fascinating.
20130421
melog-20130421-03.log
physicists are "on a roll" lately. they discovered the higgs boson particle and may have now found indirect evidence that dark matter isn't just some idea people pulled out of their asses.
melog-20130421-02.log
time management for system administrators is a book i've been going through from time to time. it has been helpful in the past few weeks.
system administrators are IT professionals who have the primary job of caring for computer systems that provide services for users.
computers run 24x7-- including holidays and on your scheduled vacation. so then . . . being a system administrator is often advertised as an 8-5 M-F position, but servers can crash or require preventive maintenance outside of that window. old school employers still want to know why you didn't come to work at 08:00 sharp, but you were up at 03:00 installing patches . . . or you worked saturday or sunday performing extra work.
i always felt like i was never getting anything done, but i was always working, working, working. i didn't realized that my time management needs were unique because a system administrator has to manage a 24x7 responsibility, an 8-5 job description, and then possibly a demanding home or social life all at once.
time management for system administrators has really helped me these past few weeks. I've gotten more done without feeling that my efforts are useless or that i'm trying to complete an infinite task.
the book doesn't just help me manage work, but home life too. for the first time in a few years, i've finally replaced all the florescent lights in my home.
and . . . i just might get some server patches done today. i've been putting that off for a good while. you know . . . patches are necessary until they break production services.
thank the lords of kobol for snapshots!
system administrators are IT professionals who have the primary job of caring for computer systems that provide services for users.
computers run 24x7-- including holidays and on your scheduled vacation. so then . . . being a system administrator is often advertised as an 8-5 M-F position, but servers can crash or require preventive maintenance outside of that window. old school employers still want to know why you didn't come to work at 08:00 sharp, but you were up at 03:00 installing patches . . . or you worked saturday or sunday performing extra work.
i always felt like i was never getting anything done, but i was always working, working, working. i didn't realized that my time management needs were unique because a system administrator has to manage a 24x7 responsibility, an 8-5 job description, and then possibly a demanding home or social life all at once.
time management for system administrators has really helped me these past few weeks. I've gotten more done without feeling that my efforts are useless or that i'm trying to complete an infinite task.
the book doesn't just help me manage work, but home life too. for the first time in a few years, i've finally replaced all the florescent lights in my home.
and . . . i just might get some server patches done today. i've been putting that off for a good while. you know . . . patches are necessary until they break production services.
thank the lords of kobol for snapshots!
melog-20130421-01.log
what is it about lawn mowers? i have two, so it's twice the trouble to just to get one started.
soooo sleepy, but nobody will let me sleep . . .
soooo sleepy, but nobody will let me sleep . . .
melog-20130421.log
i'm exhausted from helping my wife with a short paper and running errands all day. my niece is also spending the night, my wife let my daughter sleep in our bed and my son crashed in the living room. i feel a bit displaced in my own home.
i took my son to the eye doctor today. she told me that he has intermittent extropia which basically means my son's eyes function independently of each other and as a result, he sometimes doesn't get to enjoy the stereoscopic experience. in other words, he doesn't see 3-D very well. i don't mean just at the movie theater-- i'm also mean with everyday living. no wonder he stumbles around more than i'd like. he has issues with depth perception.
you'd hardly know it, but sometimes he does have the moments where he seems accident prone. now i know why. so, when he put on the 3-D glasses at the doctor's office and couldn't see the pop up images, i began to really wonder what was going on. now i know.
the doctor told me to look into visual therapy, but stated that we don't even have anybody who practices that in our state, otherwise she'd refer me to one.
i saw on where a few studies have been done expressing that people with this condition are three times more likely than the average person to have mental illness by young adulthood. wow . . . that made me feel warm and fuzzy. mom already deals with clinical depression . . . at first glance it looks like the cards are really stacked against my boy. he's all of a sudden taken up the desire to become good at basketball. i'm short . . . his momma's short . . . he's got hardly any depth perception . . .
yet, you know what? i can't stop believing that he'll be ok. he still bought a new basketball today after hearing the doctor tell him that he'll have trouble with sports. he seems to really have found a way to adapt to his condition. so, maybe it won't be too much of an issue.
but now i understand why he tripped and fell a lot in soccer.
anyhow . . . i won't discourage him. if he really loves the sport of basketball like he claims he does of late, depth perception will simply be another problem that he'll learn to work around.
time to take a hot shower and find some corner of the house to sleep in. i took a training class last week, so i've got a lot of work waiting on me. yeah . . . and i gotta do server patches later today, too.
boy, i'll be glad when things slow down.
i took my son to the eye doctor today. she told me that he has intermittent extropia which basically means my son's eyes function independently of each other and as a result, he sometimes doesn't get to enjoy the stereoscopic experience. in other words, he doesn't see 3-D very well. i don't mean just at the movie theater-- i'm also mean with everyday living. no wonder he stumbles around more than i'd like. he has issues with depth perception.
you'd hardly know it, but sometimes he does have the moments where he seems accident prone. now i know why. so, when he put on the 3-D glasses at the doctor's office and couldn't see the pop up images, i began to really wonder what was going on. now i know.
the doctor told me to look into visual therapy, but stated that we don't even have anybody who practices that in our state, otherwise she'd refer me to one.
i saw on where a few studies have been done expressing that people with this condition are three times more likely than the average person to have mental illness by young adulthood. wow . . . that made me feel warm and fuzzy. mom already deals with clinical depression . . . at first glance it looks like the cards are really stacked against my boy. he's all of a sudden taken up the desire to become good at basketball. i'm short . . . his momma's short . . . he's got hardly any depth perception . . .
yet, you know what? i can't stop believing that he'll be ok. he still bought a new basketball today after hearing the doctor tell him that he'll have trouble with sports. he seems to really have found a way to adapt to his condition. so, maybe it won't be too much of an issue.
but now i understand why he tripped and fell a lot in soccer.
anyhow . . . i won't discourage him. if he really loves the sport of basketball like he claims he does of late, depth perception will simply be another problem that he'll learn to work around.
time to take a hot shower and find some corner of the house to sleep in. i took a training class last week, so i've got a lot of work waiting on me. yeah . . . and i gotta do server patches later today, too.
boy, i'll be glad when things slow down.
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