Joby's Blog » Mr Mainframe http://www.jobysblog.com Blog of a Bald Fat Guy Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:07:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 What a week http://www.jobysblog.com/2010/03/21/what-a-week/ http://www.jobysblog.com/2010/03/21/what-a-week/#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:48:59 +0000 Joby http://www.jobysblog.com/2010/03/21/what-a-week/ This has been one crazy week (or so…)

Friday 3/12
We headed south to Moundsville to Grand Vue Park. (grandvuepark.com) for the Winter Happening for Christian Endeavour (CE).

We stayed there through Sunday morning. See wvce.info for somewhat of an update. I need to post more there :)

Sunday 3/14
Sunday was my beautiful brides birthday so we went to Smokey Bones in Robinson PA for dinner. Talk about yummy!

Sunday night is when things started to go awry…

It was the opening night of the Hancock County Crusade.

Nick was asked to sing. He is only 9 so that is a great honor for him. I played guitar for him while he sang City on our knees by TobyMac.

I was feeling quite sinusy but could not let my boy down.

Monday 3/15
On Monday I woke up for work with a headache so strong I could not tollerate light so I stayed home from work. I ended up sleeping the majority of the day.

It was also my late brother Bobbys birthday. He would have been 39.

Tuesday 3/16
Not much different than Monday. Stayed home with the headache.

Wednesday 3/17
My 2yr Anniversary at US Steel, but I was stuck at home with the headache only this time it was accompanied by nausea. Blah!!!

Thursday 3/18
One more day at home but with a trip to the doctor. He said the headache was not sinus but more tension caused by something muscular or even a kink in my neck. He sent me to have a CT Scan for safety sake. He also prescribed me two medicines. One for nightly use and one to take when/if I get another headache. I was also told to saty home one moe day to test the affects of the nightly pill.

Friday 3/19
I woke feelling pretty well. The headache was still around, but not nearly as bad. We also had movie night at the church for 3rd grade and up.

Saturday 3/20
The headache was still hanging about. Just enough for me to know it was there. I helped a buddy with his computer. The wife and I decided to head to her grandmothers for the weekend. She is not doing well. Gramma has cancer. Her health has been deminishing slowly.

That brings us to today.
We ate breakfast at the hotel and drove over to Grammas house. After a couple hours, I brought out younges son and my niece back to the hotel to swim for a little while. Then we drove back to Grammas. We are about to pack up and head on home to get ready for the Easter egg hunt for CE.

- Till next time
- Joby

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Work is a total drag. The situation at church is absolutely mind boggling. I have not had time to code in ages and this weekend is no different!

On the bright side, I did get to post this from my new iPhone app for wordpress!

Have a good weekend everybody ;)

- Till next time
- Joby

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This has opened the door to my department allowing us to work from home one day a week.

I enjoy this as it gives me a lot of time to get some trivial things accomplished. I tend to get double the work done in 1/2 the time. Today is a prime example. I completed in less than 8 hours a task that can take me up to a day and a half when I work in the office.

I live for the time when we come into the office only on days we have face to face meetings and stay home the rest of the time.

- ‘Till Tomorrow
- Joby

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I spent the day today working from home.

When I work from home I toss my laptop on an old desk and roll back and forth between it and my personal PC.

Today I set up my office to accommodate both.

It is hard to believe that everything in the photos’s was already in the room.

Now, if I could only put the same effort into my sites…

Let’s hope it works…
- ‘Till Tomorrow
- Joby

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Today was not my typical Monday.

Monday in and of itself can be pretty hectic, but today was 3x worse.

Normally I process weekly reports which takes me a good 6+ hours to do. Add to that two monthly reports that failed to run properly, the 4 that did run properly, and the elusive today is the first day of the year, get rid of the stuff from two years ago crap that I had to do, and you can guess what kind of mood I am in right now…

I want to go to bed but there is this 9 foot tall evergreen in the corner of my living room looming over me, begging to be set free out in the wild…

I want to relax, but there is a pile of toys and clothes that need to find a permanent home in the playroom or the closets; but not until the old ones have met their demise…

I will sleep when I am dead … LOL

- ‘Till tomorrow
- Joby

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  1. Read my Bible daily
  2. Count to 10 before yelling at the boys
  3. Eat better
  4. Exercise
  5. Focus on my web work
  6. Drop more ( EntreCard )
  7. Tweet More
  8. Learn more RACF / ACF2 / and Natural programming
  9. GeoCache more
  10. Learn to relax

That is ten of about a million things I want to do.

I am off to start at least one of them.

- ‘Till tomorrow
- Joby

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I took care of the user with the problem and decided to stay up and work on a script I have been coding for what seems to be an eternity.

I won’t go into a lot of detail yet, but I think it is a fresh idea. A simple concept really. I am no Alex Tew, but I think I may be on to something… (I hope.)

I have dropped about 150 EntreCards so far today. As well as placed a few ads.

It is now almost 10:30 and I really need to think about breakfast and spending some family time with the wife and kids. :)

Feel free to follow me on Twitter as I do tend to post the odd update there more often than here or Facebook lately…

- Joby

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I just finished a very interesting week for work. As many of you know I was instructed to work from home due to the G20 Summit being in Pittsburgh this week.

I have honestly always wanted to work from home. I enjoy working at my pace without the distraction of other people.

That is not to say that I don’t like working with people I just have my preferences.

Anyway…

I enjoyed waking up early and working in my home office in silence. Not hearing the music from the cube next to me, or other office distractions.

I was able to get my focus back. I have slowly been losing it over the past few months. With new job requirements and all.

In my opinion I was more productive this week. Not only at work related activities, but also with my personal coding and work around the house.

I did lose the hour long commute each way so I gained 10 hours this week :) .

I hope I can carry my new found focus back into the workplace.

‘Till next time
- Joby

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As of late, mostly off.

Over the years I have found quite a few blogs that bring me back, and quite a few that I hope to never see again. I hope my blog does not fit in your choice of the latter…

Joby’s Blog is a cornucopia of concepts really. I simply want to log into my admin and spurt off whatever is on my mind.

If I have a cause to promote, it will be here.
If I have a complaint to get off my chest, yup, it’ll be here.
If I want to promote and get a link or two out about my latest client or personal site (urlmorph.com)… well I think you get it.

Thanks for visiting (and in some cases dropping) this blog and showing me that it does interest someone other than my own narcissistic nature.

If you wish to help me celebrate my blogoversary, feel free to hit the donate button at the bottom of this post.

- Joby

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I have not been there (physically) since Friday thanks to the 3 day weekend and a work from home day.

I enjoyed working from home and honestly wish I could do it more often.

And now the milestone…
Drum roll please…

Joby’s Blog has reached 100 (approved) comments.
Thank you Cher for taking time to post your comment.

Another milestone tomorrow ;)

Finally,

I apologize in advance for not dropping much the next 3 days. I simple will not have time, but will do what I can.

- Joby

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