Officially, I got my results / certificate on the 24th of March, but the cool thing is that I passed the test the day before, on the 23rd. The 23rd was my one year anniversary date with Rackspace. Wow.

I scored well on the test, too, which I was glad of. You know what they say:

Practice makes perfect.

It will now be easier to Slashdot my site. So, fire away!

I work in the cloud files division, called Mosso, as a Linux Systems Admin. Tomorrow, I get to find out exactly what that means.

I spent the day today going through their “new-hire” process. It was actually pretty interesting.

We spent the morning going over and signing up for our health benefits. They provided lunch, and then the afternoon was spent with presentations from security and systems administration.

I also received parking tags and an ID badge.

I’ve never had to wear an official ID badge before. Of course, many of my school district clients had me wear visitor badges, so the concept isn’t completely foreign, but still, it’ll be kinda weird.

Jill and I went through all of the healthcare paperwork tonight. Whew.

*Updated 2009 Mar 11th*

I been playing the heck out of Rock Band 2 recently, and I wanted to list here all of the songs that I’ve purchased, so that any of my friends and family that want to hook up online can grab any songs they like that we have in common.

Albums:
Foo Fighters – Color And The Shape
Judas Priest – Screaming for Vengeance
Megadeth – Peace Sells
Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood
No Doubt – The Singles
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Rush – Moving Pictures

Packs:
Classic Rock Pack 01
Disturbed Pack 01
Harmonix Pack 01
Metallica Track Pack 01
Nine Inch Nails Pack 01
Offspring Pack 01
Police Pack 01

Individual Songs:
30 Seconds To Mars – The Kill (Just Added)
Glados And Jonathan Coulton – Still Alive
Miranda Cosgrove – Headphones On
Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink
Static X – Push ItStephen And The Colberts – Charlene
System Of A Down – BYOB
System Of A Down – Toxicity
Vesuvius – Promised Land
White Zombie – Black Sunshine (Just Added)

All extra (20) free downloadable Rock Band 2 songs.

All songs from Rock Band 1.

(Originally posted 2008 Dec 18th)

Just found out while doing some research for a customer that HP has discontinued it’s 2605 series of printers.

What a bummer! They were inexpensive, reliable printers.

The good news is that they’ve replaced them with a new series. If you’re looking for an equivalent to the 2605dn, check out the new P2055dn.

Hopefully the new series will be just as nice.

Check out iYule.tv. (The link is an affiliate link). It’s a 30 minute long video that you can play on repeat. They offer several resolutions, and videos with or without music. Enjoy!

Also, if you buy using my affiliate link, I’ll get 10%.

Thanks!

I spent the weekend in the Gila National Forest with my son, brothers and my dad. My dad, Austin and I drove up. We left about 3 A.M. on Thursday morning. My brother Ben flew into Phoenix, met up with my other brother Joel, and they drove the RV from there.

Here’s a link to my photos.

My brother Ben also took some photos, they live here.

It was a blast.

We’ve been working on the store for a few weeks, and it’s now ready to go. Check it out! The store is powered by Zen Cart, which seems pretty nice.

Buy something for your Significant Other!

http://kiladesigns.com/

Last night I had sharp pains in my abdomen, on the lower right side.

Jill and I were thinking it was my appendix, so we went to the Texas Med Clinic.

The doctor informed us that if it was my appendix, I would know soon enough, but that there weren’t any real tests, other than an expensive CAT scan that would tell us.

He also declined to charge us anything for our visit!!

Basically, he said to keep an eye on it for a couple of days, and eat light.

During the night, I had almost a 102 degree fever, but when I woke up I was feeling much better.

So today, I stayed home from work, and ate soup. It still hurts a little, but I can move around much better now.

Time will tell, I suppose. I mean, if my appendix bursts, according to the doctor, I’ll know it by the excruciating pain.

Of course, you’ll have to have an account there to download them.

Otherwise you can download them directly from here:
Character-Sheet-4e-Shado-1.2.zip 1.8MB Zip

I have also created a Role Playing Sheet using Shado’s style. My created sheet includes Character Background / Appearance / Personality & Portrait slots.
Character-Sheet-4e-ShadoStyle-RP-1.0.pdf 1.0MB PDF

If you’d like the source file for it, and you have a Mac with iWork, drop me a line, and I’ll shoot you over the Pages file the PDF is based on. I added text boxes to it, so that you could type in your character’s info. I don’t expect this page changes much throughout your character’s career… well, at least not *every* week.