Well, it’s back to work for the week. I think I’m starting to get the chaos around the house in hand a bit. Stringing the network and phone wires over the weekend helped a bunch. It’s a change to the house that’s going to be reasonably permanent that I made. That breaks a mental barrier of some sort, as did getting out the drill and putting (well, putting back) a hole in the living room floor where the network wire comes through. As Bill said at the time, It’s yours now.
Today I need to get out and get some more phone connectors and wire. I was initially thinking I’d string cat-5 everywhere and use the wires I needed for phones and such, but I think I’m going to scale back on that plan and use real phone-line for the phones. If I install regular telephone wires for the phones, I won’t have any compatibility problems at the ends, and I’ll still have spare wires. It’ll be cheaper wire than cat-5, plus it’ll be visually unique down in the basement, which I think will help in organizing all the wires that are going to be coming to the junction boxes for the phone and network connections. I’m figuring this out as I go, but that seems like the right decision to make today.
The other mental hurdle that got jumped this weekend is that I’ve quit concentrating on “unpacking” and started thinking more about ways I need to change the house. I’ve got the essentials mostly unpacked (at least until spring), now I want to get changes made before I worry about unpacking all the boxes. From here on, when I unpack a box, I’d like to have a semi-permanent location for the stuff that comes out of the box – a place where the things belong – rather than making a pile and telling myself I’ll sort it out later.
But the main focus today is going to have to be on paying work. That’s also new here, since it’s the first time I haven’t been reacting to demands from a client, but am instead doing the work I know needs doing, and planning more than a couple hourse into the future. It’s how I like to work, but part of the reason this past month has felt so hectic is that I wasn’t planning my work, but rather just trying to keep my head above water. I’m making a conscious decision to change that today. Wish me luck.
- One of the things about blogging is knowing What You Can’t Say. In the case of this essay, it talks about things that are politically incorrect. I’ve seen a couple bloggers face personal consequences as a result of things they’ve posted. In some cases, the posts seemed innocuous to me, but more often, I found myself thinking
shouldn’t have said that out loud.
As ever, the guideline around here is pretty muchIf I’d tell it to you in a bar over a beer, it’s probably okay for the blog
but that’s probably more a reflection of what I won’t say over a beer than of anything else. - Bob Mould has a blog. Huh! I think I’d have more fun with a blog by Grant, but that’s mostly because I know him better. [emptybottle]
- As Iowans have their say today, remember this thought: The most dangerous special interest group in Washington is politicians.
- Here’s an explanation of BSD for Linux users.
BSD is designed. Linux is grown. Perhaps that’s the only succinct way to describe it, and possibly the most correct.
One of the interesting things is that while people tend to look at the BSD world as “fragmented” because there are three variants, nobody seems to think the same of the Linux world, even though there are a half-dozen distributions which don’t all behave identically. - Here’s a handy explanation of Palm OS Device Resets. Do you know the three ways to reset your palm device and why you’d want to use each one? [boing boing]
- 40-hour week eludes millions of workers. I think 30 or 32 is the way it should be, but the great
productivity gains
lately seem to be more due to increasing the hours worked rather than by more efficient work, so cutting back on the work week would probably cause some sort of economic meltdown. [fark!]