Random Musings

I’ve been home since the 9th of August, but I was working six days a week from the 11th of August to the 9th of October, so I barely had any time to rest and recuperate. For the past three weeks, however, I’ve been doing nothing.

Doing nothing is really boring, however, so I keep myself amused in various ways. Yesterday, I was crouched on a small ledge, ten feet above the ground, with a pipe wrench in hand, determined to fix the damn geysers.

I’ve also been fiddling about with Hyper-V 2008 R2 and VMWare ESXi. I spent some cash on upgrading the RAM in my desktop to 4 GB, cause DDR2 RAM is going to get pricier and pricier now. 4 GB should be enough for this box. The next one I get will have at least 8 GB of DDR3, and probably much more.

All this is fun, but the downside is that sitting at home is unfortunately not very lucrative. Financially, I’m up the creek. I’m not worried though, since I have one more month of idleness, and then I start working again, so it’s all good. Two months off are enough for anybody, especially when you can get cheese sandwiches made to order and delivered to your bedside (no, I’m not making my poor old mother run around, we have help).

I will fix some more things around the house before I leave. Windows Home Server is already running happily on my old machine, backing up my desktop and Mom’s laptop (she uses a Thinkpad T series.. she knows her hardware).

So that’s what I’m up to. What are all you corporate minions doing?

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