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Sun, Sep 30, 2007

Too Many Projects

Posted at 9:14 pm MDT to Technology

I've made a lot of progress on the CustomerPortal this weekend, though not quite as much as I had hoped. If I can get all of the main screens working in admin mode I'll load it onto the office server so the people who asked for this program can look at it and decide how they really want it to work. The requirements I've been working from are pretty vague.

I have bread rising in the kitchen.

The rest of the server parts should be here tomorrow. According to UPS, the combined shipping weight of the 4 packages is 38 + 26 + 3 + 3 = 70 pounds. Some of that is shipping materials. But probably not as much as one might hope. I have the desktop in the computer cleared for work space, and Shawn has promised to help me lower the beast to the floor once it is assembled...

And I have baked and pureed a Crimson Kabocha squash, dug out my Mom's pie crust recipe, and acquired Nanette's pumpkin pie filling recipe. I was going to try making a 'pumpkin' pie from the squash this evening, but the coding was on a roll and really needs to get to a good pausing point before I get too busy on the server, so the squash is in the fridge until tomorrow.

I have started to investigate some Linux kernel-related work (one of the things I plan to use the server for is kernel builds. I'm actually looking at working on some of the tools used in building the kernel.

And I would really like to work on one or another of my cross-stitch projects at some point.

And of course, there is the fiction writing. There is an annual challenge -- NaNoWriMo -- for writing 50,000 words of fiction in the month of November. I would need to drop all of my other projects (including blogging) to do that. I have finished one novel in my life (unsellable -- I may put it up on the website one of these days) which was more than twice the size of the NaNoWriMo goal, so I know that I can write that much. 50,000 publishers' words is 300,000 characters, so the goal is an average of 10,000 characters per day for the month. I tend to average 1200 to 1500 on this blog. I don't think it is possible to do NaNoWriMo and also have a life.

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