Midwest Geek

There was a great book I stole my title from, and this is what I have become. Plugged in, casting scripts, building servers, and forging applications.

Between personal and professional projects I have no idea where to really start. I am totally overwhelmed and somehow managed to get that way in less then 24 hours. I’ve put myself into one hell of a pickle and I am not sure how to get out, I think I’m going to develop ADD before this is all over.

Yesterday in our weekly staff meeting, a project that had been threatened to be rolled out for sometime was, and it was rolled onto me. Part of the fun of said project is that I get to learn a new Operating System by the end of the year. Now this isn’t a case of a simple introduction like a pleasant “Hi How are you?”, I’m to get all medieval on it, medieval to the point that both Ving Rhames and Quentin Terantino will avert their eyes. Along with running a OS that I have never operated before last night, I get to install, configure and run a mail server, challenge response system, user controls, firewalls, etc (I’ve never used any of them before). Oh ya, and the best parts, write all the technical documentation and train everyone else (Did I mention I am the NEWEST employee)! I was told that since I used a “tougher” OS at home for fun and no profit, I am the best suited for this gem of a project.

NaBloPoMo is also upon us and I want to really participate, I need to write more for myself, and this is something that will motivate me to do it. Hopefully I will spill something interesting on this site that is marginally better then the drivel I normally spread. As this is my first post, I honestly hope it doesn’t go down from here. Because I mean, come on.

I think any chance for a site redesign this month is probably not going to happen. By probably, I mean not a chance in hell. I have scratched out some designs that I am thinking through, however to sit down and work is really just not going to be a possibility until December. In the few minutes I took for lunch today, I found, what I think is the most beautiful site I have seen to date. In my humble non-professional web design opinion, http://www.verdurethought.com/ is by far the best use of pixels available. If I pull something off 1/10 or hell 1/100 that good, I would be very happy.

Aside from those fun projects, I still haven’t even cracked The Grapes of Wrath and that brothers me. I will more then likely start braking down my day to 1 hour and 30 minute increments and assigning tasks to them, once this server roll out is done, I’ll be good again and really ready for a vacation by then.

Tonight I get to curl up with a wonderful little page turner about advanced message transport systems and a couple of cups of pudding, because pudding just makes things better.