Labor Day Weekend

Summer is finally over, so far this labor weekend, we went to our friends house in Calvert county last night we all ate, the kids played, and us adults played Phase 10, I lost horribely. Today the In-laws are over, and I'm cooking on the grills, I have started the charcoal to put on my Weber and Thermos kettle grills, to cook the hamburgers, hot dog, and corn on the cob. I may have to start the Weber gas grill to finish cooking the corn don't know yet I don't think 22.5 inches on a kettle grill will be enough room, but we will see. Everyone have a safe and happy Labor Day.

Oh boy what a day

Part 1: Registering for classess and MD DPSCS

I hate taking classes, I'm trying to take IFSM 461 System Analysis and Design at UMUC, as one of my electives for my Database Management Certificate, and I had problems registering due to the fact the class has a prerequisite of IFSM 300. With this the school wouldn't register the class, but after talking to 3 different people and explaining that I took IFSM 410, which require IFSM 300, without any problems I was finally able to take it. That was my biggest hassle today, and tomorrow isn't shaping up to be any better.

Tomorrow I have to a major software problem at Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Their IT staff, the bunch of idiots and don't get me started on them, renamed and change the ip address of a MS SQL server, which cause my company's case management software not to work. The fix is easy I just have to delete the database settings and rerun the setup and point to the new ip address. This is a major hassle I'll be there for a few hours fixing this.

Part 2 Laptop issues

My laptop decided to crash again today, so this is the 3rd reinstall since I applied the A12 bios to run the CPU fan all the time on my Dell XPS M1330 laptop, to help the defective Nvidia Moblie 8400 GPU. I'm getting tired of reinstalling, hopefully this will be the last reinstall for a while (I seriously doubt it). Took me all day to reinstall, but on plus is I install Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and I actually enjoy it, I still like Safari and Mozilla 3, but if IE8 can almost pass the Acid 3 test when the RTM comes out in a few months I might have to ditch Safari and Mozilla.

Testing sms again

Facebook

I started a Facebook account, I kinda like it. It's something different to do. Still I won't give up blogging, since it's easier for me to do, with my cell phone. Need to look at Facebook apps for my HTC Mogul phone from Sprint.

Chilling on a sunday

Helping the wife get some house work done today, not much else going on. I signed up for two college classes at UMUC, IFSM 420 Advance Database Concepts, and IFSM 461, Systems Analysis and Design. The later of the two will be a little hard, since I took the class before and had to drop it since the professor was actually awful. Go here to see her rating at Ratemyprofessor.com, http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=544243. Also, today I did start a Facebook account, search for Eric Strauss, Pasadena MD. Maybe I'll watch some Premiership soccer on Fox Soccer Channel, in a bit.

Ipod screen cracked LCD

Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone.

Checkpoint CCSA/CCSE Training.

Sorry for the lack of entries, but I have been at training all this week in Northern VA. I have a one hour commute from my house to New Carrolton Metro Station, and then another hour commute to Ballston Metro station where the Global Knowledge training center is. The instructor is great, he really know the material, but is funny as heck. Going to miss the class, but I won't miss the commute.