Author: pizzaman

Lately I haven’t been doing much besides keeping the business running. There are a few things I’ve been procastrinating on like for example getting the visa for China. Few days ago we bought a smart car… wasn’t my idea, but since it’s so small and saves so much gas, I am tempted to sell the RAV4 and keep it. DId E the other day, well.. wasn’t E was more like speed. I didn’t liked it at all. Sure it gave me lots of energy and I was dancing all night, but for the next few days I was depressed and I got a cold that lasted 3 weeks or so, I’m still coughing from it.
Besides that not much is going on, I’ve made a couple of online friends. Oh, and I went karting the other day, it was freaking expensive $90 for 4 races, but it was very well setup and I won 1 race, 6th on the 2nd and 2nd on the 3rd. =) I think overall I was the best driver, although there was this guy that drove better than me but he didn’t finished one of the races.

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On the 30th of October I decided to shop for a web hosting company. Free hosting wasn’t cutting it anymore and I decided that a more serious online presence was required for my purposes. After shopping a bit around Australian web hosting companies I decided on http://ww.webcity.com.au, it seemed the cheapest company around owned by bigger company CIA http://www.cia.com.au/.

I always do research even when I buy inexpensive stuff, it’s something I enjoy doing, the knowledge of what I’m getting into, I feel empowers me. One of the main reasons I decided to go with webcity.com.au was that on their ads it said that they supported SSL and they had a shared SSL certificate that I could use, I thought this could come in handy while I was testing the SSL between google checkout and http://www.isooz.com.

Well, to be brief, the shared SSL is not working, it points to the wrong folder in their server and it’s not accessible for me. After seeing this and raising a support ticket with them without any prompt solutions just a “we’re aware of some customers experiencing some issue with the shared SSL, we’re investigating the issue and expect to have it resolved shortly.” I decided to get my own SSL certificate, problem was Webcity charged AU$29 to install it. I decided to bite the bullet, go with it and pay.

I bought the SSL certificate from http://godaddy.com, they seem to be the cheapest around in many different services and a reputable enough company. To be able to get the certificate done, I needed to provide some info from http://www.webcity.com.au to http://www.godday.com, to get this info I had to read the SSL setup online manuals from webcity. They were difficult to follow, they said that I should generate a private key and a CRT from my Cpanel, but there wasn’t that option in my webcity cpanel, I had to call customer support, and after dealing with them for a little while they reset my Cpanel to a previous version, that fixed the problem, i was able to generate my keys and CRT.

After getting the SSL certificate generated, immediately I sent all the info to webcity and in a few hours I received an email confirming that the SSL certificate was installed and that https://isooz.com was accessible, which sorta was, but it was pointing to the WRONG FOLDER. I raised another support ticket for this issue and here I am 99 hours later and counting, still waiting on this issue to get resolved.

Called today Nov 13th 2007 around 5pm, and they said it was on the top of the list to be worked on, well, nothing was done today, I guess I can always hope tomorrow they’ll do something about it. I think I’m going to start shopping for another web hosting company.

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Yay, I’m going to Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Got all the tickets to Hong Kong already, and I have very nice friend in Hong Kong whom I can visit while I’m there. Still have to work out what am I going to do to get from Hong Kong to China (Shanghai, Beijing and so on and so forth), will be a nice adventure.

Lately things have not been too happy and dandy. Went to the park to find a cache 2 days ago, but never found it. Today I went to wealthyfrog.com.au, was good, expensive. Head hurts.

I’ve been playing a bit with a new website http://www.isooz.com, I want to sell my photos there. I think it’s coming along real great. Belen was partly responsible for the idea, at first I didn’t wanted to pay hosting, you know how much I like to avoid recurrent charges, but then I thought, “what the heck”, and found a good deal. Now I have my own hosted virtual server to play with. I still need to move the main site from the beta folder, it’s still in http://www.isooz.com/beta/ and should be by now in http://www.isooz.com, also I keep referencing to it as http://isooz.com and not sure whether to keep it that way or include the www, i’ve always found the www kinda boring and useless for most people.

