Thinning Out Blogs

Sometimes working on one blog can be a real headache and 20+ is a royal pain in the rear. So in an effort to reduce my work load and increase the quality of my work I'm cutting the number of sites that I work on down to just three.

The three that I'm keeping are this one, my guild blog, and my main website.

Having problems with my main website due to an oversight on my part. But I have a new website <a href="http://www.lovemmorpgs.com">Love MMORPG's</a>.

When A Server Crashes It Sucks

No matter what kind of server your on be it a web server, media server, or game server when they crash it royally sucks... sometimes its nothing more than needing a simple restart and other times it can be rather costly when you have to replace the server hardware.

I had a web server crash about a week ago and it was nothing wrong with it, it was not under a heavy load, or really even being used so I just shut it down and restarted it and its been working fine... but that does not bother me as much as the World of Warcraft servers crashing with out warning! A company the size of Blizzard should never go off line when the money they make even on maintenance days there should be backup servers in place to avoid any shut down and only a rolling restart when the main servers are done and patch the backups. 

Sometimes Writing Sucks

I enjoy writing my fantasy stories but sense I prefer writing them with pen and paper it sucks when I have to type it all into my computer. However it's not all that bad because it gives me a chance to do a little editing here and there, typically I end up making two to three extra paragraphs per chapter.

I really need to train my computer to type what I say, I really like speech to text but really have not taken the time to set it up on my laptop which goes almost everywhere with me. I have a fairly good but not great headset however it is a little too loud at work to use it anyway and my house is no different, I would have to finish up my shed so I could have a nice laid back place to take to my computer without feeling like a dumb-ass and getting interrupted. 

Riding Over A Couple Days

I'm at work and was supposed to go home in the morning but it seems my relief has gotten a little ill, along with his whole family. So I'm staying at work a few extra days so I can make a little extra money but still would rather be going home... now I have to unpack a couple sets of uniforms so when I take my shower tonight I have a fresh set to change into sense I won't be sporting my going home duds.

All in all its not a bad thing, I can always use a little extra money, and this time of year I can use a lot of extra money because I have Christmas coming up followed by my youngest sons birthday in January about two days after I return from a business trip to Louisville Ky.

Long Breaks From Post to Post

There seems to be periods where I have long breaks between posts, this is because I'm just lazy. Well some of it is because I'm lazy, the rest is because I try to stretch myself to thin working a full time job, working on about 8 blogs, trying to spend time with my wife and kids, playing online game, trying to write a couple books, making attempts to make money online, just to mane a few.

I'm going to try to narrow down the blogs some and focus on this one and my main website which I kind of been slacking on as-well. So please check back over the next week and I'm sure that I can produce something that may peak your interest. Even if its something dark and twisted that tears at the fabric of your soul... well alright so maybe dark and twisted is not my cup of tea but it sounded good.

Turn Windows Update Off/On or Set to Manual

Keeping Windows up to date is without a doubt a good thing but sometimes it can be rather annoying or if your like me and on a metered connection it can be rather expensive. So what to do? Well that my friend is up too you, but here are three things you can do.

Turn it off/on yes off at least until you want to update... simply press the Windows Key or click on the Start Menu if you have one and type update into the search box a list of options will pop-up just select what you want to do they all tend to do the same...

Also you can set it to manual allowing you to manually select the updates you want to install. This is the option I use when I'm traveling as I only have 5 gigs of data, When at home I have 25 gigs of date accept between midnight to five a.m. which is unlimited so that is when I do most of my updates, yep you can set your Windows Update to download at a set time.

This is not for everyone but for people on metered connections this may save you some data. I have this is of some help to someone.

Video coming soon FRAPS is not working for some reason guess I need to restart and as good as ezvid is I don't like that your only option to save your work is to upload it to YouTube,

What A Fun Night

11/01/13
It's been a rather long feeling night building this 13 barge tow.  With the wind, rain, and sudden temperature drop my deckhands have had nasty cold and damp time wiring this tow up with very little breaks...

I know how they feel, I've been in the same types of weather and worse but you just make the best of it. Can't say I would trade places with them. I don't miss that shit for nothing.

11/02/13
Yet another night and we are at it again, building an eight pack with 5 empties and 3 loads. It's not hard but it is rather slow because I only have two deckhands and no tugs helping us out.

So far it's almost 3am and my crew are almost done wiring two of the loads in, all empties are in place. I have no clue where the last load is at. Maybe if we get lucky one of these tugs will get it in the clear and bring it to us.

Getting 11 Barges

I'm sitting here waiting for my crew to finish up building my 11 barge tow here at CCI Reserve. It's definitely dark and it's raining so I know that the guys are not happy about it, but it is part of the job.

I seems to be taking longer than it would for my regular crew or myself back in the day when I was on deck, but I'm not in a hurry. Once they are done we still have to cross the river and pickup two more barges for a total of 13 to take back the our fleet.

Candy Crush Saga

It seems to me that Candy Crush Saga like most games for the mobile devices are designed specifically to make sure you have to order jellies to clear.ves and such just to clear some of the harder levels.

I've been stuck on the same level for almost a week having used the free cheats they give you I'mnow in the 30s with nothing left to help me out unless I order extra moves and such.

But they can kiss my ass if they think that I am going to pay almost a dollar for them. I would be more inclined to order if it was around $5 for 25 moves... maybe. 

I've gotten past that level and now stuck on level 40. I have attempted it 50 times with no luck I run out of moves with only 1 or 2 jellies to clear. Haha took a few days but I breezed on pasted it, on level 57 now Oct 25 2013.

Nasty Weather What Joy

Got to love this rainy weather. .. it is storming and the Internet is out so there is not a whole lot to do right now. It's not that bad, but it would be great if it would just quit for a couple hours, so that I can grill the steaks.

But we needed the rain so I can't complain too much about it and can only be grateful that we got it.