Jason Hancock

The other day, I needed some inspiration for what to make for dinner. I turned to google and let my fingers do the talking. I stumbled on a recipe that was quick, tasty, and provided enough leftovers to have for dinner the next night. I give you Tator-Tot casserole: 1 lb. ground beef 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 bunch of green onions 1 bag of tator-tots 1 cup of milk 1 cup of cheese salt and pepper to taste Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

I’ve spent the last few days putting my life at work back together. The nice part about being in the position that I’m in is that there isn’t any IT support. I stopped at Fry’s on my way into work Monday morning, picked up a new drive, installed it, installed Windows, and started rebuilding both my desktop work environment (MS office, cvs stuff, diff utilities, all the goodies) and also my build/release environment.

Today was really hectic. We had an issue come up that we had to address, we worked on a bunch of stuff that has to be in front of customers by the end of next week, and I’ve been fighting an uphill political battle, trying to get the leadership to fully support an awesome idea (that I can’t comment about right now, but I’ve been spending a lot of late nights working on).

It’s been a few days since I’ve used windows at home. I can’t escape from using windows while at work yet, but details of this movement are another discussion. I must say, there’s nothing that I’ve missed bad enough to boot back into XP. I’ve got my music (Audacious), my chat (Pidgin), my work email via MS Outlook web interface, my personal email via hotmail’s web interface, and browsing via firefox.

A co-worker suggested I look at my xorg log files. Found out why I wasn’t getting any video…..there wasn’t a device connected. The back of my video card is crowded because it’s the all-in-wonder model ATI card, so they have this funky Y adapter cable that has two d-sub connectors on it. I had my monitor connected to the second port instead of the first. Doh! So, now everything is up and running, I’m in full blown linux mode now!

It’s been a while since I last posted. A lot has changed. I’m beginning to transition from the operations team over to the development team at work, I finished building my California-compliant AR-15, and I found a deal on a 1911 (7 days until I get to pick it up!). I’ve also dual-booted my desktop machine to run Fedora 9 and XP. I initially had some difficulties with the graphical install for Fedora 9.

So, after getting a new tv, contemplating upgrading our cable to HD, and the incident a couple weeks back with our internet service, we were pretty much ready to ditch charter. A salesman from AT&T knocked on the door the other night advertising their new bundled service. Laura took the info and we talked it over when I got home. Bottom line, we’re going to pay the same amount per month, get 50+ HD channels, all the premium movie channels including HD movie channels, get an HD DVR (we have a regular DVR currently), get an additional box for our bedroom, and get an internet connection that’s a dedicated 6Mbps (our old one was a max 5Mbps, not continuous 5Mbps).

I was just thinking about stuff that I should do…. Los Angeles Arboretum Visit some of the Spanish missions Take pictures overlooking SFV/LA on a clear night from the vista point off hwy. 14 Drive Mulholland drive (scenic views of SFV) Take pictures at sunset/night of the Santa Monica pier

Not much going on lately. We bought a new TV….samsung LN52A750. It’s sweet! I can’t wait for the PS3 releases in September. Needless to say, the plans for my AR are on hold indefinitely (I will get way more enjoyment out of the TV in the meantime). I might just settle for a cheaper upper than the one I really one (JP-15 with all the bells and whistles). 4 more days until I pick up my Springfield XD40.

Up to now, our relationship has been great. You’ve never left me high and dry when I needed to jump on my computer and get my internet fix…..that is until tonight. It wouldn’t have been quite so bad had I not needed to be working at the time you decided to tell me to go fly a kite. So there I was….it was 11:50PM and I needed to be logged in and working.