Disney World

My wife and I just got back (well Saturday the 20th) from a week long trip to Disney World. I have been emphatically anti-disney, for what ever reasons, I don’t really remember anymore, call it old age, or just not caring that much anymore, but my wife and I had a wonderful time. We got to go with DVC members so we didn’t have to pay for our hotel, we got to sleep on an uncomfortable pull out couch, but it was free so neither of us can complain. It was also really nice to be with people who knew the lay of the land, and were awesome hosts. Funnily enough the weather in Orlando was awesome, each day got better, little less humid and a little more breeze and no rain.

I got to do the drink around the world @ Epcot, which was fun though funny cause I usually don’t drink and the first time in a long time that I purposely went to get drunk, was at Disney World. I don’t do roller coasters, so I sat out those, but our friends love them so my wife had someone to go with, which was awesome. I can’t say enough about our friends as they were so generous to invite us and to let us stay with them for a week of their week and a half vacation. It was one of the best vacations I have ever been on (more realistically the my first real vacation), and thank you Mac and Rachel for making our vacation such a wonderful experience, love you guys!

Addendum:

Forgot to add the pics:
*WARNING* : There are a lot of pics -:

Day #1 361
Day #2 188
Day #3 199
Day #4 330

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Other ventures…

I haven’t posted here in a while as I have had family in town and am working on a couple of other ventures that have been taking up a lot of my time. I will add more later, but am really excited about my upcoming ventures.

Lessons learned…

Ok, to start off with I learned a very valuable lesson today, I was under the assumption (since I hadn’t done it before) that saslauthd was only used by my mail system (yeah go figure I don’t know everything), I decided it would be a good idea to uninstall it as I moved mail handling to google apps. I initially set up the email to basically prove that I could do it and run it for a while without being used as an anonymous relay and such, so my install was *pretty* secure with all the normal caveats. So back to the lesson, I decided to uninstall saslauthd (smacks forehead) and it then decided to uninstall php5 and a bunch of other packages that I needed for the website to run (yes I obviously fixed it) but here are a couple of valuable lessons that I have learned:

1. If you have a global bashrc (or rc) alias rm to rm=’rm -i’ as soon as you setup the system (especially for root).
2. If you’re going to remove a package that you don’t really know much about, do a test run of some sort (all package managers have the functionality builtin (if they don’t why in gods name would you be using it?)).

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Comic Con follow up…

I have been thinking about this post for the past few days, and have been thinking of posting some grand review of comic con, but honestly it was a comic convention with some other stuff thrown in - pure and simple. I have been putting pressure on myself to write something meaningful and witty about comic con, but to be honest I had a lot of fun, mainly with the people that I went with. There were two people that I did get to meet that was awesome, one of my favorite actors
Thomas Jane which was way cool, he was really nice, I basically patted him on the shoulder looked him straight in the eye and said “Thank you”. He responded in kind by shaking my hand, I believe he understood what I meant. I thought he was an awesome Frank Castle (was my favorite comic growing up) and was absolutely phenomenal in The Mist As a side note, I think that autographs are a stupid idea in general (there are always exceptions my dears), but I wasn’t about to get someones signature. I also got to meet the director of one of my favorite horror movies, feast
John Gulager. I got to actually speak to him for a few moments which was cool and I am so looking forward to the next two movies in the series, he said that two goes the funny route, but 3 comes back to the roots and is scary, I can say if they’re anything like the original I am soooo stoked. Well that’s about it for now, not too much to report other than that. Toodles!

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Tags: Comic Con, Comicon, John Gulager, San Diego Comicon, Thomas Jane

Metal \m/ …

This is the best…

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Quick note…

I will write a post soon about my comic con experience and all the fun that I had, the people that I got to meet and hang out with…

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Happy SysAdmin Day…

Sorry to all for the double post, but thought I’d mention it on my bloggy blog. Again Happy Sysadmin day to all who have been there.

-Meh.

Is all we are…

Dust in the wind…

Here’s Matts youtube profile, with all sorts of creative as hell videos…

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Tags: Matt Ficner, Zombie Puppets

New tattoos…

I want one, but untill that time I will congratulate my sister in law on her beautiful new dolphin tattoo

Original

Congrats girl, I can’t wait to see it after it’s healed.

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Been a long time…

Since I have written anything, as I have been out sick :(, yeah I know poor me. Anyways so I just got done upgrading my WP installation to 2.6, yay for me. So there have been a lot of stuff going on in the last week or so, let me see, where to begin. Well Saturday the 12th we went to see Violet kick some roller derby butt which was awesome.

My wife and I had a ton of fun. We then later got to go hang out with Vi and her hubby, his brother and his GF as well as Sven, Kristin and Smoo, and eat pizza way to late on saturday night ;). Sunday I started feeling sick, but got to go have breakfast with my wife and an old friend of hers which was lots of fun.

I have been out of work for basically that last 3 days (mon, tue, wed) which is weird, but hey what can you do. I will say that I did get to watch a bunch of bad movies (good by my taste bad by most), including Undead and Alive (cute little western Zombedy as they called it), The Hunger (on recommendation of Vi, really liked it, though it’s a little more artsy than I am used to), and a Charlton Heston sci-fi marathon of Soylent Green and The Omega Man, it was the awesome, would have been much better if I hadn’t felt like hell though. Other than that I got my new regulators / dive computer, and am very anxious to take them out and give them a try. Now that I am at least feeling better I will be better about posting more frequently as to not keep you, my most awesome readers, in suspense ;) (the irony of this statement is that all the people that read this damn blog are my close friends and pretty much already know what’s going on in my life). TTFN!

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