Sysadmin Field Notes

September 8, 2004

I had a migrane today and it totally wiped me out. So what on earth am I still doing up? I couldn't really tell you. I'm definitely tired and would fall asleep if I laid down, so it's not insomnia. I'm in one of my "I should be doing/learning something but I can't really concentrate so I'm just browsing around aimlessly on the web" kinda moods. Really a bad behavior that I'd like to eliminate because it leaves me tired, cranky, and doesn't accomplish a thing really.

I could do some homework; school started last week. I dropped my "internet" class because I'm going to try and challenge it. In it's place I put "Intelligent Systems". It's an area of computer science I know almost nothing about. I think the quest for "Artificial Intelligence" is never going to amount to anything on our von neumann, binary logic machines no matter how fast they get, so I've always just kind of viewed the field with skepticism and never dug very deeply. Maybe I'll find some interesting techniques that can be applied in actual work.

And of course there's a million things to be done around the house. We're getting the dumpster so we have to load it up, take down the back fence and load it up, put up a new back fence this weekend, prepare Carson's room, clean the house, wash the cars, wash the dog, mow and edge the front lawn, trim the hedges, fix the back sprinklers, install a back patio, learn a ton of stuff for my new position (I'm now going to be lead on -another- project), all while keeping Hudson in check and taking care of a very pregnant Cyndie. And I've got only about 5-6 weeks to do it all in (and some of those jobs are ongoing).

Calgon, take me away. I think I'll try sleeping now, since I'll have to wake up at 6 am tomorrow and take Hudson and Miles on their morning walk, or they will be very cranky.