Well, I didn’t spend all of my time in Tyler like originally planned. I got sick on the road near Ft. Worth and my grandparents came and picked me up. I stayed at their house yesterday and my parents met them in Lufkin to pick me up and now they want me to go to a doctor here in town even though I’m feeling better so I’ll probably go and get checked out, again.

I am leaving for home tomorrow. I will be in Tyler until Sunday and then in Sugar Land till around the 7th of August. I am not sure if I will be doing much updating but if you need to reach me you can e-mail me or call me. My e-mail address (for those who don’t know) is ssegraves [at] alltel dot net.

The doctor’s appointment went ok, he says that my headaches are tension headaches from stress and not enough sleep, that mixed with allergies have made them really bad. Basically he told me that I needed to take more vitamin C with my regular vitamins and drink a ton of water.

So that’s good news…

I am feeling a lot better today but I am still going to go to the doctor today (finally got an appointment). I am still feeling a little like my head is a balloon but that’s about it.

I leave Friday to head back to Sugar Land. I’ll probably leave town around 8am and head to Arlington to have lunch with a friend and then down to Tyler to see my grandparents. My plan is to stay with them for a couple of days and then head south to Sugar Land. Then I’ll be in Sugar Land for a little over a week before driving back up here to move into my new place.

If you are in town when I come home give me a call, we’ll hangout.

Well, I had planned to go to the doctor today but every number that I had written down from my healthcare provider’s website went to either a non-working number or the wrong doctor’s office. So it looks as though I will be trying again tomorrow.

My flu symptoms have for the most part gone away. Now I am stuck with really, really bad headaches and pressure behind my right eye. From talking to people it sounds like maybe a sinus infection, which with my ear somewhat starting to hurt, makes sense. I am going to try and get some good rest tonight because I am really needed at work to finish up a couple of projects before I head home and move out of this apartment!

In other news, Apple announced the new versions of their iPod. They have taken a lot of features from the iPod Mini but still left the functionality of the iPod there. I am glad that I have delayed my buying of one…

I’ve been feeling very weird the last few days and last night I was at my worst. I am guessing that it’s the flu but I am going to the doctor tomorrow just to get it checked out and make sure it isn’t anything else.

I think my plan for today is to veg out and sleep and drink a lot of fluids. Since it rained last night (and looks like it will rain more today) it’s just one of those days to sit around and do nothing.

Replaced the spark plugs and wires in my truck yesterday. One of the plugs we found was completely burnt out and was probably barely firing. The truck is now firing pretty well and it seems to have a little more bounce to its step.

PHP version 5 was released earlier this evening. Now the challenge lays ahead to get it installed on as many webservers as possible =)

I have almost completely finished the archiving feature that I have been working on for a while now. It should be up and running by tonight or tomorrow. My next goal is to do a redesign of the database structure and see if I can tweak to fit my needs a little more.

I am dissappointed because my host does not allow InnoDB table types and I don’t want to use PostgreSQL to do my work. Why InnoDB you ask? I want to be able to use true foreign keys to cascade a table when a record is deleted in another. With MyISAM I have to manage the deletion of records through PHP which is cumbersome and from a systems design point of view, flat out wrong.

Well, the truck is fixed and quiet frankly I think it was something that I could have done myself (or had someone else do) for a lot cheaper. The cost for the work was 3x the cost of the part. Kind of depressing isn’t it?

Tonight I am compiling a list of candidates for work PC’s to take in tomorrow so that my bosses can make a decision. My budget is $2,000 and they would really like a nice monitor that would last a long time. If you have any suggestions for a programming machine, e-mail me at ssegraves [at] gmail dot com.

Driving to the store on Saturday I noticed that the shifting mechanism did not line up with the gear that the transmission was in. So when it looked like the truck was in reverse it was really parked. I had this problem fixed not too long ago (February to be exact) and I took it back to the people who did the work originally, Gene Messer Ford.

While I was waiting on them to fill out some paperwork I had 3 different employees give me suggestions on other service I could do to my truck from an oil change to an injection cleaning. When they said I needed an oil change I just gave him a funny look and said “I just changed it about 2 months ago” so he proceeded to show me the color of the oil in my truck, it was brown. He showed me a sample of what it should look like, clear. Uhh, I don’t know what kind of car this guy was driving but I don’t know of any oil in any ones car that’s clear.

Stop trying to sell me stuff I don’t really need and just fix my car. It’s that simple.