tales from an ordinary world

1999-02-02

I was at work until just after midnight last night, upgrading our webservers by adding some pretty blue disks in order to give everyone more space for their web pages. It took ages to copy all the files over, so I sat around and did a few other bits and pieces of work, and chatted to one of the operators - given the temperature outside, it was a good time to be in the nice cool machine room...

Since I've got air conditioning at home (and not in my office at work), I figured I'd work from home today - I could do with the sleep-in, and figured I could get a few things done. I got a little distracted and played with my housemate's new CD writer during what I could reasonably call my lunch break, but apart from that, I did actually get some useful work done - I'm sure this was mostly due to there not being a phone next to my desk, ringing all the time...

I turn 26 next Wednesday. I'll probably be too busy/preoccupied to get around to organizing anything for it, which wouldn't be the first time. It's probably time I started worrying (or just wondering) how I've "developed as a person" over the past year or so. It's hard to see any key turning points, such as the time, in 1996, I (mentally) put my foot down and said "right, I'm not going to sit around the house and geek out all weekend, every weekend, I'm going to go out, and read books and sit in cafés, since they're only 5-10 minutes walk from home." And I did (and still do). I'm sure that, if I just stayed home every weekend, I'd spend a lot less money, but bugger it - life's short, shop hard. Or something.

Hrm. The latest departmental newsletter just had photos from last year's Christmas party - there was a rather odd-looking shot of me and Ana...