There goes 2010, and here comes 2011.
Almost a month into the year, and my life really hasn’t changed that much. I still work at Hostgator from three till noon five days a week, and I still run my karaoke company. I am working on trying to get more shows, but that is not really easy at this time of year. Bar business seems to slow down in the months from January to March. In fact, it is probably March Madness that really gets the swing of things going.
My life is still semi hectic, but not too bad. I have been spending more time with my family and friends lately. I have been forcing myself to make the effort sometimes due to the lack of sleep it will require. Most of the time, I try to schedule as much as I can in on a Sunday.
My pets are all doing well, although I do have to take a moment to pay respects to my ‘nephew’ Kullochi whom we had to lay to rest last Sunday. He had a cancer related heart tumor which bled into his chest cavity. I will certainly miss that little guy as a wonderful dog and a friend to Daphnie, my golden lab-visla mix, as well. Daphnie is as always a happy dog. Dex has grown to almost 19 pounds. His sister left our family to join my brother who has dubbed her Trixie. Princess, my mom’s dog, is doing well also.
About the only thing really cool to happen is that I bought myself a blu-ray disc burner. It’s cool to watch movies on, but unfortunately, there is no native support for direct playback of blu-ray discs in Linux. So, I have to reboot into Windows when I wish to watch movies on it. Oh well. At least I can now burn discs up to 50Gb (dual layer blu-ray).
Until next time…
It certainly has been an interesting holiday weekend so far. I was very busy at work and spent a lot of time with my family and still more to come.
As you may have noticed, yesterday was quite a busy day for work. I worked this morning as well including getting some extra hours in on both days. Yesterday was volunteer, but it was also holiday pay (x1.5). I had a rental show Thursday night, and I have another rental show tomorrow. Then, there is always T-Bones on Saturday nights. Unless you don’t count the couple of hours it will take to setup and take down the rental show tomorrow, I will not have a complete day off of work until next Sunday, and Tuesday will be the only night between now and then that I don’t have a karaoke show or rental. Oh well though. It’s money.
If course, with it being Thanksgiving weekend, I have spent a lot of time with my family as well. My mother, father, a friend of the family, her daughter, and I had a small dinner Thursday night. Then, last night, My folks, my brother, his wife, and I all went over to my Aunts house for the family and friends Thanksgiving dinner. I saw some family members of course including my grandmother whom I always enjoy spending time with. Not too many people are lucky enough to be in their mid thirties and still have a grandparent around. I also got to hang out with my cousin and her boyfriend last night, and they will come out to my karaoke show tonight as well.
Of course, the big news of last night was the announcement of my brother and his wife’s child’s sex. That is whether they are having a boy or a girl. They decided to make a cake, and the color on the inside of the cake would be indicative of the gender of the child. The amusing part of this was everybody joking about how they wanted to eat fast to get to the cake quickly. So, it finally came time for the ‘ceremony.’ They decided to let my grandmother be the one to cut the cake. She sliced into the cake, and, with the pull of the first slice, we all saw the pink interior of the cake to let us know the child would be a girl. We would have all been happy either way, but this was still fun.
That is all for now. I hope all of you had a truly wonderful Thanksgiving. Until next time…
So, today at Hostgator, they are having a 50% off special on the first invoice of hosting plans for new clients. However, there was an additional special from 5:00 AM till 9:00 AM (or while supplies lasted) of 80% off of the same. Here’s where the fun comes in. Hostgator is an international company. While supplies lasted was apparently less than three minutes. For at least two hours after 5:00 AM, we were receiving so many calls and chats that everyone in the company, sales, support, security, system administrators, and supervisors, were all taking chats and answering phone calls just to try to decrease the volume, and we still had 150 waiting chats and at least 10 to 15 waiting phone calls at practically any given time.
It was a great morning for the company as well though. We beat out Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Black Friday in Google searches. Still, I am glad that my work day is over.
Well, I just had to get that off my chest. I am off to go out and find some sales of my own. Until next time…
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