I wish that I could spend more time here.
I seem to have taken on greater responsibility in my "day job" as an IT Trainer. Right now, the classes that I teach are the best-attended ones my company has. As an instructor that means I'm spending more time with my students and less time goofing off during the day.
I ended up working on this message over a span of almost 5 hours.
And I'm moving. Which is not pleasant in the slightest. On the other hand, I'm going through my collections of old computer parts, 10 year old computer books, clothes, papers... I'm looking at my life and what I've done since I became an adult. Sometimes I'll find something and spend 20 minutes just remembering something about it. Other times I see something I once treasured (e.g. a Voodoo 5500 or a 4GB hard drive, or clothes that I haven't worn since I was 18) and I can't see why I've held onto it. The best thing is finding photographs.
And my ex- and her partner are moving as well... to within walking distance of my new apartment. Which is a happy thing - and another reason I haven't been around as much. Depending on the day of the week
(grumble time of the month grumble grumble) I really am getting back some of the life that I once had. It's not the same but right now it's enough. They offered me space in the house they are buying, but unfortunately I'd already signed the lease for my apartment. They are giving me their (heated) garage instead - so I'll continue to have a workshop and a place to store all the computer stuff I have. That took care of my biggest complaint about moving (well, that and all the cabling and A/V distribution stuff I can't use any more).
My new apartment is on a 3rd floor, which is probably a good thing, since that will be some kind of excercise for me. Oddly enough I have been losing weight (to the tune of 4 - 6 pants sizes over the last eight months or so), although I'm not particularly trying.
Since my time is so fragmented right now I've been spending more time with novels and comic books. Something that is so great it just about makes me cry is the wide availability of comic books on the bittorrent networks. I can put 20 years worth of one title on my laptop or on my file server and when I'm too worn down to do anything else, there they are for me. When I find something new that's good, I make sure I go buy it from the anime/manga-infested local shop.
Computer projects are taking up very little of my time right now. This also contributes to not posting much on my part - I'm just not doing anything that interesting on the computer front. I haven't even bought any new hardware in the last month. I can't recall going so long without purchasing at least a hard drive. Seems like 90% of the tech work I do ends up being spyware removal.
The weather here is starting to get nice again, so hopefully I'll be out and about with my camera. I see a lot of cool/interesting things on deviantart.com (safe for work - it's just a site where artists and photographers post their work) and I basically despair of ever taking a good picture.