I’m staring at the blank screen thinking about all the things I need to do that I haven’t done.

Really blows the creative processes don’t ya know?

Gotta read some more emails.

Try and come back later

Thinking about plot, subplots and the fact there are many machines on Ix, many machines….

Doing more non-profit stuff tonight =)

Feeling mentally drained so I elected to burn some cycles in Azeroth.

Simple, truthful.

I was working via VPN and didn’t realize until now – I forgot

Been researchin’ next gen firewalls all night.

Nothing else to say

At 0412 this morning my son woke me up because the storm had scared him. After I got him back to sleep I was too awake to go back to bed (had to get up at 5 anyways).

Between 0510 and 1827 I was either traveling to or from work or working at the office.  I didn’t even go to lunch today.  About 20 mins after I got home from work I remotely logged in and started working again.

It’s 2238 and I have stopped working long enough to post this – needless to say there was no writing (well creative writing – heck even that is in doubt – some of my work emails are really creative!) today.

Back to work..

No time to write – going to file this under Cop Outs but the reality is I worked from the moment the kids went to bed til after midnight.

Well here it is – my first blog cop out.

Spent the better part of the day working at work and renovating the bathroom.  Now I am doing more work (remotely this time).  I have a large change to do in about two weeks and I realized it’s got so many nuances that I am going to have to write the following – tonight:

• Communication Plan – Who needs to be involved, who needs to approve, who is going to be impacted – ie: who needs to know
• Implementation Plan – What we are gonna do, when we are going to do it, how we are going to do it and most importantly in what order are we going to do these things
• Verification Plan – What are we going to do to make sure everything is still working when we are all done
• Backout/Recovery Plan – The “Oh Shit Plan” – what to do if/when something doesn’t go as planned – yes, plan for failure because if you don’t – you will
• File a change control – Sounds innocuous enough huh – yea, try it once
• Equipment configurations - When you’re moving five or six dozen network connections around – it’s a good idea to have as much work done ahead of time as possible

So there isn’t going to be any personal writing done – but I am writing – just not the kind of thing you’d wanna read for fun – unless your real objective is sleep.