Entries this day: briefly more work_praise

briefly

00:46 Thursday 2 December 1999

Wow. so close to 2000!!!!!!!

Tonight Wende and I went to Molly and Will's house (where Maggie and John are living while their house is being built). The boys were gone, so after munching some yummy lasagna, we put lights and decorations up on the tree and watched Mall Rats. We had just previously watched Clerks, with which I was not very impressed, but they promised me I would like Mall Rats better. My official vote is that Mall Rats is better than clerks, but mostly just at the end. The first half was not that great.

I told Maggie I want to learn to dance like Jay (of Jay and Silent Bob)

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"Today" (Wednesday) I turned in my 50th CD reviewed at KTRU! It was for a band called S.O.L.O. and the CD is Out is In. I certainly enjoyed it; I found it smooth and jazzy with a little hint of turntablism and electronica. Nice album.

I think I might put my KTRU reviews on here. I've got most of them saved on disk.

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Speakin' of KTRU, at KTRU on Thursday (Thanksgiving), I subbed for someone from 3-5pm. I got a call from a woman named Donna, who used to work college radio at A&M back when she was a student there! She called just to say, "someone is listening" and that she used to work Thanksgiving back in the day.

Turns out she is a local professional DJ! Cool! We have exchanged a couple of emails, but nothing astonishing. I did enjoy having someone call just to say my Turkey Day efforts were being heard!

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What else?... Oh! Wende is working at The Container Store, and she had some shelves (elfa) handed down to her, and she has handed them down to me! Now I have some nice white shelves on my living room wall.. So far I have only placed my high school and college yearbooks on there, plus Volumes 1 - 9 of my written diaries.

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At work I got a raise!! Yay! Now I'm making $18.70 per hour. Very sweet. Debt, I'm coming to kick your ass!! Today I wrote some JavaScript (actually I just cleaned up my boss' code) that he will use on some projects. I wrote the original code; he messed with it and couldn't quite get it to do all he wanted; I cleaned it up and got it all straight.

I also wrote some code that will check some forms for completeness before allowing the user to submit the information to us. This is made more interesting because we actually are using SAS to read a database and write the HTML/Javascript to create the form/check the form. Fun stuff.

Oh, and our new DSL line is almost here. The circuit should be installed by December 7th, and we should be live a few days after. I'm pretty excited to have this new experience - I will be switching all the IP addresses in our NT network, plus in our Free BSD unix box and teaching the router how to filter packets as a firewall, and all kinds of stuff.

Once this is stable, we'll be beefing up our web server to actually be two separate machines - one for processing requests, and the other just as a file server. Soon thereafter we will bump that up to two parallel web servers and the 1 file server using a RAID Array.

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Oh, and soon as I get my website happy on my new ISP, I'll begin diverting traffic over here.

    With Love
    - Rob

more

1:56am Thursday 2 December 1999

Okay; I've just transcribed about 4 days worth of stuff onto my site. Mostly from the end of November, all transcribed from my diary.

My goal is to get the front page of my site set up tomorrow and begin directing traffic over here. It's time to quit putzing around with this thing and actually move away from Geocities!

Have a great night and stuff!

With Love

• Rob

work praise

I really love my job. I just got this message from my boss.

-----Original Message----- From: Karla (Rob's boss) Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:23 PM To: Rob Nugen Subject: Good job!

It gives me great reassurance to overhear you talking with the tech people at Savvis as well as other places. You sound confident and you know what you are talking about.

Thanks for working with us.

K.