Lately I’ve been putting all the crap I’ve accumulated over the past few years to use. I’ve been geocaching.com, it’s fun and easy. I’m not overdoing it though, just once every couple of days, we’ll see how it goes, helps me go out and breath a little. Air has been kinda dense here lately.

Making plans for a trip to China, will be around $2000 that I don’t have at the moment. Car has a tit on one of the tyres (aussie spelling). Should get a haircut soon, the bush is growing beyond any possible control.

Went yesterday to Singapura in Milton to have lunch with some of Roelo’s friends. Funny that has has some friends and drags me along to have lunch with them. I sit, eat, smile and listen. Barely talk, but I guess I barely talk no matter whose friends are they. I think I’m on a different gear, people think and talk too fast, I can’t keep up with them, plus most of the things they talk about are not things I’m aware of (mutual friends, cars, jobs) or not interesting for me (drugs they took, who is going out with who, etc).

Sometimes it’s not so bad =), the food was yummy, although I’ve been to that restaurant like 5 times already.. damn I think this post is going downhill, probably nothing that I can write about going on. Oh well, after the lunch went to James place and saw some photos of their travel thru Europe. Talked to James about travelling to China, I might go in January but probably it’ll be too expensive and right now I have other priorities, might end up going to New Zealand instead, although I don’t want to apply for the NZ visa..

So… Even though I’m single, totally unattached and not looking because of many reasons. Including I suppose I haven’t found someone good enough to replace the Idolatrous image I have from my ex boyfriends, lately I’ve been faced with a few small challenges on that area.

I guess the first one is my ex-ex going back into the game. Although it makes me feel good that he’s back to himself, the egotistic, materialistic, horny, sexual predator maniac he has always been. It still saddens me the simple and unequivocal fact that “it wasn’t me”. I feel so much idolatry for him that It’s really hard to wipe from my mind the question of, am I not good enough?, even if it’s silly and not something that has any real base on truth, because you cannot expect someone to feel something for you when it’s just not there. Even if you’re the ugliest or the most gorgeous guy on earth. But oh, well, I guess I’ll have to live with that.

It makes me feel good his life has been boosted as long as his ego and he’s feeling those things that he has felt so few times in his life. I haven’t really talked with him much about it, and usually when I talk with him, most of the questions I do ask are focused on the sexual part (guess I’m a perv too, sue me) but I hope things are riding along well as so is he.

Guess I have to move on because that train is never gonna stop in this station. But, then… what am I expecting?

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been going out socially more on my own. Paul has been inviting me to his friends gatherings, and I guess that I’m not used to cause quite a stir in some people. A few people have “liked” me and well, I haven’t liked them back that way.

I mean, I’m not sure what would I do if the man of my dreams came down stumbling down the staircase. At this point in my life I have other priorities than to get intertwined with someone that will make my life much more complex. I’m sure I would love the attention and god knows I would love the never ending love making and closeness.

The very first thing that comes to my mind when I imagine myself getting involved with someone is that I have responsibilities in the relationship I am in with and I definitely don’t want to mess it up.

Another interesting perspective from where I look at the whole people liking me thing is the value I give to it. Maybe it’s totally stupid but for me beauty and coolness are two important factors, yah, I’m shallow.. or maybe I’m not.. I mean, aren’t those the primal impressions you get from people right after you meet them? Oh well, back to what I was saying, if the person doesn’t rank high up those two factors then the value I give it is low and hence the self esteem boost I get from it.

What about things in common, well, you know.. for starters I need a few good things in common with the person… Oh god, I think this post is going on the wrong direction, or maybe I’m just being honest with myself.

Oh, well.. this is an sms a received a few days ago and I’m still trying to figure out how to reply to:

“Glad you enjoyed the night. The mess was fine. Hmmm can I ask a question – I want to be up front I really like you and would like to get to know you more! My world has been tossed around since meeting you, both in what I see in you, your travel and also the way I feel a strong connection. Now that maybe just good friends, not sure. I am still trying to work it out. Now in saying all this I know it puts you on the spot, sorry! I like to be up front. Whatever your answer maybe i hope we can be friends. If nothing else meeting you is a very major event in my life and I thank you for that. If you want to chat about any of that let me know. Take care, Greg. :-)”

Got any ideas ?