John’s Blog

Okay, so it took me over a month, but I finally got the bog moved to new hosting. Unfortunately it also required a new domain.

The good news is I had a back up of the site and database from the old web host and getting moved was easier than I thought it would be. Just uploaded, restored databse, made a few database tweaks, upgraded Wordpress, and here we are.

Now that things are back up and running again, I do intend to post more regularly.

Oh, and for those folks that read the tech news blog I used to have going. Fear not, that will be returning as well. I am uploading the files tonight (it is going to take a while, there are a lot of them). And hope to get the database restored and tweaked over the holiday break.

More to come….

Haven’t written in the blog in a long time. But then again lots has been happening and it is hard to keep up with everything these days.

So far in the last week we have:

• Moved to a different state
• I started a new and complicated job
• Been trying to get settled into new house

The result has been a very large lack of sleep, and almost no free time. So yeah, can you say tired and stressed out?

I will write more about our move, my new job, and other interesting developments as I get more free time (hopefully soon, like this weekend).

Had a very nice Thanksgiving yesterday. We decided to keep it simple this year. My wife and I cooked a nice dinner at home, and spent the day together just relaxing. It was a nice change for me to get to spend the day relaxing instead of working or running errands. And after everything that has been going on lately and how busy we have been it was much needed.

On the moving front, we are finally finished unpacking and getting almost everything straightened out. It took quite some time to get settled in, but we finally got there. Really the only thing left to be setup is my home office. I have made exactly zero progress on that so far. The main reason being is that in our new house the cable modem and router are a few rooms away from the office. So I have to figure something out for access in that room. I am thinking a wireless bridge to bring signal in to the room and I can hook a switch to it from there. It would be nice to have that all setup, but for right now I am working off wireless and my laptop. On another note I have to admit that this is the first place I have ever lived that has oil heat, and man oh man is that expensive. Right now heating oil is around $3.09 a gallon, I bought 100 gallons when we moved in and that gave me under half a tank for $299.98 (oil was only $2.99 a gallon at that time). So it’s looking like we have an expensive winter ahead of us.

As for work, well that could be going better. It has been busy and stressful as usual, but lately things have been getting worse. I am feeling more over worked and  underpaid than ever before. It is at a point that I am contemplating leaving the company. Right now I am holding off on making an decisions for a few weeks. That is when my yearly review is up. I am going to be asking for a good bit more money and a better schedule (no more Saturdays). If I don’t get it then I am going on the hunt for a new job. It’s not that I hate my job or where I work, but at this point I just need more money (like something close to what I and the things I do are worth).

Well that’s all for right now. Going to head home from the office soon for some leftover turkey.

Well we did end up finding a house to rent and took it. We started moving in on Saturday and are still unpacking. But at least everything is there. They are coming to install our cable tomorrow afternoon, so at least we will finally have TV and more importantly internet back.

The downside to this house is that it is heated with oil, and right now oil prices just keep climbing. I have scheduled a small delivery for tomorrow. Small being 100 gallons (I have a 275 gallon tank). So at $3.09 a gallon, it is going to cost me over three hundred dollars for less than a half a tank. It looks like it is going to be a long expensive winter. But on the bright side I am loving all the extra space. We went from a cramped one bedroom apartment with two dogs, to a two floor, 3 bedroom house, with an office, dining room, living room, kitchen, bathroom, and sun porch on the first floor, and all three bedrooms upstairs. Hopefully by tonight when I get home from work we will be all done unpacking and can settle in and relax.

Well I had been talking about it for a while and I finally went ahead and got some web hosting setup and created a wordpress blog. I’ve spent a little while moving over posts and setting up some plug ins. I’ll be tweaking the site more in the days to come. Just feels good to have the big hurdle of actually getting things up and running over with.