► Don’t spend too much time in NYC, it will make you calloused.
► I’m blown away by the amount of bullshit that is on TV. People actually watch this vein crap? Are you fucking serious?
► I’m thankful for my little cozy house that I complain about sometimes because I have it better than most.
► I really love how in NYC there is no room so they just pile up trash on the sidewalks. Yuck.
► The 2012 presidential election may just be the first time I don’t vote. I think they are all jackasses.
► I started to like the show American Horror Story….then it just got too dark (evil).
► I do like the show “The Walking Dead”.
► I hate ads and commercials with a passion. If I had to give up my DVR I would quit watching TV. I only watch recorded things that I can fast-forward.
► I don’t watch “the news” on TV and haven’t for 7 or 8 years.
► The Chambers Hotel in NYC is over-priced and not all that it’s cracked up to be.
► I need to buy a new battery for my car.
► I really like 1095 carbon steel.
► I can’t imagine living somewhere that does not get snow around Christmas.
► I think Apple Computers are the best computers ever made.
► I am amazed by everything my iPhone can do.
► There is NOTHING like an ice cold Coca-Cola.
► I lost my coat in a rental car.
► Male flight attendants are weird and seem “stuck up” to me.
► There don’t seem to be a lot of fat people in NYC. I wonder if it is due to everyone walking so much?
► I need to write in my blog more. I always think of stuff to write about and then I forget it.
► Words with Friends is a great game.
► Merry Christmas!
December 17, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Something I’ve been noticing happening lately has been annoying the shit out of me. Texting or emailing when others are in your presence. I don’t mean just when in public, I mean when others are immediately around you and may want to talk to you or may already be talking to you. I have friends that do this. Total bullshit. Sometimes I’m in the middle of saying something to them and they get their phone out and reply to a text or email. What the fuck? I know they are not paying attention to me. Hell, anymore I just stop talking. I either walk away or when they look at me because I stopped talking I say “I’ll wait” in a very sarcastic manner. I am no longer going to deal with this stupid ass behavior. Good grief folks we are grown adults. It is rude and inconsiderate to do this to people. In fact I can’t even believe that people do it and think that it’s OK. What the fuck!!
The same goes for jackasses that are texting while driving. Sometimes they are not driving but they are texting at a traffic light and I have to fucking beep at them to get their ass moving when the light turns green. It’s funny because most of the time when I beep at them they see that they are about 3 cars behind the guy in front of them they fucking punch it and speed off like crazy. Seriously? You’re an idiot! I didn’t beep because I wanted you to begin a race to pass everyone in front of you. Dumbass. It’s like they are trying to save face so they speed up thinking it will make up for their inadequacies. Nope.
Total Assclowns.
August 22, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Today I’m in the mood to just throw some things out there and sort of get ‘em off my chest. In no particular order….here we go.
As of late I’m getting tired of having to beep at people more and more because I realize they are fucking texting at a traffic light or texting while driving etc. I just want to get a full size 1/2 Ton pickup with 3″ steel pipes welded onto the front for a huge push/brush bar and just mash into these fuckers when they do this. Fucking drive bitches! The road is not there for you to text on. If you must text, pull the fuck over and park or stop in the berm.
Next up is the fact that I’m very thankful. I try very hard to look at most things in a good light. I find good in almost everything. Tell me something bad or whine about something and I can find good in it for you.
I’m thankful for my job. It’s a job that most people would love to have, and I LOVE doing it. I get to do my hobby for a job and I am very passionate about it. Most people can’t say that. That’s a shame. I’m thankful that I have a pair of very comfortable shoes that I wore to work today. They don’t hurt, they feel great. As if that’s not enough, I have about five pairs of shoes that are nice looking, comfy, and will last a long time.
I think too many people go through life not realizing what they have and how valuable it already is. They always want more. I’m somewhat the same. I could go and just buy buy buy some days if my wife didn’t keep my butt in check. 
My point is sometimes ya need to slow down and enjoy what you have. Seriously. Not even kidding.
