Jake’s Life

This entire week was weird. I’m sorry, I thought it was April, but evidently Mother Nature had different ideas for our Spring in the Northwest.

Complete with winds which knocked trees down into roads and parked vehicles.

I was getting into my work car the other night and forgot my bluetooth headset was in my lap. It ended up in the storm drain.

Gas prices are also pretty ridiculous right now. Thank god we have fleet fuel cards at work.

Taser arc, just for fun.

This weekend was weird, too. I was off work at 0200 Monday morning and slept from about four until noon, then again from one to nine. Back to sleep at two, then up at ten, back to sleep at one, then up at six. I got way too much sleep, which explains why I’m up so early for work today. If I didn’t have things to do I would run to work early and take my patrol car to the car wash and detail it out (it was just assigned to me and still…has the last person in it).

Yesterday I had a killer headache, so I popped half a Percocet (which, by the way, was prescribed to me for headaches when I had shingles…which I still have but that’s another story) and napped. Sandro came over and brought “headache medicine” for me.

We ran a few quick errands to get dinner, pick up something from my work (where he met one of my more attractive co-workers and confirmed my suspicion that he would find him pleasant to look at), and then came home, cooked dinner, had a few drinks, then made babies. Well, tried to anyways.

I got the schedule I wanted at work, which is 7pm to 3am. This leaves me enough time during the day to run errands and spend time with Sandro during the week, and allows me to unwind after work for a while and still get to sleep before it’s light out, which makes it really tough to sleep. I was also put in charge of vehicle maintenance supervision, so that allows me some flexible overtime in overseeing their condition and repairs during the week or one my days off.

I’ve been working on this for a few weeks now and it’s coming along quite nicely. It’s an application for field deployment in all of our patrol vehicles which allow officers to access and store information on subjects, vehicles, locations, special details, and monitor others’ activities in real time. It also integrates state court records and open county warrants. What’s great is that it’s not a generic public safety solution, instead it’s custom tailored to our specific needs right down to being able to chose themes based on where you are viewing it (for example, dark colors for use at night in the patrol vehicles and light colors for reading in the office).

[I will for the record state that it is in no way devised from reverse engineering my previous employer's similar system, which is archaic in comparison. Instead it is built from the ground up so-to-speak (and ten times better I might add).]

Sveet, ja?

Cue inspiration, please…

Work is going great, I’m pretty busy usually. I still get phone calls from people at the old place of employment with new rumors about me. It’s nice to know they realize how valuable I am to them, and how much they still need me.

It’s now been a year since I bought my 2007 Scion tC. Almost 11,000 miles in and I still love it.

I remember the day–minute actually–that I drove it right out of the showroom.

Amazingly enough, the only thing wrong with it is where I let an air freshener sit without thinking that it would corrode the paint away.

I recently bought a portable navigation system too.

Just in case you were wondering…I like the navy blue way more than the green and tan!

Took an hour or two to clean out my car today, give him a good wash, vacuum, and polish!

Nick e-mailed me today and copied me on some PHP errors he got while commenting on my posts today. One had to do with SpamBam, the other was a general database error. I recently upgraded Wordpress to version 2.5, so that ay have something to do with it.

I tried to duplicate the error in Internet Explorer (not that you would use such browser, Nick), Firefox, and Safari for Windows. I also tried on the Blackberry browser and Opera Mini 4.1. Is anyone else experiencing any errors while commenting or browsing my site?

Season Four, the final season, starts tomorrow night. I’ve tried to follow over the last few years but the series has been so many places it’s hard to. Sci Fi Channel put together an 8 minute clip that catches you up through the first three season.

http://www.scifi.com/index.php?clip=frak