Jason Hancock

Everyone in my line of work has a favorite text editor. Mine is ‘vim’. A lot of the developers here use emacs. I don’t know why, but I absolutely cannot stand emacs. I think that it has a lot to do with the kind of work I do. I do a lot of work on remote servers via ssh. If you’ve never used vi before, it will be very uncomfortable for a while until you learn your way around.

I was able to recover the lost blog articles. I took the two hard disks out of the box that died and put them into a new box. That box booted on the first attempt and I was able to download all the missing articles, then upload them back into the blog. Now I need to fix that box and it will all be good!

Wow…I was so stoked that a new pumpkins album was coming out since I heard their first single “Tarantula”….I have been counting down the weeks then days. Today is the day. The plan was to go get it on my way home. I had forgotten the name of the album, so I hopped on google and found it…..but I also found that there are a bunch of special releases of the album with bonus tracks……Target gets one version of the album with the title track, “Zeitgeist,” while Best-Buy gets another and iTunes gets yet another.

A co-worker suggested I try this game…it’s a lot of fun. It’s not a realistic racing game where the cars handle as they should in real life….but that’s not the point. Who doesn’t like going off huge jumps and driving through upside down loops?

My blog’s back up, but you might notice that I’m missing all my posts from March until now……..that’s what happens kids when you don’t back up your critical data and you have a hardware failure. If you didn’t know, my linux box is suffering from some mysterious hardware failure. It won’t boot, I get no video output at all. I’m going to swap the hard drive into another machine and try to boot off it.

So the countdown has started…we’re looking at 10 or 11 days left of my freedom. I’m not nervous…..well, maybe a little bit. But it’s not about getting married….it’s about pulling the whole thing off. I’m really worried that something is going to go wrong. Someone’s going to say something they shouldn’t, someone’s going to get butt-hurt over something, me getting into a bar fight the night before, etc. I guess I really shouldn’t be worried, and I’m not really that worried about it, but the thought is there in the back of my head.

Not as bad as it could be, really. It’s Thursday and before I started work this morning, I had only worked 31 hours this week…not too bad. The bad thing is that I feel like i’ve been up all week. I haven’t slept well at all. I’m lucky to make it to bed by 2am. It’s not like I’m screwing around pissing away my time…I’m actively engaged in stuff and trying to get stuff on my to-do list done.

Laura and I went up to her parents’ house for the weekend. We left around 9am on Saturday and drove up to Apple Valley. I started trying to fix her Dad’s computer and then changed clothes to help clean up the back yard. We moved a pallet of bricks. After that, the rest of the yard work was done and it was time to have some fun. We removed the car cover from her dad’s 1968 Camaro RS Convertible.

Had a couple minutes at work today and came up with a list of places I’d like to visit in the next couple years. Laura gets really bored when we don’t go anywhere for a while, so I figure if I start a list, when the time comes, I’ll have some ideas of where we could go. Some of these places will require camping to get the experience that I want…who can fully appreciate nature’s beauty from a hotel?

i happened to doze off for a few minutes around 10:30 but I woke up wide awake. We had pizza from Numero Uno for dinner and I have a slight hint of heartburn right now. I’ve taken a new approach at work. Instead of trying to pick up the operations side of everything, I’m doing my best to immerse myself in the development. I’m asking all sorts of questions about all sorts of things.