I don’t think that today could have gone any better. Sean and I were able to get the car fixed at $100 less than the original quote. We then hung out around the house for a little while. Dad, Sean and I went out to dinner at some diner that used to be an IHOP. After taking the long way home (half hour detour of just traveling around with the windows out on the jeep) we basically just relaxed and enjoyed the ride.

I have everything up and running with AGn Solutions. The new hosting plans are in place, the new pricing is in place, and thank god for the new company I’m going through because I now have a proper billing system that should help to keep everything running at ship-shape. Now all I need to do is push the advertising on it a bit more, but money talks so of course that will have to show up before anything. I have been able to figure out how to integrate things to another provider in regards to email management so I should be able to stay on top of things a lot better than I’ve been able to in the past.

So everything just seems to be looking up right now.

I’m working on a few things here as far as content goes. I’d like to finally get some of the templates up that I’ve been working on for the past few months, so we’ll see how much I can accomplish there. Maybe I’ll be able to finally come up with something that I like enough to publish to the rest of the world. I was contacted about sponsorships but I never responded due to my lack of creativity for the templates that they’re willing to sponsor.

Either way something will be done soon. I do have a lot of pictures to go through as well, there are a few creative entries that I’d like to throw up here as well.

A lot to do but no drive to do it - story of my life.

I don’t know if it’s due to the fact that I’m back in New York, or if it’s because I have the drive to make enough money to move back up here - but - I’ve had no trouble finding inspiration for new templates.  Maybe it’s the change of scenery, I don’t know.  I just know that I’ve spent the last 12 hours or so working on the new template for AGn Solutions, this way when everything is up and running I can work in the new billing/support software and go from there.

I really can’t wait to get everything transferred over.  I have to say that this eCheck business is bugging the crap out of me, but that was my own fault - I didn’t click the right button and now I’m going to have to figure out how to go about fixing it in the future.  I can’t change it now because the initial payment hasn’t cleared yet but come Monday morning I’ll be jumping for joy as I’m creating all of the back-ups and getting all of the DNS transferred over to the new company.

I’m changing things up a bit, and I’m bringing back Reseller accounts because off the increase in room.  I’m offering up enough resources where I can really do some serious business so hopefully my advertising efforts pay off.

While I’ve been in New York I’ve been searching around numerous Job Search websites and I’ve submitted my application to a couple of businesses here on the Island.  The ‘dream job’ might not actually come through but I can understand why the company wouldn’t want to shell out $70,000 a year on someone with no college degree.  Either way I’ll wait until I hear something from anyone before I get too excited.  I just really would love to be back up here and that’s something that a one-week stay has proven to me.

I miss New York.  I miss the congestion, and the rude people.  I miss the fantastic food and the fact that I know more people in town than I ever thought I did while I was up here.  Sure, you don’t think about it when you were up here for 20 years but if you just go through the supermarket and you’re stopped by old friends and family that you haven’t seen in a long time - it really takes it toll on you.  You realize just how much you’ve missed over the years.

Sure, Delaware is great.  I love Sean, I love the complex we’re living in but it doesn’t feel like “home” to me - not the way that New York does.  Even Sean seems to have more inspiration up here, on top of the concentration he’s been able to find.  Unfortunately he’s under the weather - so he really hasn’t done very much in the past 24 hours (work wise) but it’s easy to lose that new found concentration when you’re heavily congested and it hurts to swallow.

I think he has an ear infection, he claims it’s just his throat, but somethings telling me that it’s a little stronger than that.  I’d like to get him to the hospital but with the way New York works, you’re better off losing your ear before you want to sit in a damn E.R.. See, in Delaware when I went for my nasty abscess I was shot with all kinds of pain killers and loaded up with antibiotics.  It only cost me $125 - and yes that cost is with ZERO medical insurance.  Up here in New York? The same treatment would run about $1,200 for someone with no insurance.  Who the hell has that kind of money?  Thankfully the last time I got really sick up here (my first ever ear infection that went down my ear canal and took over the left side of my neck) I was still under my father’s Medical Insurance from the same hospital (he works there) so since hospital employees tend to get first priority (as do their children) it didn’t cost me a dime - I was fully covered. We did get the bill though, if we had to pay out of picket it would have been about $2500.

So yea, we’re obviously not going to go up here, but maybe I’ll be able to rummage through the cabinets and pick up something for him.  I want to get some ear-drops from the store but my usual 24-hour hotspot up here is no longer 24-hours.  Oh well…I’m sure I’ll figure something out.

In any event, it’s knocking on 3am - guess I should get to bed.

Thanks to the support staff of my current host, things are looking up.  There was just a minor issue with my IP address and now everything seems to be taken care of.  Come Monday my eCheck for the first account should clear and I’ll then be able to get my clients setup as well.  The new system will slowly be implimented and I have to say that I love the idea of a program that directly connects to the control panel and sets up everything for you.  It helps to keep track of things, and it makes things a bit easier for clients as well, especially when it comes to upgrading/downgrading packages.

In any event, it’s knocking on Midnight and I’m pretty tired.  I think it’s time to head off for the night.

I’m on my third hosting company and still very unhappy with things.  While the initial transfer went through rather quickly for the third company, the fact that I’ve only been with them for a day and everything is DOWN is giving me a bit of a headache.  I’m to a point now where I really have no idea where to go.  As of right now I’m just trying to get my personal site in order, the clients aren’t going anywhere because their accounts are still up and running just fine, but it would be nice to get myself involved with a company that wasn’t down within 4 hours of my signing up with them.  There is literally one site on the account and it’s down so obviously it wasn’t me who overloaded things, considering it’s an account that gets literally no hits at all.

I’m really confused and I have no idea on where to go.  I thought this new company was going to be a good move but when you PING the IP and get nothing but “time out - time out - time out” responses (4 sent, 4 lost) it’s really not looking to good.  Thank god for 30 day money-back guarantees.

I woke up very early this morning in anticipation for the landscapers.  I make it a point to be outside so that they properly cut the grass when they finally make it to our house.  If I’m not out there they tend to half-ass it and kind of brush over one area and call it a day.  I understand they have a lot of lawns to cut but seriously now - you’re being paid by the hour to do a job - why must you insist on doing the most amount of jobs in the least amount of time? Efficiency is the only proper way to work, but I guess when you don’t understand English and are working off the books - you can get away with it.

But either way, come 9:30am (their typical time-frame) I didn’t hear the rumble of all the mowers coming up the block.  Around 11:30 I poked outside again and they still weren’t there.  By 1:00PM I figured they weren’t going to bother even showing up at all.  By now the exhaustion had set in.  I’d only gotten about 3 hours of sleep last night so being up and moving around for the morning took a lot more out of me than someone who’d had a solid 8 hours of sleep to work with.

I started redoing my portfolio and I also updated my resume.  There are a few outsource positions open through some companies I found and I requested more information on the tasks they have and hopefully the updated portfolio will help me out.  I’m also working on getting a new template up for krissy.nu, the pink is starting to bother me.  I’d also like to remove a lot of the ads on acidgloss.net but I am actually making some decent money off of them so I guess time will tell with how far I’m going to go with that.

After I completed that, I couldn’t keep my eyes open so I wound up taking a bit of a nap.  I hate sleeping during the day when there’s a lot of things to do but when you can’t function without that extra hour you’re basically useless.  So I crashed for a little while, woke up and did some quick shopping and I’ve been accomplishing quite a bit ever since.  Hopefully I’ll have it all completed before I’m ready to completely crash for the night, I just hope I don’t start falling asleep anytime soon, there’s still quite a bit of things left to do.