The days they go by
I’ve been in the new apartment for a month now. The first couple of weeks were more chaotic than I’d hoped. On top of the usual moving sorts of things and sorting out stuff, there were the diffuculties with getting the rest of my stuff over here. That was settled on the 17th.
My first week here I spent most of my time tying up loose ends with client moves to the new server. What I had hoped to be a one-month process stretched out to two. The learning curve was longer and steeper than I’d planned and and simultaneously, Plesk released version 7 of their server management software.
I’m happy with the way things have turned out. The new server is fast, Plesk 7 is just super and all my clients are pleased with the improved perfomance and all the new toys and options available to them.
So it’s only been in the last couple of weeks that I’ve really settled-in. Things have fallen into quite a comfortable routine. I go to bed when I’m tired, usually around ten. I wake up generally around six without using the alarm clock.
My morning routine is to make the bed, start downloading the server backups, make coffee and do the dishes from the day before while the coffee is brewing. Then my attention turns to the daily server reports, email and the news. After a quick smoke, I put in a few hours of work at the keyboard. Around noon I break for a shower and lunch.
Afternoons I’m usually out of the house working, with Tuesdays being the exception. I cook Tuesday and Thursday evenings and at least one of the weekend days. Most everything I cook is good for two nights and on the nights when there are no leftovers, I have some sort of nuke dinner.
I go to meetings some nights after dinner, then I web surf a while before I shut down the PCs and pick up a book. By ten I hit the sack.
It’s comfortable, I’m seeing to my needs and my responsibilites, and things feel balanced.
Laundry seems to be working out. I do a couple loads a week at a friend’s and the rest here. And while the heating season lasts, I’m drying things on the radiators. It saves money and the whole place smells like fresh laundry.
The place stays clean all by itself. I’m not sure how or why. Still, I clean every other Thursday, just out of guilt.
And so it goes.
May 20th, 2004 at 11:29 am EDT
Just testing the Comment facility. I tried to comment on the latest entry, but I seem to have been sent back to the May 5 entry.