Archive | December, 2006

San Angelo suffers water main failure

As I filled my coffee cup this morning, my ears were greeted with news from co-workers buzzing about how much of the city was without water, while others had low pressure. As it turns out, a 1,000-foot section of water main has failed, causing many restaurants, schools, and other businesses to shut down until the [...]

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Servers cost money

I was recently introduced to a handy little device while watching an episode of one of my favorite shows, Mythbusters. It’s called a Kill-A-Watt, and it’s used to measure Volts, Amps, Watts, Power Factor, Frequency, and kWh. In this particular episode, they were using it to test some myths about light bulbs. But the moment [...]

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Choose Linux Sys Admin

Choose IRC over friends º Choose Bawls instead of Bud (or both when you need it) º Choose 48 ports with Spanning Tree protocols and don’t forget to include the GbIC º Choose to be up at 03:00 logged into an SMTP server by bouncing through SSH tunnels spanning four hosts º Choose binary clocks [...]

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Girlfriend for Christmas

Christmas was an excellent end to the year because I had Jessica to spend it with. I was off work from Friday, the 22nd, through Tuesday, the 26th. I drove to Lubbock after work on the preceding Thursday, and arrived at my parents’ house at around 21:00. Jessica was at work, but somehow managed to [...]

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My sweetie misses me

Let it be known to all that I have the SWEETEST girlfriend in the world:

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Being truly cared about

This is a subject which remains in my thoughts quite often, and I’ve decided to say what’s on my mind. I want to tell you about someone who makes my days brighter and who occupies my nights with pleasant dreams. I want to tell you about Jessica.

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Weekend with Jessica

I invited Jessica to the Ener-Tel Christmas Party a few weeks ago, and she was excited to have been asked. I didn’t realize it was that big of a deal to her, but she made it clear she was happy that I even considered asking her.

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