My new 9-5 gig starts Monday. I’m almost free.
It took five months to the day to break those chains. That’s a month for every year.
It’s not over though. I will need to be in the office with some weekly regularity and the location is in Columbus. I’m in Amelia, still, just outside of Cincinnati. That’s a 113 mile commute that will become 4 hours round trip driving until I can relocate back to Columbus.
The expectation is 1-2 months to get cash flow right, and then a month to find a place and move.
I have to admit I was really hoping it would be Houston for my next chapter.
In other news, once settled, I can finally revisit the DPM project to convert Dark Horse Linux to a package based distribution. I hate that it’s taken this long.
It’s hard to be me. I have to plan things on the timescale of years to be able to do what I do without falling off, on top of the normal short term planning that everyone has to do.
Tetsuo isn’t performing again. I don’t know how else to improve it. I’ve reached my limit. I no longer view the project as serious. I’ll pick at it from time to time and test things. There’s nothing to lose anymore. It’s not making money. It’s not losing money, either, which is somehow weirder than not making money.
There are 3 technologies I need to upskill/refresh for this next gig:
- k3s + Container
- Azure + particularly Azure Devops
- Ubuntu eccentricities + Linux Desktops
Some of that I’ve done lots of but am pretty rusty, and need to refresh on anyway, and some is new, like the k3s and Azure stuff. I just haven’t done as much Azure or container tech and need to get up to speed. You can’t be an expert at everything all the time.
So, that’s:
- Job Training
- House Search
- Finances
And routine and sleep management. My routines are fucked from working from home. Beyond fucked. And that 2 hours in / 2 hours out commute is gonna be brutal — I’ll have to wake up real damned early (for me) and go to bed real damned early to make it work — I can’t be showing up at 11 because I hit the road at 9. I need to get there at 9. That’s got me on the road at 7. So I need to be up at 6. My circadian rhythm wants me to fall asleep at 5 am, so, I have rapid adjustment to do over the 3 day weekend. If I’m up at 6, I need to be in bed by 10. That’s going to be a big shift for me.
It’s about damned time, though, my sleep cycle is weird and this is basic grownup shit everyone has to do.
I’m hoping this gig is more remote than in the office, but I don’t know what I’m dealing with, yet. I don’t get as much done in an office than from home.
The brightest news is Around September 1st if all goes well, I’ll be relocated to Columbus where my people are. Career people, social people, and my original crew of fellow masons. Now that, I have missed.
Even more missed than not wearing pants for a month at a time.
It’ll be a bit difficult making this change, but I’ll be much better positioned if it all goes well.