Items that apply to ‘interesting’ subjects in my Real Life.
Ran across a great quote regarding backups, in the book ‘Python for Unix and Linux System Administration:’
. . . when you are dealing with backups, treat them like nuclear weapons, as backups are fraught with danger in ways you might not even imagine.
That’s pretty much sums up my last ten years at work. :)
–TSK
I’m a bit miffed at how long ago my last post was. It’s not my intent at all to let it wither. Of course, it was also not my intent to fervently ignore it either. :p
Anyway, the ‘general update’ is that I’m realizing certain things (that were a regular part of my life, outside of work) have not been as fun as they used to be. So I’m preparing to drop them. This includes my presence in SL (this was done awhile ago), plus some *much* older activities that have been slowly withering away anyway.
I’m also looking at trimming my Eve time for a little bit, since both characters have an opportunity for going into ‘hibernation’ (long training queue) for a couple weeks.
Hoping that this will give me time back for more recent endeavors, as well as this site. :) We will see.
–TSK
Well, if I’m not going to post as often as I normally did (due to work and other obligations), then I’ll at least try to update once a month. ;)
Anyway…
Mysterium – The return trip from Spokane was uneventful, though delayed a day due to the illness. There was a three hour layover in the Seattle airport and used that time to catch up on work (once I found someplace that gave me *wired* access for the VPN connection – yay!). As one of the ‘staff’ I’ve been involved in post-con discussion, though nothing major (from my end) that needs worrying about just yet.
Hoboken – Hot, humid, and recently raining again due to the remnants of hurricane season. *sigh* Things at least began to get cooler a couple days ago, and I’m enjoying what walking time I can get in.
There was also that little thing about the plane/heli crash on the Hudson corridor a couple weeks ago. One of the piers here was pressed into service by the NTSB for the following week, which was interesting – until I saw the mobile coroner’s office on-site. Gah.
Eve Online – My character is currently waiting 4 weeks, while two skills for a special mining ship get trained. In the interim, I decided to make lemonade out of lemons, use the (semi-useless) time card from the Atari box (called a GTC) and convert it into in-game currency for purchasing said ship. :) I’ve also been following the EBank crisis; Thankfully I was too new to have done anything with them, but its been very interesting – as someone who works for the Financial Sector – to watch a virtual bank attempt to struggle out of a crisis similar to the one RL banks are facing today.
During this interim, Steam has given me an opportunity to do a little ‘side experiment’ which is turning out pretty well. More on that later.
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That’s about it for now. Busy, as usual. :)
–TSK
This is somewhat ironic.
I’m stuck in my room @ Spokane, due to a really bad flu passing around the group. It’s not affected me, so far, other than having a light cold [and now a little light-headed, slight fever, etc].
Of course, I’ve not eaten since the meeting at Cyan yesterday, but that was part of my normal pre-flight when traveling someplace for the first time. Apparently was a good move.
At least in my case I could make additional changes this week as events merit. Changing the flight by one day, though, was a *bit* expensive, relative to the original e-tickets (was close to the cost of a new one-way flight).
The irony is that I – along with several others – are as if we’re trapped in Myst ourselves. At least I’m trying to enjoy it while I can.
Oh Thank God I took the rest of this week off at work…
–TSK
Short shout-out for Dad, MystBlogs, etc.
I find it slightly amusing that I’m a Hoboken resident, and apparently have been living under a rock until sometime Friday morning (when a co-worker mentioned the corruption roundup).
Perhaps New Jersey now has a chance of having a Republican governor again (though I was rather unhappy about Whitman, for various reasons).
News aggregation link regarding Mayor Cammarano, via Yahoo (possible popup et al warning):
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Cammarano&ei=UTF-8
–TSK
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