Ash the Mighty

Yealp. That’s right. I, against all my better judgement, am on my final week as a light, darkness inhabiting, caffeine swilling, graveyard shift worker. Starting on Sunday I will be changing shifts from effectively Tuesday through Saturday, Late to Early; to Sunday through Thursday, Early to Mid.

This is not something I’m really cut out for generally, but let’s be honest here . . . it’s time. I’ve been on third shift for well over a year now THIS time around (I’ve even done it before), and while me being on this shift has happily not prevented me from advancing (twice now), I still feel like I’m not exactly under the nose of my bosses. I’m also not learning as much as I know I could be if I was in a busier shift.

Plus there’s the whole “no longer sleeping thing.” Yeah, it’s getting ugly. Just today I considered calling in late just to sleep some more, since I didn’t manage to get to sleep until ENTIRELY too late. This would of course have been bad, because we at least TRY to be responsible adults around here. By we of course I mean the Royal “we” because I have naturally gone THAT insane. Naturally.

At this point I’m just rambling, so I’ll say farewell. Wish me luck on my voyage with that acursed Day Star.

~A.

At the end of the meal, she had left over pancakes. She made an incredibly sad face and covered them with her napkin. “It’s so I don’t have to watch them go. It’s making me too sad. They were SO good!”

Later, when we were saying good bye for the last time, she beckoned me closer to her car window while rolling it down. Suddenly a flash of white shot out of the open window. As the paper napkin settled over my head, I heard her voice saying “I don’t want to have to watch you go either.”

Note: I’m POSTING this on 5/10/2010, but it was written on 03/29/2010.

Those who have been here before may notice that there are several posts missing from my blog. Like as in nearly six months worth. That’s actually not THAT much considering how often I had been posting.

What happened is that I had been hosting most of my sites on a server which I owned with a few other friends. The server had a hardware malfunction which caused it to go down, taking ashrhodes.com, the front end for BlackHolePhotography.com down, and a few other sites down as well. All of which of course made me a sad panda. The main guy who managed it all (not because any one of us couldn’t, we all work on servers for a living, but just because it’s just kinda his project) swore that it was just the power supply, that it was under warranty, and that he could get it back up within the week. A bit more than a week later, it was casually mentioned (after we asked) that it was the mother board that was taken out as well and it would just be a couple of more days.

That was over a month ago and the thing is STILL down.

Now I’m not saying it’s not partially my fault. I’ve not been hounding him or anything. But then I DO have to work with the guy and maintain a friendly business environment (and this server is DEFINITELY extra-business). But still. And as to why this had not appeared before now is because a) I had forgotten I had managed to get these backups off of the server, b) it is a PAIN to reset everything up for a “temporary” fix (guess it’s no longer temporary) and c) the only other hosting I had access to is shared hosting which I didn’t feel like messing about with.

But, as I said . . . it’s been a month. I’m tired of not having SOMETHING up. So here we are again.

Guess you’ll just have to deal with my ramblings all over again . . .

Sucker.

~A.