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So, about me, now that we have LJ abuse out of the way. Let's see.
The job is still going strong. The scope of the infrastructure I'm responsible with is fairly mind-boggling but in a cool way. Two contractors were hired to help the two full-time employees (myself included) deal with the amount of work coming in to the team.
The timing of this was good considering I had a minor bit of a health barf that I'm still working my way through. I'm not going to get into specifics, because it's the type of problem that being reminded of (i.e. through comments) interferes with dealing with. What I will say is that one takes so many little things for granted, like relative peace of mind inside your head outside of loldepression, until that peace is infringed upon suddenly and possibly permanently. "It could always be worse."
That too, of course, applies to what I'm dealing with now, so I shan't speak more of it. I ask that you do likewise, with my assurance that it isn't anything life threatening. It's just "life".
I'm usually not a person for quotes, or excessive admiration of other people, but I've finally found a philosopher that jives with me: Marcus Aurelius. I stumbled across one of his quotes in passing a few months ago (sadly, I can't remember what it was now -- I didn't get around to following up on this for awhile), looked at a few others, and I realized that how my brain works and how this guy's brain works have a few things in common.
I think what I like the best about the book commonly referred to as "Meditations" (or the more literal, IMO better translation, "To Myself") is that it's not about what a guy is telling others. It's a collection of what a man is observing in life and noting down to himself. You can see the things he struggles with the most by the topics that come up most often. He's not perfect, but trying very hard to put his mind in order. It's his struggle to build that picture of what he needs to be.
A book containing the earnest struggle of a philosopher (and leader of men) with himself is far more interesting than a book on how he thinks other people should live their lives. It's easy to forget that his intended audience was himself if you aren't careful.
On the MU front, I continue to enjoy not being an administrator anywhere. I stopped working on ProtoMUCK half a year ago when it became clear that there were fundamental philosophical differences in design that were not reconcilable. I continue to have but a single character on a single game. Nice and relaxing.
I've started to read Advanced Unix Programming, 2nd Edition. I didn't expect I'd ever actually get to this point in my Unix administration hobby, but here I am.
The job is still going strong. The scope of the infrastructure I'm responsible with is fairly mind-boggling but in a cool way. Two contractors were hired to help the two full-time employees (myself included) deal with the amount of work coming in to the team.
The timing of this was good considering I had a minor bit of a health barf that I'm still working my way through. I'm not going to get into specifics, because it's the type of problem that being reminded of (i.e. through comments) interferes with dealing with. What I will say is that one takes so many little things for granted, like relative peace of mind inside your head outside of loldepression, until that peace is infringed upon suddenly and possibly permanently. "It could always be worse."
That too, of course, applies to what I'm dealing with now, so I shan't speak more of it. I ask that you do likewise, with my assurance that it isn't anything life threatening. It's just "life".
I'm usually not a person for quotes, or excessive admiration of other people, but I've finally found a philosopher that jives with me: Marcus Aurelius. I stumbled across one of his quotes in passing a few months ago (sadly, I can't remember what it was now -- I didn't get around to following up on this for awhile), looked at a few others, and I realized that how my brain works and how this guy's brain works have a few things in common.
I think what I like the best about the book commonly referred to as "Meditations" (or the more literal, IMO better translation, "To Myself") is that it's not about what a guy is telling others. It's a collection of what a man is observing in life and noting down to himself. You can see the things he struggles with the most by the topics that come up most often. He's not perfect, but trying very hard to put his mind in order. It's his struggle to build that picture of what he needs to be.
A book containing the earnest struggle of a philosopher (and leader of men) with himself is far more interesting than a book on how he thinks other people should live their lives. It's easy to forget that his intended audience was himself if you aren't careful.
On the MU front, I continue to enjoy not being an administrator anywhere. I stopped working on ProtoMUCK half a year ago when it became clear that there were fundamental philosophical differences in design that were not reconcilable. I continue to have but a single character on a single game. Nice and relaxing.
I've started to read Advanced Unix Programming, 2nd Edition. I didn't expect I'd ever actually get to this point in my Unix administration hobby, but here I am.