Cobb: Impatience

July 24, 2003

Impatience

I have been tremendously productive the past several days. My house is clean, the plants are watered, the fish are fed. The clothes are washed, the bills are paid.

I loaned my brother a copy of MS Excel (don't tell anyone), I helped my father with his new Dell, I bought a nice $100 Celeron 500MHz machine and installed Red Hat 9. I moved several gig off of one machine to another. I archived all of my notes and code from my last contract and I finally downloaded and deleted about 113 digital pictures from my camera.

I closed one host and shut down Old School Republicans as a separate site. I folded it under Vision Circle. I launched Cubegeek.com and added a user forum. I invited several dozen folks to join.

I've started reading about TCP/IP, so I can answer obscure questions like "What is the significance of the number 87.5 to DHCP clients?".

I've been debating the past present and future dynamics of ethnic and racial minorities and women online. I've tried to make sense of two mergers in the Business Intelligence market. I've started a new 'modified Atkins' diet. I've had a couple technical interviews for a new position. I've patched some descriptions of my XRepublic project and I've climbed to the top 5700 (out of 26,000) on MotoGP2.

But here I am at midnight typing into this laptop as if I've got to. I'm in a weird place I tell you. I feel like there's more I could be doing. I know I'm not going to go bed until I am absolutely dead on my feet.

I need to figure out why I can't connect to my new machine, even though I've the vncserver working perfectly, I can't do a simple telnet, and moving my iptables file didn't help.

I really need a glass of wine.

Posted by mbowen at July 24, 2003 12:04 AM

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