what makes me happy

Here’s the list, at the moment:

  • Lots of sleep. The more the better. I have never had a period of my life where I thought I was sleeping too much.
  • Being absolutely alone for hours at a time, and occasionally days. I have a massively long list of things to do, and being able to completely concentrate, with no chance of distraction, is just so amazingly lovely
  • Interacting for shorter periods of time with a large number of people, outside the above times
  • Exercise
  • Reading
  • Travel
  • The countryside. Though this relates a little to being completely undisturbed, I suspect
  • Tech systems that work. Working in IT we deal with plenty of things and processes that don’t work well, but a great number that do. Project management, version control, RHEL / CentOS / linux in general, VOIP (remember those massive PABXs?)
  • Automating things that I used to do by hand
  • Flying RC planes. Yep it’s pretty dorky, but so much fun.
  • Cooking

Less work

I think I should do less. l’m going to start now. Let it all burn to the ground, if it will.

What this means in practice is

  • Less time at work
  • More sleep
  • More staff to do the work

Rather than work like crazy for the next two weeks, as I was planning, to catch up on everything and so on, I’m going to instead

  • Only do the things I absolutely have to do
  • Do the to-do list sorting as one of the first and main tasks
  • Delegate as much as possible
  • Not care quite as much

Then I’m going to take as much of a holiday as possible, I.e. work only nights, which are completely quiet, for two weeks.

Then I’ll decide how much to do after that.

Yeah!!

ipad 3

Doesn’t the new ipad video look tired:

Especially considering the videos for 1 and 2, which were some of the most stunning pieces of advertising I’ve ever seen. I can’t help but believe them!:

Louis Theroux..

..is really one hell of a disingenuous MF. Just watched the episode on swinging.

1. stupid / loaded question
2. annoying, long stare
..and repeat.