I’ve been having issues getting motivated on getting back to the gym. Mostly because I’m rather tired after getting back from work, or because I end up working when I get home. I’ve contemplated stepping out at lunch, and hitting the gym, but then I end up skipping lunch, which makes it hard to make any progress on muscle gain.
Well, I took the leap, and I’m now on WordPress 2.5. The admin interface is completely different, you can see a preview in this screencast. It’s going to take a little getting used to, but it looks interesting.
I’ve quite often been called crazy, working until all hours of the day, cracking away to get things done. Trying to explain to people that for me, working 15+ hours a day is easy, and I consider it fun. Not many people get the opportunity to call what they do fun, but I do. Sometimes I rant and grumble about stuff that goes on, but that’s all part of the job.
I stumbled across a post by Chad Perrin titled “Insomnia and Productivity”. He hits the nail on the head as to why working 15+ hours a day is a breeze for me. The 8 at work are a complete mess, I very rarely get any projects completed due to interruptions or I’m constantly in meetings about projects, changes, problems, etc. My ideal working time is after 21:30, and usually runs up until 03:00-04:00. Why? The kiddo is asleep, the wife is preoccupied with games, or medical shows, so I get some time to lock my brain onto a subject.
For example, I have several projects I have to work on to share data between our app, and SalesForce. Quite easy, seeing as I’ve crafted several apps to do it already, but if I try doing it at work, it’d take me about 2 weeks due to interruptions. When I do it at home, it’s done in 4 hours.
So when I get asked why I work so much, and so late… It’s because I’m a system administrator… It’s because I’m a hacker in the original sense of the title. It’s my job… It’s what I enjoy.
Recently I upgraded PAM on my Gentoo server to 0.99. There were a number of warnings that went with it, including details on upgrading some of the files manually (crazy). Details on the upgrade process are on the Gentoo website here. After the build, it recommends running revdep-rebuild to rebuild the dependencies. At that point, I tested to make sure I could still logon to my box, and mail was still operating. I went to bed, and left the server alone.
