Well…

That really was a busy one. One of those weeks where the minutes feel long but the days have flown by. I woke up Tuesday thinking it was Wednesday then this morning I couldn’t believe it was Friday. Very strange.

Had a few bigger problems this week but we’ve managed to handle them. Had a couple of ruder customers also but through sheer polite badassery (it’s a word) and a slight change in policy I haven’t heard a word from them since. I feel good. Also had some stranger problems though I forget which and spoke to some customers I haven’t spoken to before, most of which were lovely. On the subject of lovely; a couple of weeks ago a customer wrote a poem for me. Made my week lol.

I have finally accepted that I am the geekiest person in the office. It took a while but I’ve come to terms with it. We were talking about Star Trek and, while not a Trekkie myself, I realised I’d seen more than a few of my colleagues. It was the final nail in the coffin. Where to go from here? Should I play up to my girl geek status? Hide away? Learn *more* geeky stuff? I don’t know, we shall have to see.

Thinking of learning about xmonad today and increase my screen real estate up to two monitors. I had two on my Industrial Year and I seriously miss it. Though slightly *less* necessary, we do have a few spare monitors floating around. If you’ve never tried multiple monitors, I urge you to test it out. It’s brilliant. I found it especially useful for programming actually because then I could research whatever I was unsure of without having to switch windows which was quite lovely. This time I think I’m going to tile a bunch of terminals just because I have so many perpetually open that it makes sense not to tab them because I really do need to keep an eye on them. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Last weekend was OggCamp which was absolutely awesome. Met up with some people, turns out: people on IRC are real. Who knew? Madness. Anyway, there was a big picnic on one day, I made lots of brownies and fed them to people. They were generally loved and are now more famous. In fact, I even gained a ‘cloak’ on IRC as ‘master-brownie-maker’. Pretty chuffed actually >_> This is what happens when you feed freenode staffers good food ;)

This weekend is free of anything so I think I’m going to do more server stuff. I’m also getting back into doing some art work but cartooning instead. Previously I’ve done digital art, photomanipulation, I draw and sketch a lot. I don’t paint though, I’m terrible at it, except watercolours and only sometimes. I’ve also experimented with the odd drawing of characters, manga for example and that sort of thing - as opposed to still life etc. But this is my first real practice of cartoons and comic type art. I anticipate many long hours in front of the computer… But then, that’s no different to usual!

Have a good weekend all.

Willow x