…and if I don’t want to, for that matter! I may be another year older, but it doesn’t quite make me feel as old as having a seven-point-five month old son, or building a house that we’re closing on next month, or approaching my second wedding anniversary in October. Isn’t all this stuff what old people do? And I haven’t even hit a quarter-century yet. At least all of the above are very good things! Awesome, in fact. And for now, I can concentrate on weird facts, like my son will be 2.5 when I’m 25. (In case you didn’t know, I like weird numbers that have some sort of symmetry. The patterns of numbers I enjoy seeing on my car’s odometer would likely shock and scare you both due to the frequency and reasoning of why I like them.)
Yesterday and today were the craziest days in the office in a while, including (but not limited to):
- A Mac that won’t boot (only partially to the solution on this)
- Reinstalling Windows from scratch on a laptop (only thing actually scheduled)
- Helping the new youth ministry interns get their computers/email up and running
- Setting up and troubleshooting internet/printers/email for our current resident missionary
- Reconfiguring some financial programs on the recently-rebuilt computer of our accountant
- Setting up and troubleshooting some network issues with a temporary training setup for our bookstore
- Making up the weekly one-on-one with my awesome boss today that I had to reschedule yesterday (who am I kidding? Like he has time to read my blog…I think he does more than this list in his own department(s) before breakfast each day :-)
Not that it wasn’t interesting, and it’s all for people I love to help! But just looking at the length of that list (and it’s not even complete) and remembering it all makes me tired. Oh wait, I actually was already tired. Maybe I should stop staying up to find cool stuff on the internet (or registering for classes that start in a week, or writing the blog entries about web hosting and websites I keep mentioning and not actually writing). Maybe I should even stop writing this post.
Well first, it is not nice to be so young as you are and to mention it so many times in your post. It makes us old guys feel even older. It was not long ago that I too was young but time flies! Second, don’t stop blogging, you are wise for your age and I enjoy your insight. I also like that you are always finding new free apps and ways of doing things. Keep up the good work my young friend.
BarryB
Happy Birthday, funny my birthday is on August 14th as well and I ended up working all day (and evening) too!
@Barry: Sorry for the attention drawn to my youth, I try not to mention it too often but I can’t get older on command just to make others happy :-) Well, I can, but it’s a slow process, happens at the rate of one second older every second, or something like that… ;-) I appreciate the kind comments; I hope to continue for quite a while but who knows what the future will hold? I have slowed down but certainly not stopped!
@Andrew: Thanks, that is a funny coincidence; in that case, Happy Birthday back at you! I was fortunate enough to get home by 6:30 but the previous night, I had to take a laptop home to reinstall Windows on it, then finish it yesterday. And not surprisingly, I’m still tweaking some things today to get it fully up and running for the guy, but doing it remotely since I’m at another office. Windows reloads always take longer than they should. I need to get an imaging system in place to speed it up but that’s just one more thing on the to-do list. Anyway, hope your evening is a bit better tonight!