To pull a quote from a favorite movie….. “The things you own…end up owning you”. ~Fight Club
Well today I had my first dental crown. My dentist kicks ass. No pain at all. Got a temporary crown on and will go back in three weeks to get my gold crown. Yep, I’m going with Gold because I’m a “grinder”; a bruxist I tell ya. Meaning that I grind my teeth at night and gold will not chip or break off due to grinding like porcelain or acrylic do.
And lastly….fake boobies taste funny. Keep ‘em real.
July 8, 2011 at 12:27 am
If you’re here you’re probably encountering the same thing I did. You’re using SCCM (SMS) to remote control client computers in your organization and for whatever reason you’re now being prompted for credentials when you start remote tools. I searched high and low trying to figure this out and encountered a good many websites and blogs that were somewhat helpful but none that had the “right answer”. Chances are, if you’re being prompted for credentials when starting remote tools, you have an expired Configuration Manager certificate issued from the CA (Certificate Authority) on your domain.
By the time I figured this out the certificate on our domain had expired 170+ days earlier. It simply had become a huge pain in the butt, and we had more clients that we couldn’t connect to than clients that we could! It was annoying as hell. I decided since I found so much information on other blogs, that I would put the solution in my blog. My boss originally saw that we were having SMS_POLICY_PROVIDER errors that were showing up in the Site Status portion of the console. He asked me to research this and fix it.
After some searching on Google I found that I probably needed to renew my site certificate. Problem was, I couldn’t because it was expired. I had to install a new certificate. I had to go to START / RUN / and type ‘mmc.exe’ and then go to add/remove snap-ins and select the ‘certificate’ one. You need to request a new certificate logged into your SCCM server. Then you need to go to the Root CA and approve the certificate. After this happens your certificate will be placed in your ‘personal certificates’ folder. You need to export that certificate and then import it into the ‘computer certificates’ folder. To do this you have to make the private key exportable. So you need to ‘check the box that allows you to export the key’ on the certificate before you export it on your SCCM server. If you do not do this you will not be able to export the certificate with the private key.
I hope this helps some because it was a huge pain in the butt for me.
May 30, 2011 at 12:48 am
We all need to quit wasting our time. Imagine how productive and influential we could be if we all quit doing useless things.
Tonight I was in a high school auditorium getting ready to watch an on-stage show. There were about 600 people give or take in the auditorium. Before the show instead of talking to each other and stuff about half of the people were playing with their phones. Are you fucking serious? Come on. Completely ignoring the person beside them that they came with and instead dicking with their phone.
We need to quit playing games on our phones, posting stupid bullshit to facebook and twitter, and actually go do something productive with our time.
I’m removing all the games from my iPhone and leaving them off. The other day I was playing “Doodle Jump” and it said that total time played was 6 hours and 39 minutes. Now this is over a month or two. I was like “WHAT??”. Think of other things I could have done with those 6+ hours. I’ve been wasting my time.
The time we waste these days is amazing to me. We don’t seem to care. We don’t want to learn to do anything new, we just want to “exist”. That’s shit. Not me. Not anymore.
I want to do other things. I want to talk and spend time and do things with the real people in my life that I see daily or weekly. I don’t want to banter back and forth on facebook anymore. I don’t want to text. Instead I want to talk on the phone or face to face (and NO not facetime on the iPhone). I want to be outside and do healthy fun things.
We could do so much good if we threw out our damn TV’s. Those things suck the time out of your life. I remember the old bumper stickers that said “Kill your television”. I believe in that saying now. TV’s suck.
Put down your phones and quit using them as toys. Use them instead as a tool. If it helps you do something that’s great. If it helps you pass time, that sucks.
Live life. Go do stuff. Get up off the couch or recliner, and turn off the TV. Build something, paint, draw, learn something new. Learn how to make a fire without anything but wood and your hands and maybe some string or a shoelace. Do something useful.
When was the last time you did something useful instead of just messing around wasting time?
Go.
March 15, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Busy at the new job, but loving it. Recently was blindsided by the fact that a loved one may have cancer, but don’t know yet. We’ll deal with it the best we can and leave the rest up to God. I try hard to not worry about things I cannot change.
