Sore Body Sore Mind
Mon, 2008-05-12 16:06 | by Erin
Ouch.
I woke up this morning and I was sore all over. Yesterdays Rugby game was brutal. The ensuing after party was equally brutal and my head is still pounding from all of the after match alcho abuse.
It was pouring down rain the night before and I thought for sure I would get a call in the morning saying the game was canceled. It wasn't and with the ground over 80 minutes from my house I woke at 6 AM to get out to meet the guys. I didn't bring Eric cause it was raining still, but not quite as hard.
When I got to the TobuDobutsu Kohen Station, 4 at a time we hopped into cabs and took a 3000 yen cab ride to the rugby field. I have a love hate relationship with this place. It has a great facility's for amateur rugby field in Japan..... showers a place to eat that servers rammen, curry and other tasty traditional food, and of course beer, and lots of it cheaply.
But the thing I hate about it .... is it is really in the middle of no where. It is a 80-90 minute train ride to get there. I have to change trains at least 3 times, and then we have to take a taxi that costs 3000 yen for 20 minutes to get to the field. This sucks so if your late, or in my case want to leave early, you usually have to foot the cab alone which can suck.
I woke up this morning and I was sore all over. Yesterdays Rugby game was brutal. The ensuing after party was equally brutal and my head is still pounding from all of the after match alcho abuse.
It was pouring down rain the night before and I thought for sure I would get a call in the morning saying the game was canceled. It wasn't and with the ground over 80 minutes from my house I woke at 6 AM to get out to meet the guys. I didn't bring Eric cause it was raining still, but not quite as hard.
When I got to the TobuDobutsu Kohen Station, 4 at a time we hopped into cabs and took a 3000 yen cab ride to the rugby field. I have a love hate relationship with this place. It has a great facility's for amateur rugby field in Japan..... showers a place to eat that servers rammen, curry and other tasty traditional food, and of course beer, and lots of it cheaply.
But the thing I hate about it .... is it is really in the middle of no where. It is a 80-90 minute train ride to get there. I have to change trains at least 3 times, and then we have to take a taxi that costs 3000 yen for 20 minutes to get to the field. This sucks so if your late, or in my case want to leave early, you usually have to foot the cab alone which can suck.
A AMD fanboy. Laymans reasoning.......
Thu, 2008-05-08 23:02 | by Erin
Wow so I looked on Reddit today and found not one but 2 articles about Intel Vs. AMD.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-amd-intels-misdeeds-killin...
And
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107495
I didn't read either...... but I am a AMD fan from way back to my second computer which had a AMD Athlon. It was a 1300 mhz chip that over clocked beautifully to 1600 mhz and only took 22 hours to render a 15 minute video clip........
Reading that you might notice that I got into computing quite late in the game. True, I was almost 30 when I got my first computer job. Regardless I have always been a AMD fan even though some would say Intel based processors are "better".
Lets clarify "better" for one second .... there are a million ways for a processor to be FASTER , or more power efficient or a number of other qualifications, but if your mother board memory and video card not built to match, and you do not have all the most recent drivers patches and firmware you might .... as a end user notice the difference.
This argument brings me back to my youth ... Chevy Vs. Ford .....then throw a Hemi fan in the mix and .... well forget your civility's. In reality it was the same thing. It would always
boil down to a 305 V8 vs a 302 V8, then you change out the valve trains, cam and exhaust. Wait you can still overbore and ......................................
The arguments of yesterday carry over to today.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-amd-intels-misdeeds-killin...
And
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107495
I didn't read either...... but I am a AMD fan from way back to my second computer which had a AMD Athlon. It was a 1300 mhz chip that over clocked beautifully to 1600 mhz and only took 22 hours to render a 15 minute video clip........
Reading that you might notice that I got into computing quite late in the game. True, I was almost 30 when I got my first computer job. Regardless I have always been a AMD fan even though some would say Intel based processors are "better".
Lets clarify "better" for one second .... there are a million ways for a processor to be FASTER , or more power efficient or a number of other qualifications, but if your mother board memory and video card not built to match, and you do not have all the most recent drivers patches and firmware you might .... as a end user notice the difference.
This argument brings me back to my youth ... Chevy Vs. Ford .....then throw a Hemi fan in the mix and .... well forget your civility's. In reality it was the same thing. It would always
boil down to a 305 V8 vs a 302 V8, then you change out the valve trains, cam and exhaust. Wait you can still overbore and ......................................
The arguments of yesterday carry over to today.
It is nice to be remembered.
Fri, 2008-04-25 00:12 | by Erin
So I have been doing some work for a company that I worked for before in America.
