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Ok, I have had a bit of time to do some downloading with my new Comcast High Speed connection, compared to (Wide Open West) WOW, it is pretty bad. I don’t even need speed tests to show it because it is that noticeable. Anyway the speed tests could be bad for comparison as Comcast could be faking those numbers out with local caching etc. Next big download from MSFT and I will know for sure how much slower this is, but I am not looking forward to downloading the next Longhorn update I can tell you…

So what can I say… Ugh.

There is a meeting next week for townshipwide wireless access, I am going to be there to hear who they use for their internet connectivity. Also I can say, if you live in an area that has WOW available, I would jump to WOW immediately.

So myself, the chinchillas (CFO and Directory of Research of joeware), and Trouble the cat (President/CEO of joeware) have moved into the new house last Saturday which I alternately call, the new house, the villa, or the farm. I am still searching for the right name for it. Of course, everything is a mess right now and most everything not house related is completely on hold.

Trouble isn’t happy, she won’t leave the first room (spare bedroom, master bedroom isn’t ready yet) I put her in and mostly hides under the bed. The chins aren’t happy either, they aren’t eating much hay but are eating their pellets which is good. Freddie keeps acting like I beat him when I go to see him and Peanut is just, well she is pretty much normal. Peanut was always the tough one in that relationship though. She is the boss.

I am sort of split between the old house (Blu House) and the new house (Farm/Villa). I have most everything I need to live in the new house, but my two main servers are sitting in the old house. I have to get my office fully set up before I move those. Well not fully set up, the carpet I chose to get is making me wait 3-5 weeks because it is some special carpet from California. Yes, project management error, I should have ordered it 3-5 weeks ago. I had no clue, everytime I have ever bought carpeting, someone was out within a day to measure and a couple of days to install. This new stuff I am getting is some premium twist, aka Shag with multiple sized (girth and length) fibers; very thick, very nice. It is Shaw TufTex (I think) Cheek to Cheek style if you know carpeting. I highly recommend it, it is what was in the living room and I fell in love with the style though I didn’t like it at first.

Yes, for the astute, you will note I said was… I kept getting a whiff of dog in the house and finally just decided to tear up the carpeting in the living room and master bedroom. Well the master bedroom carpeting needed it anyway, it was in rough shape from the look alone, although I figured I would give it a year. But no, I have a sensitive sniffer and smell things a lot of people don’t smell, like for those of you who cover B-O with perfume or cologne… No, you aren’t hiding anything, I smell you. Sometimes that is good (or very very good in some cases where some people smell better than their perfume), sometimes it is bad (or very very very bad in some cases where no perfume or cologne could do the trick). I kept saying it smelled bad, my brother and one of my friends kept saying, I don’t smell anything.. So I said, “I am ripping it up”.  I don’t know for sure but I think they both thought I was insane (I get that a lot lately), well until the carpeting started coming up and my friend was like “Oh that is horrible, I need a face mask!”. Once the carpeting and pad was out, the house, at least to me, smelled 10000% better. I also sprayed a bleach/water combination down and have some KILLZ oil based sealer I am going to put down to protect the new carpeting.

Err so where was I, oh yeah, the office. The office/datacenter is in the final stages of construction, I stayed up until 3AM last night painting (Behr Squirrel from Home Depot) and it turned out relatively well. I need to go to some furniture places and look into a desk and shelving as I am not using what I had before (kitchen cabinets with a counter) as I want this to look a more presentable and be a lot more comfortable.

So here is the office space as it stood when I bought it almost 2 months ago

Here is the office as of a few minutes ago (well part, harder to take pics of the space). Note that I haven’t been working on it the whole 2 months, most of that time was spent on other projects, realistically I have maybe a week or two of work into the basement walls (of which the office here is a small subset). The rest of the time has been on other projects.

and here is the Data Center from which I am working at this very second

At the very least I will have the wireless up and running today.

I know I know… I haven’t posted pics to http://www.joeware.net/housepics in a bit. I am taking the pics when I can, I just have to sit down and take the time to edit the photos and whip up the pages and upload them. Coming relatively soon.

I took this week off from work so I could try and catch up on some sleep and the house. I have gotten 6 hours sleep 3 nights in a row and one night of 8 hours, amazing how much better I feel though I noticed I am more aware of my damaged body too as I can feel the aches and pains more as well as bruises, contusions, cuts, gashes, slivers, etc.

My inbox is over 1500 messages and rising, if your message is in there, it will be processed, at some point. I don’t have time for email or IM or really anything right now so don’t be heart broken if I don’t respond. You have to have priorities on projects and if you don’t, well you never finish and I am very clear on my priorities at the moment, at least I have a very distinct #1 priority and a distinct #2 priority, everything else is in the “as they catch on fire and start to impact priorities #1 or #2” bin. 🙂

nuff said.

   joe

For comparison… It is very odd jumping between the two houses…

The more time I spend at the new house, the more I don’t want to come back to the old house. It is so peaceful out there.

I took and posted some more house pics that I took on Tuesday after I closed…

http://www.joeware.net/housepics