I’ve been sick for the past nearly 4 days and I’m just now starting to come out of the fog. It seems that a co-worker (whom shall remain nameless) came to work sick and managed to get me and one other out for the count. It looks like I was the worst since I managed to miss two workdays as a result. This Saturday wasn’t too pretty but at least there is some relief to my sinus pressure. It all started Wednesday morning when my sinuses started running like a garden hose. All day long they just continued no matter what I tried to take to stop the draining. Soon my throat was getting irritated and then the lungs started getting their fill when I slept (or at least tried to). Come Wednesday night I could barely exist. I tried to sleep but only got a couple hours before the draining just made it impossible. For the next couple of days, I suffered tremendously. I sure do wish I could have taken more advantage of the time off from work and commuting but I was just in too much misery to try and make it that productive. I did manage to get Candi’s printer and new computer up and running (she’s pretty happy about that). Now I’ve got to start thinking about if I want to continue running a MS Server 2003 box or not. I’m still undecided on that…
I also managed to get quite a few new albums in my possession thanks to BitTorrent links. Let’s see here:
-Bad Company “Anthology” (1999) and “Straight Shooter” (1974)
-Brian Eno “Another Green World” (1975)
-Fatboy Slim “Palookaville” (2004)
-Gorillaz “Gorillaz” (2001) [finally got the complete album]
-Green Day “American Idiot” (2004)
-Jean Michel Jarre “Aero” (2004)
-Megadeath “The System Has Failed” (2004)
-Sum 41 “All Killer No Filer” (2001) and Chuck (2004)
-Prodigy “Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned” (2004)
I have to admit I’ve never managed to catch these many albums and been so happy with them. It turns out that most of the 2004 albums haven’t been released yet! Prodigy and Megadeath new releases are just super improvements over their earlier works. I’ve also been facinated with those young kids from Sum 41. Incredible music and their second album has just some of the most moving lyrics I’ve heard in a long time. Sum 41 give me home that there are still good bands coming out of the record industry…
I also must note that I’ve been listening to lyrics a lot more lately thanks to some of you out there influencing me to pay more attention. Some of the work listed above have had quite an impact on me as a result. Thanks for wearing off on me (and you know who you are)!
On a technical side, I’ve managed to learn how to “slipstream” wich means I can now burn a new Windows XP CD with SP2 pre-installed -along with an answer file. This means that I can now load windows on a new workstation by simply booting to my new CD, selecting the partition to load to, and just walk away! What a joy this will be for future installations that I no longer have to babysit and then update!
I had a good talking to about my marriage this past Friday while in my sickness stupor and it has been determined that I just go to bed too late doing stuff for other people and other projects instead of working at home and taking care of my family. I think that in the back of my head I knew it too but it never came foreward. Thanks to the group and the people in my life helping me and my family, I now have a plan (and some accountability) to make things better. I’ve agreed to only work on side projects when Candi’s not home, or agreed to. I will go to bed at 11pm and get up for the train at 4am. This also means that, come 10:30, my butt better be in the kitchen doing the dishes! I’m actually a little excited about the change as I’m also looking foreward to getting a lot of work done while on the train (if not some needed sleeping). I think this will be a major turning point in my life. Pray that it holds true…