Well, yesterday was my first day back from my vacation, and WOW (as in whoa, or holy crap). It was busier than I would have expected. We had a record sales day and I am sore from it. Try going from doing absolutely nothing for a week and a half, to building out over 50 servers (over half that in 3 hours).
This week is going to be short for me due to taking Sunday off as part of my vacation, however, I think you could call yesterday a double day.
I will be off from work until the 9th of December, which means that I will not be back in the office until the Monday after this Monday (December 3rd). This is a much needed vacation. The parents are out of town, so I will be watching over the place. Things have been booming at work, and it’s time to just relax and get things done as well as do some stuff that I’ve been needing to get around to.
I have several small projects to slowly get done in the next week (things that aren’t really that important, but would like to get to), and some hardcore relaxing. If you have the need to get a hold of me, go through the basic means of contacting me through email and or phone (if you have that).
Alright, before I state why I love this song, I do have to say this: I don’t remember where I found this song, but if it offends you that I have it on my website, and you have proof that you own rights to this song, I will remove it - until then…
I found this awesome song called “Code Monkey”! It SO explains my true being (haha). I see myself as 50% code monkey, 50% programmer. My theory is, if someone has shared with the community on how to do something, and I can implement it into my home-grown code, then more power to me. I am, currently, a Data Center Technician at The Planet, so I do alot of SysAdmin work, but I do find myself more than “once and awhile” doing alot of programming. I tend to use PHP, mySQL (which isn’t programming, but is utilized within the other programming languages - usually PHP), JavaScript, and AJAX (I wouldn’t really call this a programming language - its merely just a few languages combined to create a nice technique); just to name a few. I go through alot of debugging and fixing this bug and adding this feature; trully an ongoing process.
Programming isn’t everything, there’s also the occassional markup, such as XHTML and CSS work I do. When I am referred, I also am hired to do side-projects for web-related projects.
Getting to the point - every programmer - ahem - code monkey - can relate to this song. So, whoever actually wrote and performed this song, BIG PROPS!
Update: This song is by Jonathan Coulton, per a Google search. Awesome stuff!