Jared’s Blog

Wow has it already been a week since I checked in? It doesn’t seem that long. Not much of anything fabulous has been going on in my life. I got the housing situation in Plymouth all figured out and it looks like I’m moving on Saturday. But that won’t mean all of my stuff is coming with me. Things like my dresser and bookshelf will have to wait until my dad can take his truck down. That will probably be a few days later. Once I’m down there, the pressure will be on to find a job. I’m unable to get accepted as a renter on the place I’m moving into, so for now I’ll be subleting. We have plans to get a new lease drawn up in December when a new guy moves in and I have a job. So that’ll mean I need a job in less than 3 weeks. Whether that means fast food or my dream job, I don’t know.

Because of my move, I’ll no longer be hosting this from my parents cable internet connection. I have to see how things are going to work out down there before I make any moves. Chances are I’ll throw it on my friends cable connection for a little while and then once I get some money, I’ll buy hosting. I’m going to miss the authority of my own server though. On one hand, it’s nice to know that my server will be up almost all of the time and that it’ll be on a fast connection. I just won’t have the customizability. Which, I’m not so sure I need. As long as I get a host with PHP and a few MySQL databases, I should be ok. So what this all boils down to is the site may go down for a few days or even weeks while I get things figured out. I’m sure so many of you will be just crushed.

Finally found time to post here. Once again lack of motivation struck me. That aside, life continues on.

Last weekend was family weekend down at college for my sister. I took off Friday and spent some time with John and Co. in VM140. Rick and Kristin were even around and I got to spend some time with the as well as each some delicious Chipotle. Saturday was mostly a family day although there was one addition. Bev and I spent a few hours hanging out and getting some food. My family showed up later in the day and we went out for a late dinner. Not much else to remark about from that weekend. It was weird being at the ol’ college two weekends in a row. It was almost like I was in school again.

This week my near future became a bit clearer. I will in all likelihood be migrating south for the winter and there after. There’s still too many things left uncertain for me to make a definate statment. Right now its one of the only bright spots on the horizon, so the moth in me is getting drawn in.

To keep myself busy the last couple of days I’ve been working feverishly on Andy’s site, CoolerThanYou.net. I must say the final product turned out pretty damn good. The old saying “practice makes perfect” held true. I look at the progression of my site designs and they just keep getting better and better. Bottom line is Burns is happy. So I’m happy.

And as an aside, you’ll have to deal with the site being a tad on the slow side these days. My cable internet has been on the fritz. From what I can gather, its something having to do with intermittant packetloss, DNS, or both. For now I’m left with about 14k service instead of 2-3Mbit service. I doubt Mediacom will be busting their ass over the weekend to do anything for me, so expect problems for another couple days at least.

So today, I see there’s a security update for Wordpress. I accidentally overwrote my comment popup template so if it looks plain its because I messed it up. I didn’t have the patience to go ahead and fix it yet. Soon!

EDIT: I’ve fixed the comments popup, lucky for me I found some of my old code.

This is a couple of days old, but I’m now unemployed. I have to say it sucks. While getting up at 7AM every day wasn’t my cup of tea, I dealt with it just fine. The money is what I really miss. Knowing I’ve only got 1 more paycheck and no job lined up is a little unsettling. At least this time I’ve got some cash stashed in tbe bank. It’s never enough though. The plan now? Move!

I’ve been offered an apartment in Plymouth with a friend. It’s a pretty sweet deal too. Townhome for $550/mo. My only concern is once again the job. I doubt I’ll have anything before moving down which means I’ll have to find something once I’m down there. If it’s not career oriented, then I’m going to end up taking a crappy job for a little while. Not something I want to do, but if needed, I will. At least I’ll be out of this wasteland.

One thing I need to do before moving down is get a new vehicle. As I said above, money is pretty good right now, but once I get a car, it won’t be. Chances are I’ll have to use a good portion of my savings on a used car and that doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for anything else. It’s going to be very tight once I do get down to Minneapolis. Will I stretch myself too thin? One thing is for sure, moving back home will not be an option.

I’m back with another one of those free deal thingies. Sign up for a free flat screen with this link

http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/default.aspx?referer=9516279

I did Infone this time. Apparently, there’s no fees and if you never use it, you don’t get charged. I’ve also been doing a little browsing on these free offers. I found this useful site. They have a conga line too. The idea is simple, you sign up under someone else’s link, complete all your stuff, and then you’re done. Takes a bit for you to move up the line, but its worth it. Just do it and forget about it pretty much.

Also, I’ve got my ass in gear with some more coding for this site. Yesterday was a killer coding day for me. I spent a good 4 or 5 hours on and off throughout the day on some new functionality. I found a little help with pagination on PHPfreaks.com that I plan on using in my video and album (now featuring cover art) lists. Things aren’t up and working yet, but I am very close. The problem I’m having is getting the pagination to work with searching. I’m confident it can be done and that I’ll have things coded in the next few days.

It’s bout time I added some new stuff to the site for people to look at. I got all ambitious tonight and finished adding all my music videos to the database. Came out to 1400 and I didn’t add in a partial CD yet. That’s a lot of damn videos folks! You know, if I didn’t think I’d get sued, I’d put a copy of the whole lot up on eBay for a decent price (under $100). On the off chance that you would be interested in a copy, get ahold of me and we can talk.

Also in the music section, I started adding CD’s to my albums database. I’m at 84 as of tonight with roughly 125 or so more CD’s to add. Then it’s on to MP3’s. I’m gonna guess it’ll end up around 300 albums when things are all done.

Wrapping things up, I’ve been adding a desktop screenie here and there along with a few wallpapers and some pictures in the gallery. Hit any of those up if you feel so inclined to check them out.

I know, I know. I should update more. I haven’t had much to say though. Not to mention I’ve been working 10 hour days. I did put up a picture gallery. After wrestling to install Gallery for a couple days, I tried out Coppermine and it seems to suit me well. At some point I’ll have to make a theme for it to fit my site. For now just browse the pictures I’ve put up.