The Feeling of Early Morning Trips
How can the feeling of an early morning trip be described? The start to an adventure of peril or wonderful safe travels.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu
The first step is usually turning off the alarm clock and getting your feet out from under the covers. By the time the morning shower is over (assuming you had time and didn’t hit the snooze button) the you are on to the second step.
After the bags are zipped closed, loaded in the car, and the car begins to move the third step has been completed. From here, a thousand miles await.
The world’s morning stillness, glazed in a the soft orange glow of the rising sun, presents itself for your viewing pleasure as you drive along. Perhaps it is accompanied by the wafting smell of the hot coffee entrusted to the cup holder for safe keeping. Maybe you are fortunate enough to be the passenger on this trip and have closed your eyes, oblivious to the beauty outside. The sound of the car engine sooths your senses as your mind dreams of the road ahead.
I hope you appreciate the feeling of morning trips and first steps.
My Utility Belt… Err Bag
On July 30th, SysAdmin Appreciation Day, I was walking around New York enjoying the sights and silently complaining about my bag. For all practical purposes it is my man purse, my tech kit, and emergency ration container. SysAdmin day and the depths (and weight) of my kit made me wonder what everyone else had in their bag.
When Coding Horror posted What’s On Your Utility Belt I figured it was time to share my utility belt. It may hang around my shoulder, but hey, if I had as much money as Bruce Wayne I’d probably have a utility belt too!
Protected: Seaside Park Beach Pics
You can download my pics by clicking this link:
http://www.digitalbucket.net/browse/1186091cc6f40b1b/beach
They are all stored in a single ZIP file for easy downloading.
If you have any pics from the day to share please upload them here:
SysAdmin Day 2010 in NYC
If you detected a hint of apprehension in my last post you weren’t mislead. So let the record be set straight – SysAdmin Day 2010 was a blast. My feeling toward the SysAdmin meet up is similar to the feeling after having installed a program upgrade for a user and having it be accepted with open arms and minimal follow-up support. Especially when in the back of your mind you were expecting the follow-up to be an afternoon of “Well the old program did x, y, and z like a, b, and c” with a few “Are you sure you can’t leave the old program installed?” mixed in for cheer. Dilbert sums up an accurate representation in the following clip of such a situation.
But I digress, SysAdmin Day was awesome on so many levels. First, it was encouraging to meet such a diverse group of admins from departmental IT techies to gurus at Google and Etsy. Regardless of system size and complexity everyone was open to talking shop or kicking back and meeting new people. There were numerous people from all over the world who attended the meetup because they were in the city for DebConf (I had no idea Perl was still so, alive! *wink*). Second, it helped foster the desire to give back to the community and made me just a little more thankful for some of the open source projects I’ve come to love and depend on. Last, well, I may not frequent bars but The Ginger Man was great (a large part due to the company). My only regret was not being able to hear better above the crowd noise and having only a couple short hours to know a bit more about my fellow IT workers.
