On Doing Nothing

Fri, December 12, 2008 - 5:24 PM PST

I didn't really do anything today and it was really nice. I've put in more than a few 16 hour days at work recently, so when I saw that my workload was mostly caught-up, I chose to take today as "comp time". I probably won't take any more days like this even though I could/should, but I like to stay clearly on this side of the line, as being on the other side is a good way to find yourself out of work. And I just don't need that.

So anyways, I didn't really do anything. Well, not really. I drove Linda to work late this morning because it was raining pretty hard.

I took the opportunity of having the car out during the day to park underneath the office (the first half hour is free!) and drop off my SPARCStation 20 and 17" Sun monitor. I had been meaning to do it for a year probably, as I haven't turned it on in at least that long, and in my lab at the office I'll be able to give it something to do, but yeah - the last of my sparc32 gear is out of my condo. I've got everything for it - the 8MB VSIMM for 24bpp graphics, fast ethernet, wide SCSI, a video capture board, and a PCMCIA adapter (that I've never even used). There is definitely a void here now.

Then I came home and did some model painting. And read a book. And made a chicken salad sandwich.

I'm feeling sorta antsy now. This is how I like to spend my Sundays, but rarely get to do so. It's kinda strange going into a weekend already relaxed. Neat.