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What did you do in 2003 that you’d never done before? First Time I didn’t get a job I interviewed for, First time I actually made contributions to the programming community, First time I’ve gone to Italy, and others.

Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Of course not.. Who the hell ever does?

Did anyone close to you give birth? My sister to Madison Emma

Did anyone close to you die? Not that I remember.

What countries did you visit? France, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy

What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003? A house.. Owning my own townhouse is nice, but I want a yard with a picket fence.

What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Did anything really happen to cause rememberence in 2003?

What was your biggest achievement of the year? Stayed employed.

What was your biggest failure? Got rich..

Did you suffer illness or injury? If you can consider having your wisdom teeth pulled injury or illness. I sure as hell do with how much it hurt.

What was the best thing you bought? 57″ High Definition Wide Screen Sony TV

Whose behavior merited celebration? Mine of course.. All should celebrate my existence every day.

Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? …. So many people… Not enough space… But they are all getting coal.. So if you get a lump of coal.. you know you are…

Where did most of your money go? Bills and Uncle Sam

What did you get really, really, really excited about? Starting to get really excited about first born child that is 6 months away.

Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I think sadder.. Becoming even more unhappy with working situation with family growing.

ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter.. Laura doesn’t make me lunches enough so I have to eat wendys

iii. richer or poorer? Richer?? I believe I am getting richer even though the bills are growing.

What do you wish you’d done more of? Reading, Writing, and College.. I still need to focus on what I want out of college though.

What do you wish you’d done less of? Moping

How will you be spending Christmas? In-Laws… Boca Raton Florida. Spending Christmas Eve with the Clan McJoey.

Did you fall in love in 2003? Nah, that happened before 2003.

How many one-night stands? I’m married, we don’t count one night stands.. we count nights alone on the couch.. And in that case, 1…

What was your favorite TV program? CSI (The Vegas One.. Not the sucky Miami One)

Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? I still hate everyone so I guess not..

What was the best book you read? Brian Aldiss’s Heliconia Spring.. Although the sequal isn’t living up to it…

What was your greatest musical discovery? of last year? The Red Violin Movie and the associated sound track.

What was your favorite film of this year? Spirited Away or ROTK

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Went to Hugh Jorgans and drank many buckets of alcohol.. I was 26

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? McLaren F1

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003? Hawaiian?

What kept you sane? I never was sane…

Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Everyone of them on the cover of Maxim.. Fap Fap Fap… Splooge..

What political issue stirred you the most? Laugh.. All politics piss me off now a days..

Who was the best new person you met? I take the 5th with Glen on this one.. It’s not fair because other people will be jealous..

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003:
I think I know it all so I don’t learn lessons to easily.. I tried to just go with the flow but I didn’t like where it got me.. I tried to buck the horse but it just kept trying to throw me.. The goal in life is to buck the horse for the important stuff and just toke the rest… (Stoner Reference from an Ex Stoner)

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his/her beliefs and treats others as you are
treated. People would consider you humble at
times and very respectful, and someone to
definitely respect back.

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Ok, so I woke up this morning, went upstairs to get some information off the computer to take with me to work and what do my eyes see?

My dedicated server is dead…. This is very, very heart wrenching. Not only because it is not responding at this moment, but also because I do not have a) physical access to this leased box or b) console access to this box.

I was already running close to time to leave for work so I head on out to work. When I get there I start to research the issue and discover that the last couple of messages I recieved from it the cpu load was pegged out.

So i contact the company I lease my server with and submit a reboot ticket. After 30 minutes they confirm they couldn’t get ssh access to it either and reboot the box. It comes back up and after some quick investigation I found the culprit……

Drum roll Please……

Over 90,000 email messages.

End Drum Roll……

This is what happened. I installed a script that will take email messages and throw them into a database for me to do with as I please.. This script also sent out an email to the sender saying “Thank you and this will be taken care of”.. Well, at 4 o’clock this morning, my credit card processing software sent me an email of today’s invoices. The to and from field for that email were the same email address as my little perl script. So the perl script kept emailing itself over and over again… This in itself was not enough to kill the server. What killed the server in though was the fact that the database tables got corrupt from this processes speeding up exponentially. Once the tables were corrupt, it was only a matter of time before the server finally gave up.

The fix for all this madness was pretty simple:

1) Disabled the automatic script insertion thing until I can put other safety precautions in place.

2) Disable all outgoing email being generated by this script.

3) Move the to: address of the invoice generator to a non-forward so that it will not do this again

Now I am stuck with trying to download and delete over 90,000 emails off the server. I could wipe out the entire email account and start over, but being that the server was offline, I want to make sure I get all the emails I can out of it to reply back to people.

Well, thanksgiving and the birthday weekend is over…

Lets start with thanksgiving. Besides the issues with my family that are going on that I don’t want to get in to right now, thanksgiving was good. I had two friends, Ron and Mike, who came down for thanksgiving. I cooked my turkey and my stuffing and it all came out great. Laura made her apple pies and pumpkin pies. The apple pie was good, just wasn’t sweet enough. I didn’t get a chance to try the pumpkin pie. We all had a good time and the three bottles of wine that were drunk helped to loosen the party right along.

My birthday was on sunday and I had to work on it. I decided to work that day so that I could have friday and saturday off with Ron and Mike. We did go out and celebrate my birthday on Friday night though.

Friday night we ended up going out to dinner at Lucille’s Bad to the Bone BBQ and finished off at Hugh Jorgans where I was seated on the piano and serenaded. Of course, being Hugh Jorgans, the serenade was about how I was the guy’s prison bitch that he paid for in cigarettes. Many, Many, and many more drinks later our table was the loudest table in the place screaming along with every song.

To sum up, had a great week, sucked to come back to work..