Ageing (dis)gracefully!
Archive for February, 2008
It’s Getting Close!
Feb 22nd
The wedding is only 7 weeks away and things are really ramping up a final gear now.
I am going through phases of dreading it and really looking forward to it. The former because I just don’t relish the prospect of standing up infront of 60+ guests in the church OR at the reception when I make my speech. I am sure it’ll be fine though.
Server Decomissioned
Feb 21st
I’ve finally had enough of my home server and took the decision to switch it off, for good.
It’s been more and more unstable over the last 6 months and as fast as I am curing problems, others are arising. Almost everthing boils down to the fact that its made up of old and tired hardware. It’s made up of bits from my old PC’s, and they had a hard enough life when used on my main PC as that is also on more often than off.
So, the blog and our wedding website have been moved back onto my paid for webspace and will stay there indefinately. Good news is that uptime will now be virtually 100%.
I had already moved my email over to googles service (still running through my own domain though), so that has helped with the decision. The server just hasn’t got the same use it once had.
I may buy a brand new server in the future, but at the moment I really don’t feel the need to even run one.
Wallpaper?
Feb 8th
I read a comment on a forum recently where someone stated that music was often like ‘wallpaper’ to them – eg it was often on but they were not necessarily listening 100%.
It got me thinking and I realised that I’d fall under that category aswell. I am always doing something when I listen to music, be it driving, sat at the pc working, in work working, in the kitchen cooking, out in the garage pottering about with stuff. etc. etc.
I have come to realise that I virtually never give my undivided attention to any music unless it’s a brand new album by a band I am really into (such as Marillion). Maybe I need to put more effort in! 
Tired…….
Feb 6th
I’m tired. I should be off work this week, but the masochist that I am, I decided to do overtime.
Since Thursday I have done 72 hours, 24 of which have been overtime with another 12 hours to come tonight. Thats 36 extra hours. It feels wrong…… Having said that, it hasn’t been as bad as I was expecting. Of course I resent coming in when I should be at home, but the double time sure as hell makes up for that. Should have a nice tidy wage at the end of Feb and it will be most welcome with the wedding fast approaching.
Got a fair bit more overtime booked in for the coming weeks and months too. My wage isn’t too bad as it is, but it’s definately nice to know I can boost it massively with the extra hours if I need to, even if I have had almost zero life for the past 7 days! (sleep, eat, work, eat, sleep, eat, work ..etc).
