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

So I've got 5 days of vacation, plus a week of training to take before Jan 1, decided to burn one of those vacation days today.
Slept in and headed up the road to the finest horse track on the planet, had a decent day gambling (-$30, counting drinks) even hit a $70 trifecta on the 8th race. It was opening day, so there were people who looked like they stepped off the set of Seabiscut roaming the stands, including my barmaid. Keeneland (and 48 hour football tailgating) are the only reasons I would consider moving back to Lexington, but damn they are fine reasons.

/. politics gets some sanity

Yep, Install techs got done this morning with setting up the telco's part of the deal
384/256 ADSL (Actually measured at 356/225 this evening w00t)
150 Channel digital cable delivered over phone line
2 video streams
Caller ID pops up as in the lower left corner of the TV screen (can be disbled if using the VCR)

Which meams I spent the past 12 hours configuring 2 Linksys WRT54G routers to act as a wireless bridge between my ethernet network and the Residential Gateway (Cable Box/DSL modem). Used the sveasoft firmware that needs better documentation, but it is working like a champ


Road Trip last thursday to see Hank Williams Jr and Skynard at Riverbend in Cinci. Discovered you can't get a pizza delivered after 12 in downtown Cinci (8th and Elm, Josh any other Cinci/NKY /.'ers). The concert rocked, the 15 hours between late lunch Thursday and Arby's brunch Friday sucked major league. It's been concerts from beyond the grave/breakup for me this summer, Skynard, Judas Priest, and Black Sabbath.

Oh yeah, for those of you who have never been to riverbend, you've got to see the "Flood Stage" markers showing the river level during the 97 flood, 8' up on the bathrooms beyond the lawn, its amazing anything was left of cinci after that one.

I'm proud to present the newest memeber of the Jager Music family, Sixth Floor

These are some sick bastards from down home, southern tinged, truck drivin', whisky drinkin', biker metal at its finest. Check them out to see what Ozzy's and Ronnie Van Zant's love child would have been.

You've all seen the rubberized "spray-on" bedliners used on pickup trucks right. It seems like a quarter inch of that stuff in the floorboard/undercarriage (1/2" total coat) might absorb a lot of the shrapnel that the roadside bombs are sending into the passenger cabins of the Humvee's tooling around Iraq these days. Yeah I know they won't do shit against an RPG, but as a (relatively) cheap spall liner, how well would it work? It has got to do better than the steel plate that soldiers are laying in the floorboards that are being shredded into shrapnel.

...all they do is smoke pot and smell bad
--Eric Cartman

I wish I had my camera in the truck driving home this afternoon. I'm trucking down I-65, in between Sonora and Upton KY, I notice a White Jeep Liberty with Ohio plates in front of me, I pass it and as I'm driving by I see the sticker on the door, PETA. I promptly gave them the bird and laid down on the horn to "register my opinion about them".

How many critters died so they could pollute the earth with their SUV. Last time I checked, there were no solar/wind powered Jeeps in your local 4th Reich Motors dealership (GMontag's was a custom conversion on the hacker jeep, no?)

Rant over, no carrier!

I posit that clicking through on any ad banner for John Kerry or liberal inclined groups could be beneficial by slowly siphoning away their war chest(s). Thoughts and comments appreciated. Not advocating massive automated hits, but just open a new tab if you see one out there to help shut these idiots up.