Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Luggage, Standards & Stat Holidays
So I'm back out on the coast again. It was a hectic adventure this time. Christmas was quiet as I was sick for most of the Christmas and New Years experience this year. I stayed at home mostly and watched movies, and coded. I did get a great deal of the DMS features completed. I still need to work out ACLs, and re-parenting. AJ has been using it already and has been picking my brain on features, and how to organize things. It's a fairly robust and useful back end for document storage I must say. Cudos to Aaron for the initial work, and thanks for his brainstorming with me on new features. :-D
So I did the typical Andy thing of staying up all night the last night in town because I put off cleaning and laundry way too long. But I managed to get everything I needed packed. Went to a last band practice which went quite well, and then I was off to get AJ and then to the airport. It should have been a simple trip. That turned out to not be the case. The flight was late leaving to begin with, but I wasn't worried at all becuase I had a 1.5 hour layover in Vancouver before I hopped to Victoria. Smoking rooms in airports are _GROSS_. I mean I smoke, but I was even getting sick in there!
So I arrived in Victoria on time. Karen's beau Johnny was picking me up (THANKS MAN!). We were kind of pressed for time as he had band practice @ 7:30, and I got in at 6:30. I had to wait for my checked bag. The bags came out, and then the conveyor belt stopped. No more bags were loaded. I was without luggage! I had to wait in line and give my information. "I don't know the address where I'm staying ... If it was my house I would have needed to pack a HUGE hockey bag full of stuff! I don't understand this. Their only job is to take my bag off one plane, and put it on another plane. The tag on the bag even tells them which plane to put it on ... and they managed to fuck that up. UNBELIEVEABLE!" So without my stuff (Good thing I had my toilet kit in my carry-on). I went with Johnny, we picked up some drinks and I went to his band practice with him.
Upsatairs in the attic of some guys place. Amps, drumset and not a whole lot of room. It was going to be cool. I met "Hammer", "Greyskull", I already met "Bootface" once. We call Johnny "Pukeface" so everyone has a nick name. I jammed on the drums for a bit. Johnny normally plays bass, but is a drummer at heart. Since their regular drummer was AWOL, they were just jammming and Johnny sat in on drums. The band is called "Nibbler" Really awesome group. I highly recommend seeing them if you get the chance when in Vancouver. Hard Core punk. In my humble opinion they sound like a cross between The Dead Kennedys, Megadeth, and The MightyMighty Bosstones. That makes for some interesting but still very cool jamming.
So I stayed the night at the house again. I finally got my phone calls from Air Canada. I decided on Monday morning that enough was enough and I would just go get it myself instead of letting they try to deliver. They first issue was that Karen's car was blocking us in. No problem .... she left her key for us. Too bad I don't drive standard! Backing out of that long driveway is a treat in my own car, but trying it in not my car, and not being able to drive a standard ... well it was an adventure. I finally got it parked, then I couldn't get the key out! Oh shit. So after 10 mins and a phone call to Rich, I finally found the key release underneath the steering wheel.
Get my luggage at the airport, grab a bite to eat, and off to Sooke to meet Power Soft, let them know I'm around, and will be in tomorrow. I get out to the office, and it's all locked up. Nobody was home. I was checking my phone to see what day it was (Sun or Mon). Yup, it's Monday. Thinking in my head ... where is everybody? I phoned Chris but received no answer, I did get a hold of Brenda and right before they answered I realized that they would have been closed in lieu of New Years Day. Since Jan. 1 was a Saturday, businesses close on Monday for the Stat Holiday. Since I work for myself and I never think about Stat Holidays, it never dawned on me. I alse realized about this time that I forgot to email everyone and let them know I'd be back. Oops.