Had an old 1952 Winchester Model 94 .30-30 gifted to me. For being 59 years old the thing looks like it’s was either never fired or it’s only fired a few rounds. It’s not “mint” but it does have a few “character marks”. Those are the best. It used to be my wife’s grandfather’s rifle. It’s a great old gun. I love old lever guns. Gonna give ‘er a good cleaning and take it shooting and get some enjoyment out of something old. I like old things.
I’ve had an iPhone 4 for about 6 months now and I have no complaints. I love the phone and once again, think Apple did a kick butt job on this phone. I’m excited for the new stuff to come out in June but I can’t see myself replacing anything as I’m very satisfied with the iPhone 4.
I want to read the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau. It seems like a great, back to just the basics of life, book. I will do this sometime soon.
Drink water!
February 27, 2011 at 2:45 am
I’m thankful to have a job that I love. I seriously am. I don’t take it for granted one day. I work for as an IT guy for an NFL team and it’s the best job I’ve ever had. Some days you work hard but you also get to play hard. It is the first job I’ve ever had that I sometimes don’t want to take a vacation day from because I have that much fun at work. I love what I do. I actually get paid to do my hobby. I’m not usually one to toot my own horn but I’m very good at what I do and I will keep it that way.
Right now I’m sitting at home and thinking that I’m off tomorrow and actually wondering if I should just go in to work instead. I know I sounds crazy but I like my job that much. Not many people can say that.
I’m thankful to God for all that He’s given me.
January 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm
I just thought I would share this since I can, and my blog gets a decent amount of hits daily.
I took my car to Mike Pruitt Honda for service right before Christmas 2010. I asked that they please check the tire pressure as I was losing air in two of my tires regularly. I purposely set my tire pressure to 25 lbs. on all of my tires to see if they would really check or just write that they did on the paperwork. Sure enough, they wrote (32) for all four tires and didn’t check anything; either that or they checked and didn’t feel like airing up the tires.
The next day I called the service manager and let him know about it. He told me they would make it right. He said he would talk to the tech that did the work and that they do not regularly do this. I think it’s garbage and probably a lot of dealers do this. It’s just one more thing they can do to save time and money and force the customers to eventually buy new tires. Yet another reason to do something yourself if you want it done right.
Anyway, the service manager called me back and told me the tech had been off sick for 2 days and that he would call me back after Christmas and wouldn’t forget about me. I said OK, and figured I would never hear back from him. I didn’t.
So tonight I went to get a drivers side low beam bulb replaced and took it to Sunnyside Honda. I told them what happened at Mike Pruitt Honda (a brief version) and asked that they please make sure the tires all had 32 lbs. in each. Everyone in the service department there looked like “oh shit someone caught us”. No joke. I mean the employees and not the other customers. I now had a feeling that this is something that is known that most dealers do but nobody says anything about.
So for the readers of this blog, or Mike Pruitt Honda customers, you might want to double check next time the dealer says they did this or that.
Tonight Sunnyside Honda did actually make sure my tires all had 32 lbs. in them. I checked right outside the dealership.
I actually hope someone from a Honda service department reads this and actually has something to say about it. Honda has been good to me for the most part but I can just never get past the feeling of the big company always screwing the little guy.
Fun fun….
January 10, 2011 at 8:10 pm
I’m thankful that Brian is finally free and got to spend Christmas with his family. He was freed on Monday when Governor Christie commuted his sentence. Please don’t forget to call Governor Christie to thank him for freeing Brian.
Office of the Governor
PO Box 001
Trenton, NJ 08625
609-292-6000
Please call and thank the Governor.
December 26, 2010 at 3:50 pm
This really needs attention folks. Please write and voice your opinion. Please do not just “like” it on Facebook. Do something. Write the NRA, write Gov. Christie.
Office of the Governor
PO Box 001
Trenton, NJ 08625
609-292-6000
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On August 27, 2010 Brian was wrongfully sentenced to 7 years in prison…help us free him.
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http://briandaitken.com
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http://www.facebook.com/FreeBrianAitken
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Thanks if you read this and are actually going to do something!
Hang in there Brian. We’re pulling for you!
December 4, 2010 at 6:14 pm
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