Run! Run! Run! Run!
Posted: 6 October 2004 at 00:56:59
Goin... CRAY...ZAY!
Life is great. Life is grand. Life is whizzing past my hand!
The worst thing about this last week or so is that even though I get up pretty early every day, I still get my regular burst of energy around 11:30 p.m. I have a hard time getting to sleep as a result.
It doesn’t help I’m battling a cold this week too. The good news is that, for the time being, my voice is all James Earl Jones sexy.
I’ve had to try to make it to a couple appointments before showing up at Guru Labs at 9 a.m. and I’ve been a little late getting into work each time as a result. Fortunately, the guys at Guru are cool about it. I told them it won’t happen again.
Today, I think, is pretty typical of how my schedule is going to be from now on.
I arranged to leave Guru a little early today to head up to Logan to meet with a potential new client for Iodynamics at 4:30. I went over to Frank’s and picked up frodo. Frodo is Dave’s Linux box that got hacked into last week as a result of a poorly chosen root password and an SSH config that allowed root logins.
I got home from Logan around 8:15. I watched the last 20 minutes or so of the vice presidential debate on FNC and then headed downstairs to my “office” to catch up on e-mail. While I was there, I heard the rest of the family come home from a church activity. I went up and helped get the girls in bed, then went back downstairs.
I worked on some issues with Dave on a client’s website until around 10:30. Then I watched an episode of Angel season 4 with Christine. She went to bed and I fetch frodo from the car and started installing Fedora Core 2. Meanwhile, Mike showed up online to work on debugging a PPTP VPN issue with me. So, while FC2 was installing on Fedora, I was working with Mike on that.
We got that resolved and I booted up frodo with FC2 and started updating stuff via yum.
Frodo is going to sit on my network here now. So, I had to get a switch installed between the DSL modem and my gateway box. Ran out to the car and got a small 5-port Linksys I had in my laptop bag there. Got that all set up.
Now I’m just waiting for yum to finish installing updates so I can power frodo down, disconnect the CD-ROM drive I used, and move it to its new home.
It’s nearly 1 a.m. and I need to get up in 6 hours.