Well I'm arrived, have my computer all set up and geared to go. I did fix a couple of path problems, and got the dev server working with my PHP scripts. It was just some incorrect paths going on. display_errors is turned off, so I just turned it on in ini_set(); Saw my problems immediately. Good to go. I'm going to finish some small tasks tomorrow, and then we should be ready to go on the next phase of tasks. I'm sure I'll rediscover my dislike for MS-Enterprise Manager. :-(
¶ 3:39:00 PM
So I did the typical Andy thing of staying up all night the last night in town because I put off cleaning and laundry way too long. But I managed to get everything I needed packed. Went to a last band practice which went quite well, and then I was off to get AJ and then to the airport. It should have been a simple trip. That turned out to not be the case. The flight was late leaving to begin with, but I wasn't worried at all becuase I had a 1.5 hour layover in Vancouver before I hopped to Victoria. Smoking rooms in airports are _GROSS_. I mean I smoke, but I was even getting sick in there!
So I arrived in Victoria on time. Karen's beau Johnny was picking me up (THANKS MAN!). We were kind of pressed for time as he had band practice @ 7:30, and I got in at 6:30. I had to wait for my checked bag. The bags came out, and then the conveyor belt stopped. No more bags were loaded. I was without luggage! I had to wait in line and give my information. "I don't know the address where I'm staying ... If it was my house I would have needed to pack a HUGE hockey bag full of stuff! I don't understand this. Their only job is to take my bag off one plane, and put it on another plane. The tag on the bag even tells them which plane to put it on ... and they managed to fuck that up. UNBELIEVEABLE!" So without my stuff (Good thing I had my toilet kit in my carry-on). I went with Johnny, we picked up some drinks and I went to his band practice with him.
Upsatairs in the attic of some guys place. Amps, drumset and not a whole lot of room. It was going to be cool. I met "Hammer", "Greyskull", I already met "Bootface" once. We call Johnny "Pukeface" so everyone has a nick name. I jammed on the drums for a bit. Johnny normally plays bass, but is a drummer at heart. Since their regular drummer was AWOL, they were just jammming and Johnny sat in on drums. The band is called "Nibbler" Really awesome group. I highly recommend seeing them if you get the chance when in Vancouver. Hard Core punk. In my humble opinion they sound like a cross between The Dead Kennedys, Megadeth, and The MightyMighty Bosstones. That makes for some interesting but still very cool jamming.
So I stayed the night at the house again. I finally got my phone calls from Air Canada. I decided on Monday morning that enough was enough and I would just go get it myself instead of letting they try to deliver. They first issue was that Karen's car was blocking us in. No problem .... she left her key for us. Too bad I don't drive standard! Backing out of that long driveway is a treat in my own car, but trying it in not my car, and not being able to drive a standard ... well it was an adventure. I finally got it parked, then I couldn't get the key out! Oh shit. So after 10 mins and a phone call to Rich, I finally found the key release underneath the steering wheel.
Get my luggage at the airport, grab a bite to eat, and off to Sooke to meet Power Soft, let them know I'm around, and will be in tomorrow. I get out to the office, and it's all locked up. Nobody was home. I was checking my phone to see what day it was (Sun or Mon). Yup, it's Monday. Thinking in my head ... where is everybody? I phoned Chris but received no answer, I did get a hold of Brenda and right before they answered I realized that they would have been closed in lieu of New Years Day. Since Jan. 1 was a Saturday, businesses close on Monday for the Stat Holiday. Since I work for myself and I never think about Stat Holidays, it never dawned on me. I alse realized about this time that I forgot to email everyone and let them know I'd be back. Oops.
Well I'm arrived, have my computer all set up and geared to go. I did fix a couple of path problems, and got the dev server working with my PHP scripts. It was just some incorrect paths going on. display_errors is turned off, so I just turned it on in ini_set(); Saw my problems immediately. Good to go. I'm going to finish some small tasks tomorrow, and then we should be ready to go on the next phase of tasks. I'm sure I'll rediscover my dislike for MS-Enterprise Manager. :-(
¶ 3:39:00 PM
