January 2008
Some spicy pics!
Fri, 2008-01-25 16:00 | by Erin
So I have been slowly but surely working on a new website for my Aunt and Uncle. They have sold herbs in New York for some 30 years. They have a large variety of products but for starters we paired it down to their best selling 12.
After a little address fiasco this summer I received 3 sample sets of herbs. I began working on their site and got about this far.
http://frogpark.hugedesigns.net
Which is a vast improvement over http://frogparkherbs.com but then I found that the new version of zen-cart has a built in API for accepting credit cards through Pay-Pal. So now I am setting up a virtual server to handle this site and another e-commerce site.
I haven't added any of the original content to it yet but it will live at frogparkherbs.hugedesigns.net until we can transfer the domain.
None of this is very exciting. One of my goals of getting the 3 sample sets was to photograph the spices so the site would show exactly what your getting. That's done.
After a little address fiasco this summer I received 3 sample sets of herbs. I began working on their site and got about this far.
http://frogpark.hugedesigns.net
Which is a vast improvement over http://frogparkherbs.com but then I found that the new version of zen-cart has a built in API for accepting credit cards through Pay-Pal. So now I am setting up a virtual server to handle this site and another e-commerce site.
I haven't added any of the original content to it yet but it will live at frogparkherbs.hugedesigns.net until we can transfer the domain.
None of this is very exciting. One of my goals of getting the 3 sample sets was to photograph the spices so the site would show exactly what your getting. That's done.
That is gonna leave a mark......
Wed, 2008-01-23 18:15 | by Erin
.........on our record that is.
We had our first match of the year Sunday Tokyo Gaijin vs Kogeni Green. In the final match of the Shuto League where win loose or draw we were the champs as long as we just showed up. That is pretty much what happened. We just showed up.
I had my usual pre game jitters and did not feel good till we started warming up. As things started to kick in I was fine but didn't have my normal fire and intensity. I am pretty a low key player. But this game I kept having to check my pulse to see if I was alive.
Seriously the game started out so so, then went to great finally we just nose dived in the final minutes.
On the Giajin team I have always thought our set pieces were particularly strong but not this time. The Kogeni scrum was strong, by far the strongest we had been up against all of the Shuto league. A normal Gaijin scrum involves us steam rolling our opposition with good tight technique or pure brute strength, or a combination of both.
Kogeni owned us on more than one occasion when I was on the field and when I was off others felt their wrath. They stood our front row straight up and crumpled our back tight 5. They were big fat fast Japanese guys.
In our line outs... I just can not describe it Murray is a awesome jumper and was being hefted by 2 strong guys Rob and Garret but he was getting beaten to the ball more times than not.
We had our first match of the year Sunday Tokyo Gaijin vs Kogeni Green. In the final match of the Shuto League where win loose or draw we were the champs as long as we just showed up. That is pretty much what happened. We just showed up.
I had my usual pre game jitters and did not feel good till we started warming up. As things started to kick in I was fine but didn't have my normal fire and intensity. I am pretty a low key player. But this game I kept having to check my pulse to see if I was alive.
Seriously the game started out so so, then went to great finally we just nose dived in the final minutes.
On the Giajin team I have always thought our set pieces were particularly strong but not this time. The Kogeni scrum was strong, by far the strongest we had been up against all of the Shuto league. A normal Gaijin scrum involves us steam rolling our opposition with good tight technique or pure brute strength, or a combination of both.
Kogeni owned us on more than one occasion when I was on the field and when I was off others felt their wrath. They stood our front row straight up and crumpled our back tight 5. They were big fat fast Japanese guys.
In our line outs... I just can not describe it Murray is a awesome jumper and was being hefted by 2 strong guys Rob and Garret but he was getting beaten to the ball more times than not.
Pay Attention
Wed, 2008-01-23 16:54 | by Erin
Some times I am not paying attention. I knew that on one server I had there was a database. What database it was I never bothered to check into. If I had I probably would not have spent all night last night working on it.
About 2pm I got a mail saying a disc in this server was critical. I looked at it in our reporting system and thought "Augh it was just one error..." I cleared the error and went back about my day. A hour later I noticed that the error was back and the rate at which the errors where being reported was increasing quickly..... the hard disc was dying.
I looked up the model and info for the server and went to the data center to repair it. I was in luck because the server had easy to remove (Hot Swapable) 36gb discs. I rsynced the data off shut down the dbs, did a final rsync, unmounted the disc pulled the old one out. I put the new one in formated it, newfs'ed it and mounted it. Finally I rsynced the data back and started the DBs up and it was up and running.
