Retro Post - Disneyland for Amy's Birthday

Amy, Michelle, Sandy & I go to the Disneyland Resort to celebrate Amy's 29th Birthday.

Amy's B-Day at
Disneyland

New Employer: National Stores - Fallas Paredes

I started my first day of work for Fallas Paredes (the company that purchased my former employer Factory 2-U). I am working at my old desk in the same building as before, though I am no longer responsible to answer the F2U Helpdesk Line, nor to handle any of their Support. During the next 30-90 days I'll be working to facilitate the merging of the two companies. No details have been figured out, yet. So for the next few days, at least, I've got nothing to do but show up and get paid. When "They" decide on a plan of action, I'll be here to Make It Happen. Of course, then I expect it to get quite busy.

And once the transition is complete, and Fallas fully takes over, I'll be back in charge of their POS Helpdesk and working out of their new Support Center which will exist down in Otay Mesa.

Larry started work today too, in the same capacity as myself. Sandy and Amy are still employed with F2U, and it's still uncertain for how long.

As the world turns...

Well, it's official. I am no longer employed for Factory 2-U. I have been laid off. F2U has been in Chapter 11 since January and was just purchased by a collection of interests lead by National Stores (who operates Fallas Paredes). Though technically it still exists to finish up all the paying off of creditors, etc. and to assist in the transition of assets to Fallas. Larry was also given his leave today too.

You can read about the news in this San Diego UnionTribune article.

On the up side, Sandy and Amy are still employed with F2U, though for how much longer is still unknown. Probably at least for another month, maybe more. Also, my bosses (Mark and Maris) both really like Larry and I as employees. Those two have been given offers by Fallas and they in turn are expecting to re-hire Larry and I soon. So basically, if all goes well we'll be employed again doing the same job with the same people, just for a different company. I should have a better idea of what's going to happen on Tuesday.

In other news, I took my bad DIMM back to ChipsandMemory. The DIMM is under warranty with the manufacturer and I was told if I brought it in they would send it off for me. However, they just did a straight out exchange. How cool is that? Now I just got to install it, I hope I can find the time... HA!

And finally, it looks like GoDaddy got their shit together and propagated my domain forwarding. So, bobclemins.com is working now after my registrar transfer.

GoDaddy Domain Transfer

I'm in the process of transferring my domain name (bobclemins.com) from my old registrar (Buy Domains) to a new one (GoDaddy). I'm making the change because GoDaddy offers (nearly) all of the same services, but at half the cost. Otherwise, Buy Domains has done a fine job for the last three years.

Larry had used GoDaddy before and had recommended them to me. I tried them out when I recently registered clemins.com and liked their service fine. It was time to renew bobclemins.com so I went for the lower rate.

Unfortunately, during this process, bobclemins.com may not work. It should all be back up within 48 hours (though I expect it to be much sooner). Until then, you can still visit my website by browsing directly to http://members.cox.net/bobclemins.