We are starting to get heavy rain and wind. We are also able to see transformers exploding all over the city. The ride out team is watching “Blazing Saddles” and I have been taking a crash course in php. My cot is ready.

I’m standing on top of Garage 6 at BCM with some coworkers. The wind is blowing pretty hard but there is no rain yet. We are ready for the show to start…

That friend of mine is broadcasting live from Garage 6 and sending random updates here.

A friend of mine here at Baylor has set up a camera that is streaming video from his house. You can check it out here.

I am at Baylor and they have locked down and deployed the flood gates.

An unnamed ESIS person and I are tracking down a TV so we can play Rock Band.

The data center has been sandbagged. I wish I had my AR with me so I could setup a checkpoint.

Also, I’ve upgraded WordPress and I am now able to update my site from the iPhone plugin.

For those of you who are worried, Terri and I are doing fine. I am on the Emergency Response Team at Baylor College of Medicine so I am unable to evacuate. I will be reporting to work tomorrow at 10:00 am and I will ride out the storm in the data center at BCM. The building is hardened and we have supplies to last us until Monday. Terri is going to stay at the house in Pasadena. She may take the bears over to her parents house and ride the storm out there. She is waiting until the last minute to make a decision.

Our home now looks like a crack house and all of the crap is picked up from the yard. Don’t worry about that bench, it’s not going anywhere. It weighs more than my truck. We have food and water that will last us about a week. We can always eat the dogs if worse comes to worse, but I will eat my neighbors long before that.

Since hearing of the Cisco Nexus 7000 router back in January, we really wanted to get our hands on one at work. We even used the new hospital project as leverage so we could get one on-site to do some performance testing. I am told that we are the only ones in Houston to get one so naturally we did what any red-blooded network engineer would do… Read the rest of this entry »

When I returned from lunch today I had a visitor in my office.

When asked if my phone was being bugged, Telecom had no comment.

as defined by my Mac:

irony |??r?n?; ?i?rn?| noun
• the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
• a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.

If you work in or have ever travelled to the Texas Medical Center you will understand.

This Guy!!

I know I have been neglecting Glimsmack lately but it has been for a good cause. I recently returned to school at a local community college here in Pasadena. I think this is my 17th time taking college algebra. It has always been my achilles heel. It’s not that I can’t do the work. I am a Network Engineer for crying out loud, my whole career is an algebra problem. Life just seems to get in the way everytime. Not this time though, I will not let life beat me this time. I haven’t missed class or a homework assignment yet. Keep your fingers crossed.

I also started guitar lessons in January with my Uncle Michael. Tonight I found out that I actually have rhythm. I still can’t dance (except for the occasional running man) but it’s nice to know I may be able to someday……

Glimsmack isn’t the only thing being neglected, my 360 thinks I have been put in the witness protection program. I recieved “Assasin’s Creed”, “BioShock”, “Mass Effect” and “Super Mario Galaxy” for Christmas and haven’t pulled the plastic off. I haven’t even finished “Halo 3” yet.

**updated** Halo 3 is down.

I did have a little free time yesterday when my Mother came over. We hung out and watched “3:10 to Yuma“. I thoroughly enjoyed it but it reminded of my Papa. I can remember hanging out with him on Sunday’s and watching old westerns. I really do miss him.

I heard on XM that Rob Zombie is thinking about making his next film a western after seeing the remake of 3:10. I am kind of excited about that after seeing his version of “Halloween” and “The Devil’s Rejects“. I’ll never listen to “Free Bird” the same again after seeing the final scene from “The Devil’s Rejects”. Awesome.

On another note, I have only ran a few times this year. I haven’t put on my running shoes on in over a month. I don’t know what it is. I just don’t want to exercise anymore. I can’t put my finger on why yet. I haven’t gained any weight back from the 20 lbs. I lost last year but I’m afraid I might start to soon. I guess I need to quit being a little biotch and get to it…

Terri and I have been working on another project, hopefully there will be more to report on that at a later date.

My new favorite quote:

“Would I ever leave this company? Look, I’m all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I’m being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most.”

– Dwight Schrute from “The Office” –

This is a friend of mine from work showing his true colors. Serious skills at 2:27.

After seeing the video we had to do this to his cubicle.