Chemo Day #5 + 9

09/26/2012: 12:00: So yep, I am still here working.  Everything test out, so I go ahead and tape everything up and secure everything.  One last thing I gotta do is to punch down the backup lines to regular phone jacks so that incase the phone system was to go down, the internet was to go

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Chemo Day #5 + 8

09/25/2012: 9:10: A client calls me to check on how I am doing health wise since we haven’t talked in a few weeks.  I tell him that I am going to see my RadOnc later today, and I will get the results of the PetScan when I see him later today.  He has an important

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Chemo Day #5 + 7

09/24/2012: 9:30: I am awaken by an email arriving on my phone.  I check it, it is just a client resolving their own issue that they wanted to let me know about.  I doze back off. 10:12: I get call from another client need help on a project of recovering some old data and info.

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Chemo Day #5 + 6

09/23/2012: 11:15: I get up out of bed after my wife called me letting me know that she was at work, otherwise I would have probably kept sleeping. 11:30: I get up, and my dad is changing out a light fixture under the cabinets above the washer and dryer.  He leaves the wiring the electrical

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Chemo Day #5 + 5

09/22/2012: 12:15: I wake up and get out of bed, and let Buster outside. 12:30: I get a call from a client who wants a new computer.  Her old computer was taken out by lightning and it was over 10 years old.  She doesn’t have a computer at home to use to order her new

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Chemo Day #5 + 4

09/21/2012: 9:30: My business partner calls the phone and wakes me up.  He goes over a few things that was on his mind while he is driving to his next location for work. 10:00: I am up, there is no way I am falling back asleep now, I have slept for over 12 hours.  I

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Chemo Day #5 + 3

09/20/2012: 2:00: I wake up, yes that is 2PM.  WOW!  Oh well, my body needs its rest!  I get up, let buster out, and get ready to head to the office. 2:30: I am in my van heading out. 2:40: I get to the office.  I do some work here and there. 3:00: I am

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Chemo Day #5 + 2

09/19/2012: 1:30: I wake up.  I let buster out, and I take my blood sugar on my own after yesterday’s elevated number, and it is 114.  So that is normal. 2:00: I am on the computer researching some stuff, and I find out how to stream an audio stream into a telephone port to create

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Chemo Day #5 + 1

09/18/2012: 11:00: I wake up, and my mom is just getting home ready to bring me to my Pet Scan appointment.  Time to scan me and see how the tumors are reacting to the chemo therapy. 11:15: We leave the house. 11:25: We get to the Yenni Treatment Center at East Jefferson General Hospital.  I

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Chemo Day #5: ~~~~ 7 More to Go

09/17/2012: 12:15: My dad and I get home from uptown. 12:30: I am in bed and nod off. 8:20: I get a phone call from the client whos location I was at last night. 8:30: After some basic troubleshooting, I decide it best to head to the client’s location while the client calls AT&T. 9:00:

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Chemo Day #4 + 12

09/16/2012: 11:15: I get up out of bed, I take buster out, and setup my laptop in the lazy-boy chair again.  I turn on the TV in preparation of the Saints game. 11:30: My mom starts to prepare the minute steaks she is going to fry for lunch. 12:00: Kick off. 12:15: I am chatting

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Chemo Day #4 + 11

09/15/2012: 11:00: I get out of bed.  I am rested and ready to start my day.  My mom went to McDonalds this morning and picked up some Egg McMuffins.  I can’t remember the last time I had one of these.  So I go ahead and eat two of them 😛 11:45: I shave my face

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Chemo Day #4 + 10

09/15/2012: 9:44: I get a call from a client seeing if I am available to come in today to change out a network switch with one that she had purchased today.  I tell her that I have an appointment with a client for 11:00, but I can be there after. 10:00: I get up out

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Chemo Day #4 + 9

09/13/2012: 12:00: I install office on the machine, install the local printer and share it, and install the network printers from other computers.  I then log into the account used by the staff and check out everything.  Everything checks out great, so my dad and I can head out. 12:30: We get in the van

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Chemo Day #4 + 8

09/12/2012: 12:00: I continue bugging AT&T and then just finally give up with them, the lady is clueless on how to respond to my request as it is completely over her head. 12:15: I gather all the information into print format.  I print up the IP Address, my reports on where the IP Address is

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Chemo Day #4 + 7

09/11/2012: 12:00: Here I am still working on the computer.  I add the other network printers to this computer so that they can print to this computer.  I then test printing to the printers.  I also test out the functionality of the programs used by the staff. 12:45: I add the lines and voicemails to

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Chemo Day #4 + 6

09/10/2011: 11:30: I get out of bed. I let buster out and go grab a shower. 12:00: I head out to the office. 12:15: I get to the office. 12:30: I catch up on a few admin things.  I am also working on the media computer, no music in the office without this computer :(. 

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Chemo Day #4 + 5

09/09/2012: 11:00: I wake up.  I can’t sleep too much later the Saints game will be on soon.  Also we are having company over for lunch! 12:00: Kick-Off. 1:45: The guest arrive!  My sister and her husband, and Aunt Estella and Uncle Victor!  Aunt Estella has brought her great Bread Pudding again!  Can’t wait for

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Chemo Day #4 + 4

09/08/2012: 12:30: I done for tonight, and heading home. 12:50: As I am getting close to home I call the office I was at just to see if the Answer Machine picks up.  It doesn’t. 1:00: I go inside and check a few things and the configuration looks right, so I better head back over

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Chemo Day #4 + 3

09/07/2012: 11:30: I get up.  I am feeling OK, but a little weak and a little nauseated, but OK.  I do some work on the computer and eat a Big Mac.  I also take a Zofran to take care of my nausea. 12:10: My wife calls me saying that she locked her keys in her

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Chemo Day #4 + 2

09/06/2012: 1:30:  Yes it is 1:30 PM, and I am just waking up.  For some reason this round has me more tired than usual.  I am tired and out of it.  However I have to get up.  I get up, let Buster out, and eat some Wendy’s for lunch. 2:30: I go on my computer

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Chemo Day #4 + 1

09/05/2012: 10:00: I get a call from a client about their internet being down.  I do some research, and ask the client to call the service provider, as it seems to be something wrong on the service providers side, as nothing has changed, and the client has already done the basic troubleshooting and restarting of

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Chemo Day #4: ~~~~ 8 More to Go

09/04/2012: 2:30: I give up on finishing up the phone firmware tonight.  I get the spare phone and a phone not being used yet and put them in place of the phones that are stuck trying to upgrade their firmware. 3:00: I get home. 3:15: I continue working on the phones. When I get home,

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Chemo Day #3 + 14

09/03/2012: 1:00:  I am done here at the office, time for me to head on home… 1:15: I get home. 1:20: My wife gets home, I sit with her by the table while she eats her chicken wrap. 1:30: I am laying in bed.  I connect into the phone system, and start some more configurations. 

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Chemo Day #3 + 13

09/02/2012: 12:00:  Once the cables are done being terminated, I go to the phone patch panel and start working on the whip for the 4 phone lines, running them from the phone patch panel to the router where the are plugged into an FXO card.  This will transfer the analog signal from the phone company

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