Almost Half Way

About three weeks ago, I started re-training with my company to fill additional responsabilities in managing internal systems and infrastructure (servers and network). This has been a great experience and I am learning a ton about delving deeper into hosting systems for customers. I'll be at work late tonight to update servers and do some other maintenance.

While I have been busy at work, Summer has decided to start poking out her first tooth (bottom left front tooth), and she is beginning to crawl (with the proper motivation; pumpkin pie works well). She's as big as a 1 year old, and yet she's just a week over 7 months.

Going Nowhere Fast

Today was a very frustrating day. After dealing with T1 and IP address migration issues all morning, I took Reba to get teeth pulled. On the way home and to pick up Summer, I got yelled at and cussed at by other drivers. I also had a driver fly out of a parking lot and across two busy lanes of traffic to stop short right in front of me for no reason I could determine. I almost hit her and I could have been hit myself. Then there are the drivers who tailgate, pass, and then slow down in front of you. I had a couple of those too. It was only a 40 minute drive... Rush hour in Denver is not pleasant.

Old Games

I picked up two $1 copies of Age of Empires 3 with all expansions some time ago and finally started playing it. Don't get the point of the cards, but ok. I should read up on some strategy for how to use those. Graphics are good for 2005 (?) game. Mechanics seem the same, but resources are simplified; mills are odd with how cheap they are, and that they give infinite food. Raising sheep is cool.

Summer will crawl any day now. She likes getting up on her knees, but doesn't move yet. Still, it is fun playing with and watching her wave stuff around!

On The Move

Summer is about to start crawling and we still have lots of baby-proofing to do. Also have a neat job opportunity coming up. More on both soon!

Life Of A SysAdmin

I just got home from work at 3AM after hopefully saving the servers from themselves. The AC unit has quit again, and the server room got up to just under 120 degrees F before I realized what was up thanks to E-mail and SMS messages not being sent (I will be looking into that Sunday afternoon or Monday morning). I have spent most of the day catching up on MS updates on 1/3 the servers, with a short break to install shelving and a longer break to rearrange the bedroom. Server admin is taxing, but I love working with the servers and the 2AM drives to work to set up box fans in the server room are down to once a year.

Regarding the room reworking.... Reba wants to move Summer into her own room, which means moving my half of the office room into a corner of the master bedroom. I'm keeping the Linux gaming server and the primary desktop I built early last year, but almost everything else needs to go for lack of space. On the up side, I can play Minecraft in bed now.

Summer is growing like a weed and getting cuter every day! Speaking of, she just woke up, so I will write more some other time.

My Wonderful Daughter

Last night, Summer was awake every couple of hours demanding food. She wasn't sleepy and wanted to play. Her mother and I did not want to play. We fed her and did what we could to make her happy, and this morning I watch Summer for a while so Reba could get some more sleep.

This afternoon, Summer had finally had enough. She was not happy and wouldn't stop screaming. The only thing we could do was walk around and bounce her until she finally gave up. I think I walked the circular walk in front of my apartment that goes around the stairs for about an hour before she finally got sleepy enough for us to lay her down.

Some people say parenthood is not worth the trouble, but I disagree. To see how happy she is to see me when I come home from work is amazing, even though she doesn't have a clue who I am yet. And when she gives me the cutest smile in the world every time I walk into the room, I melt a little inside. Summer is amazing. We love her.

Happy 4th of July!

Reba and I celebrated Summer's four month birthday on Saturday by taking Victory to the dog park. Victory has been needing more exercise this summer and is feeling a little neglected with how much attention Summer requires. He also needs a close eye to watch his feet when he goes to the park as he has been ripping the pads on his feet with how rough the gravel at the park is. He seems to be doing ok and healing up fine this time. We left as soon as he got a little hole in one pad, and it isn't bad enough to hurt him any. Summer slept the entire time we were there.

We also attended the annual DOSUG (Denver Open Source User Group) bbq/cookout at Plumb (something) Park. Good food and good talking with the active members. I want to start attending the regular meetings the group holds monthly. Reba enjoyed talking with some of the ladies that came. Good family event.

Sunday we slept in as Summer didn't sleep much Saturday night or Sunday morning. Lunch at Nate and Jos's was good as always and I helped nate with a wiring problem in his new truck. It now has a working radio! All the cousins had great fun, and all four are growing like weeds; especially Summer.

Today we took Summer and Victory to Cheesman Park to watch Nate's family bike/ride/walk in the 5th annual bike parade. Very hot out, but lots of shade to be had made it survivable. This evening was a cookout with Chris and Marie. Vic had to stay home, and was very good! He didn't get into anything this time! Chris grilled up some good buffalo burgers and a perfect t-bone steak. We swam for a bit and watched fireworks on TV. Twas a good day.