2005 was weird, hopefully 2006 will be weirder. Just remeber, when life gets you down, live by this country song.

Faster Horses, Older Whiskey, Younger Women, and More Money

First trick-o-treater of the night was an older kid, cocksucker grabbed the whole fucking bag out of my hand and ran. I hope that little cocksucker gets run over.

"Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses"
If you see the original poster of this gem, point him out, he just gave me a new email sig.

Lets take a look at known AQ/islamist attacks.
WTC '93, only killed six, but the bomb was a pissant compared to OKC, would have leveled North tower with a OKC sized bomb.
Kobar Towers, 19 dead, blew up a fuel tanker outside a US barracks
Embasy bombings, 2 US facilities hit simultaneously killing 200.
USS Cole, got a bomb close enough to a US warship to blow a 30x10 hole in the side of destroyer, bigger hole than the Stark explosion which was hit by an anti-ship missle.
9/11, 4 airliners, 3000 dead, you know the details
Bali, 200 tourists dead in a nightclub
Madrid, transportation hit, but more casualties
London today 2 dead, 90 causalties???

Something isn't adding up.

Got hired by Insight Communications as a Systems Administrator today. I'm doing some celebrating tonight with some Evan Williams Master Distiller Select bourbon, but I've got to buckle down and get an apartment and moved in the next 3 weeks.

I want to reboot today, make that yesterday

Someone shot one of the cats with a .22 (I've got my theories as to who, but I'm going to let the sheriff scare him first, fucking crank lab owner).

Right front leg at the "ankle" joint, emergency trip to vet, tibia and fibula are in at least 6 pieces, he's kitty morophined and out now, the ortho guy at my vet is taking a peek at the xrays tomorrow morning to see if they are going to be able to pin/rod/screw the bones back together, but I get the impression I'm going to have a tripod cat tomorrow afternoon.

Now my new work cellphone is missing, hopefully it is at the vets, it wasn't in the parking lot, I drove back after I realized it wasn't on my belt when I got home.

I'm so pissed I can't sleep.

What a horseshit settlement, they were down nearly 10 billion in pension contributions? How the hell do you forget to deposit 10 fucking billion in an account?

It is horseshit like this that makes me not trust anyone or anything but myself when it comes to my retirement. My 401(k) is mine, my IRA's are mine, and my bank accounts are mine. Social Security and pensions have always been and will continue to be someone else's money that can be ripped out from in under you no matter if you are 18 or 98. Not to mention both have serious problems with the trustee's dipping their grubby little paws in the accounts when they want a new toy.

Before anyone says, but enron's 401(s) are worthless, the laws have been changed on the precentage of your own company's stock that can make up a 401(k) to protect from those types of situations. I'd actually prefer it to be 0%, but with the employee having the option to select funds containing their own stock if they wish to.

I go thinking I'll pick up my perfect attendence award ($100 + another year on the plaque), hear the president's state of the company address, and eat a free prime rib dinner on the company. Turns out they gave bonus checks ($100) and a nice lined jacket for staff that was involved with the CDMA rollout, a nice touch

Unexpectedly got employee of the year for the telecom/network division, the bonus check for that effectively doubled my raise for 2005, holy shit. Now to see if I can't get a real raise to go with my certification.

I'm celebrating with some Evan Williams master distiller select, damn it tastes good.

Passed exam number 2 on my first try Friday (after 3 tries on exam 1), back to Dallas the week of 3/14 for Network admin class, then the net admin test, and then a raise, or a new job.

BOFKentucky, Sun Certified Solaris 9 Systems Administrator, I like the ring of it.

I finally got peer to peer radio working, now I just need peers :-)

http://p2p-radio.sourceforge.net/Webstart/launch.php?station=jdholloway.scrtc.com

A mix of Southern Kentucky's local rock scene, try it out, reply if it sucks or isn't working.

I'll be taking SA-299, Advanced Systems Administration for Solaris 9 1/17-1/21 in Dallas. Should be loads of fun, if anyone in the Dallas area wants a beer, or knows what to eat and see, let me know.

Name: John Darin Holloway, AKA Big-D or BOFKentucky
Age: 25
Current Location: Cave City, KY, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way, AKA the world's largest hole in the ground
Status: Single
Number of Sibling Units: 1 each of younger brother and sister
Parental status: Mom & Dad, both still married to one another.
Handedness: Right
Pets: Two male cats, recently altered, they aren't pleased with me these days
Height/Weight: 6', ~300 Lbs, been awhile since I was on a scale
Hair/Eye Color: Dishwater blonde its graying a little sooner than I would like, Blue eyes
Hair Style: Buzz Cut, once a month, no facial hair these days, but I occasionally sport a red goatee.
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings: Yes (various)/No/No, considering Ink, Celtic Cross on Left Arm
Vision: Near Sighted and Astigmatic, wear contacts, but would love to blow the 3000 on LASIK/RK
Googleable?: Yes, both on real name and bofkentucky nickname.
Shoe size: 10.5 EEE
Average tv time per week: 40+. Its on, but I'm not watching most of the time. UK Basketball, College and Pro Football, South Park
Average COMPUTER time per week: 80+, both at home and at work.
number of alarm clocks: 3, counting cell phone, they still don't do any good
childhood nickname: Big-D
childhood pet/stuffed animal/imaginary friend: Chow/English Shep mix named Amber, sock monkey (never named), supposedly 3, but I don't remember them.

Got my first cold call from a headhunter in like 2 years today and they must be desperate. It was for a 3 month contract to hire deal at Seimens in Cinci, HPUX and Solaris Admin, except she wasted 15 minutes getting to the whole spiel about it being contract work. I'd have to be crazy to move to Cinci, find a place, and the get cut at the end of the 3 months. Had to decline, but they must have pegged everyone on their unix lists from Cleveland to Lexington and from Indy to Pittsburg for me to show up on their scans, maybe this whole economy thing is getting better.

Oh yeah, if you are unemployed and in Cinci, the headhunter was Trasys, it might be interesting work for someone who is already there.

Holy hell, I just upgraded my PIII 866 rig to a PIII-S 1.4, damn this thing is flying right now, cooler temp too!

The killer is, some poor dude ebayed this compaq "server" upgrade that retailed for $950 2 years ago, I got it for $150+$20 Heatsink/Fan

Fuck Marketing.
Fuck CDMA.
Fuck UK football.
Fuck non technical people making technical decisions and then calling me to fix the mess they made with a 2 week deadline.

I'm still not better, anyone need a Solaris Geek, prefer Southern US, Cinci/Indi maybe