Another Friday

Well, I'm at the tail end of sleep deprivation and overwork - I hope. The first is because my wife has been ill, and the second is because there's too much work to do.

My lady has been coughing at night - lots of allergies. She got some meds now that may help, and I'm hopeful. I really could use more sleep.

Video, IT work, distance learning, language labs. It's all piling up. My new boss is supportive, and looking for ways to turn down this firehose of work assignments to a manageable flow. But it's getting more difficult to manage things. Sleep! Blessed sleep!

So I'm taking the afternoon off. I'm substituting an aimless afternoon for purposeful behavior. I went to the $2 cinema, watched five minutes of the new Spiderman movie (the sound wasn't working so I left), wandered about the mall, looked at books, talked to a friend on the phone. Now I'm at my  favorite coffeehouse. Tonight I work on the house, and then grab my family and go to a concert for kids. That'll be fun.

I think it's time to resume network studies. The way out is through. I need to investigate the CCAI, and review my CCNA. I may have to retake the latter, as it expires in December.
My piano playing is getting tantalizing. I'm improving, and I want to play more and more. It's like a little voice is telling me I could be a really good pianist, if I would just practice more and more often. Ah, where's the time? When I prepped for my CCNA (fourteen months), I didn't play at all.
In what little spare time I have, I'm reading The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner. Something tells me he was young when he wrote it. It's interesting reading though. I'm skeptical some of the more extreme points, and it really glosses over lots of topics, like its references to Greek philosophy, but it's worth a read. I'm just glad I didn't read it when I was young - I would have been influenced in an unbalanced way, I'm sure, like when I read G.B. Shaw's stuff. I'm at a good age to read philosophy now, though.

Fuzzy-headed, muzzy-headed with fatigue. But I like where I am right now – I’m a node on the great web. I’m fixing to drink some Earl Grey tea, which should charge me up a bit.