Sounds simple right but with 20 something gigs of data the inital rsyncs took almost a hour and 1/2 each. I love technology.
Anyways todays plan .... get a list of all the DBs there locations and see which ones need to be moved to more redundant discs.... so I do not have to go through that again.
About 2pm I got a mail saying a disc in this server was critical. I looked at it in our reporting system and thought "Augh it was just one error..." I cleared the error and went back about my day. A hour later I noticed that the error was back and the rate at which the errors where being reported was increasing quickly..... the hard disc was dying.
I looked up the model and info for the server and went to the data center to repair it. I was in luck because the server had easy to remove (Hot Swapable) 36gb discs. I rsynced the data off shut down the dbs, did a final rsync, unmounted the disc pulled the old one out. I put the new one in formated it, newfs'ed it and mounted it. Finally I rsynced the data back and started the DBs up and it was up and running.
Sounds simple right but with 20 something gigs of data the inital rsyncs took almost a hour and 1/2 each. I love technology.
Anyways todays plan .... get a list of all the DBs there locations and see which ones need to be moved to more redundant discs.... so I do not have to go through that again.
Yuki-dariman
Wed, 2008-01-23 16:38 | by ErinIt has been brutally cold here in Tokyo the past couple of days, but it had not snowed. It rarely snows here so when it does to me it is kind of a treat. It reminds me of home.
I woke up early yesterday and did my normal exercises and also did some wind sprints. I noticed that on the top of Satomi's car was a thin layer of snow and now that the sun was up it was starting to melt.
I finished my run and made a little snow man. Eric was pretty pleased he thought it was great Even though he doesn't show it here.
E./
Yuki-dariman
Wed, 2008-01-23 16:38 | by ErinIt has been brutally cold here in Tokyo the past couple of days, but it had not snowed. It rarely snows here so when it does to me it is kind of a treat. It reminds me of home.
I woke up early yesterday and did my normal exercises and also did some wind sprints. I noticed that on the top of Satomi's car was a thin layer of snow and now that the sun was up it was starting to melt.
I finished my run and made a little snow man. Eric was pretty pleased he thought it was great Even though he doesn't show it here.
E./
First practice of the year!
Mon, 2008-01-14 12:00 | by Erin
So we had our first practice of the year and it was tough. I have been running a bit and doing my normal calisthenics, that mixed with not drinking have been good and I felt good going into it.
Al had other things in mind, and my legs and back are feeling them right now.
I was late as were others but as soon as practice kicked off we started with some complex fitness drills and I wished Al would have mailed out a training plan during the week. Then I could have at least faked having a clue.
Training went on and we did a couple of new drills we had not tried. The one I especially like was 2 defenders against 3 attackers. A twist I would add or kinda change is make every one do it 30 times and after 10 go from touch to smother, the after 20, all willing go from smother to full tackle.
That was kinda the idea but I wasn't ready and Dan 120 KG English bull steamrolled me. I saw him coming but didn't think he was moving that fast. My mistake and as I flew through the air I realized I was.
After practice we sat down for some Chinese and talked about the upcoming tour to Manila and recent Christmas party. We also discussed the upcoming YCAC match that is sure to be a test.
Finally the one thing everyone agreed that one point the team needs to work on is substitutions. Not putting green guys like yours truly in without some one to shadow. It has been a long term problem that we all know the answer too we need a good steady sideline coach who it there all the time and knows who is who and what the players skill sets are.
Al had other things in mind, and my legs and back are feeling them right now.
I was late as were others but as soon as practice kicked off we started with some complex fitness drills and I wished Al would have mailed out a training plan during the week. Then I could have at least faked having a clue.
Training went on and we did a couple of new drills we had not tried. The one I especially like was 2 defenders against 3 attackers. A twist I would add or kinda change is make every one do it 30 times and after 10 go from touch to smother, the after 20, all willing go from smother to full tackle.
That was kinda the idea but I wasn't ready and Dan 120 KG English bull steamrolled me. I saw him coming but didn't think he was moving that fast. My mistake and as I flew through the air I realized I was.
After practice we sat down for some Chinese and talked about the upcoming tour to Manila and recent Christmas party. We also discussed the upcoming YCAC match that is sure to be a test.
Finally the one thing everyone agreed that one point the team needs to work on is substitutions. Not putting green guys like yours truly in without some one to shadow. It has been a long term problem that we all know the answer too we need a good steady sideline coach who it there all the time and knows who is who and what the players skill sets are.
