Well, a year must be up as it is time again for me to re-build my work PC–Windows XP Pro SP2–yet again. The deciding factor this time? Registry corruption, GUI degradation, and over all system instability. Precipitating factor was likely the remote install of an SMS client. This is one of the reasons why I gave up on Windows at home, I am much too rough on OSes and Linux seems to handle a solid beating better, though I am very curious to see what kind of pounding OSX can take.

All is all, it isn’t such a bad way to spend the day. I am able to sweep out all the cruft that has built up over time and get focused again on the applications that I use the most. The only drag is setting Firefox back up the way that I like it; a real nicety would be making the profile portable because having to re-install some 20 extensions and countless greasemonkey scripts is a drag.

Back to the grind…

Life has been a touch hectic but I am managing to stay afloat. The campaign project is coming along slowly but I am beginning to get the hang of the syntax of Ruby and Rails. Hopefully, I’ll have something running in a week or so.

My writing is coming along. I’m still battling the roadblock of self-censorship, likely because I am digging up old skeletons and making them dance and I’m worried what people might think, particularly my wife. However, a really good friend of mine gave me a much needed slap up the back of my head and encouraged me to plow ahead and deal with burning bridges when I reach them. Solid advice that I am very grateful for. Again, I’m shooting to have some short works posted in a little while.

Feels good to get creative again.

Well, I had ambitions of being highly productive on my little break with lots of tasks and goals outlined for myself yet I only managed to realize one: relax. I spent much of the week sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee sans pants while catching up on the goings ons of the Internet. Here’s a quick breakdown of what I actually got done:

• Pots of coffee drunk – 4
• Lines of story written – 10
• Hours of video games played – 4
• Sites surfed – Too many to count
• Loads of laundry washed – 2
• Loads of dishes washed – 2
• Hours napped – 8

Coming up in the untouched category is this site, yard work, and generally anything involving me putting on pants and assuming a wakeful state. Well, I suppose that there is always time to do really productive things on the next break I take.

… how folding my wife’s panties leaves me feeling slightly naughty.