Managed to design, configure, test, and implement a cross-WAN multi-backup, caching, and cross-site mirror and data transfer setup for the current employer ( Read more... )

Not dead. Recovering from illness. Working twelve-hour days, sleeping twenty or thirty hours on weekends. Not feeling great. Not enough time in the week to do everything. Can't keep this up forever. Ugh.

Some of this is universal. A lot of it, however, is simply that the way things are done at the current workplace is massively incompatible with my own psychological preferences ( Read more... )

Slept far too little last night, got into work late, racked up more time-debt on the timesheet. Got home, went out for dinner, most expensive and off-putting Indian dinner I've had in quite some time. Actually could not finish eating, it was that bad, and got charged about twice what I'd expect from a normal Indian restaurant and three to four ( Read more... )

But work and travel and sleeping and paperwork are taking up most of my hours. And days ( Read more... )

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In destitution and desperation, I organised a meetup of IT folks at the city park today. All I had to do was turn up early and do the meet-and-greet so people would know it was the right place and would hang around until critical mass was achieved. It was going to be a massive job fair, or at least bring a lot of opportunities together in one place ( Read more... )

Well, that was four hours of my life I'm not getting back ( Read more... )

Finally, there is some time to sit down ( Read more... )

Packed the rest of the toy collection, put the random piles of books onto bookshelves, disassembled the entire set of cheap pine shelving units, disassembled the top parts of the wire shelving racks behind my computer (thus hopefully making it look less gothic and more actually functional), and ran several car-loads of random things over to the ( Read more... )