Man it has been a while
I have not blogged about anything in a few months. I don’t think that many people visit this place on the web that much any more either. It is all good though. Site stays up and information is here for people to get to.
Work is going really well at the new-ish job. I have been here almost a year; so it is really not that new. Glass has been going really well. It has been keeping me busy. I need to focus more, though the full time job still causes me to take more breaks from glass than I would like. I just have to get some down time, and I don’t want glass to feel like a job — though I really kinda is.
I do post a great deal on Twitter. I post a good number of images from my glass on Tumblr. I also have a Facebook that you can add me and I will gladly accept; same thing goes for my G+. The last thing that I have really been working on is my Etsy Shop.
I’m working on getting the shop torn down and a slightly larger shop built in its place. Really I’m looking for double the space, but I do not think that I will get that much without cutting down trees. I’m not really fond of cutting down the trees, so I do not think that will happen.
Sorry not really any great updates. Life has just been churning for me. Not really stagnant but not really moving; far as I can tell. I will be doing another benefit, however, where I will be selling and blowing glass. I believe it will be in downtown Atlanta next month sometime. I will try to post it up here when I get more details.
peace
No McDonald’s For a Year
I have not had McDonald’s for almost a year. I started some time in January just not eating there any more; mostly do to loosing weight. I’m happy to say that for almost a year now I have not stepped into the place. I have cut almost all fast food out of my diet.
It occurred to me that I might like eating at local, privately own business. The price of McDonald’s is about the cost of a hot meal that is made of real food. I don’t consider McDonald’s really food, mostly because it the amount of processing the food under goes. So for $2 more, I get a really good meal and it is well worth it.
Now that I’m no longer smoking, and I’m no longer putting the processed food that I used to put in my body, I’m starting to feel much healthier. It is good to put good fuel into a working body.
So good-bye McDonald’s. May I never put your poison to my lips again.
FreeRadius error and Correction
This is going to be really simple, sweet, and short.
After getting Ubuntu up and running and following the directions in the HowTo from freeradius.org, I found myself with an error that wouldn’t allow me to authenticate.
Exec-Program output: winbind client not authorized to use winbindd_pam_auth_crap. Ensure permissions on /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged are set correctly. (0xc0000022)
Exec-Program-Wait: plaintext: winbind client not authorized to use winbindd_pam_auth_crap. Ensure permissions on /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged are set correctly. (0xc0000022)
This is a really easy fix, but it took me a long time to find it the first time. I thought that I would put it here to help others that are searching for the solution.
Edit the /etc/group file, you will need root permissions. Search for winbindd_priv. When you find the group name you will need to go to the end of the line and add the user freerad. you line should look like:
winbindd_priv:x:###:freerad
So if you are running Ubuntu Server and trying to set up FreeRadius to authenticate against Active Directory you could run into the above error. All you need to do is add the freeradiud user (freerad) to the winbindd_priv group.
Test you Radius Config here.
The Capitol Cannabis Reform Jam 2011-ATLANTA, GA
There are a great number of things that have taken our freedoms away from us and will either fine or jail us because we subject ourselves to the punishment of others.
The time has come for me to take a stand with others. It is time for me to show support for what I believe in.
If you believe in freedom and want to help protect the rights of others please show your support by showing up.
Google Plus Fail
I joined Google Plus a while back. I wanted to jump on and test out the service. I really like the service offering as I do with most Google products. Today is a little different. Today I have had a change of heart about offerings from Google and it makes me a little sad and pissed at the same time.
This is what I posted on Google Plus and I also sent it in feedback form.
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Playing Discgolf
I know, I know, I don’t write on here very much. Life has changed a great deal and I’m enjoying it. I really enjoy the fact that I have better things to do besides sitting on a computer 24×7.
I stated playing discgolf after a friend of mine got me involved. My first time out I really only played with 2 disc and then I bought 3. I had such a great time hanging out with friends and getting exercise, that I figured it would be worth the investment into disc.
If you like golf, but don’t like the fact that it is a very proper sport then you will really like this sport. Instead of saying, “That was a good shot Jim.” You can say things like, “Fuck yeah man. That was a sick ass shot!” or “That was just a nasty shot. How the fuck do you do that?” and then give some high fives and shit. You don’t have to be a smug prick about the game.
So I thought that I would toss up some pics of me playing discgolf. Let me know what you think.
Recipe for a good time
You will need:
A car load of friends (more car loads the better)
A concert (more bands the better)
Mix the friends in with the crowd at the concerts and enjoy.
I went to the 311 & Sublime with Rome this past weekend. It was a great time with some great friends.
We got to the show early so we hung out in one lot and had a few beers. Then we moved to a lot that had an entrance into to the amply theater. We drank a few more beers in the lot and hung out for a good bit of time.
Into the show we go!
The energy of the show was great. Sublime with Rome was good, but could have had a better stage presents. 311 rocked the house and put on a great show. Over all the music was great.
peace.
#HR2306 – Ending Prohibition on Marijuana
Back in 1937 the US Federal Government made Marijuana illegal. It is hard to think of what life would be like with out these laws. I was born in 1979 and the “War on Drugs” had already been declared by Nixon. So I really have no idea what life was like before police started busting in doors and shooting people.
Life is Good Again
I really just wanted to update that the new job is working out swimmingly. I don’t have an office any more, but the cubes here I can see over and they don’t have yellow walls. Everything seems a lot more open. You even get treated like an adult here.
People have already seen an improvement in my attitude, which to me is a good thing. Personally I like that fact that I’m not an angry person any more. Being an angry person really fuels itself at times as well. Now the main fuel is gone, and I am not contributing to it either.
I really just wanted to give an update about the job. I’m still blowing glass and working on getting better there. I will get more things posted up when I do more playing around instead of production work.
Looking out for #1
It is tough to swallow what you preach about all of the time. At times you will be at a road where you really have to worry about #1 more than you can worry about anything else.
Who is #1? Well that is yourself. Yourself will always be #1 and everything else you can put a priority on. You must, however, keep yourself as #1.
I have stressed as much about my current job as I’m going too. I’m done with it and I’m looking for something else. It is time that I think about myself more than I think about how much “job security” I think that I have at my current position. Leaving this company isn’t going to make or break it. I’m just a number, an expense if you will, to my current employer.
I have never said, that I can recall, whom I currently work for. I’m not going to start now. I’m not in the process of saying things about companies I work for publicly. I’m not going to start speaking ill of a company now.
It has been a great place to work for. I wish I would have matured more than I have for the 7 years that I have been here, I can’t discredit that I have learned a great deal. This knowledge is helping me get a new employer.
If all goes well, I will have a new employer in a few weeks. I hope that this solves the stress issue that I have been having. It seems that it all ties back into work, and I just want to relax and live.
I’m currently human. No, I do not know if I have another form. This is just what the general populous around me calls themselves that share the same type of form. There is not much to it other than that.
Life is a conundrum; a predicament that one can only escape though death, but not exist after outside of hope.