When I started there I was fresh out of computer careerer training and had only passed a couple of tests and gotten Microsoft Professional Certification. Which was pathetic even at the time. When I think how now I am Unix Administrator for the second largest ISP in all of Japan..... man how things have changed.
I started at the golf company with out a clue, and through allot of hard work and help from others, I built what is still one of the strongest standing testaments of my ability.
But this is not really about me .... it is about how it got done.
My old boss got fired and my new boss came in .... I did not meet him on the first day cause my newborn son and wife were leaving the hospital and I wanted to take them home. When I did meet him he layed it all out.
"We are behind" Bubby said "We need to connect these 2 sites to our ERP app by the end of the month. I hear we have Citrix and Citrix Licenses, you should look into that."
With that he went back to reading his e-mail and sending instant messages.
Over the next couple of days we decided on Citrix and got the routing setup via frame relay. This was particularly funny, cause I had never worked on a actual router in my life and was still having trouble setting up Windows in some situations.
I went to my boss .... "Bubby I do not know how to configure these things."
When I started there I was fresh out of computer careerer training and had only passed a couple of tests and gotten Microsoft Professional Certification. Which was pathetic even at the time. When I think how now I am Unix Administrator for the second largest ISP in all of Japan..... man how things have changed.
I started at the golf company with out a clue, and through allot of hard work and help from others, I built what is still one of the strongest standing testaments of my ability.
But this is not really about me .... it is about how it got done.
My old boss got fired and my new boss came in .... I did not meet him on the first day cause my newborn son and wife were leaving the hospital and I wanted to take them home. When I did meet him he layed it all out.
"We are behind" Bubby said "We need to connect these 2 sites to our ERP app by the end of the month. I hear we have Citrix and Citrix Licenses, you should look into that."
With that he went back to reading his e-mail and sending instant messages.
Over the next couple of days we decided on Citrix and got the routing setup via frame relay. This was particularly funny, cause I had never worked on a actual router in my life and was still having trouble setting up Windows in some situations.
I went to my boss .... "Bubby I do not know how to configure these things."
Signs of Life
Thu, 2008-04-10 20:16 | by Erin
When your on your on when your not ... your not.
I love being busy. It is part of what makes being me.... me.
In the past couple of weeks there has been so much to blog or vlog or SMOG about that I can say I passed overwhelmed about a week ago.
Man since my last post,
Eric has lost both his bottom front teeth, and graduated kindergarten and entered first grade. Ya they start the school in March here.
Eric and Satomi went to Okinawa for a vacation with Satomi's Mom, while I went to America on business.
During that time my Uncle Jay died, he was a tough guy to work for but the last time I saw him, last year he was pretty good to talk to. I did a network survey and analysis of a system I built 5 years ago. It was good to see that it stood the test of time but still it was in need of some love. Kevin I am getting on that documentation right after this.
I stayed at my sisters house, drank a couple of beers with my brother, blew some stuff up with Jay-Dog and got the old Izzo crew back together. It was cool. Oh ya and Corey if you read this tell Amy I thought she looked really slim, but she is still too tough for me!
Sorry if I didn't call or stop by while I was in town but don't hate me too much. I was really busy.
I went to Manila in the Philippine's for a international rugby 10's tournament. Manila is not my kinda place but matches we had were great! We won 3 out of 4 and only allowed 1 try the whole tournament!
Oh crap I almost forgot.... WORK!
I love being busy. It is part of what makes being me.... me.
In the past couple of weeks there has been so much to blog or vlog or SMOG about that I can say I passed overwhelmed about a week ago.
Man since my last post,
Eric has lost both his bottom front teeth, and graduated kindergarten and entered first grade. Ya they start the school in March here.
Eric and Satomi went to Okinawa for a vacation with Satomi's Mom, while I went to America on business.
During that time my Uncle Jay died, he was a tough guy to work for but the last time I saw him, last year he was pretty good to talk to. I did a network survey and analysis of a system I built 5 years ago. It was good to see that it stood the test of time but still it was in need of some love. Kevin I am getting on that documentation right after this.
I stayed at my sisters house, drank a couple of beers with my brother, blew some stuff up with Jay-Dog and got the old Izzo crew back together. It was cool. Oh ya and Corey if you read this tell Amy I thought she looked really slim, but she is still too tough for me!
Sorry if I didn't call or stop by while I was in town but don't hate me too much. I was really busy.
I went to Manila in the Philippine's for a international rugby 10's tournament. Manila is not my kinda place but matches we had were great! We won 3 out of 4 and only allowed 1 try the whole tournament!
Oh crap I almost forgot.... WORK!
