Moments of Transition
I haven't been writing much in my blog this week. If you've read some of my entries from the end of last year, you might guess why. GRACE, one of the organizations I work for, is reducing my hours and moving out of their office. Quite unintentionally, I am now making more on my consulting work than on my part time salaried job. This isn't entirely because of the reduced hours. My consulting work has gone up, almost equalling my pre-reduced hours monthly pay from GRACE and slightly passing my current pay from GRACE. Thus, we're doing okay.
That being said, much of the last week has been spent going to the various locations that GRACE now receives free office space from, setting up their computers and making sure that they can connect to GRACE's virtual private network and get their files.
I've been thinking about writing a blog entry on setting up a VPN on FreeBSD, but haven't really had the energy to address a technical subject with the level of detail it deserves. I've been wanting to address another project of the past week as well--setting up Windows Terminal Services on Windows 2003, but again, I haven't really been up to it. I've been too busy actually doing said projects.
Well, that and re-reading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series. And Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver... So basically I've been reading rather than writing recently. That's not a bad thing. I don't think I've read much science fiction in the past two years. That's not because I don't want to. I've just been too busy.
With any luck this is a taste of what life might be like when I finish my master's project--something that can't happen soon enough.