Thursday, March 31, 2005

Blah blah, firewall still broke, insert upsetting reason here.

On Monday the firewall issue will be resolved one way or another. Either I will fix it or I will shoot it.

I am excited to get my Stik-fas in the mail. I am running through different ideas that I will use them for in my head now. One is to just replace my stick figures in previous Vail Life comics and use them as models on a white back ground.

Another thought is start a story line comic and actually tell a story with them. Since I am not a great writer but I feel I do good at creating D&D adventures it would be to design an adventure and then run them as characters through it in comic panel fashion.

Then I start thinking about how best to do that. Do I want to place them in front of a "green screen" and Photoshop a world around them? Or would it be more fun to create some type of diorama to place them in? How about if that diorama is made from everyday household items that I would find on my desk?

As far as the story goes do I want to inject humor into it each week? Or do I want it to be a serious story? Maybe I will create a mixture of a serious story with a lot of comic relief? Do I base the story completely off of D&D?

Or do I write a story based off of a dream I had last night about my WoW character? In the dream he crossed into another world through an oak tree that connected and cut through various realities. Around that oak floated globes, each one a different reality that you could enter just by stepping through the globe. Although the globes were only the size of your head your action of stepping into the globe would pull you into a window of a new reality.

Anyways the comic this week is a representation of that dream I had.

What I will most likely do is write up a number of ideas and do the one that comes easiest to me. I will play with it a bit and maybe storyboard some stuff out. The Photoshop method sounds like a lot of work I would have to put into it and my dream story was based off of a dream so is pretty short and fragmented. We will see.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Well I am taking a little break from reading a 75 page manual on how to deploy a Terminal Server in 2003. My brain is ready to explode.

Oh and the firewall will go into place tonight at 11 pm. Then all I have to figure out is why the VPN on it will not generate keys. But once that is done the Warner building firewall should be done. Then I just have to figure out the Brookside VPN tunnel and routing to Intrawest and why that is not working.

And like I said I have finally started working on the terminal server. I am working on setting up the OS now, then I have to install the applications it will host, figure out how those users without RDP will connect, setup the licensing server, get CAL's and install them, and test to see if RTP|One will run on it. I still have a long ways to go on that project.

Changing chain of thought, yesterday it was 50 air temp and probably 70-80 when the sun beat down on you. I was debating getting my shorts out of storage and was looking forward to summer. Today I wake up to a blizzard and 6 inches of snow fallen so far. Damn it. I was looking forward to spring and now I have 4 more weeks of winter.

I will try and post a picture of the snow later today. To bad I didn't have a before picture. It is amazing.

Monday, March 28, 2005

Since we last left our hero...

Still working on the firewall (I think I have it almost finished though). My rogue, Keli, in WoW reached 30th level. I went snowboarding on Friday with our management team from RTP. I guess I am considered part of the Admin group of personal so got invited on their trip. On Easter went egg hunting in WoW in the morning and had Easter dinner at a friend’s house in the evening.

As you can see it is business as usual. Nothing exciting and I am still alive and living life one day at a time.

Friday, March 18, 2005

Update on the firewall disaster. I found out today (I wrote the rant on Tuesday) that the motherboard in use on the firewall of evil has been recalled. With my penchant of hardware breaking as soon as I touch has now gone even deeper. Instead of one piece of hardware I have now broke all of Intel.

I make myself cry sometimes.

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Well I attempted to do the firewall cutover last night. Now I am friggin tired. Got home at 12:30 and was in bed about 1:15 am. Then I was up at 7 am to get to work today.

But enough about work. Personal life. Hmm, my friend had a birthday on Saturday. I got him a cool shirt that reads, "Tortured Artist. Without angst there is no art."

Not much more excitement than that going on. I spent probably more than I should have on a couple of 550 dollar monitors. But they are really cool 20" widescreen LCDs. But I spend most of my life in front of my computer so that is where my money goes.

In fact since getting this job and making more money I find that my expenditures have gone towards things that will keep me occupied more and more in my own room. I got Season 1 - 4 of Stargate now. I picked up a couple of books and I got a new power supply in addition to the two monitors for my PC. The power supply was needed to fix the power issues my PC was having so that was a given. But I probably didn't need the monitors for another year or so before my current monitors would die on me.

My friend is opening a tattoo shop here in Eagle-Vail so that will be pretty cool. I am hoping once that opens that it will lure me out of the house more. The reason I don't visit him more often now is because his current tattoo shop is about an hour away. I am also hoping that I can find a new D&D group that is closer to me at that time to. I plan on hanging a sign at the shop asking for gamers.

I really need hobbies to get me out of the house to meet others. The problem is that you don't meet anyone snowboarding because that is really a solo sport. It is tough to talk to someone when you are launching yourself off an 8 foot cliff with the wind rushing past your ears.

I need to find hobbies that force me to interact with other people and to actually talk to them. Unfortunately I live in the Vail Valley. There is plenty to do in the outdoor activities but finding an indoor hobby that matches my interests is a bit harder.