Yep. You know it. And for the third year in a row, I can honestly say my birthday sucked. I had to work… it was just like any other day. At least there’s hope for 21, which as of this writing is 358 days away and is the last one to have any meaning in life. I’ve had several offers to be taken out and get plastered. I… think I’ll pass. I feel old, too. It’s like a mid-life crisis at quarter-life. If I feel this old now, just imagine how bad it’ll be once I hit 40. Forget this. I’m having a party for my 21st birthday. The planning starts now!

I’m just going to touch on this briefly because I’m not a really mushy/emotional/sentimental guy and I don’t want to come across as such. HOWEVER… I got a text message from Nick at 2:39 PM on Friday that kinda hit hard.

Tim Russert is dead.

Russert was the best of the best, and he died while doing what he loved. This shouldn’t have been his time to go but he was probably in the best place to do so–surrounded by friends and colleagues who have been touched by his hard work all these years. Such a shame he was so excited about this election year. Barack Obama should dedicate his victory speech on November 4 to Mr. Russert’s memory. Hint hint. Okay, that’s my human segment. Onward!

I’m currently in the middle of yet another server migration. Our exodus to the Alphatek NOC here in Owensboro is bringing in a lot of new and exciting things. We have all our hosting accounts moved to two servers there, and our only dedicated server account is the next to be brought in. They have a dedicated server in Chicago, and I’m busy moving all their data to the new server here. When I was inevitably baffled by the fact that the server here was installing older versions of everything I had installed on the server in Chicago, I came to a shocking revelation. This new server ran CentOS 4.4. The one in Chicago? CentOS 5. I really hope this works… I’ll keep my trusty audience posted.

And finally, I’ve recently decided to make a major change in my life. It’s mainly to put a lot of things behind me and it requires me to change just about everything. Hopefully you notice once it happens. If not, you’re blind. As always, I’ll keep everyone posted.