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Yeah that’s right… this is the first time I’m ever taking vacation. I’ve been working since 15 and I never really inquired about vacation time from my employers. I even worked for a company for 3 years and never asked for vacation. I’ll ask for one or two days off to do a weekend getaway, but that’s about it.

Linux Til 4 in the Mornin’

I started out last night by doing some programming work for one of my clients. I realized I needed to create a BETA of the application I created in order to work on new features while they used the live version. My problem was their web host - AT&T Shared Web Hosting. They totally suck! This is a big company trying to get some money from their clients that don’t know any better. For the most part they can rent out some linux servers and host silly little web sites, but when it comes to web application support - they totally worthless.

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You like my mathematical equation for dead playtime with World of Warcraft on a linuxbox?  When I first installed Fedora 8, I ran Wine 0.9[something] with nVidia’s proprietary drivers.  I had no problem playing World of Warcraft.  I did notice something though - that every time there was a kernel update - when I restarted my Xserver that things would be kind of haywire.  I would normally have to reinstall the video driver and then I’ll be back to status quo.  So; now I’m a bit more seasoned with linux and open source or non-proprietary software means a little more to me than before - and getting that to work with WoW has proved to be quite difficult.

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Oh glorious day; the day when a father can pass down one of his traditions to his son.  In this case, it would be watching (and liking) some of my old cartoon shows - such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Not the new ones, this is the old ones from my era as a kid.  My brother and I would watch this show all the time, draw pictures, record it on VHS and watch the episodes over and over and over again.

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As the title suggests, I’m pretty beat down by my life.  It is wall-to-wall filled with responsibilty and mayhem.  Just today I had to make a hard decision of cancelling my World of Warcraft account.  I haven’t played in weeks because I’ve just been so busy.  It really doesn’t make sence paying a monthly subscription right now.

Work is a mad house!  The uppers don’t understand what my workload is and they keep giving me their tasks as priority.  Things are just piling up two tasks at a time and I’m up in my ears with people being frustrated with me.  Honestly; I’m truly learning about project management - but it’s very tough thing to put into practice.  I scheduled myself to “project manage” 2 hours a day - 1 hour when I get into work, and the last hour of the day (away from my computer).  Do you think I’ve stuck to the plan - no!  When I get in I have so many things to do that “wasting” time project managing doesn’t seem viable.  In reality I need to do it.  It’s wierd.

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