Archigos' Life

*What I’m Watching or Listening to Now*
Mel Brooks Marathon – Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein

*Random Question* OR *Random Quote*
Preston Preston: “It’s all his fault… Albert Einstein, what kind of name is that for a scientist!”
From Yahoo Serious’ “Young Einstein” (1988)

*Dates* – B = Birthday; E = Event; W = Weekend; X = Closed

The Relay for Life was as expected this year and I got to catch up with some friends and fellow Cancer survivors. Sadly our team didn’t receive too many donations this year, so for the time being I removed the donation box from the site as I think of new ways to attempt this for next year. I was going to take some pictures at the event and post them here but I know some of the people prefer not to have their pictures taken, especially people who are still going through treatment and I wanted to respect their wishes. I have another event I’m going to soon and will attempt to get photos there to make up for it. Sadly, the butt load of Ibuprofen I took before the event didn’t last long so I was in massive pain for the last hour or two I was there, but I completed my six laps as promised before heading home. They attempted a new “Poker Run” style lap to see how the people would like it and I managed a pair of Queens, so I got my ass kicked on that one (didn’t stay for the results).

*College*
If everything goes well, I should be returning the end of August to finish up my degree and offer my sincere apologizes to Lisa and my other advisers for all the issues caused.

*Work*
See new “Dates” area for a few details of office closings.
Added two new domains into ‘the family’ in regards to a few projects that we have started and did some updates/maintenance to a few of the sub domains. Soon we’ll be adding at least two more repo’s to GitHub for projects in regards to HTPC automation and a simplistic image gallery (for showing off HTPC Library).

*Medical*
Obviously my fault, but I ‘over did it’ at the Relay for Life and my back is killing me, plus my left arm due to the way I have to walk with my cane (so my upper shoulder and my wrist/palm). I have a meeting next week to see if a new doctor would be willing to work with me and see what, if any of my complications can be resolved or lessened. I’m still searching for a ‘replacement’ psychiatrist (a.k.a. non professional that will just listen to me bitch and moan without judgment).

*Gadgets*
XBMC: Since running the Nightly installs (‘Eden’, pre-11.0) upgrade Dharma’s (10.1) Sqlite3 database (meaning you can’t downgrade) I have to figure out how I managed to bork the TV side of the Video database when I installed the July 7th Nightly. Granted, the database was the least of my problems with that version and the following 3 or 4 that I tried after, since they all made XBMC crash so damn frequent that if I wasn’t such a diehard fan I would have bailed on the entire app and tried something new. Since MediaPortal and a few others I’ve tried in the past didn’t work the way I wanted I gave the 07/10 Nightly a few days of pissing me off before trying a new one. Everything was back to great with the 07/12 and on… although the vid-database is still screwed I’m going to just deal with it until I finish with the remaining re-prep I’ve been doing on the structure. Once the restructure is done I’m going to do a complete overhaul on the server and create a step-by-step guide for many of the HTPC related pieces of software and post guides here (probably create a dedicated page for them).

*The Vote*
I know I don’t have many readers of this site, so it’d be stupid for me to assume I did much to help, but the vote I mentioned in the last post currently has Maria in first place (with 30.68% of the votes). I’m not even sure when the voting is over since I can’t read the Russian and Oleg hasn’t been around too much lately to translate for me. Anyway, for those readers that did vote, thank you.