Stuff
Looking over old posts I realized I never really post anything super significant about the goings on in my life. And with the exception of a couple of rare occasions, when I do it's semi-cryptic to the point where I don't even remember what it was really all about. Going to start changing that and actually writing about myself. Maybe it's a way of me becoming more comfortable with myself, maybe it's just something that I want to do now so when I go and look back on my life a few years from now I can see some sort of progress or evolution. Gain some sort of understanding of who I am and what I wanted with my life.
So here goes.
The apartment is starting to come together, finally. It's not exactly what or where I want it to be just yet, but it'll get there. Started picking up decorative items and things to hang on my walls to make things look a little less bare. Last Saturday I went shopping with Jeremy for some things to put up on my walls. The initial idea was "Hey, posters", but as I was going through the stuff they had at the stores, it all seemed a little too "College dorm" style. So, better idea. Went across the street to Rotate this and went through the bins of records and scored three Skinny Puppy records. Which are now proudly displayed on my wall. Had to take down the Transformer display to actually have them in a decent display spot. But to be honest, the big Optimus Prime display I had was getting a little old and ratty. I'll find another place to put them soon enough. Finally got my Ministry tour poster hung up too. And since I'm a giant dork, I threw up my Thor comics on the wall behind the couch. Just really loving the cover artwork since the reboot.
Other than that, I've been pushing myself back into working towards some career goals that I've had for myself for years and never had the courage to go for when I really should have. I let myself slack and coast and not really do anything to help me towards what I thought and still think is really important do me. I don't want to ask "Could I have?" anymore. I want to actually go and find out if I can. And I'm pretty sure that I can. I'd see my friends around me with all of their skills at stuff that I wanted to do and I just shied away from it. Mostly because I didn't want to look stupid. I always knew and had a good handle on the basics, but the advanced stuff that they were doing was just humbling to watch. So I never gave myself a chance to actually go ahead and give it a shot myself. Changing that. I really need to stop putting an emphasis on whether or not my friends and colleagues think I'm an idiot. Just accept that they're my friends and if they want to help me they will. So now I've taken the leap and am running absolutely no Windows in the apartment. It's all Linux or OSX at this point. And it feels good. I'm not in a comfort zone where I'm going to relax and think it's all taken care of. I'm going to push myself to do some cool stuff. But first I need to make sure I can get the more advanced portions of the basics down. Get my network secure. Get a couple of virtual machines up and running on there. Get the remote access working and working securely. I've got some of that going, but it's not perfect yet.
That's about it for now. More later.
So here goes.
The apartment is starting to come together, finally. It's not exactly what or where I want it to be just yet, but it'll get there. Started picking up decorative items and things to hang on my walls to make things look a little less bare. Last Saturday I went shopping with Jeremy for some things to put up on my walls. The initial idea was "Hey, posters", but as I was going through the stuff they had at the stores, it all seemed a little too "College dorm" style. So, better idea. Went across the street to Rotate this and went through the bins of records and scored three Skinny Puppy records. Which are now proudly displayed on my wall. Had to take down the Transformer display to actually have them in a decent display spot. But to be honest, the big Optimus Prime display I had was getting a little old and ratty. I'll find another place to put them soon enough. Finally got my Ministry tour poster hung up too. And since I'm a giant dork, I threw up my Thor comics on the wall behind the couch. Just really loving the cover artwork since the reboot.
Other than that, I've been pushing myself back into working towards some career goals that I've had for myself for years and never had the courage to go for when I really should have. I let myself slack and coast and not really do anything to help me towards what I thought and still think is really important do me. I don't want to ask "Could I have?" anymore. I want to actually go and find out if I can. And I'm pretty sure that I can. I'd see my friends around me with all of their skills at stuff that I wanted to do and I just shied away from it. Mostly because I didn't want to look stupid. I always knew and had a good handle on the basics, but the advanced stuff that they were doing was just humbling to watch. So I never gave myself a chance to actually go ahead and give it a shot myself. Changing that. I really need to stop putting an emphasis on whether or not my friends and colleagues think I'm an idiot. Just accept that they're my friends and if they want to help me they will. So now I've taken the leap and am running absolutely no Windows in the apartment. It's all Linux or OSX at this point. And it feels good. I'm not in a comfort zone where I'm going to relax and think it's all taken care of. I'm going to push myself to do some cool stuff. But first I need to make sure I can get the more advanced portions of the basics down. Get my network secure. Get a couple of virtual machines up and running on there. Get the remote access working and working securely. I've got some of that going, but it's not perfect yet.
That's about it for now. More later.