Tone Parsons

As per Eve’s request, I’ve added another 10 images into the banner rotation. Now the website has even more narcissistic flavor!

And speaking about self pimping… here’s me, as a southpark character:

The link to make your own (less the custom beer keg background) is here. You can thank Eve over at the Grumpy Old Woman for this one 🙂

I’ve made a couple changes to the blog.

Rotating images in the upper left corner (yeah… I’m a dork) and a favicon.ico that’s totally lame.

I’m still unhappy with the overall look/feel of the place and will be tweaking the CSS to get the colors just right, then I’ll pry just scrap it all and start over.

I do that… a lot.

I just noticed that I typed “pry” instead of “probobly”.  Me thinks I’ve spent too much time on IRC.

Oh boy! It’s the weekend!

Here’s how I spent my Saturday so far:

• 7:52 – wake up, brew coffee
• 8:00 – fire up the computer and prepare to move the domain and all it’s sub-domains like you promised to the new server.
• 8:10 – begin sql dumps for sites with blogs/forums/etc.
• 8:20 – begin pulling those sites down from the old server.
• 8:24 – lose connection to old server.
• 8:33 – realize that the internal NIC on the firewall gave up the ghost. Spend next 20 minutes looking for a spare. Open every computer you own to find one that is exactly the same. Finally find one in a box in the basement.
• 8:58 – install NIC, discover that the server is pissed at life. Call for help
• 8:59 – Friend telnets into firewall, makes a change that a 6 year old should have figured out, life is good.
• 9:12 – log into registrar website to change the DNS entries to the new host
• 9:13 – realize that you’ve just screwed yourself as you can no longer access the hosting tools on your own machine.
• 9:13 – shrug your shoulders, say “fuck it” aloud, continue.
• 9:15 – remember that you brewed coffee a while ago. Wander upstairs for a cup only to discover that other family members have already drank it.
• 9:16 – brew more coffee
• 9:31 – show shock and awe that the DNS has already propogated enough for you to connect to the new server and upload your files.
• 9:48 – power goes out at the house
• 10:25 – power is good, start process over again, do the largest websites first
• 11:15 – fuck… there goes the power again (but only for a few seconds… just enough time to shut your pc off and make you scream). Start over again.
• 11:20 – remember that you made more coffee a couple of hours ago. Go upstairs to find a full pot of burnt and nasty coffee. Turn it off, dump it, and give on caffeen for the day.
• 11:25 – stare at your ftp program in disbelief that you’re only getting 8kb/s upload rates… and you’ve got about 700mb left to go.
• 11:26 – cry… a lot
• 2:47 – decide to purchase a gun and go talk to the power utility, becuse the damn lights just flickered again, killing your connection.
• 4:52 – finally finish uploading files, restoring databases, and installing extra software.
• 4:53 – beer, in large quantities.

Of course, we lost power again about an hour ago, and again my firewall got pissy with me. I had to call my friend back and he cleared things up for me (it’s “ifup eth0” not “ifconfig eth0 up”).

Tomorrow, I’m not touching anything technical.

The powerball jackpot has risen once again to insane heights.

Of course, being the dork who’s bad at math that I am, I picked up $20 worth of tickets.

With a grand prize of 365 million dollars, it’s a tempting prize. Of course, if I wanted to forgo the 30 annual annuity payments (which I would), that number gets reduced to a one time $177.3 million cash payout. Seriously, if you can’t double your money in 30 years… you’re an idiot.

How will you know if I win? You won’t. I wont tell anyone, lest everyone and their dog descend on me with their hands held out and horror stories of how their grandmother/wife/son/daughter needs some life saving/deformity removing/totally un-needed cosmetic surgery.

So… as a pre-emptive strike, let me just say this: the money is for my kids, so no…. you may not have any.

Of course, I have to win it first 🙂