn't see a soul anywhere near the lake so I chucked my crap on a boulder, laid down and listened to nothing but the sounds of nature. Heaven. I snapped a few pictures, check them out below, the one of me is a self timed shot that came out reasonable well, a bit out of focus, but not worse than some of my other photos. Man, I really think yesterday was the single best hiking day yet this fall. I hope next weekend shapes up the same way.

a nightmare in the forest of tangle and rot.

This week has been full of uppers and downers, blues and reds. Sometimes I feel like a complete retard at my job, then 10 minutes later I pull off an amazing 3 point shot to win the game. I have been working on a large project at work that has tested my strengths of database wizardry. These types of projects are a good reminder that you aren't all that, and there is always something to learn. It has been a few months since I have had a good kick to the cerebellum, so this week has been kind of fun in a stressed out way. my big to-do was to build a reporting system that could show for an individual, team-lead, or manager a dashboard of current and closed requests - pretty boring eh? yeah, I about fell asleep in the design meeting - also breaking down where a request went in the system and how long it stayed in various areas. Well, 8 stored procedures, 4 functions, 6 tables, and numerous destroyed pens later I am finally at the end of journey to the land of beta. Just tonight I finished up the serious of reports that users in the company can view to determine who's holding up requests in the chain. Sounds pretty glamorous eh? yeah I know, snores-ville. But that is the work and the glory of a corporate data cowboy.

well, I reckin' I best be off to tend to the campfire, you folks have yourselves a right nice night then.