I received an email last night saying that brightcove has chosen to discontinue their free video hosting service..  which is kinda lame cause now I'm going to have to either find another one for my site or redesign the page to not host any videos. :(  The free service was setup so that if x amount of plays took place, they would insert a commercial or something in there to subliment the cost of bandwidth, which obviously on my humble blog, never happened... but still, it's not like I'm really utilizing a lot of their server space and anybody who is, if they really get a lot of hits, would be generating commercial income for them via their ads...

meh.. jerks!  I guess it's not a huge deal cause I don't have access to the program I need to really squeeze down the videos to be streamlined for online use anymore..

In other news, its voting day, go vote, you hoser!

I typed up a really long post about my old employer and that I'm finally going to mail out the letter I wrote after I was let go... It's going to the president of the company.. he needs a wakeup call.  I know several people emailed, called, and wrote on my behalf.. but I feel that I might be able to do some good by sincerely trying to open his eyes to what is happening to the organization right in front of his eye.. or behind his back.. whatever.

Anyways, it was a huge post and apparently my blog entry page timed out and sure as shit.. the ubernet ate my post.  It sure did feel good to type it up though.. it was a pretty good rant.  To sum it up.. eff that bitch who fired me.. I'm so better off now, you did me a favor.  I'm so much happier in my life.. things changed in my life and I'm not sure they would have had I been stuck in the rut that place put me in.  I love my friends from the place, I hope they can stop the deathspiral that the company is in.. but I do hope the place realizes that they aren't getting 300g's worth from the lying consultant that must have naked pics of the execs or something.... cause she has failed them so many times over and is still getting paid to sit in the Hilton and waste their resources... monetary and of the human nature.  Take a couple more perc's and book a flight to anywhere but here.

My favorite quote of the eaten post was:  "it's like polishing brass on the titanic, the whole ships going down!"

LOL... laters.

I think I'm officially, "in the groove", with my new job.  My former co-workers were all worried that I'd have problems getting to work on-time, well worry not, I think all it took was a little motivation on my part and it's a routine.  I'm enjoying things and getting the hang of it.  I think I've already contributed a fair amount and continue to pick up more each day.

What else?  Well... my neice, Teagan, turned 4 over the weekend, congratulations to her, maybe I'll bother mikey to send me some of the pictures from the party.

Hit 6000 miles on Andy's Harley-Davidson over the weekend.. w00t for lots of fun on that this summer, although, I've officially been spoiled with all the features of the Ultra-Classic.. I'm going to need me one of them!

peace out!

Alrighty, I'm happy to report that I'm two days into my new job and it's going great!  I've been pretty tired as of late, my sleeping schedule has been so wacked the last month that it was a bit of a shock to my system to get back into the hang of things.  Also, my first day had me touring 5 facilities, 2 of which were large paper mills and another was a finishing center, also quite large.  I'm supporting the infrastructure, workstations, servers, wireless, phones, etc. at all the valley locations.  Thankfully, it's a team setup and I have somebody who actually knows where everything is to guide me around.  I was unaware of how advanced forklifts were getting... I had to fix the wifi setup on one yesterday. 

So yeah.. got a few sets of safety glasses and some ear plugs, now I just need to get my steel toes and I'll be all set.

So, I'm looking for a new job, hopefully, I can find one in the valley because I'm not really looking forward to a move.  There is so much more to this story, but I'm sure most of my readers already know what happened, so I won't bore you with all that nonsense.

What else?  hmm..  I fixed Trish's blog, her isp decided to do a server move that made some changes to configuration, causing asp.net applications to stop working.  It took some digging around to figure it out, but I got it.. also fixed Joe's page too, which reminds me, I need to add his page to my list of links. Check it out at: www.classicwaco.com