Labor of Love

January 4th, 2008

Wow, I unloaded 6 towers at the house the day before yesterday, then another one yesterday.  that makes a total of 8 on the bench.  Kind of a personal (professional) record.  The coolest thing is, I really love this stuff!  Making older hardware work.  Getting the best performance out of the hardware.  Setting up windows so it is easy and productive.  Getting the most information out of each and every window and application.  For some unknown reason, default settings in windows xp are not that way.  So I go into every installation and tweak settings.  I once wrote down all the things I did to a new install and it took up a page and a half!  The response I’ve gotten for this has been clearly positive.  Everyone seems to appreciate the steps I take to make things go more smoothly when on the job or at home.  Lately, I have been putting Ubuntu Linux on older hardware.  That’s pretty fun too!  It runs great on older hardware, stuff that windows struggles with. Not like linux installs of old, this version actually sees all the hardware and installs it almost automatically!  Comes with some great free applications too.

Getting ready to go to San Diego for a crane job.  This is the last time we will move this tower crane on this jobsite.  There has been a crane there for about 9 years, hopping it from one building to the next about every six months.  This is the last building.  In about another six months, we will take it down and truck it away.  Not a bad rental contract.  Wonder how many cranes they could have bought outright for that money.  Good thing it isn’t my job to decide those things for them.  I might have gone a different way. Of course the first crane on the job was burned down a long time ago by a bunch of eco-terrorists so that may throw the money out of whack a little bit. 

Still twittering and there are some good pictures of heights on my flickr page. There are a couple of Hannah Pictures up there too, aint she cute?

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