YCAC-2008
Tue, 2008-01-08 12:00 | by Erin
Friday (2008-01-08 ya I am a little behind) I got a call from Joe Fisher The Tokyo Gaijin coach who plays for YCAC during the winter. Joe and I run in very different circles even though we play for the same team so I was surprised he was calling me. He asked me to come out and play for his team on Sunday cause they were short of numbers.
I was a little shocked. He must really be in a pinch to call me. I accepted and it turned out I got a full game out of it.
When I got to the YCAC facility on Sunday I was a little amazed at the place. in the middle of Yokohama was a full size pitch with a decent amount of grass. On top of that there was a locker room with showers and a hot tub, a club house with food and beer. WOW not some thing you see every day in Japan. For guys who play rugby all their life I am sure that they have seen a couple of nice places like this but I hadn't.
We warmed up and Joe introduced me to everyone and we ran through a couple of line out drills and a few other things.
The game started and it was ON. Most of the guys for YCAC looked to be about my age but heavier so I was a little surprised when they all started moving pretty quick. I am not a great player, but I think in this game I did particularly well especially in the first half.
A couple of highlights where when I dropped a kick off return but immediately jumped on it to not allow a turn over. I ran a kick return and fell down like a sissy soccer player when some one tapped my ankle.
I was a little shocked. He must really be in a pinch to call me. I accepted and it turned out I got a full game out of it.
When I got to the YCAC facility on Sunday I was a little amazed at the place. in the middle of Yokohama was a full size pitch with a decent amount of grass. On top of that there was a locker room with showers and a hot tub, a club house with food and beer. WOW not some thing you see every day in Japan. For guys who play rugby all their life I am sure that they have seen a couple of nice places like this but I hadn't.
We warmed up and Joe introduced me to everyone and we ran through a couple of line out drills and a few other things.
The game started and it was ON. Most of the guys for YCAC looked to be about my age but heavier so I was a little surprised when they all started moving pretty quick. I am not a great player, but I think in this game I did particularly well especially in the first half.
A couple of highlights where when I dropped a kick off return but immediately jumped on it to not allow a turn over. I ran a kick return and fell down like a sissy soccer player when some one tapped my ankle.
2007 Year in Review
Tue, 2008-01-01 23:42 | by Erin
Man I am glad this year is over. There was some good stuff, some bad stuff and some truly horrible stuff.
Eric and Satomi moved from Gotemba to Tokyo into a big house where we all live together. This is probably my first memory of the year. I can only say that it hasn't been easy. Eric is as wild as I was at 6 and he doesn't have a brother or sister to play with so after a hard day of work he can be quite difficult to deal with. Satomi also has a... different idea about what she wants out of life in Tokyo. It mostly seems to involve watching more TV. Either way we are sorting it out and things seem to be getting better.
Around the same time I heard my mom was sick and Eric and I went back to see her. They told me she was sick but getting better. When I arrived I saw that they had been lieing to me. She looked horrible. I was upset but there was nothing I could do. I new she was in pretty horrible position so I did what I could while I was there to make her feel better. I tried to read one of her books to her, but it was a little too steamy for me to be reading to my mom.
The trip for Eric was really bad. There was other stuff going on and he was not the normal center of attention that he usually is. I can understand that getting dragged around in the back of a car to and from the hospital is not the funnest thing for a 5 year old, so I tried to cut him as much slack as my patience would allow.
Eric and Satomi moved from Gotemba to Tokyo into a big house where we all live together. This is probably my first memory of the year. I can only say that it hasn't been easy. Eric is as wild as I was at 6 and he doesn't have a brother or sister to play with so after a hard day of work he can be quite difficult to deal with. Satomi also has a... different idea about what she wants out of life in Tokyo. It mostly seems to involve watching more TV. Either way we are sorting it out and things seem to be getting better.
Around the same time I heard my mom was sick and Eric and I went back to see her. They told me she was sick but getting better. When I arrived I saw that they had been lieing to me. She looked horrible. I was upset but there was nothing I could do. I new she was in pretty horrible position so I did what I could while I was there to make her feel better. I tried to read one of her books to her, but it was a little too steamy for me to be reading to my mom.
The trip for Eric was really bad. There was other stuff going on and he was not the normal center of attention that he usually is. I can understand that getting dragged around in the back of a car to and from the hospital is not the funnest thing for a 5 year old, so I tried to cut him as much slack as my patience would allow.